Submitted 13 hours ago by TrickDacy@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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This was…weird. apparently wikipedia was hacked or something? Visiting Wikipedia, I’m seeing this undismissable modal that blocks access to the page.
I was trying to read:
en.wikipedia.org/…/2026_United_States_elections
It looks like this was a rogue asshole who took over that page actually. Because after many refreshes… now it appears to be a blank page and says it was recently edited by some user.
What a way to mark oneself as “not a child” who is “ready for certain topics”. Bless the Wikipedia volunteers.
Not a big surprise that the US election article for the current election gets vandalised…
True, but at the same time I’ve rarely ever seen any vandalism, let alone a full page takeover.
Wikipedia editors are really good at catching these things, you just happened to open the page at the exact “right” time.
It’s like when Neelix became obsessed with boobs but with less boobs
I just watched that episode of Tor’s Cabinet
As soon (2026-11-04T14:15Z) as I stumbled upon this thread, I tried to access a (not so) random article, and it seems like Wikipedia is functioning normally:
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Looking at the revision history, it looks like it was vandalized and then reverted five minutes later (and the vandalizing editor was blocked from making edits).
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Yeah I agree but my first thought was it must’ve been something more because of the full screen dialogue. I assumed a page itself could not have something like that embedded. But I admittedly know not much
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Looking at the edit history, it looks like a different page was edited in. There’s a lot of funky stuff you can do there with wiki formatting and likely wasn’t a hack as said.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It can just not without someone noticing. It’s one of those “against the rules, not against reality” kind of things, so it makes sense it was reverted quickly.