Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse • Hacker News Board

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by dclowd9901 » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 5:54 AM UTC

joib wrote: post #10

Some of these are hilarious. Favourite so far is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Chip... > The Chipmunks vandal, also known as the Alvin vandal, adds trivial detail about the Chipmunks fictional musical group's cover versions to song articles, for instance adding a Chipmunks cover version to the Rolling Stones' song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". Not only the Chipmunks but the vandal also ta…

Since this seems to be the curated "hilarious ones" thread, I'll throw in my favorite:

"Prolific sockpuppeter with over 500 socks which inserts hoaxes about lions existing in Montana."

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by greazy » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 6:00 AM UTC

This reads like an SCP article.

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by Bolkan » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 6:08 AM UTC

boomboomsubban wrote: post #6

Isn't this glorifying the abuse? If I were a troll I would strive to make this list.

Mass shooting motivation.

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by pyuser583 » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 6:22 AM UTC

boomboomsubban wrote: post #30

pyuser583 wrote: post #23

> Prolific sockpuppeter with over 500 socks which inserts hoaxes about lions existing in Montana. I am in awe. Edit: it seems there actually are lions in Montana: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/mountain-lions-montana So why the hoaxes?

The user was replacing the term "mountain lion" with "lion."

With 500 sock puppet accounts!?!

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by guyrap » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 6:32 AM UTC

Can't believe this ends up as my first HN post, but

http://www.everytopicintheuniverseexceptchickens.com/

https://qwantz.com).

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by aoetalks » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 6:37 AM UTC

bpodgursky wrote: post #14

joib wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm impressed that someone managed to get my ISP's entire IPv6 address range banned indefinitely from editing Wikipedia.

Didn't the entire nation of Qatar get blocked at one point? Edit: lol yep https://techcrunch.com/2007/01/01/wikipedia-bans-qatar

> Apparently Qatar has a single ISP, Qtel, with a single IP address shared by the entire country.

Wut?

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by geoffbp » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 7:06 AM UTC

Where do people find the time and motivation to do this? I’m amazed

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by YPPH » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 7:23 AM UTC

geoffbp wrote: post #37

Where do people find the time and motivation to do this? I’m amazed

The time and motivation to abuse Wikipedia, or the time and motivation to document the abuse?

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by rkagerer » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 7:38 AM UTC

joib wrote: post #10

Some of these are hilarious. Favourite so far is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Chip... > The Chipmunks vandal, also known as the Alvin vandal, adds trivial detail about the Chipmunks fictional musical group's cover versions to song articles, for instance adding a Chipmunks cover version to the Rolling Stones' song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". Not only the Chipmunks but the vandal also ta…

Saw the following warning on that page and it sounded so silly I thought it had also been vandalized (before realizing its a real thing):

Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations

Re: Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

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Post by olalonde » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 8:06 AM UTC

Many of the users are described as IP hopping. I wonder how that is determined. Probably just a guess based on common patterns of vandalism?