A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia (vice.com)

10 points by elcapitan 4y ago ↗ HN

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akolbe 4y ago ↗

Some more cautionary tales of this type:

https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/16/wikipedia_16_birthday...

It's really important to check citations in Wikipedia whenever the information matters.

chinabot 4y ago ↗

Love it. Ironically I assume she will get her own wiki page now she's famous

[dead] Shadonototra 4y ago ↗

akolbe 4y ago ↗

:) This was originally reported by a Chinese site:

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010653/she-spent-a-decade-wr...

People in China commonly use VPNs to access Wikipedia.

Shadonototra 4y ago ↗

Looks like i hit a nerve, so i'll repost what gets "flagged"

Fake news, american propaganda

You can't access Wikipedia from China, it is blocked ;)

And now a reply to your comment:

They didn't know that, hence it is not mentioned, wich proves my point ;)

hunglee2 4y ago ↗

I hope someone preserved it, an amazing work of fiction. I can imagine someone just getting carried away with the world creation doing this, especially a talented person with perhaps limited outlet for the talent