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Every IP address in the UK Parliament netblock that has edited Wikipedia

The UK Houses of Parliament netblocks are publicly listed:

https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=RIPE&type=inetnum&key=194.60.0.0%20-%20194.60.63.255 https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=RIPE&type=inetnum&key=82.111.122.128%20-%2082.111.122.135 https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=RIPE&type=inetnum&key=82.111.119.192%20-%2082.111.119.199 https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=RIPE&type=inetnum&key=82.111.126.144%20-%2082.111.126.159 https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=RIPE&type=inetnum&key=212.161.99.0%20-%20212.161.99.7

They were unwilling to reveal the UK parliament web proxies in an FOI request, so here's the list of every IP address that has made a Wikipedia edit from the UK parliament netblocks. Guess the proxies.

For an encore, here's the Prime Ministers office:

And for my final trick, the Government Secure Intranet proxies:

  • 62.25.106.209 7585 found (gateway-101.energis.gsi.gov.uk)
  • 62.25.109.196 2388 found (gateway-103.energis.gsi.gov.uk)
  • 195.92.40.49 7977 found (gateway-202.energis.gsi.gov.uk)
  • 62.25.109.194 4316 found (gateway-301.energis.gsi.gov.uk)
  • 62.25.109.196 2388 found (gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk)
  • 195.92.206.244 17 found (gateway-403.energis.gsi.gov.uk)
  • 195.92.206.243 92 found (gateway-402.energis.gsi.gov.uk)

Many thanks to @russss, who did a lot of the GSI digging.

PRESS:

This data has been used by Channel 4 to dig up all sorts of things:

Other coverage:

And Channel 4 started a twitter bot using the data:

--@jonty

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reedy commented Jul 29, 2014

For anyone wanting to do queries of these contribs.. you can use the api!

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&uclimit=max&ucuserprefix=194.60.62.

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https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/full-text.html#resultsAnchor#resultsAnchor
Search for "Houses of Parliament"
There's more:

  • domain: 10.60.194.in-addr.arpa
  • domain: 38.60.194.in-addr.arpa
  • inetnum: 82.111.119.192 - 82.111.119.199
  • inetnum: 82.111.126.144 - 82.111.126.159
  • inetnum: 82.111.122.128 - 82.111.122.135
  • inetnum: 212.161.99.0 - 212.161.99.7
  • inetnum: 62.189.177.232 - 62.189.177.239
  • inetnum: 194.60.0.0 - 194.60.63.255

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