On Monday 30 August 2004 07:46, Andrew Lih wrote:

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:03:42 +0100, phil hunt zen19725@zen.co.uk wrote:

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All this talk of deliberately wrong edits has apparently inspired a misguided person, one [[User:AlHalawi]], to do it.

FYI, this is the experiment, and the 100% grade RC patrol folks attained.

http://alex.halavais.net/news/index.php?p=794

And a longer post by Ross Mayfield about this:

http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/08/29/wikipedia_reputation_and_th e_wemedia_project.php

just to add he added all mistakes (total of 13) from _one_ account. And it is almost clear that finding one mistake will lead to the discovery of all the others. It's good to see that it was discovered, but given the method he used I didn't expected the result to be different.

He later wrote about this:

"If I were to do it again (I won’t), I would have spread my changes out over a few days, and posted from different username/ip addresses. I know that some of the more obscure changes were caught in a chain from some of the less obscure ones. I guess I don’t make a particularly good wiki troll; which isn’t a terrible thing to be bad at."

best regards, Marco