Archives for: August 2009, 07

Wiki of the Week!

by Jack Email

The other day I was looking for interesting stuff on wikipedia. I typed in a word, then followed the disambiguation link into the realm of pure word play and fun. I clicked on something that interested me and to my complete shock found a page that had been defaced with spam. I clicked the history tab and found that there were 2 edits within just the last minute. One from some IP address 192.232.155.215 and another from someone called Cluebot. I don't spend a lot of time browsing wiki history pages so I was a bit confused at first. It turns out that Cluebot is a robot that runs automatically on the wiki servers to detect and revert vandalism.

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