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silver mine , a symbol of wealth.
Kashen Silver Mine, a symbol of lies. In the Wiki Chinese encyclopedia four days ago, the Kashen Silver Mine was a vein discovered by a civilian in the ancient Ross country in 1344. It was closed in the 18th century due to the depletion of mineral sources.
In the current Wiki Chinese Encyclopedia, the entry Kashen Silver Mine has been placed in the " Wikipedia prank list", which has become synonymous with lies.
If you are a history student and your graduation thesis is related to ancient Russian history, you can check your citation bit by bit now, because this lie may very well cause you to be caught. This means that you will most likely need to modify your paper.
High school graduates rewritten Wiki's ancient Russian history, and professional professors were also recruited
A high school graduate basically reinterpreted the ancient Russian history within 3 years, and put his ideas in Wikipedia materials that many people will refer to. What kind of spirit is this?
The other party is doing this with a very pious heart.
In order to make the content written by itself more credible and more "founded" to be based on, he recompiled the ancient Russian history of the map, topographic map, and population change map, and also compiled celebrity interviews to fictionalize the characters and documentaries that appear in the TV series, making the content look more realistic.
The ancient history entry
was re-written in order to make each entry more credible, she will keep checking for omissions and filling in the gaps. In order to cover up one mistake, use multiple mistakes to fill it up, one by one, and the history of pretending to be wrong becomes a reality.
and even many of the papers she quoted are real, but there is no part she said. For example, cited 313 pages of content in a book, but this book is likely to be less than 200 pages. Not everyone has read books and can still remember the book page numbers clearly, and few people will check and verify. Even though many cited links in ancient Russian history are papers from European countries such as , Sweden, , no one noticed that something was wrong with this.
It took 3 years to go through the wrong lip. There is a lot of imaginary content in ancient Russian history that is made of something out of nothing. It is fictional, rewritten, and becomes a castle in the air.
But the castles in the sky will still disappear.
Zhihu user @ Yifan was looking for materials for his novels and saw the Chinese wiki information of Kashen Silver Mine, and put it in a group with many history enthusiasts, but no one had heard of this silver mine. After searching, it was found that Kashen Silver Mine was a special version in China, and even Russian students did not know its existence.
Then history enthusiasts discovered more mistakes and more special Chinese versions appeared in Wikipedia's Chinese version. Many characters they have never heard of have crossed with real historical figures, such as true and false, false, true and true, and everything is not clear.
finally proves that this is an single-handed historical rewrite behavior . A "history enthusiast" who graduated from high school compiled these mixed contents of truth and falsehood and placed it on a platform that more people can see, even making many students and professors believe it.
said that this was a fraud or a bit too much, after all, the other party did not make any profit. But the whole thing is full of absurdity, which is a kind of information pollution and spiritual impact for those who seriously study ancient Russian history and carefully improve Chinese wiki entry.
user Xiemao has been banned
html for 13 years. What is she trying to do?, a Wiki user called Broken Hair, finally admitted the act of compiling entries. She said that she really wanted to study history seriously at the beginning, but after the first fraud, could only tell more lies in order to fulfill the first lie. The fake wiki content of also extends from tens of thousands of words to one million words. The more you pay, the harder it will be to abandon it.
University teaches you to "create" information pollution, Wiki prank list, crying without tears
Discount Mao herself has been permanently banned by Chinese Wikipedia. The Wiki content she wrote will undergo a professional review to correct the content of ancient Russian history in the entire Wiki Chinese ecology. But there is a part that can stay forever - they will be placed on the Wikipedia prank list, reminding more people not to create new pranks.
Wiki prank list so read:
This is a known historical scam on Wikipedia. It exists to record scams on Wikipedia to improve our ability to detect scams. If a scam has not been found to be wrong for more than a month, or has been reported in authoritative media, we would think it is worth noting enough to be included in this list. The ancient Russian history compiled by
全官网 is the first time for Chinese Wikipedia. This is a pollution to a large amount of real and credible information and a blow to the credibility of the platform. Just looking around the world, there are quite a lot of similar things. As for the information on the Wikipedia prank list, there are countless fictional characters, places, tools, TV series, and academic concepts.
There is also a fictional Nazi concentration camp massacre story that has far-reaching influence. Wikipedia shows that this fake Nazi concentration camp murdered more than 20,000 Polish people, and people even built monuments for the victims in the story in Polish . The only problem with
is that this concentration camp does not exist at all, and this is also the longest-lasting fake content in Wikipedia.
Nazis, massacres, concentration camps, these are the keywords that can arouse people's anger, so no one has discovered them in 15 years. This is like a "title party". When it gets emotional, who cares about the truth? What's more, the Nazis did have massacres.
You open an old suitcase left by a family, and the clue inside tells you that a relative who has been dead for many years may be a serial murderer. Does the story of
also look very "title party"? Like ancient Russian history, it was also compiled, the difference is that it is an academic experiment. T. Mills Kelly, a teacher at George Mason University, has been teaching students how to "lie to the past" since 2008, so that they can realize how scams in history have occurred. The character they compiled was an ordinary American who eventually became a pirate, and then publications such as USA Today quoted the entry until Kelly admitted it was a prank.
Some people applaud Kelly's academic innovation, and others are angry at his destruction of information. But no matter what, Kelly did not stop the experiment, and the story of the serial killer found out was his student's latest masterpiece. The difference between
is that it was discovered this time.
Kelly students created Wikipedia for the victims, fabricated a detailed story, they even fabricated images of their suitcases, and finally asked netizens in Reddit - Do you think my uncle is just a little strange, or is he really a serial murderer? The explosive title of
quickly gained attention. Reddit users searched for relevant Wikipedia content, and finally came to the conclusion of the murderer according to the clues left by the students: "We caught Jack the Ripper on Reddit." Fortunately, this conclusion lasted for 26 minutes and was discovered to be a lie. Someone saw the year of Wikipedia editors raised questions, and then more and more people participated in deconstructing the entire story: the newspaper seemed to have some artificial aging, the content of the images in the suitcase was too clear, and of course, the most thorough exposure was still Wikipedia's editing time.
Kelly believes that this is not a failure, because students must have learned something from it as consumers and makers of historical information.
"Real Information" is in crisis. Everyone can rewrite history in the 21st century
Wikipedia is a beautiful direction. The platform wants to create a free encyclopedia with the greatest depth and breadth.
But at the same time, there has been controversy over the accuracy of Wikipedia content.Such an open platform can spread collaborators' conspiracy further and may suffer from content damage by people with ulterior motives. At the same time, this unorganized, open, and chaotic writing style cannot guarantee the rigor and professionalism of the content.
Wikipedia has been questioned like this ten years ago. The questioning is now less, not because Wikipedia has done better, but because it can pollute your information more.
Norwegian photographer Jonas Bendiksen's Book of Veres used fake pictures + fake news to deceive the world's top news photographers and won the world's biggest prize in the world's news photography competition. Even though he bought the water army and said that the pictures inside were wrong, there were photographers and celebrities who stood up to argue for him.
The rumor crusher on your WeChat works without stopping every day and can't accurately detect outdated, exaggerated, and outrageous information. Even one or two screenshots of the character's avatar and ID can gain terrifying exposure by commenting/revealing some popular content. In videos, music, and books, wrong information may exist. They may also become the source of references to spread misinformation through other channels.
In 2012, the US Patent and Trademark Office disclosed a new patent for Apple , which is called "electronic analysis pollution technology". This technology is mainly due to the consideration of protecting user information. Brands can confuse and protect real information by constantly providing wrong information to data collectors.
is true, false, false, there is true among false, and true and false. This method may be very effective in protecting personal privacy information, but it is just a pollution to the real spread of information.
The creators of information pollution start making, everything they do is discharge sewage into the sea. This effect is minimal for all those who need to live in the seas, but it persists. You may be deceived by the compiled stories at any time and be deceived by the knowledge of the void.
This information pollution is like burying landmines on the rarely-traveled streets. Although it cannot hurt people in a short period of time, it will explode one day. But there may be more and more bombs like this. Deepfake, the Internet, and various different image editing software tools can create more realistic and convincing content and pollute real information.
When someone heard this outrageous story of ancient Russian Wikipedia, he thought: "Although it is a serious matter, why do you just want to laugh so much!" After all, weird and absurd stories are naturally more attractive than TV series that can always guess the routine. The impact of spending three years building a fictional historical story will also be more eye-catching than the war stories and geographical changes of the country in history.
In the 21st century, everyone can rewrite history. But history will always happen in the past.
