@asdfasdf-dd9lk
I'm surprised you didn't include the Scots kid, who essentially wrote half of the Scots language wikipedia for years, without ever actually knowing the language
@xeno-prime
I think my favourite was how the ‘All Dogs Go To Heaven 2’ Wikipedia was temporarily locked due to the fact that many people kept editing it to say that Gordon Freeman from Half-Life had died in the film due to a web series making a joke about it.
@preciat816
My school has its own Wikipedia vandals story. One time a couple of students were suspended for making memes about the baldness of the chief administrator. Later that week, in an act of protest, his Wikipedia article was edited to include a "filmography" where he stared as famous bald characters such as Dominic Toreto and Mr Clean
@zachariahpoltergeist4516
I love the one guy who edited Ray Romano's wiki page to make it seem like Ray may simply be a hypothetical person.
@collinmc90
My favorite was some person who was always editing the wikipedia page for the city of Deer Park, WA. He made a whole fictional history of the town revolving around a giant baby born in the town named Farleif. Who grew up to be a great deer wrestler and the town would celebrate with the "running of farleif" and "deer kicking days". It was quite creative and was up for a long time. There are still a couple weird things that pop up on that page time to time and I'd like to think who ever did it is still out there trying. He even had a whole fake website about the town set up so he could use it as a reference. I really wish I had archived it.
@clashblaster
"Wikipedia is the last place you'd expect drama or conflict" this made me realize just how few people actually get involved with wikis beyond reading them lol.
@bedgegog
There is one legendary long-term troll on Wiktionary (Wikipedia’s smaller sister project). Wonderfool has been editing from 2004 and is known for having become an administrator and deleting the main page twice. Funnily enough, everyone agrees that when not trolling he makes valuable edits, and the community is seriously considering unbanning him (we’ll see where that goes).
@-yeme-
One of my all time favourite internet stories is the drama of the Scots Wikipedia (a version of Wikipedia in the Scots language, a divergent language/dialect of English). It turned out that almost half of it, thousands and thousands of articles, had been written by one American teenager with no knowledge of the language by writing in his imagined version of it, which was basically American English phonetically spelled with a Scottish accent, mixed with a dose of gibberish and invented words.
@starstuffatsea
My favorite story was one of my teachers editing her sister's wiki page. Her sister was a paralympian athlete, and my teacher would add in random true but unimportant facts. Her sister couldn't edit them out bc you can't edit your own wiki page, so it would take a bit for any additions to be removed.
@yorick22
I used to be an active user on a very niche fandom wiki back in 2020 about fake tornadoes. One of the most memorable incidents from that wiki was when Supreme Genghis Khan himself showed up and vandalized the wiki.
@sierra991
getting banned from encyclopedia dramatica is genuinely impressive
@gromph4
One of my favourite vandalizations of Wikipedia was "Wax house, baby". Someone after watching the 2005 remake of House of wax decided to deface its wiki page. They wrote that the working title of the film was "Wax house, baby" and that this was allegedly because it was iffy if the film could clear the rights to remake the original. This edit was up on Wikipedia for years. It was up for so long that people would quote it on horror movie podcasts as fact. This was until the mischievous editor wrote into a the important if true podcast, confessing to their wiki-crimes.
@erichobbs4042
I clicked on this video thinking that it was about actual cryptids, a subject which I have an interest in for the folklore aspects. That being said, this was a pretty fascinating subject, and I really enjoyed it. Thanks for making this video.
@notyonachos3068
This video is awesome. My younger brother was once banned from Wikipedia for SockPuppetting too. I can't think of how many alt accounts he made. He was obsessed with editing the COVID-19 Case numbers for Ontario (he has autism). I once read all of the drama about all of his bans, and lmao I have no idea how he just kept going.
@itsybitsycherry
I’d like to give a special mention to “Ananny”, an artist from Canada who, since late 2006, has repeatedly attempted to create an article on herself and force her inclusion in several lists of Canadian artists, also doing the same to several more different-language Wikipedia versions.
@Jergling
Can't believe you left out the Squidward Vandal. He is an expert computer programmer who knows ALL the codes and cannot be stopped.
@Lung__
This was posted in the morning and it may come off as sarcastic, but I love how you refer to things in the past terminology as if it's a dug up recording, "this evening", and "tonight". It feels as if I am watching a TV documentary paired with an informational youtube video. I love it.
@arbodox
Wow, this is fascinating! As an active Wikipedia editor myself, I've come across my fair share of unusual incidents like one sockmaster who has an obsession with Croatia, COPPA, and supergiant stars. They keep parroting about letting underage children use social media in the articles they edit, it's honestly kinda scary.
@mikeyswift2010
"Drill is a subgenre of hip hop music that originated in Chicago in the early 2010s." I made an edit on the Drill Music wikipedia page. It said for many years that drill originated in the uk in 2018 (which pissed me off to no end) so I corrected the page to when it actually emerged, which was in Chicago in 2010. It stuck, and no one has changed it. Pretty awesome, greatest accomplishment of my life.
@CaptainKRB