Virgil Griffith

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Virgil Griffith

American student

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…of such self-interested editing inspired Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), to create Wikipedia Scanner, or WikiScanner, in 2007. By correlating the IP addresses attached to all Wikipedia edits with their owners, Griffith constructed a database that he made available on the Internet for…
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…of such self-interested editing inspired Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), to create Wikipedia Scanner, or WikiScanner, in 2007. By correlating the IP addresses attached to all Wikipedia edits with their owners, Griffith constructed a database that he made available on the Internet for…
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