•Daily Mirror football journalist caught out by Wikipedia
The Spoiler, UK -29 minutes ago
Ahead of Manchester City’s UEFA Cup tie with Omonia Nicosia, the first port of call for information on the Cypriot club would have been Wikipedia. ...

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Another case of Wikipedia showing us that IP editors are an important part of "always improving" the encyclopedia.

The IP edit in question:



...entered on the morning of August 29th, 2008.

And fixed on the afternoon of September 18th by a registered User.

Here's the part I love... the Henrik-o-Meter suggests that at least 10,000 souls looked at that Wikipedia article while the offending error was plunked in there. Even on a SLOW day, it was getting more than 300 page views.

Yes, Wikipedia is better than traditional encyclopedias because references printed on paper can't be "quickly" corrected like this.

Of course, printed references typically do not have anonymous idiots writing them!

Here ends the lesson.

Greg

...is also the same IP as the one who today created a section in the AC Omonia article, describing this deception.

At least this second edit is factual.

Now THAT is something quite interesting. We have a joker on the RIPE network at the University of Manchester who put in nonsense, saw that his vandalism was reported in the media, then goes back in to document his success.

And there is a HISTORY of apparent toying around with Wikipedia, but they've only blocked the IP once, for only 24 hours.

If I go onto Jimbo's talk page and ask him about the thousands of links to Wikia, my IP gets banned indefinitely.

I love Wikipedia!

There's a little more to this story, regarding the prankster.

Mods, might we move this to the "worth reading" folder?

Done!