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With so much fake news floating around these days, it's difficult to know just who and what to believe. While Wikipedia is usually a reliable source of factual information, from time to time people hack Wiki and slip some alternative facts in there too. And since it's a free encyclopedia, created entirely by collaborators, it turns out that some of them have quite a knack for humor. From Charlie Sheen being half man, half cocaine to American Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky being a humanoid evolution spawned in the bowels of Poseidon, you never can be too sure if what you're reading is 100% truth. So common sense comes in handy if you are preparing a paper according to Wikipedia's facts.
Luckily, these changes don't stay for long and are spotted by moderators before they even see the light of day. To illustrate how crazy some of these hijackings (or at least attempts) have been, Bored Panda has collected this list of funny Wikipedia edits caught on screenshots.
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Ok Ha-Neul 7 years ago
so is he from maycomb county alabama where people have a tendency to start combing their hair in the middle of a conversation they're called maycombers
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JEFF THE KILLER 7 years ago
Appointed by Barack Obama but became Trump's sock puppet.... Something's a little fishy
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Jesus Wäre 7 years ago
There's a post after this that said something like: "okay who reported me?"
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Lena Sterling 7 years ago
I read a biography about Janis, but it was never mentioned that she speed walked everywhere and was afraid of toilets. So good to know that she Speed walked and was afraid of toilets.
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Izzy's Maid 7 years ago
I am appalled that Lena Dunham's name was even MENTIONED in the same paragraph as such cute critters!!!
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Master Markus 7 years ago
I'm seriously bothered by how the French are called cowards because of that one surrender in WW2 as far as I know, because if you look at their history, they f*****g OWNED at wars.
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Tiny Dynamine 7 years ago
It can certainly be updated to Theresa May without any controversy. She is totally anti-democracy.
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GlassOfWater 7 years ago
Where I come from, people actually use this. "Ooh me nads!" --> an expression often used when a male's 'reproductive area' has been hurt.
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Hans 7 years ago
Whiel some of these are quite funny, I think it should be stressed that they do not speak for the quality of Wikipedia in general. Wikipedia, by its nature as an encyclopedia is a secondary source, not to compete with primary sources, particularly not with those of scientific nature. Due to the collaborative effort it may well compete with journalistic sources, particularly if you are skeptical about what you read! I think it does a very good job in providing easy-to-understand background if you do not want to go the full way to read the primary sources, and it can be used to scrutinize media.
Jeeves 7 years ago
No offence, sounds like u contributed to Wikipedia- meaning, I didn't understand half of that paragraph
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Alusair Alustriel 7 years ago
Just don;t forget, that before the change is approved it goes through moderators. And it's not like anyone can write on wikli - you have to register, write a lot and meet several requirments to be approved for freelance content changes. Most of those are showing edits visible only to the person editing the website - they see it, but it doesn't go further.
Just Jess 7 years ago
True, but it doesn't make reading the screen shots of their shenanigans any less funny.
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Hans 7 years ago
Whiel some of these are quite funny, I think it should be stressed that they do not speak for the quality of Wikipedia in general. Wikipedia, by its nature as an encyclopedia is a secondary source, not to compete with primary sources, particularly not with those of scientific nature. Due to the collaborative effort it may well compete with journalistic sources, particularly if you are skeptical about what you read! I think it does a very good job in providing easy-to-understand background if you do not want to go the full way to read the primary sources, and it can be used to scrutinize media.
Jeeves 7 years ago
No offence, sounds like u contributed to Wikipedia- meaning, I didn't understand half of that paragraph
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Just don;t forget, that before the change is approved it goes through moderators. And it's not like anyone can write on wikli - you have to register, write a lot and meet several requirments to be approved for freelance content changes. Most of those are showing edits visible only to the person editing the website - they see it, but it doesn't go further.
Just Jess 7 years ago
True, but it doesn't make reading the screen shots of their shenanigans any less funny.
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