For good or ill, I don’t think Wikipedia qualifies as globally editable anymore.

Not all pages are, and quite a few IP ranges are blocked, but there is plenty of content being added by non-logged-in editors.

My vandalism from 2011 is still up though, thanks to being protected by a bogus citation. :-)

A weird thing to be proud of.

My own personal joke is likely to endure for dozens of years, possibly for the remainder of human history, because no one reads the citations? I’m a little proud of that.

Just like who knows how many bits of false information. Which then get copied, pasted and repeated across the web and the world.

I've randomly found several, and I'm just one person.

Yes, editable != globally editable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy

On top of this, bots such as ClueBot will most dong postings on even less trafficked locations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClueBot_NG

The last two apartments I lived in had Comcast and the IPs were banned from editing. Very weird.

the majority of wikipedia is still editable without even having an account

and programmability. Most publically manipulable stuff only gets hijacked by a few people with a bit of time and a few scripts. PitBull/Bieber "Where to perform next?" online polls, that ML Twitter bot MS recalled (was it Tammy or something?) etc were all attacked by spam bot style flooding of votes and messages to poison the data, and it's a lot easier to just spam incoherent unpleasantries than it is to spam coherent substantial messages.

AFAIK Reddit's /r/space didn't have any obvious vectors of attack so after the 1,000th manual entry of the n-word the trolls just got bored.

Plenty of people used bots on /r/place, but there were two mitigating factors: 1. You could only make a single pixel change once every (iirc) 5 minutes. 2. Only user accounts created before the (entirely unannounced) event could participate, preventing people bypassing the time limit with more accounts.

Spam mitigation by rate limiting and preventing account cycling :)

> that ML Twitter bot MS recalled (was it Tammy or something?)

Tay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

/r/place was weeeeeiiird. It figured there'd be some trolls, but not massive troll brigades intent on spreading every form of hate the world has seen from the last century. The number of people that were involved was in the 100,000's battling to control the content.

If I let myself wax poetic, I saw /r/place as a proxy for the coming internet faction wars: WW3 won't be fought by countries, it will be fought by internet factions.

like the swedish flag