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Wikipedia Vandalism

Bernard [PersonRank 0]

Friday, August 15, 2008
15 years ago2,714 views

Hi!

Today [GMT 4.02pm] on visiting the Michael Phelps article from the english wikipedia homepage, I got the following page:

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/7447/20080815screenshot08021kv1.png

For me, this looks like a new type of vandalism with modification of the page layout (e.g. scrolling was only for the left column), insertion of text at the very top of the page!

I think this is bad, since this can lead to insertion of malicious code on pages with a high number of visitors...

Bernard [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

There is a discussion about it in the Talk section of the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Michael_Phelps#Zodiac.3F.21

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

One of the commenters on the Talk page says "It was template vandalism. It wasn't actually caused or fixed by edits to the article itself."

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