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  • A women-in-STEM “edit-a-thon” organized by Wikipedia in Nova Scotia, Canada, 2018
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    …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 anyone to search through. He and other researchers quickly discovered that editing Wikipedia content…

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    …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 anyone to search through. He and other researchers quickly discovered that editing Wikipedia content…

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