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The Top 20 of Wikipedia Vandalism  (View post)

Ryan [PersonRank 0]

Tuesday, December 5, 2006
17 years ago5,579 views

I've been in a few wikiwars... strangely enough they've all started when I've corrected a change that an admin had originally made. They'd lock it so that their work stayed.

In once case, I was an expert in the field, having written a book on the topic, and the admin still insisted on using his un-cited stuff over mine. My IP has been banned twice for such incidents.

The other incident, is because the "external links" were only linking to 1 site (which the admin was affiliated with), so I added 4 more (the top 5 google results for the same term)... and apparantley that got me banned.

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Web 3.0 on wikipedia:
<<This page has been deleted, and protected to prevent re-creation.>>
It seems that it was deleted because it was a
<<Vague speculation on a vague idea that doesn't yet exist>>
others say it was
<<not even very good speculation>>

Todd Mintz [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

Don't forget Kazakhstan...Borat fans have done a lot with that page.

Henning [PersonRank 3]

17 years ago #

Actually I can edit the "Your Mom" page. And I have no Wikipedia account. Just an anonymous (?) german IP...

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Yes Henning, as I indicated many of the examples Google returns aren't semi-protected or protected anymore... they were though at one time.

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Google was changed to Crapp-O-Mattic for a brief of time on Sunday(I think)...
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2563/crappomatticwikipediathdb7.png

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I'm not surprised for the wiki page on Heroes (TV). Each time I went on this page it was defaced :-S

TheRaveN [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

Israel? really? nice....

I guess the on going fight between Israel and most of the Arabic world, makes it (unfortunately) reasonable.

TheRaveN
The Israeli SEO commune

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

i think the only that will not be vandalized is the section of Metal music :) ;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles

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