When I was in high school in the early 2000s Wikipedia was entirely off limits and “unreliable”. When we had to read a book that had been translated the teacher

When I was in high school in the early 2000s Wikipedia was entirely off limits and “unreliable”. When we had to read a book that had been translated the teacher quickly caught half the class cheating because the Wikipedia article spelled the main character’s name slightly differently than the translation we had been assigned to read. I remember sitting in the library later that day telling a friend what had happened in class. I pulled up the Wikipedia article only to see it had been updated to say something along the lines of “John Doe (or Joe Doe in some translations)” and I knew immediately it must have been someone from my class who’d made the edit in an effort to save other kids from the same fate they had suffered.