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Teen Has Filled the Scots Wikipedia with Thousands of Fake Translations

26 pointsby sanquiover 4 years ago

7 comments

pixelbathover 4 years ago
This was posted by another HN reader to the other thread, but I feel it&#x27;s more relevant on this more sensationalist article.<p>&gt;Honestly, I don&#x27;t mind if you revert all of my edits, delete my articles, and ban me from the wiki for good. I&#x27;ve already found out that my &quot;contributions&quot; have angered countless people, and to me that&#x27;s all the devastation I can be given, after years of my thinking I was doing good (and yes, obsessively editing). I was only a 12-year-old kid when I started, and sometimes when you start something young, you can&#x27;t see that the habit you&#x27;ve developed is unhealthy and unhelpful as you get older. I don&#x27;t care about defending myself, I only want to stop being harassed on my social medias (and to stop my other friends who have nothing to do with the wiki from being harassed as well). Whether peace can be achieved by scowiki being kept like it is or extensively reformed to wipe my influence from it makes no difference to me now that I know that I&#x27;ve done no good anyway.<p>I can imagine it&#x27;s quite a punch to the gut to find out an activity you were doing for _years_ was literally the wrong thing, and major news outlets are piling on.
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majewskyover 4 years ago
Previous discussion (39 comments): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24273851" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24273851</a>
im3w1lover 4 years ago
If the teen behind it was well meaning, then teaching him proper Scots might be worthwhile.
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sp332over 4 years ago
The user is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sco.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Uiser:AmaryllisGardener" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sco.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Uiser:AmaryllisGardener</a> Since the edits are public I&#x27;m not going to consider this doxxing. I&#x27;m not going to link any other identities to the username.
mmhsiehover 4 years ago
oot the hoose w&#x27;him!
rbanffyover 4 years ago
This is absolutely hilarious.
LandRover 4 years ago
I tried to read this page <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sco.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Robert_Burns" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sco.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Robert_Burns</a>, and really struggled. Is it just meant to be regular wikipedia pages but written in some awful slang?
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