[Wikimedia-l] Longest living hoax?

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Yaroslav M. Blanter, 05/03/2013 17:07:
>> 8 years is the record, apparently, on enwiki:
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia
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> Thanks Andrew, did not know about this page, very interesting.

It's also telling that the longest hoax was about ancient history: it 
matches the popular belief that history is by far the biggest weakness 
of Wikipedia.

Nemo