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Title: Microsoft on Wikipedia - findings from WikiScanner Post by: Tanya on August 20, 2007, 08:17:49 PM Microsoft on Wikipedia - findings from WikiScanner
By now most people have probably heard of WikiScanner, the web-tool used to map anonymous Wikipedia edits against a list 2.6 million known IP ranges owned by some of the most reputable organizations and companies in the world. Naturally, people start by scrutinizing the obvious targets such as the CIA, but what about our friends over at Redmond? Has any one of the 49,000 employees on-campus at Microsoft HQ been having a bit of fun with Apple?s Wiki? And the answer is an anticlamatic no. Microsoft employee, or at least those who made anonymous Wikipedia edits during those long breaks between Windows releases, are a rather boring mixed bunch. From within the IP range 207.46.0.0 to 207.46.255.255 which belongs to Microsoft Corp, Microsofties have been recorded doing a bit of everything - some knew what they were doing, others didn?t.Continue At Source Continue to this article at Bink.nu http://bink.nu/Article10848.bink |