Gather around children. u/bjoern_tantau is going to tell us of one of the mighty Wikipedia Edit Wars.
Comment on Wikipedia sources their information better than most journalists do in their articles.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 month ago
Germany once had a minister of defence with a ridiculous number of first names. I think 12 names or so. Then one guy kept editing in another into Wikipedia. During the edit war where people were deleting the extra name and he was putting it back in some journalist used Wikipedia as a source for the names and they copied the fake one down. So now the guy had a source he could point to to win the edit war.
I think it took several months until this was resolved.
TehBamski@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Robert7301201@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Citogenesis in action
Flemmy@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I once searched for Barack Obama years ago right when a rogue editor turned it into a page about Blackops Apache Assault Helicopters and Seals copypastas. I still dont know why. I occassionally wondered if I was sleepwalking.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 month ago
Theoretically this should still be available somewhere in the edit history.