Hey, does this give anyone any ideas?? :)

[FragileWarrior]

> Stephen Colbert Causes Chaos on Wikipedia, Gets Blocked from Site
> News Type: Event - Tue Aug 1, 2006 6:00 AM EDT
>
>
> On Monday night's episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert
> addressed
> the online resource Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can read or
>
> edit. Colbert praised Wikipedia for "wikiality," the reality that
> exists if
> you make something up and enough people agree with you - it becomes
> reality.
> Colbert's subsequent examples to prove "wikiality" would cause chaos on
> the
> site, and lead an administrator to subsequently block his account.
>
>
> In the segment, Colbert logs on to the Wikipedia article about his show
> to
> find out whether he usually refers to Oregon as "California's Canada or
>
> Washington's Mexico." Upon learning that he has referred to Oregon as
> both,
> he demonstrates how easy it is to disregard both references and put in
> a
> completely new one (Oregon is Idaho's Portugal), declaring it "the
> opinion
> I've always held, you can look it up."
>
>
> Colbert goes on to declare that he doesn't believe George Washington
> had
> slaves.
>
>
> If I want to say he didn't that's my right, and now, thanks to
> Wikipedia
> *taps keyboard* it's also a fact.
>
>
> Here's the fun part - Colbert actually did this. The Wikipedia articles
> on
> his show and George Washington were both edited by the user
> Stephencolbert
> to reflect the changes he declared on air as he tapped at his computer
> around 23:35 UTC - which is 6:35pm on the East Coast, during the taping
> of
> his show, hours before it aired.
>
>
> It gets better.
>
>
> Colbert then urged his audience to find the Wikipedia entry on
> elephants and
> create an entry that stated their population had tripled in the last
> six
> months, a fact he freely stated to not know if it was "actually true,"
> with
> his sidebar stating "it isn't." Guess what happened next?
>
>
> Scores of internet users took Colbert's bait, repeatedly vandalizing
> approximately 20 articles on elephants before all being placed under a
> lock.
> The move also subsequently caused Wikipedia administrator Tawker to
> block
> Stephen Colbert from the website, reportedly to verify his identity.
> Either
> Tawker is incapable of checking the above log times that corroborate
> Colbert, or, more likely, he just wants to be mentioned on Stephen's
> show
> (as evidenced by his notes on the block and blog entry).
>
>
> All this trouble over a man who, as his user page noted, is a 'defender
> of
> truth.' ."
>

[Daedalus]

Didn't we have some fun on "Wackopedia" last year? I remember it
really pissed the f'loons off good.

Jade