There are a few similar accounts for various countries; here's a list:

https://twitter.com/palnatoke/wikiedit/members

The subject also sparked a current thread on wikitech-l [1] about whether or not is appropriate to publish IP addresses for anonymous editors, because it enables this sort of partial de-anonymizing.

Pete

[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077524.html

On 7/11/14, 09:05 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:

There is a new service developed by Ed Summers (@edsu) that tweets edits made anonymously from the US Congress' IP range. The twitter handle is @congressedits -- and it is very interesting! Especially from the point of view of potential conflict of interest. But it also may give, over time, a picture of how Washington-related information gets updated in WP.

kc


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