At one point, a huge chunk of Scots Wikipedia was written by an American teenager who did not know Scots.
Everyone needs a hobby
Submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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- andros_rex@lemmy.world 8 months ago- MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago- When I learned about this it was the funniest thing I had heard. Like rolled around and nearly wet myself funny. - Nobody else has shared the humour with me and I have told lots of people. - Sorry for linking to that site, but this is where I learned about it, and Reddit is pivotal to the discovery 
- p3n@lemmy.world 8 months ago- Reminds me of the Alan MacMasters hoax, famous inventor of the toaster: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_MacMasters_hoax 
 
- aarRJaay@lemm.ee 8 months ago- Please tell me every going on with American politics is some bored housewife spamming social media and the Kamala actually won and is doing an amazing job. Please!! - The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 8 months ago- Of course! Why, what have you been reading? 
 
- trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 8 months ago- There should be a collaborative worldbuilding project in a wiki format. - Kinda like SCP but writing about all aspects of the world. - Gustephan@lemmy.world 8 months ago- I could see this kind of idea being wildly popular for ttrpg dungeon masters. If you know anybody who owns multiple 20 sided die there’s a good chance they’ve done some amout of fantasy world building before - chaogomu@lemmy.world 8 months ago- Collaborative world building often falls apart. It needs a full time coordinator, or it’s like herding cats. 
 
 
- WraithGear@lemmy.world 8 months ago- My friends invented band members for the band 69boys. “Quick Skeet” Fisher, Reginald “Busta Nut” Gunderson. They are not real… well they used to not be real. I think Gunderson started to do interviews. 
- hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago- Now THAT is a true patriot. 
Spendrill@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Turns out this is false, the actual story is much better: vice.com/…/chinese-woman-fake-russian-history-wik…
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
That lady missed her calling as an RPG author.
Spendrill@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I know, impressive effort.
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
I was just thinking I want an English translation
Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Her level of world building is insane.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
wait so someone made up an news article screenshot about a person making up wikipedia articles?!!?
Spendrill@lemm.ee 8 months ago
And it’s not even the fifth weirdest thing you’ll see on the internet today.