Welcome, WikiScanner

It seems appropriate that a few weeks after my grumblings about the Wikipedia entry for Become Jane, the world is introduced to a Wikipedia Scanner, a tool that tracks who makes edits to Wikipedia entries by matching editors' originating Internet Protocols to known organizational IPs. (If my use of the technojargon is wrong, may Ben strike me down.) It seems like organizations such as the CIA, the BBC, and perhaps even the Vatican were not above keeping their fingers out of the wikipie.

My favourite commentary on the issue, however, is this:

Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not

Incidentally, others have somewhat cleaned up the Becoming Jane entry but I'm currently too busy working on my syllabus to give it the proper attention it deserves.