did someone hack wikipedia?

[DonCoquixote]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Underground

Democratic Underground DUmmies is a rabid, virulent anti-American collection of malcontents, sickos and outright traitors. It is monitored by the US FBI, DOJ and Secret Service. It is run and populated by Hillary toadies who still cannot deal with losing the 2016 election. It's nickname is "Snowflake Central". Most, if not all of the "males" subjugate themselves to the females in their lives, sit down to urinate and dress effeminately at the will of their female mistresses. | title =Terms of Service

I hope this is a joke..and not serious...

[brooklynite]

1. Have you edited the content back?

That's how it works.

[still_one]

2. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[kentuck]

5. +1000

[DonCoquixote]

9. never edited a wiki

but I guess the du staff can

[Freethinker65]

3. Guess we at DU touched a nerve? Hahahahaha

Someone actually spent time coming up with that.

[KCDebbie]

4. I think just about anybody can make changes to the Wikipedia data...

That is why many people do not consider Wikipedia a credible source. I usually only link to Wikipedia if I can find other credible sources like NY Times, LA Times, etc., to post in addition so folks can read all the literature and make their own decisions!

[Scurrilous]

6. Gee, that's original...

[csziggy]

7. That's not what it said the other day when someone here mentioned it

If you go to the "View History" tab, you can see the different versions on different dates here is the third from the newest version, the one that was on Wikipedia previously:

Revision as of 06:47, 8 July 2018
Democratic UndergroundWebsite democraticunderground.com
Alexa rank 11,936 (2846 in US) (As of 29 November 2015)[1]
Launched January 20, 2001; 17 years ago[2]

Democratic Underground is an online community for U.S. Democrats. Its membership is restricted by policy to those who are supportive of the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates for political office.[3] DU was established on January 20, 2001, the day Republican George W. Bush was inaugurated president.

I have not set up a Wikipedia editor ID but someone here should fix this - maybe contact EarlG?

ETA - just PM'd him.

[highplainsdem]

8. The fine print at the bottom of the page shows it was changed today:

This page was last edited on 8 July 2018, at 23:28 (UTC).

[csziggy]

10. Yes - if you look at the history there were two edits today

The first probably didn't have enough typos.

[nolabear]

11. I think EarlG's Pic of the Week touched a nerve.

Since it hit Snopes it has to have been everywhere and it says DemocraticUnderground at the bottom.


Poor things. 😂😂😂

[Hekate]

29. What was the Pic? I missed it, and in this moment it's not on the front page. Orange snowflakes...

SMH

[brooklynite]

13. Just fixed it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Underground

[DonCoquixote]

14. thanks

[highplainsdem]

17. Thank you!

[csziggy]

21. Thank You!

[highplainsdem]

22. Looks like someone undid your edit. The latest version isn't attacking DU but removes much of

what you posted about this site's purpose.

[lagomorph777]

38. The only content now is about criticism and lawsuits.

Can we insert some positive stuff?

[radius777]

15. Amazing how triggered the emo-Nazis are

that they spend most of their time defacing Wikipedia pages, hacking, spamming comment sections on social media sites, etc.

They can't cope with the modern world and want to retreat to the safe space of white nationalism.

[0rganism]

41. whatever the cause, it fits their strategy

> They can't cope with the modern world and want to retreat to the safe space of white nationalism.
i disagree - but it's complicated. their actions seem random and individualized but are generally headed towards the common goal of ethnic cleansing. assuming they take such actions due to personal frustrations might actually be accurate in some cases, for the most part we will never know, but there is a common overall direction in which they're moving and trying to pull American society with them. much like individual Germans vandalized different shops during Kristallnacht, their activities may be seen in retrospect as an important coordinated strategic operation, consolidating power through inspiring individual actions rooted in a common bigotry. i'm pretty sure that's what we're dealing with now. hundreds of thousands of bored, desperate assholes are empowered by their Trumpiness to act as openly racist vandals in public forums. anyplace they can pollute or disrupt, they will. this is not "retreat".

Trump & friends have seized power, but so far they wield it clumsily as they have not been able to consolidate their gains to form a comfortable coalition with "mainstream" conservatives, while mainstream America still regards Trumpism as abnormal. if that changes, we are in very deep shit indeed; let's hope it does not change before the midterms.

[Hoyt]

16. Sounds like the Jackpine's crud.

[ornotna]

18. Who ever it was

Their ip shows them as somewhere near San Jose Ca.

Rimjob is from Cali isn't he?

[Scurrilous]

20. Fresno.

[Anon-C]

19. I bet you bottom dollar this is a DHS employee or someone else in their "Opcen"...

...they boast as much and you should take them at their word with Session's DOJ.

Probably mad at the pointed criticism of ICE and the business of for profit policing.

[Canoe52]

23. We are monitored by the FBI, DOJ, and Secret Service!

I’d take that as a badge of honor!

[left-of-center2012]

24. D.U. Wikipedia page is getting a lot of coverage this week

I think this is the 3rd or 4th thread on D.U. referencing the page -
and a lot of associated follow up posts.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

25. And of course these mental deficients can't tell the difference between 'its' and 'it's'. nt

[AlexSFCA]

26. I didnt even know we had a wiki page

[TheBlackAdder]

27. A Putin dick sucker wrote, "anti-American collection of malcontents, sickos and outright traitors"

.

Too funny!

.

[dalton99a]

34. A description of the Trump White House

[SeattleVet]

28. Looks like a little vandalism going on from some entitled snowflakes.

They have changed it a few times, I have emailed the Wikipedia contact address to notify them of sustained and repeated vandalism on the page.

[VOX]

30. Thank you! Amazing how the RW is compelled to scribble, scrawl, shout, scream, etc. about ANYTHING

that might give them an unfair advantage.

(I have a Wikipedia editor ID, so I can check the status.)

[DonCoquixote]

32. please do

as you know they will try this again.

[VOX]

33. They will indeed. And again, and again...

If nothing else (and there’s a LOT of “else”), they are doggedly persistent.

[SeattleVet]

35. I got a response from the Wiki team:

the main gist of it:


The article has been restored to a previous version to remove the vandalism. If you're
still seeing the issue, please try to purge your browser's cache: <https://en.wikipedia
.org/wiki/WP:REFRESH>, or the server's cache: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP URG
E>.

Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention.

Yours sincerely,
Rayna West
---------------------------

But it looks like there are a huge amount of edits being done today. At some point maybe they'll put it in 'hold for review' status before allowing more changes.

[FSogol]

37. Question: Does wiki take away the right to edit from vandals? n/t

[VOX]

39. Don't know, but they sure as hell should!

[DonCoquixote]

31. so someone edited brooklynites

edit, and put up a not as obviously nasty page, but one that scrubbed out our statement of purpose, and did not mention the fact we we hacked, but instead highlighted every "controversy." In short, standard GOP, when you are cuaght for being a brute, try to be the "nice guy" that will still bash your head in when they get a chance.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

36. Wondering what their DI Username is! 😏

[Initech]

40. I'm surprised that a Trumplodyte would spell the word "malcontent" correctly!

[uponit7771]

42. Is DU important enough to trigger Red Hats? Looks like it