If you want to see the mother of all Wikipedia cabals, take a look at the Eastern European mailing list, which was exposed more than 10 years ago.
It was a group of editors who conspired to game Wikipedia's rules (for example, "thou shalt not revert more than three times per day" can be circumvented by calling in a friend to revert for you). What makes the story really crazy is that they were exposed by Wikileaks, which published a giant stack of email threads between the conspirators.
It was a group of editors who conspired to game Wikipedia's rules (for example, "thou shalt not revert more than three times per day" can be circumvented by calling in a friend to revert for you). What makes the story really crazy is that they were exposed by Wikileaks, which published a giant stack of email threads between the conspirators.
This is a run-down of some of the things the most powerful member of the group, an administrator, said: https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikipediametric_mailinglist/Piotr....