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Apple editing Wikipedia entries |
Virgil Griffith, a technology student at the California Institute of Technology, developed a web site that reveals the IP address (and resolves that IP to get the route domain) of the editor of any given Wikipedia entry.
Apple has 100 IP addresses that appear to be posting edits to Wikipedia, most of which appear to be random topics:
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/name2ip.php?orgname=Apple&location=&pagetitle=
However, if you dig in deeper, you will see some clear edits specific to Apple products, such as these:
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip6=17.202.39.0-41.255
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip10=17.201.24.0-28.255
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip11=192.42.249.0-255
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip15=17.213.12.0-14.255
These are nothing (as far as I had time to look around), compared to those reported in this article, such as this example:
"ExxonMobil, the US oil giant, made sweeping changes to an entry on the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989. A claim that the company “has not yet paid the $5 billion in spill damages it owes to the 32,000 Alaskan fishermen” is deleted and replaced with references to the funds the company has paid out."
The system of course can not tell you exactly "who" made the entry, only that it was made by someone with access to it (the network range of IP's for that domain).
One thing is for sure- Apple employees are doing more that just making cool products. Their interests seem to range from religion, the Iran hostage crisis, to Devo (the 80's band) and culture in general.
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