{"id":80,"date":"2006-02-08T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/02\/wikinews-innovation-call-it-ip-journalism.html"},"modified":"2006-02-08T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T17:34:00","slug":"wikinews-innovation-call-it-ip-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/wikinews-innovation-call-it-ip-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikinews innovation &#8211; call it IP journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikinews.org debuted a new kind of investigative journalism in a report on the Senate Wikipedia scandal. That story hit the mainstream media last week when several outlets reported that staff members at several senators&#8217; offices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redherring.com\/Article.aspx?a=15576&#038;hed=Wikipedia+Hit+by+%E2%80%98Vandals%E2%80%99+&amp;sector=Regions&amp;subsector=Americas\">had apparently edited entries<\/a> about their senators and rival politicians that deleted or added embarrassing information.<\/p>\n<p>Wikinews volunteer reporters took an innovative approach to furthering this story. They dug up IP addresses at individual senators&#8217; offices and then <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Wikinews_investigates_Wikipedia_usage_by_U.S._Senate_staff_members\">analyzed the Wikipedia history pages for the affected senators&#8217; biographies to identify which offices manipulated which entries<\/a>. What was particularly ingenious, I thought, was how the reporters mapped IP addresses to senate offices. They sent e-mail to the senators and then looked at the headers in the replies received from the auto-responders to identify which offices had which addresses. Then they compared those addresses to the ones tracked on the history page. Very innovative and very revealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikinews.org debuted a new kind of investigative journalism in a report on the Senate Wikipedia scandal. That story hit the mainstream media last week when several outlets reported that staff members at several senators&#8217; offices had apparently edited entries about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/wikinews-innovation-call-it-ip-journalism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-1i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}