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A friend did an edit (though you could call it vandalism) of a Wikipedia 20 years back. He linked from several pages to a non-existing apportionment method, and
by fer 1y ago
A friend did an edit (though you could call it vandalism) of a Wikipedia 20 years back. He linked from several pages to a non-existing apportionment method, and created an article with a fairer version of d'Hondt for elections, quite ingenious and probably more fair than the popular alternatives in most cases. He named it after himself (he has an unusual last name and capitalised on that).
It didn't take long for the page to be dropped for being original research, and he didn't put it anywhere else.
To this day, you can still find pages and people referencing the method.
Edit: a quick check and Grok and ChatGPT have scraped it, Gemini hallucinates something unrelated.
- yunohn 1y agoIs it Scheper’s or Ebert’s method? https://www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/en/service/glossar/s/sainte-lague-schepers.html https://www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/en/service/glossar/s/saint... https://electowiki.org/wiki/Ebert%27s_method https://electowiki.org/wiki/Ebert%27s_method
- fer 1y agoNot really, it wasn't the English Wikipedia and most references are in the original language. After my edit above, 2/3 LLMs know about it if you ask in the original language, which is pretty damning and gives an idea of the amount of mindless scraping they do.