UnNews:Wikipedia "shows nerdy obsessive edits"

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16 August 2007

When the ball stops bouncing, your article dispute will stand resolved.

WIKIALITY, Florida, Tuesday (UnGadget) — An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has revealed that socially-crippled geeks are heavily involved in editing entries.

The Wikipedia History Tab shows computer users with little ability to deal with human interaction made considerable numbers of edits to the Wikipedia article base. The tool trawls a list of 5.3 million edits and matches them to the "user name" of the editor and their position on the Eurocentricity of kitten cuteness. And Naruto, which is apparently this year's Pokémon.

A warning on the "talk page" of one editor reads: "You have recently repelled a new Wikipedia user by making thousands of edits in an arrogant and self-satisfied manner, and as such you are now being asked to run for admin. This is your last warning."

After many edits from CIA internet address ranges, a spokesman said, "I'd like in any case to underscore a far larger and more significant point that no one should doubt or forget: The CIA has a vital mission in protecting the United States, and the focus of this agency is there, on that decisive work." When we pointed out that CIA editors had in fact been concentrating on querulous Buffy The Vampire Slayer trivia, he said he'd get back to us.

Earlier this year, Microsoft was revealed to have offered money to people not to edit on Wikipedia concerning Microsoft or, indeed, anything else.

Sources

• Durova Watch "It's not spin, it's "PR 2.0"". Search Engine Spammer Optimizer, August 15, 2007
• Gdlennsk Gdanzsigsk "And you thought the article content was lame" See talk, August 16, 2007