Wikipedia is full of this "jokes".
When someone die, it's a tradition to modify Wikipedia to change the cause of his death to something more crazy. |
Additional measurements at "securing" articles from such edits often come at the price of decreased update speed, though... and that's a quality decrease that is much less scandalous to notice but could still be quite huge overall.
For instance: secure the articles about a person by having logged-out users only see the latest approved version*, and then everybody who's not logged in coming from Google stumbling upon that article several hours after a news broke might still not know it by looking at the article – even when people already edited it to that regard.
*I noticed this earlier today when I checked out a politician who had just resigned, I thought it was German Wikipedia but can't reproduce it right now, so I'm not exactly sure... |
