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CongressEdits is a Twitter bot (called a watchdog^[1] by NBC News) created in 2014 to track anonymous changes to Wikipedia articles by people or systems running at US Congressional IP addresses.

The author, Ed Summers, posted on his blog "to make it clear that my hope for @congressedits wasn’t to expose inanity, or belittle our elected officials."^[2] He emphasizes that he does not see edits to Step Up 3D, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, or Horse head mask as "something to make fun of", and also states "the nice thing about it is that there are also substantial edits like changing a Congressperson's party affiliation from Democrat to Independent."^[3]

The code for the bot itself is open-source software^[4], and can be easily configured to watch for anonymous edits from any IP ranges. It requires Node.js and CoffeeScript.

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[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-watchdog-keeps-tabs-wikipedia-edits-congress-n156391. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)

[2] http://inkdroid.org/journal/2014/07/10/why-congressedits/. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "title why @congressedits?" ignored (help)

[3] http://techpresident.com/news/25188/congressedits-hopes-see-more-wikipedians-congress. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)

[4] "anon project, formerly congressedits, at github.com". https://github.com/edsu/anon. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)

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 '''CongressEdits''' is a [[Twitter bot]] (called a watchdog<ref>{{cite web|website=http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-watchdog-keeps-tabs-wikipedia-edits-congress-n156391|accessdate=2014-07-15}}</ref> by NBC News) created in 2014 to track anonymous changes to Wikipedia articles by people or systems running at [[US Congress]]ional IP addresses.
+The author, Ed Summers, posted on his blog "to make it clear that my hope for @congressedits wasn’t to expose inanity, or belittle our elected officials."<ref>{{cite web|website=http://inkdroid.org/journal/2014/07/10/why-congressedits/|accessdate=2014-07-15|title why @congressedits?}}</ref> He emphasizes that he does not see edits to [[Step Up 3D]], [[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]], or [[Horse head mask]] as "something to make fun of", and also states "the nice thing about it is that there are also substantial edits like changing a Congressperson's party affiliation from Democrat to Independent."<ref>{{cite web|website=http://techpresident.com/news/25188/congressedits-hopes-see-more-wikipedians-congress|accessdate=2014-07-15}}</ref>
-The code for the bot itself is open-source <ref>{{cite web|website=https://github.com/edsu/anon|accessdate=2014-07-15|title=anon project, formerly congressedits, at github.com}}</ref>, and can be easily configured to watch for anonymous edits from any IP ranges.  It requires [[Node.js]] and [[CoffeeScript]].
+The code for the bot itself is [[open-source software]]<ref>{{cite web|website=https://github.com/edsu/anon|accessdate=2014-07-15|title=anon project, formerly congressedits, at github.com}}</ref>, and can be easily configured to watch for anonymous edits from any IP ranges.  It requires [[Node.js]] and [[CoffeeScript]].
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