User stephencolbert banned on Wikipedia
Stephen Colbert during his program The Colbert Report introduced the term ‘wikiality’ - the reality that exists if you make something up and enough people agree with you - it becomes reality. Stephen Colbert also modified the page on George Washington saying that he had the right to believe that Washington had no slaves. He also urged his audience to find the page on Elephants in Wikipedia and create an entry which stated that the population of elephants has nearly tripled in the past ten years (a fact that’s untrue). One of the Wikipedia administrators who actually watched the program immediately reverted the pages to their original state and banned the user stephencolbert from Wikipedia. The page on elephants is now protected and further editing cannot be done unless a request is made.
The folks are Wikipedia thought Stephen Colbert underestimated the power of Wikipedia’s vandalism control. Steve knows his audience too well (Hello geeks!) and probably did it because he knew the revertibility of the post as opposed to creating any vandalism.
