[CivicAccess-discuss] [OTT-GOSLING] bot that tweets anonymous Wikipedia edits from GoC

[Glen Newton]

I would prefer to call those sorts of edits 'neutral' - they do not alter
the content in either (or any) direction.


On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 10:28 AM, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca> wrote:

> For what it’s worth, all the Wikipedia edits so far seem to be good things
> (correcting grammar, improving style, etc.).
>
>
> On Jul 12, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Glen Newton <glen.newton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Joseph,
>
> I am thinking you intent is different (i.e. commits to github are _good_
> things). :-)
>
> Checking the github API, it does not look like they expose the IP of the
> commiter for the commit: https://developer.github.com/v3/git/commits/
> I'm pretty sure the store it but perhaps for privacy reasons do not wish
> to expose it?
>
> -Glen
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin at opman.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hmm, interesting. How about the same for commits to Github?
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Glen Newton <glen.newton at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > "I'm a bot that tweets anonymous Wikipedia edits that are made from IP
>> > addresses in the Government of Canada, House of Commons & Department of
>> > National Defence."
>> >  https://twitter.com/gccaedits
>> > --
>> >
>> > The tool that allows you to do this: "This little coffee script will
>> watch
>> > Wikipedia for edits from a set of named IP ranges and will tweet when it
>> > notices one. It was inspired by @parliamentedits
>> > <https://twitter.com/parliamentedits> and is used to make the
>> @congressedits
>> > <https://twitter.com/congressedits> feed available"
>> >  https://github.com/edsu/anon
>> >
>> > Discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024417
>> >
>> >
>> > Cool!
>> >
>> > -Glen
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