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Probably a drop in the bucket compared to Stephen Colbert goading his watchers to edit silly things into wikipedia.
by georgemcbay 14y ago
Probably a drop in the bucket compared to Stephen Colbert goading his watchers to edit silly things into wikipedia.
- dal 14y agoThose people are probably too lazy and high to edit Wikipedia.
- dasil003 14y agoYes, but they aren't required to do it for college credit. They're just like any other troll Wikipedia is constantly dealing with.
- rohansingh 14y agoActually, no. When Stephen Colbert asks his viewers to edit some article, it's fairly simple to lock that single article. Any collateral vandalism is easily reverted. The problem here is much more insidious: hundreds of articles are being edited. Furthermore, though the edits are of low quality and often plagiarized, they are not so obviously vandalism that bots or editors can instantly revert them.