[WikiEN-l] Colbert Report heads-up

[Will]

We've been getting elephant population requests ~5 times a day at WP:AFC as
well.

On 02/08/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 8/1/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 01/08/06, mboverload <mboverload at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What?  He asked people to vandalise the page.
> >
> >
> > No, I'm saying that Colbert has no sense of good faith. Why would he
> > just ask people to vandalise a page? Seems senseless.
>
> Colbert's entire show is based on tongue-in-cheek parody.  In fact,
> you could say the whole thing is intelligent "trolling".  It's usually
> fairly funny, as the Wikipedia segment probably was.
>
> Anyway, I'm kind of surprised he didn't mention something to Wikimedia
> warning it before broadcasting that segment.
>
> Anthony
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