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I just tried accessing Wikiscanner but was not able to find/open that page; access permissions were mentioned. Is there a more appropriate place to ask for help with using it? I've tried WHOIS on this IP address, but to no avail, and thought maybe it might be in Wikiscanner's database as being that of a BC government office/agency or of a p.r. or consulting firm contracted to them. The 24.* part tells me it's Shawcable, probably in BC, but I can't find anything more specific; an earlier edit from November by this same IP detailed technical data on the Canada Line skytrain line, which is suggestive of someone connected to TransLink, or to one of the companies or government offices connected to building the line; as is often the case in BC, such companies are backers of the government and work hand-in-hand with them; sometimes from locations far afield, as in one case where I identified an IP account in Minnesota that was making political edits on BC politician bios, and turned out to have links to a company with linkes to the government (a military contractor no less). Sorry to sound paranoid, it's just that in coming weeks such "political blankings" by POV IPers are going to get more and more common on BC and Olympics related articles....if WikiScanner doesn't have a good listing of BC agencies/offices/companies, it's time they did.... Skookum1 ( talk) 03:00, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
The 18:21, 1 October 2010 RjwilmsiBot version of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia to expand a stub.-- Wing ( talk) 19:04, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
When does posting results from WikiScanner conflict with WP:OUTING? -- Kevinkor2 ( talk) 16:52, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
from reading the text, it 's a dump of the database from Wiki, no intelligence, no cleverness of any kind, just data collection. I missed the notability of this "tool". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ebaychatter0 ( talk • contribs) 13:11, 27 October 2012
Any ideas? 67.213.78.59 ( talk) 06:32, 25 October 2013 (UTC)Luke
As User BlueworldSpeccie indicates, Griffith himself took Wikiscanner down because of its expense. At the above cited page he went on to explain that a year later, as a grad student at Caltech, he supervised some undergraduates in the development of some alternative wiki scanners, and presented them at that year's HOPE conference, but they got no traction and were abandoned when there was no-one left to maintain them at Caltech the following year. This further information was added to the main article, appropriately cited, today. 2601:196:180:DC0:283F:73C2:5FD2:A5A ( talk) 15:15, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
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Where's the WikiScanner for the modern era? It's needed now more than ever, and I have a very hard time believing Virgil Griffith couldn't crowdfund the necessary servers. People are more likely to believe Wikipedia than their own eyes, so it's kind of worthwhile to know where reality is coming from, no? Hell I'd fund it if I had the $$ LeviaThinMint ( talk) 05:41, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
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I just tried accessing Wikiscanner but was not able to find/open that page; access permissions were mentioned. Is there a more appropriate place to ask for help with using it? I've tried WHOIS on this IP address, but to no avail, and thought maybe it might be in Wikiscanner's database as being that of a BC government office/agency or of a p.r. or consulting firm contracted to them. The 24.* part tells me it's Shawcable, probably in BC, but I can't find anything more specific; an earlier edit from November by this same IP detailed technical data on the Canada Line skytrain line, which is suggestive of someone connected to TransLink, or to one of the companies or government offices connected to building the line; as is often the case in BC, such companies are backers of the government and work hand-in-hand with them; sometimes from locations far afield, as in one case where I identified an IP account in Minnesota that was making political edits on BC politician bios, and turned out to have links to a company with linkes to the government (a military contractor no less). Sorry to sound paranoid, it's just that in coming weeks such "political blankings" by POV IPers are going to get more and more common on BC and Olympics related articles....if WikiScanner doesn't have a good listing of BC agencies/offices/companies, it's time they did.... Skookum1 ( talk) 03:00, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
The 18:21, 1 October 2010 RjwilmsiBot version of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia to expand a stub.-- Wing ( talk) 19:04, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
When does posting results from WikiScanner conflict with WP:OUTING? -- Kevinkor2 ( talk) 16:52, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
from reading the text, it 's a dump of the database from Wiki, no intelligence, no cleverness of any kind, just data collection. I missed the notability of this "tool". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ebaychatter0 ( talk • contribs) 13:11, 27 October 2012
Any ideas? 67.213.78.59 ( talk) 06:32, 25 October 2013 (UTC)Luke
As User BlueworldSpeccie indicates, Griffith himself took Wikiscanner down because of its expense. At the above cited page he went on to explain that a year later, as a grad student at Caltech, he supervised some undergraduates in the development of some alternative wiki scanners, and presented them at that year's HOPE conference, but they got no traction and were abandoned when there was no-one left to maintain them at Caltech the following year. This further information was added to the main article, appropriately cited, today. 2601:196:180:DC0:283F:73C2:5FD2:A5A ( talk) 15:15, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
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Where's the WikiScanner for the modern era? It's needed now more than ever, and I have a very hard time believing Virgil Griffith couldn't crowdfund the necessary servers. People are more likely to believe Wikipedia than their own eyes, so it's kind of worthwhile to know where reality is coming from, no? Hell I'd fund it if I had the $$ LeviaThinMint ( talk) 05:41, 26 November 2018 (UTC)