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.

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[ahkond.livejournal.com]

That was me. For some reason my PC decided to forget all my login cookies for LJ, gmail, wikipedia and other sites simultaneously.

[prog.livejournal.com]

The only page on my watchlist that gets vandalized much is "Doughnut". (My self-appointed task there is to visit every few months or so and normalize all non-proper-noun instances of "donut" into "doughnut".)

[ahkond.livejournal.com]

Mmmm ... forbidden "donut" ... *gurgle*