20 of the Funniest Cases of Vandalism in Wikipedia History

We really don’t take enough time to appreciate that there’s a repository of all the world’s knowledge on a device that fits in our pockets. This is literally the future that science-fiction authors could only dream for us. Just a generation or two ago, you could argue all night with a friend about some meaningless trivia. Lengthy grudges would be held, battle lines drawn, mutuals required to pick sides. Nowadays, you can just google it. And Google will probably bring you to Wikipedia.

But Wikipedia is a double-edged sword, and not only in terms of only nerds caring about it. The whole reason it’s so vast is because countless people contribute to it — there’s just no way a single person, or even hundreds of people, could know all that stuff. But since it’s open to anybody, that also means any joker off the street can pop in and add something totally wrong. Hilarious, maybe, but wrong. They usually get swiftly corrected, even if the person issuing the correction is laughing their ass off.

Those people answered the call when user Kisaoda asked r/AskReddit, “Editors of Wikipedia: what’s the best troll edit you’ve ever had to correct?”