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Renegade:
In light of the way we all are spied on, I suppose turn about is fair play! ;)

These Twitter accounts tweet every time a government makes an anonymous edit to a Wikipedia article.

https://twitter.com/gccaedits - Canada
https://twitter.com/RiksdagWikiEdit - Sweden
https://twitter.com/congressedits - UK
https://twitter.com/parliamentedits - US

Source code is available here: https://github.com/edsu/anon

Anyways, I figured that more than a couple people here would get a kick out of that.

Just a quick observation: The Canadians seem to do a lot of grammar edits, while the US counterparts do touchy-feely nonsense.

They are brand new, so not much in there. It should be fun though to see what happens. :)


EDIT: BOT WAR!

It appears that there are more and more targeted bots coming out now:

https://twitter.com/ONgovEdits
https://twitter.com/rcmp_edits
https://twitter.com/EduskuntaEdit
https://twitter.com/hgbedit
https://twitter.com/NCGAedits
https://twitter.com/AussieParlEdits
https://twitter.com/israeledits
https://twitter.com/EstadoEdita
https://twitter.com/harvardedits
https://twitter.com/lagovedits

I'm sure there are more out there.

Get your popcorn! This is going to be a fun show! :D

This is actually good news. :P


Adding more above.

hamradio:
Think you got UK and US links mixed up?

app103:
"My Wikipedia entry doesn't mention the long haired cats! It MUST mention the long haired cats! Somebody get on that, right away!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=616232870&oldid=564309759

 ;D

Renegade:
Those bots are starting to make waves as we're seeing news stories about them now:

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/political-staffers-tried-to-delete-the-senate-scandal-and-other-bad-behaviour-from-wikipedia

Yesterday I wrote an article about a new Twitterbot called GCCAEdits, which monitors revisions made to Wikipedia articles and tweets every time it catches an edit made from a Canadian government computer.
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Renegade:
If you want a laugh or 2, go here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dean_Del_Mastro&diff=prev&oldid=617075829

Then click through to each "Next edit". It's just hilarious! :D MPD & mild tourettes? :)

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