Wikipedia Frontpage Vandalized.
14Dec06
Around 10:35pm PST today, I visited the Wikipedia only to be slapped in the eyeballs with the following (NSFW, extremely graphic, and disturbing.) monstrosity:
Remember, kids: When bockwurst says it’s NSFW, it’s NSFW. You have been warned.
On the other hand, maybe it’s good that we are periodically reminded of Wikipedia’s mutability and how that property can be bent for the purposes of good or evil. Trust is fragile.
bockwurst: any clue as to how the doods pulled this off?
the history page yields nothing: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=history
and i’m under the impression that the front page isn’t editable by random fools.
The impression I got from looking at the discussion page around that time was that it was some sort of change to the template, so not the *content* of the front page but the structure of the page itself. Of course, why that’s publicly editable (sure bet it isn’t anymore) is a good question as well…
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