Vice: A bored Chinese housewife became a master faker of medieval Russian history on Wikipedia

[Strelnikov]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbwm/ ... -wikipedia

She made fake maps, cited fake translations of existing books into Chinese, pretty much created an alternate history of medieval Russia inside the Chinese-language version of Wikipedia (zh.wikipedia).....and she only has a high school education and had to use translation software because she doesn't speak English or Russian.

Essjay Two: Mainland Chinese Boogaloo!

[Strelnikov]

Totally unrelated (except for the cheating issue) but Rolling Stone says that Zach Snyder or Warner Bros. (now WarnerMedia) or both created BOT LEGIONS to push for the "Snyder Cut" version of Justice League online, proving that whatever else, nobody gives a crap about DC comic book movies, people just go to sit in an air-conditioned room for a couple of hours and eat/drink overpriced snack food because the house or apartment is driving them insane.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/ ... s-1384231/

No mention of this crap on the Justice League Wikipedia page as I write this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_(film)

[ericbarbour]

I mentioned the Zhemao story over here

viewtopic.php?f=5&p=22843#p22843

As I said: NO ONE ON ANY WIKIPEDIA NOTICED THIS FOR 12 YEARS. Her fake articles were even translated and put on en-WP. Routine stupidity.

So far as I can tell, the only mention of it on en-WP was a Signpost footnote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... ipedia.%22