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Have you ever edited wikipedia for the laugh

  • 08-09-2013 01:34AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭


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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    made myself a famous resident of somewhere


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭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!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,917 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    I called someone gay.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭mad turnip


    If he was literate then it might have been funny.

    he kind of was haha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 499 ✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭ONeill2013


    Junior High?

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭Phoeey




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭TommiesTank


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭TommiesTank


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

    Glad to hear that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    Junior High?

    I like your avatar way too much.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭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 :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,512 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    Couldn't resist ;)

    Human vuvuzela! Brilliant :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 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


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