WikiScanning

It’s always good to have a watch dog around to assure public information on the Web is accurate, and multiple points of view are addressed. If you don’t personally know the resource producing the information, you can’t be sure whether or not to trust it. I use Wikipedia among many other wiki sites and I’m never sure who has had a hand in editing the information or if the point of view is from someone who has something to gain.

WikiScanner was designed to resolve this problem. The site can’t tell you exactly who has made edits, but through IP address tracking it can identify if edits came from a specific company and what the edit was — like deleting information that is damaging to that company.

It’s often better to request changes to pages rather than edit them yourself (which seems to make you look guilty).

Here’s the complete article in the The New York Times.