[WikiEN-l] Clearing my Conscience

Mon Oct 31 14:18:38 UTC 2005

Sounds fine to me, your not the first reformed vandal I've come across
who ended up won over by the content. Just 1 question tho, was that
you who vandalised the nazipedia, or was that another wikipedian
pretending to be you? Just curious,

Jack (Sam Spade)

On 10/30/05, Willy on Wheels <willyonwheels at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I am Willy on Wheels.
>
>
> Specifically, I am one of six people who have chronically trolled numerous
> wikis, notably the English version of Wikipedia. Recently, Wikipedia saved
> me from failing a research project horribly, and thus, I have decided to
> repent for my past colourful actions.
>
> This whole mess started as a prank in an IRC channel. One of our members
> loaded Wikipedia pages in Firefox tabs, and performed a mass-move vandalism.
> Normally, this wouldn't be funny, but we had just returned from the pub and
> were thorougly sloshed by then.
>
> After we saw the reactions that people made, the vandalism became a bad
> habit. We would vandalize, or attempt to vandalize pages just to get a
> frantic reaction from Wikipedians. Eventually, one of our group developed a
> tool written in PERL script to automate the creation of usernames and page
> vandalism. Eventually, we started hunting for proxies to continue the
> vandalism.
>
> I'm done for good, and will never again vandalize Wikipedia. After it proved
> so useful to me, I realized what our vandalism was taking away from others.
> If someone had vandalized the pages I needed, I would have likely failed out
> of university. I hope to eventually contribute to this shared knowledge for
> the benefit of more than just my warped humour.
>
> I don't expect most of you to believe me, but at least I can rest easy
> knowing that I've moved beyond this childish behavior.
>
> --Alec
>
>
> For the sake of non-repudiation:
> 126f060696ce9f41757052316647c3c7
>
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