There are socially acceptable ways to edit Wikipedia; anonymously from congressional offices is not among them. Although Capitol Hill Wikipedia readers might have gotten away with the odd anonymous ...

Not everyone who strives to navigate the internet without being tracked is up to no good. This is the underlying premise of a qualitative study led by a trio of Drexel University researchers, who set ...

Sick of anonymous users screwing up your hard work on the Wikipedia? Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at Cal Tech, created a tool that identifies anonymous Wikipedia editors based on the digital ...

Threat Level is one of four finalists in the 2008 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism for our readers' work digging up over 100 self-serving anonymous edits performed by corporations ...

Ed Summers, an open source Web developer, recently saw a friend tweet about Parliament WikiEdits, a UK Twitter “bot” that watched for anonymous Wikipedia edits coming from within the British ...

The anonymous Wikipedia user, who wrote an entry about Nancy Benoit's death 14 hours prior to police finding her, her son's, and WWE pro wrestler Chris Benoit bodies, is still at large. The user, ...

The Internet has enabled projects that openly accept contributions from a global audience. Many such projects, including open-source software and Wikipedia, do so without any obvious reward for their ...

A San Diego Police Department dispatcher and anonymous Wikipedia users have edited or deleted paragraphs from the misconduct section of the police department’s Wikipedia page five times since January ...

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Anonymous Wikipedia users engaged in a lengthy campaign this year to alter and whitewash the online biographies of two people at the center of an alleged Russian plot to infiltrate prominent ...

A Wikipedia administrator has blocked anonymous edits from a congressional IP address for 10 days because of "disruptive" edits being made by someone located in the House of Representatives, a ...