Are you afraid of new ideas? Ah! I am. » Wikipedia http://centophobia.com/blog This is my blog about politics, power, advertising, media and everything else. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:01:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 My Wikipedia Prank http://centophobia.com/blog/2007/12/19/my-wikipedia-prank/ http://centophobia.com/blog/2007/12/19/my-wikipedia-prank/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:18:25 +0000 Centophobia http://centophobia.com/blog/2007/12/19/my-wikipedia-prank/ My Wikipedia spam lasted 20 days.

My strategy: I posted on the List of Awareness Ribbons page on Wikipedia on the 18 September 2007. I suggested that wearing the green and blue ribbon was a symbol of support to people with ‘centophobic tendencies’. I referenced this fact with a link to http://www.centophobia.com/fromprank/.

This sneaky addition was removed on the morning of 8 October; 20 days later. My prank was quite clearly spam and yet it still remained for 20 days. While the List of Awareness Ribbons page isn’t necessarily a hugely popular page, you would wonder how long it would take for less obvious changes to be corrected. I just hope no school children (or from my experience, university students) were reading this article during this time period.

Why did I do it? Because I wanted to know how efficient Wikipedia is. Tell me about your experience with Wikipedia. Do you love it?

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