Highlighting Sarah Palin’s unbridled ignorance when it comes to anything—this time Paul Revere—along with her defenders’ willingness to alter Wikipedia on her behalf, Stephen Colbert asked viewers to adjust the entry for “bell” so it reflects her alternate universe of American history. Which at least one did. In under a minute. Here’s the result.
The Queensboro Bridge officially opened to the public on March 30, 1909 and now 102 years later, it doesn’t even exist according to Wikipedia… well at least its NYC entry doesn’t. Although the City Council did pass the bill to rename the bridge, Mayor Bloomberg still hasn’t signed it into law. But that didn’t stop the community sourcing website from stripping its title and redirecting (web) traffic to this one: Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. Read more »
As you’ve probably heard, the Republican that heckled President Obama during his address to Congress (and the rest of the world) was identified as Representative Joe Wilson from South Carolina. Shouting “You lie,” it didn’t take long for people to respond online and in keeping with the spirit of the internet, the congressman’s Wikipedia was altered to reflect current events: Read more »
Within hours of Ted Kennedy’s death, cyber vandals quickly got to work and started defacing Mary Jo Kopechne’s Wikipedia page. A slew of revisions were made, most of them distasteful, which forced the website to suspend any further edits for new and unregistered users. Enjoy: Read more »
It looks like a disgruntled staffer from Vibe (or a ruthless competitor) is having a little fun with the Hip Hop magazine’s Wikipedia entry. According to this revised ‘Expanding the brand’ section things aren’t going to well for the publication with most of top executives leaving the company and staff turnover exceeding 75% in the past year and a half. But the virtual vandal didn’t stop there, and posted a slew of unfavorable tidbits:
[A]ccording to Media Week, in the first six months of 2008, VIBE’s advertising pages have declined by 17.9% and revenues have fallen by over 20%. MediaWeek reports, “In the second half of 2007, “Single-copy sales plummeted 18.8 percent, though, and the magazine started using verified, or public place, copies to help make its rate base for the last three issues.
To commemorate the upcoming anniversary of the Columbine shootings (on Sunday, April 20), we thought we’d make a toast to the 15 fallen victims with 15 shots. Which somehow—don’t ask how—led us to search Wikipedia for “shot glass”. And, oh, que terrible, what should show up? An ominously relevant Virginia Tech shot glass. Who paid you to edit this one, Jimmy Wales?
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