Hi everyone,
For those of you who follow the in's and out's of wikipedia, here's an
interesting story: a group of high school students in Minnesota
successfully exposed a registered sex offender who was trying to tranfer
into their school by tracking entries he had edited on Wikipedia.
The 22-year-old sex offender came to the school on three occasions and
identified himself as Caspian James Crichton-Stuart IV, 5th Duke of
Cleveland. He spoke with an English accent and insisted on being called
"Your Grace." Students at the school had their doubts, so they began
researching the Duke of Cleveland. Examining Wikipedia's edit logs for
the Duke of Cleveland, they found that someone had anonymously changed
the entry several times to include information about Caspian James,
before other Wikipedians removed it. They then traced another wikipedia
entry about Caspian James to a person named Joshua Gardner, whom they
soon identified as a sex offender in the National Sex Offender Database.
For more details, please visit my blog:
http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/01/students_expose.html
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Andy Carvin
acarvin (at) edc . org (until Jan 31)
As of February 1:
andycarvin (at) yahoo . com
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://www.andycarvin.com
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