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The Biggest Hoaxes In Wikipedia's First Decade
jbrodkin writes "Wikipedia will celebrate its 10th birthday on Saturday, with founder Jimmy Wales having built the site from nothing to one of the most influential destinations on the Internet. Wikipedia's goal may be to compile the sum total of all human knowledge, but it's also, perhaps, the best tool in existence for perpetuating Internet hoaxes. Top hoaxes include a student who fooled the entire world's media with a fake obituary quote, Rush Limbaugh spouting inaccurate facts lifted from Wikipedia, the incorrect declaration of Sinbad's death, Stephen Colbert's African elephant prank, Hitler posters on the bedroom wall of a teenage Tony Blair, and several fake historical figures invented out of thin air. Wales has taken steps to head off vandalism including preventing unregistered editors from creating new pages and temporarily protecting controversial articles, but Wikipedia's very nature makes it susceptible to the hoaxes described in this story."
this always made me chuckle...
No, I don't think the act was funny or it should be joked about, before you start.
The founder of Orange Julius did not invent a shower stall for pigeons
Uhh, BULLSHIT. I spent the better part of my 50s grappling with the feather-matrix. -Harold Julius.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
He has dated 43 reasonably well known supermodels, so I'd say pretty far.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
Look carefully. He was masquerading as an expert in Theology... How hard is it to be an expert in something that is inherently 100% fiction anyway?
Am I trolling?
If you went to a bar and tried to pick up a chick with the line "I started Wikipedia" - how far do you think you'd actually get?
"Hi, I started Wikileaks" works well in Sweden.
Fandroids hate facts.
(tap tap tap...)
There. Now it says he has dated 43 reasonably attractive female aardvark wrestlers.
"Slow down, Cowboy! It has been 3 years, 7 months and 26 days since you last successfully posted a comment."
You have to use the complete line, though: "Hi, I started Wikileaks, wanna have some questionably consensual sex?"
"Well hold me down and break a condom, YES!"
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
How hard is it to be an expect in the area of English Fiction? I mean, all of English fiction literature is 100% fiction anyway. Anyone can be an expert in that!
*Tap, tappity, tap, tap, tap*
There. Now it links to this story as a citation.
Hey, it works for right-wing media.
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If you went to a bar and tried to pick up a chick with the line "I started Wikipedia" - how far do you think you'd actually get?
She's say: Needs citation.
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