Have you ever edited wikipedia for the laugh

uch

Have you ever edited Wikipedia for the laugh and added spurious fact to pages ?

MonkstownHoop

made myself a famous resident of somewhere

mad turnip

in school there was this traveler lad, and we kept editing the traveler pages to include his name on all of them, I wouldn't be surprised if his name was still on them as it was such a traveler name!!!

the keen edge

mad turnip wrote: »

in school there was this traveler lad, and we kept editing the traveler pages to include his name on all of them, I wouldn't be surprised if his name was still on them as it was such a traveler name!!!

If he was literate then it might have been funny.

lahalane

I made a huge post about the place I am from for the laugh. It wasnt editing but creating. By the time I finished and tried to show it to someone it had been deleted. I never tried at anything in my life ever again.

humbert

I think it's inspiring that people collectively and voluntarily created such a repository of information. I wouldn't vandalise it for ****s and giggles.

uch

lahalane wrote: »

I made a huge post about the place I am from for the laugh. It wasnt editing but creating. By the time I finished and tried to show it to someone it had been deleted. I never tried at anything in my life ever again.

Edit something thats already there

efb

This fella was complaining on boards about security at the airport think he had Francie Bellew as his user name so I changed the GAA star's wiki accordingly (didn't last long)

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056525345/14/#post76655700

osarusan

Edited in (wrote) a piece about a bar I liked drinking in a city. Put it in the 'famous buildings' section, or similar. Did it at the bar owner's request (she didn't speak much English, but wanted more customers). Got a free pint out of it, maybe two.

Amirani

This page is pretty funny reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia

lkionm

I called someone gay.

lahalane

uch wrote: »

Edit something thats already there

I think we edited Junior Agogos page too to mention we had named a drink after him. Or maybe when we got there somebody else had already done it. Either way it was on his page for a while.

Artful_Badger

Nope, but I've often deleted unfunny crap that people write on it.

G.K.

I'm very much the type who removes the vandalism and nonsense, but a mate of mine added a middle name to a current but minor international footballer, which has now stuck, made it into biographies on other major sports sites and even into Football Manager, the video game.

ONeill2013

just in junior high for the humour, go to the persons home village wikipedia page and write 'ryan likes willy' or something, the usual nonsense

mad turnip

the keen edge wrote: »

If he was literate then it might have been funny.

he kind of was haha

uch

ONeill2013 wrote: »

just in junior high for the humour, go to the persons home village wikipedia page and write 'ryan likes willy' or something, the usual nonsense

Now thats the stuff I'm talkin about

greenflash

I added "Despite having no discernible talent whatsoever" to the first sentence of the wiki page for that talentless yoke who was on Podge and Rodge and did Bord Gais ads.

NegativeCreep

ONeill2013 wrote: »

just in junior high for the humour, go to the persons home village wikipedia page and write 'ryan likes willy' or something, the usual nonsense

Junior High?

ONeill2013

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Junior High?

yes junior high was all fun and games, senior high wasn't too great apart from spring break.

Frynge

Once changed the page on weapons.

Replaced every occurrence of weapon with "meat sword".

It made for a much more entertaining article and lasted all of 43 minutes.

hatrickpatrick

Last summer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talbot_Street&oldid=504805061#.22Ah_leave_it_out.22

Couldn't resist

Phoeey

NiallSparky wrote: »

This page is pretty funny reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia

This is a good one: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kaoru_Matsumoto&diff=prev&oldid=245091718

TommiesTank

Yes, edited the page of a former foreign footballer who has a surname that sounds like a swear word. Think Baddiel and Skinner.

TommiesTank

Artful_Badger wrote: »

Nope, but I've often deleted unfunny crap that people write on it.

Glad to hear that.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Junior High?

I like your avatar way too much.

omahaid

After a debate at work regarding wikipedia I changed the page on Turkeys (the bird) to state that they originated from the moon. It was changed back very quick

pablomakaveli

A few years ago I clicked a random page that brought up a page about some region in Congo. I edited it to say it was first inhabited by pygmies and when i had another look about a year ago it was still there.

SHOVELLER

While it can be a useful tool some of the moderators/administrators there are way over the top and dedicate their life to it. Having 100,000 plus edits and boasting about it! Sad.

Ten of Swords

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Couldn't resist

Human vuvuzela! Brilliant

Heno97

SHOVELLER wrote: »

While it can be a useful tool some of the moderators/administrators there are way over the top and dedicate their life to it. Having 100,000 plus edits and boasting about it! Sad.

Comments like these make me weep for humanity

pajor

Corrected some serious spelling issues on a page once, after signing up for the wiki membership thingy.

Got a message telling me that my changes had been reversed as they were considered spam. :pac:

sentient_6

I remember randomly looking up the page for the bodybuilder Ronnie Coleman except someone had deleted the whole article & left one line: 'nigga stole my bike'.

A_Sober_Paddy

Made some funny chances to Nick Giffin's page before...they were changed fairly fast

Elbaston

No mention of willy so far.

wikis most damaging/prolific troll.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dcoetzee/Willy_on_Wheels:A_Case_Study

tiredcity

A fellow boardsie ended up with their surname + syndrome on the wiki entry for an embarassing medical condition which was since referenced in a major US clinical conference & numerous other sources. She's tried to remove it but someone immediately stuck it back up.

A_Sober_Paddy

tiredcity wrote: »

A fellow boardsie ended up with their surname + syndrome on the wiki entry for an embarassing medical condition which was since referenced in a major US clinical conference & numerous other sources. She's tried to remove it but someone immediately stuck it back up.

Tell us more...

StinkyMunkey

Elbaston wrote: »

No mention of willy so far.

wikis most damaging/prolific troll.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dcoetzee/Willy_on_Wheels:A_Case_Study

Lol, quiet an achievement - your claim to fame is to be the biggest time sink on Wiki. Should change his name from willy on wheels to Billy no mates. Ah we'll, some people really are easily amused.

Sure nearly everyone in Ireland with internet access was editing Thierry Henrys page a few years ago.
Did it myself I`ll admit

http://www.unitedrant.co.uk/just-for-fun/henry-wiki-defaced-with-four-letter-slur/
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Ireland-France-Thierry-Henry-Handball,news-5150.html

Good times

fasttalkerchat

efb wrote: »

This fella was complaining on boards about security at the airport think he had Francie Bellew as his user name so I changed the GAA star's wiki accordingly (didn't last long)

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056525345/14/#post76655700

It lists him as apps 44 Scores ?
Definitely remember him scoring a penalty. Surely a few points from his handful of ventures over the half way line in 44 games.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Can you write up your own Wiki page?

I consider myself to be a brilliant poet/musician/soccer player/lover/father/innovator/crime fighter/entrepreneur/fighter pilot ect. ect. ect.

Would it count if only I thought it though?

ONeill2013

I just noticed this (look at 2013)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_All-Ireland_Senior_Hurling_Championship_finals

polydactyl

Someone should let the lads currently running about CP know that their trophy is already gone

hatrickpatrick

Ten of Swords wrote: »

Human vuvuzela! Brilliant

My favourite one was "Deadly weapon", which links to "potato chips" (one of the eejits hurls an empty bag of crisps at one of the Brazillians as they're walking away near the end)

SHOVELLER

Heno97 wrote: »

Comments like these make me weep for humanity

I could say that same for this.

I stand over what I said.

rustedtrumpet

Havnt done but reminds me of when we were in school, when a teacher asked one of us to read from a history book we'd change the words or add in words of our own while reading a loud. Some hilarious wit was made up on the spot which the teacher would fail to realise

hatrickpatrick

rustedtrumpet wrote: »

Havnt done but reminds me of when we were in school, when a teacher asked one of us to read from a history book we'd change the words or add in words of our own while reading a loud. Some hilarious wit was made up on the spot which the teacher would fail to realise

We used to do that in Business in school, when he'd ask us to read out numbers from the book while he wrote them out on the board we'd make up random ones and he'd get unbelievably confused when the ledger would refuse to balance or the supposed successful business example was making losses of several hundred thousand

BAA RAM EWE

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