Then she opened her laptop, found her Wikipedia watchlist and clicked on one of her most frequented pages: Mike Babcock. But a few have their fun another way — by anonymously falsifying information on Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopedia. Vandalizing Wikipedia articles has become common in the sports world, where a screenshot of even a short-lived edit to an article can go viral on social media. She has been overseeing Wikipedia hockey pages in an administrator’s capacity for two years and has amassed over 61,000 edits. Sign Up NowIn the span of two and a half hours following his dismissal, 73 edits were made on Babcock’s Wikipedia page, including 26 by IPs.

Source: thestar December 01, 2019 13:52 UTC