Cast Your Vote On The Wikipedia Editing Wall Of Shame

Threat Level is running a poll where you can track and vote on the most shameful and/or disturbing Wikipedia edits found with Virgil Griffith's new Wikipedia search tool. For those that missed the story, Griffith created a tool that unmasks the anonymous edits made to Wikipedia pages.

The long and short of it is that corporations, celebrities and other egomaniacs concerned with negative Wikipedia entries can no longer hide behind the anonymous edits. Here's an excerpt from John Borland's full story on Wired News.

Some of this appears to be transparently self-interested, either adding positive, press release-like material to entries, or deleting whole swaths of critical material.

Voting-machine company Diebold provides a good example of the latter, with someone at the company's IP address apparently deleting long paragraphs detailing the security industry's concerns over the integrity of their voting machines, and information about the company's CEO's fund-raising for President Bush.

Give Griffith's tools a try and then head on over to Threat Level to submit and vote for your favorite Wikipedia abusers. So far Diebold continues to lead, but Scientology, Disney and even the NSA are climbing up the list.

Personal fav: It would appear that Fox News has edited Al Franken's entry with all the zeal of an angry sixth grader. We all know Fox News is as low as it gets, but who knew they went this low? For shame.