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| phunk |
 Tue 15th February 2011, 10:13pm
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http://www.tomscott.com/wikiparliament/
QUOTE Here's a fact: Wikipedia stores the IP addresses of anonymous users. Here's another fact: all of the web traffic from the Houses of Parliament is sent through one of two proxy servers — which means that every anonymous edit to Wikipedia from within Parliament is attributed to one of just two IP addresses. I'm sure you can see where this is going. |
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| Milton Roe |
Tue 15th February 2011, 10:17pm
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 Known alias of J. Random Troll  Group: Regulars Posts: 10,209 Joined: Thu 28th Feb 2008, 1:03am Member No.: 5,156 WP user page - talk check - contribs |
QUOTE(phunk @ Tue 15th February 2011, 3:13pm)  http://www.tomscott.com/wikiparliament/ QUOTE Here's a fact: Wikipedia stores the IP addresses of anonymous users. Here's another fact: all of the web traffic from the Houses of Parliament is sent through one of two proxy servers — which means that every anonymous edit to Wikipedia from within Parliament is attributed to one of just two IP addresses. I'm sure you can see where this is going. Not really. I presume it means those two IPs are tagged, and no matter what kind of COI stuff comes from them, they'll never be blocked. Sort of like the nation of Qatar. It's a permanent SPA-for-free card. |
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| Peter Damian |
Tue 15th February 2011, 10:21pm
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 I have as much free time as a Wikipedia admin! Group: Regulars Posts: 4,400 Joined: Tue 18th Dec 2007, 9:25pm Member No.: 4,212 WP user page - talk check - contribs |
QUOTE(phunk @ Tue 15th February 2011, 10:13pm) http://www.tomscott.com/wikiparliament/ QUOTE Here's a fact: Wikipedia stores the IP addresses of anonymous users. Here's another fact: all of the web traffic from the Houses of Parliament is sent through one of two proxy servers — which means that every anonymous edit to Wikipedia from within Parliament is attributed to one of just two IP addresses. I'm sure you can see where this is going. Thank Phunk. I added an entry here. http://www.wikipediareview.com/index.php?title=D...03&oldid=123179 Sometimes it's hard to keep up. Wikipedia Review = crowdsourcing. This post has been edited by Peter Damian: Tue 15th February 2011, 10:22pm |
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