• edric
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    2 years ago

    Remember the prolific wikipedia contributor who had an extreme fascination with boobs?

    Edit: It was a joke people. I wasn’t being serious. But yeah, that did happen and there were articles about it for a while.

    • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      82 years ago

      There’s thousands of prolific Wikipedia contributors. Writing high quality articles takes a lot of time.

      So no

      • AnyOldName3
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        22 years ago

        It was reasonably big news when it was noticed, so it’s not unreasonable that people might remember it. IIRC, the gist of it was one contributor that had historically contributed to a large number of articles added a redirect for every article with breast in the name so you could also access it by replacing breast with titty or boob, so for example, typing titty cancer into the search bar would bring you to the page for breast cancer.

          • edric
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            52 years ago

            Not really. It was amusing at worst probably. I was trying to be humorous when I mentioned it, but I guess a lot of people thought I was serious.

    • @Neve8028@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      The Scots guy is a better example, imo. Someone who was trying to contribute in a positive manner but filled the wiki with complete gibberish, as opposed to a troll, of which there many.