Other, similar battles were raging on Wikipedia during a period examined by Stuff’s True Story podcast, in an episode called The Great Macron War. He also spent a year as Aotearoa’s “Wikipedian at Large”, running workshops for Wikipedia editors around the country. The Great Macron War was over and a team of New Zealand editors set about adding lines over certain vowels in 300-odd articles about New Zealand place names. We also looked through their Wikipedia edit history to get a sense of who they were before The Great Macron War. So we couldn’t ask about The Great Macron War and why, when facing defeat, they appear to have put on a sock puppet disguise.

Source: Stuff December 23, 2022 21:41 UTC