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They will never surpass this guy: https://nypost.com/2020/08/26/most-of-scottish-wikipedia-is-written-by-an-american-in-a-fake-accent/ https://nypost.com/2020/

• samizdis 4y ago
  Except, perhaps: Opening paragraph of article [1] linked below (full version is worth a read - sort of redefines the concept of dedication): >For over a decade, a Chinese woman known as “Zhemao” created a massive, fantastical, and largely fictional alternate history of late Medieval Russia on Chinese Wikipedia, writing millions of words about entirely made-up political figures, massive (and fake) silver mines, and pivotal battles that never actually happened. She even went so far as to concoct details about things like currency and eating utensils. [1] https://lithub.com/a-chinese-borges-wrote-millions-of-words-of-fake-russian-history-on-wikipedia-for-a-decade/ https://lithub.com/a-chinese-borges-wrote-millions-of-words-...