Sunday, April 13, 2008

Colbert Banned From Wikipedia

Submitted here by Aaron Pava on August 2, 2006 - 7:00pm.
Stephen Colbert, host of "The Colbert Report" on Comedy Central, caused wikipedia chaos the other night when he praised Wikipedia for "wikiality" - the reality that exists if you make something up and enough people agree with you - it becomes reality.

Colbert then dropped some real truthiness about himself on Wikipedia LIVE on the show. (confirmed by Wikipedia logs)

Colbert went on to edit more articles (such as George Washington didn't have slaves) and then encouraged his audience to find the Wikipedia entry on elephants and create an entry that stated their population had tripled in the last six months.

Leading to the Wikipedia administrator to block Stephen Colbert's account and locking the entry on elephants.



Image from Wikipedia: Rises seen in the use of "truthiness" immediately after Colbert introduced the word on October 17, 2005

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