Vincent Canfield

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Vincent Canfield

Post by ericbarbour » Fri Aug 25, 2017 3:53 am

For at least seven years I've been talking about how easy it is to put "subtle vandalism" on Wikipedia. Not many people listened.

There's a prominent hacker-community character who has recently been posting examples of his ongoing subtle hoaxing on WP.

https://vc.gg/blog/how-to-rig-an-electi ... hours.html
I wanted to see how long this could last, so I didn't include any birds with arms or pictures of weev, but I did set the sample size to "1420". So I got my poll published on the Wikipedia page and it was up until I went to bed....The poll lasted about 10 hours before being removed. By the time I woke up, I faced multiple news articles, accusations of trying to rig 30 million fake british dollars in betting markets, and threats of waterboarding.


https://vc.gg/blog/my-favorite-wikipedia-vandalism.html
All of my other vandalisms are still live, by the way. But good luck finding them ;)


Wikipediocracy noticed. Reddit's r/wikiinaction noticed.
Did anyone else? Not that I can find.

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Re: Vincent Canfield

Post by Flip Flopped » Fri Aug 25, 2017 4:08 am

Just today I saw the Reddit WikiInAction link to his blog post about the cheese curds. It's now an international hoax.

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