Wikid Game

August 17, 2007 9:26 AM

Instances in which corporations have amended Wikipedia entries that might affect their reputation. Thanks, Wired.
posted by armoured-ant (34 comments total)

Double?
posted by kittens for breakfast at 9:29 AM on August 17, 2007

Oh Christ. I hope not.
posted by armoured-ant at 9:30 AM on August 17, 2007

Double.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 9:30 AM on August 17, 2007

Sorry, man!
posted by kittens for breakfast at 9:31 AM on August 17, 2007

The mods will amend this so your reputation is not affected.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:33 AM on August 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

I am no techie but if anyone can redit the site, and the software traces bck to ISP, why not use cafe computer or library to alter entries?
posted by Postroad at 9:36 AM on August 17, 2007

But in the meantime....
posted by Brak at 9:37 AM on August 17, 2007

Last post.
posted by Krrrlson at 9:41 AM on August 17, 2007

I am no techie but if anyone can redit the site, and the software traces bck to ISP, why not use cafe computer or library to alter entries?

Same reason people surf porn sites at work even though they know everything is being logged. When you're serving Mammon, you don't care about anything else but the present lustful moment.
posted by Burhanistan at 9:42 AM on August 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

posted last
posted by Burhanistan at 9:43 AM on August 17, 2007

No you didn't.
posted by caution live frogs at 9:49 AM on August 17, 2007

What's that band who did Captain of her Heart in the 1980s?

Oh yeah...Double
posted by porn in the woods at 9:51 AM on August 17, 2007

Oh Christ. I hope not.

Nothing fails like prayer hope.
posted by Mr_Zero at 9:57 AM on August 17, 2007

Amusing.

I for one welcome our old corporate and political overlords.
posted by jeffamaphone at 9:57 AM on August 17, 2007

Probably not last.
posted by Pope Guilty at 10:04 AM on August 17, 2007

Certainly not
posted by taliaferro at 10:05 AM on August 17, 2007

My comment is merely a placeholder so I will be able to easily enjoy the moderator's witty zinger when they delete this post.
posted by CynicalKnight at 10:05 AM on August 17, 2007

I actually made this post but altered the data so it looks like armoured-ant did it. And now, profit!
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 10:14 AM on August 17, 2007

I am no techie but if anyone can redit the site, and the software traces bck to ISP, why not use cafe computer or library to alter entries?

I assume they do, and this kind of thing only catches the stupid ones.
posted by smackfu at 10:19 AM on August 17, 2007

Lost post.
posted by Krrrlson at 10:25 AM on August 17, 2007

The urge to post some inappropriate personal detail in the face of impending deletion is almost overwhelming.
posted by Kinbote at 10:34 AM on August 17, 2007

but wait. order now and we will...funny thing: Fox news altered Wiki and then reported that Wiki had been tampered with and mentioned a batch of those who tampered but did not mention themselves...fair and fucked
posted by Postroad at 10:43 AM on August 17, 2007

When I was nine years old, I lost a penny up my left nostril.

It reappeared following a fit of violent sneezing in a grocery store a week later.

I put the penny in a gum ball machine and got a piece of licorice flavored gum.

Licorice was my second-favorite gum flavor.

Cinnamon was my favorite.
posted by The Confessor at 10:43 AM on August 17, 2007 [2 favorites]

As a child, I had an entire set of Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia (1986 version, I think). I had whined to my parents that I needed my own set so bad.

I never cracked opened a volume of those damn cheap things.
posted by Burhanistan at 10:53 AM on August 17, 2007

Are the mods all at lunch or something? Shouldn't we be going nuts with some kind of LOL posts?
posted by marxchivist at 10:56 AM on August 17, 2007

*wipes hands with guest towels, puts feet on couch, waits for parents to show up*
posted by marxchivist at 10:57 AM on August 17, 2007

Though this post may be doomed for deletion, I must say I prefer your thread title to the original's. Good show!
posted by EatTheWeak at 10:57 AM on August 17, 2007

When I was very young, I got an entire set of Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedia stuck up my nose. It reappeared at a swap meet after a fit of sneezing. Mom traded the moistened volumes for some slightly used bee-patterned dishtowels.
posted by BigLankyBastard at 10:57 AM on August 17, 2007

Somehow undeleted still?
posted by Skorgu at 11:02 AM on August 17, 2007

Pony?
posted by elfgirl at 11:02 AM on August 17, 2007

When I was a child, we used to write our own encyclopedia entries favorable to our interests, which we would stick up our nose.
posted by krinklyfig at 11:06 AM on August 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

Collective nose. Or metaphorical. Not sure.
posted by krinklyfig at 11:07 AM on August 17, 2007

When I was an encyclopedia, my child used to stick pennies up his pony. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
posted by LordSludge at 11:12 AM on August 17, 2007

Why can these corporations use Tor, like the rest of us?
posted by blue_beetle at 11:14 AM on August 17, 2007