The best thing since pants
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by Peter in Communication Science
This so-called vandalism on produsage (user-led content creation) driven sites can sometimes be really interesting. It shows how well sites like Wikipedia can work out if there’s a large community surrounding its platform.
Within the minute the article was re-edited again and reset to its former state. Okay, this is probably a popular article which gets hundreds of hits a minute but still…
Some comments on the user profile of the vandal give an idea of how closely attached people are to their wikipedia. They react like someone insulted them.
Some people even feel sorry about their vandalism acts. I mean, this is really strange behaviour if you ask me. I wouldn’t have ever expect this to happen. Normally I’d expect people to become more offensive and unconcerned on the internet because of the idea of anonymity.
