On 12/10/05, Google Alerts wrote:
A Little Sleuthing Unmasks Writer of Wikipedia Prank New York Times - United States It started as a joke and ended up as a shot heard round the Internet, with the joker losing his job and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, suffering a blow to ... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/business/media/11web.html
Well, it looks like the guy confessed...