About this wiki
The Corruption and Integrity Wiki is an educational reference on how corruption is defined, prevented, detected, investigated, prosecuted, and measured. This page explains where its content comes from, how it was assembled, and how far it should be trusted.
1 Origin
This wiki began as a request to read five source documents on anti-corruption practice, technology, and measurement, extract their content and citations, and turn the findings into a structured, interlinked encyclopedic reference in the style of an earlier sister project, the Fraud-OSINT Wiki. The five sources span an intergovernmental technology policy paper, a government best-practice framework guide, an official investigations manual, a peer-reviewed criminology journal article, and a research paper on measurement methodology, totaling roughly 306 pages.
2 Source material
| Document | Publisher | Year | Pages | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technologies for Preventing, Detecting, and Combating Corruption (Issues Paper No. 15) | APEC Policy Support Unit / Access Partnership | 2025 | 89 | Anti-corruption technology landscape and readiness |
| Rising to the Surface: The Detection of Public Corruption | Artello & Albanese, CCJLS journal | 2020 | 16 | How corruption cases come to light |
| Conducting internal investigations into corrupt conduct: A guide for Commonwealth agencies | National Anti-Corruption Commission (Australia) | 2026 | 17 | Investigation methodology and procedural fairness |
| Fraud and Corruption Control: Best Practice Guide | Crime and Corruption Commission, Queensland | 2018 | 112 | Institutional 10-component control framework |
| The Architecture of Corruption Measurement | Pozsgai-Alvarez, International Anti-Corruption Academy | 2025 | 72 | How corruption is measured and why it matters |
Each document's own bibliography was harvested in full; well-documented named entities it referenced (case studies, technology platforms, statistical indices, legal instruments) were cross-checked against independent knowledge and, where noted in an article, flagged for further verification rather than stated as settled fact. See References for the consolidated bibliography.
3 Method
All five documents were read in full, not sampled. Their content was reduced to structured summaries and their citations harvested verbatim. The resulting material was then reorganized, not merely concatenated, into encyclopedic articles grouped by theme: definitions and detection pathways, institutional control frameworks, investigation methodology, enforcement and oversight bodies, notable case studies, prevention and detection technology, and measurement methodology. Articles cross-reference one another throughout.
4 Design philosophy
The presentation imitates the early-2000s MediaWiki "Monobook" look: a serif masthead, a left navigation column, a gold content rule, and classic blue links. Each page is a few kilobytes of plain HTML sharing a single stylesheet, with no web fonts, no images, no analytics, and no JavaScript required to read. It loads instantly on slow or metered connections.
5 Caveats and limitations
Coverage inherits the emphases of its five sources: Australian and Queensland investigative and institutional practice, APEC-region technology deployments, and a largely US/European measurement literature. It is not a comprehensive global survey of anti-corruption law or practice.