Tim Powers: Wikipedia troll?

[prog]

(Ha har Slashdot-style subject line.)

Speaking of procrastination, I mean Wikipedia, here's an edit I made a couple of weeks ago to the French and Indian War article. As noted, I appreciated the vandal's creativity, which went above and beyond the usual vandal behavior of replacing the entire article with "LOL PENUS" or whatever, but still.

What's extra-great is that the modified text lived in the article for about two hours, managing to survive several (probably bot-driven) reverts, including the removal of another WP user's rather reasonable commentary on the matter.

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

There's a whole lot of vandalism to that page. Did some class assign that page to be vandalized as an experiment or something? Or is this typical of all of Wikipedia?

[keimel.livejournal.com]

Damn those gnomes and their bloodlust.