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On 25/10/2007, Matt Kane <ascorbic at gmail.com> wrote:
> My favourite Wikipedia misinformation story:
> http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1854192

I discovered the Cluebot yesterday when I updated my employer's
Wikipedia entry, and noticed that at one point the page simply said
'penis'.

Cluebot looks for Wikipedia vandalism and restores the previous
version of a page if its percentage change is over a certain
threshold:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot

Yay for technology beating stupid idiot vandals, as opposed to more
subtle, intelligent vandals whose works likely won't get fixed.

Tim