I'm guessing this had something to do with it: http://www.gossipcop.com/one-direction-midnight-memories-full-album-leak-lea...
Date of that blog post is 11:55 a.m. Nov. 18th, and the massive deluge of edits to Midnight Memories on Wikipedia starts on the 19th. Here's what probably happened: A lot of fans were googling for the album and landed on the Wikipedia page instead. Sadly, if you check out the diffs, there's a lot of vandalism (though plenty of legit edits, too), an alarmingly high number of which involved having a Twitter-style argument in random parts of the article, complete with @User mentions – e.g., like this.[1]
Reminds me of this classic case of confused user syndrome.[2]
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Midnight_Memories&diff=582313... 2. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/feb/11/facebook-readwriteweb
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
FYI here is the top 100 most edited articles on mobile. Happy friday!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArbzKvV50qF6dFFRWW1wU0xmSlhTWXJ...
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