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A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia
- akolbe 4y agoSome more cautionary tales of this type: https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/16/wikipedia_16_birthday_fails/ https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/16/wikipedia_16_birthday... It's really important to check citations in Wikipedia whenever the information matters.
- chinabot 4y agoLove it. Ironically I assume she will get her own wiki page now she's famous
- Shadonototra 4y ago
- akolbe 4y ago:) This was originally reported by a Chinese site: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010653/she-spent-a-decade-writing-fake-russian-history.-wikipedia-just-noticed https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010653/she-spent-a-decade-wr... People in China commonly use VPNs to access Wikipedia.
- Shadonototra 4y agoLooks like i hit a nerve, so i'll repost what gets "flagged" Fake news, american propaganda You can't access Wikipedia from China, it is blocked ;) And now a reply to your comment: They didn't know that, hence it is not mentioned, wich proves my point ;)
- hunglee2 4y agoI hope someone preserved it, an amazing work of fiction. I can imagine someone just getting carried away with the world creation doing this, especially a talented person with perhaps limited outlet for the talent