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– BetFair has been editing Wikipedia 6 times.
– TradeSports-InTrade has been editing Wikipedia 33 times.
– Cantor (the owner of the HSX): 134 times.
– Google (of Bo Cowgill) and Yahoo! (of David Pennock and Daniel Reeves): hundreds of times.
– University of Iowa (the owner of the Iowa Electronic Markets), George Mason University (the working place of Robin Hanson): thousands of time.
– MicroSoft (of Henry Berg): DOZENS OF THOUSANDS OF TIMES.
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Wiki Scanner: Search the Wikipedia edits to spot the organizations that edited it. – [One interesting function is temporarily disabled. It would allow us to spot exactly what it is that the firms did edit on a particular Wikipedia page. When this functionality is re-instated, I will write a more detailed blog post.]
Wiki Scanner FAQ
1. Wholesale removal of entire paragraphs of critical information. (common for both political figures and corporations)
2. White-washing —- replacing negative/neutral adjectives with positive adjectives that mean something similar. (common for political figures)
3. Adding negative information to a competitor’-s page. (common for corporations)[…] Overall–-especially for non-controversial topics–-Wikipedia seems to work. For controversial topics, Wikipedia can be made more reliable through techniques like this one. As for other approaches, I think colored text is a promising direction for combating disinformation in wikipedia. […]
List of salacious edits, by Wired
New York Times – Slate
The Wikipedia pages: prediction markets and betting exchanges.
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Hence the need for Midas Oracle as an independent and reliable source of information on prediction markets. Here, David Yu, John Delaney, Alex Costakis and company don’-t control what you read.
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