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.