Last August, Griffith, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, released a simple piece of software code that tore the lid of secrecy off the anonymous community of volunteers who edit the nonprofit encyclopedia.
"We believe that technology has the power to expose and dismantle global criminal networks, which depend on secrecy and discretion in order to function, " Google said in a blog post this week.
Tables and seating have been set under Michelangelo's frescoed ceiling for the cardinals - and special technology has been installed to jam any mobile phones or other devices which could breach the strict secrecy of the process, the BBC's James Robbins reports from Rome.