Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Took approximately 10 minutes, in fact. Which makes it all the more
> surprising that I happened to hit the page within that 10-minute window.

It happens. I once tried to read the article on the first Halo game, and one
section, quite a large paragraph, consisted entirely of the phrase 'halo is gay'
in block capitals over and over again. Several minutes later, back to normal.

> Of course, if instead of inserting something obviously bogus, the person
> had made several small factual edits which look superficially plausible,
> you could slowly pollute large sections of Wikipedia with false data and
> nobody would notice for a very long time.

Except that there's a large army of editors who get notified of every edit, and
likely catch even subtle changes relatively quickly.

Still funny when you happen to catch some vandalism in the act tho :)

And then there's always the anti-Wikipedia:
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Bill

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