Detecting doctored entries in Wikipedia

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Maybe you heard that Newt Gingrich's communications director made more than five dozen changes in his candidate's Wikipedia entry and related pages since 2008. Rob Pegoraro on Discovery News offers a guide to Wikipedia tools that can help flush out the rogue editing: "Even if the assertions in an entry or the references provided for it don't seem fishy, the encyclopedia also provides a good set of tools to spot mischief," including the "talk" and "history" pages.

February 20, 2012

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