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Boosters beware: An online database developed by Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, makes it easier than ever to catch self-interested parties polishing their own Wikipedia entries. Computer IP addresses serve as a kind of electronic signature. Mr. Griffith's WikiScanner correlates those addresses with the institution that owns the network, identifying who made changes in Wikipedia articles. Here is what users on some campuses edited in their own colleges' entries, misspellings and all.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
December 5, 2005, 1:14 p.m.
130.126.210.105
Added: "It is considered to be one of the most prestigious public universities in the nation."
Duke University
March 8, 2005, 6:49 a.m.
152.3.77.27
Original:
"Duke University...