The folks over there at Wikipedia are really going to hate The Daily Show‘s alums if this keeps up. From the AP, via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
‘Office’ fans flock to edit Wikipedia
By ANICK JESDANUN
AP INTERNET WRITERNEW YORK — In the NBC series “The Office,” the boss Michael Scott turned to Wikipedia for tips on fending off an employee’s request for a pay raise. Viewers quickly flocked to the online encyclopedia and added their take to its entry on negotiations.
Administrators at Wikipedia had to limit editing of the entry, most recently late Tuesday, placing it in “semi-protection” mode. That meant users couldn’t make changes anonymously or from accounts fewer than four days old – to discourage those drawn to the site specifically because of the broadcast.
The site imposed similar restrictions on the entry twice before, only to see vandalism continue after they were lifted.
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Wikipedia does face vandalism from time to time as a result of high-profile mentions.
Fans of Stephen Colbert’s Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report” flocked to Wikipedia to alter articles on elephants after he said on the program, “all we need to do is convince a majority of people that some factoid is true – for instance, that Africa has more elephants today than it did 10 years ago.”
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