# Adventures in Wikipedi-ing - I discovered I could edit a page in Russian Wikipedia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 3, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-wikipedi-ing-i-discovered-i-could-edit-a-page-in-russian-wikipedia/962198 "2022-04-03T20:05:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-wikipedi-ing-i-discovered-i-could-edit-a-page-in-russian-wikipedia/962198/1 "2022-04-03T20:05:38Z")
I noticed that the flags in the infobox for the Russian article for Judah Benjamin were wrong, and figured out how to fix them. No Russian required. Before: > **[Бенджамин, Джуда](https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0&oldid=120294410)** > > Джу́да Фи́лип Бе́нджамин (англ. Judah Philip Benjamin; 6 августа 1811 (1811-08-06), Санта-Крус — 6 мая 1884, Париж, Франция) — американский политический деятель и адвокат, занимал руководящие посты в правительстве Конфедеративных Штатов Америки: Государственного секретаря КША, Военного министра КША, Генерального прокурора КША. До образования Конфедеративных Штатов Америки в 1853—1861 годах — сенатор США от Луизианы. > Джуда Бенджамин родился британским подданным в Вест-Индии. После переезда семьи ... Now: > **[Бенджамин, Джуда](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0)** > > Джу́да Фи́лип Бе́нджамин (англ. Judah Philip Benjamin; 6 августа 1811 (1811-08-06), Санта-Крус — 6 мая 1884, Париж, Франция) — американский политический деятель и адвокат, занимал руководящие посты в правительстве Конфедеративных Штатов Америки: Государственного секретаря КША, Военного министра КША, Генерального прокурора КША. До образования Конфедеративных Штатов Америки в 1853—1861 годах — сенатор США от Луизианы. > Джуда Бенджамин родился британским подданным в Вест-Индии. После переезда семьи ... Purely mundane; marginally pointless. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-wikipedi-ing-i-discovered-i-could-edit-a-page-in-russian-wikipedia/962198/2 "2022-04-03T21:13:40Z")
Did you just change 1 of them ? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-wikipedi-ing-i-discovered-i-could-edit-a-page-in-russian-wikipedia/962198/3 "2022-04-03T21:19:33Z")
All of the ones in the infobox relating to his positions. They had a modern Georgian flag for the time when he was a US Senator, and for his first Confederate position, and some sort of Confederate-Virginian flag for his second and third Confederate positions. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-wikipedi-ing-i-discovered-i-could-edit-a-page-in-russian-wikipedia/962198/4 "2022-04-04T04:17:37Z")
Please tell me you slipped in a picture of Putin fucking a mule. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-wikipedi-ing-i-discovered-i-could-edit-a-page-in-russian-wikipedia/962198/5 "2023-07-16T04:04:24Z")
I’ve been translated into Chinese! Some Chinese-speaking editor concluded that an article I wrote on a [repealed section of the Constitution Act, 1867](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_2_of_the_Constitution_Act,_1867) was so important that it needed to be translated. I’m a bit puzzled … 🤔 > **[1867年憲法法令第2條](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1867%E5%B9%B4%E6%86%B2%E6%B3%95%E6%B3%95%E4%BB%A4%E7%AC%AC2%E6%A2%9D)** > > 《1867年憲法法令》第2條是加拿大憲法中有關加拿大君主的已廢除條文。它為《1867年憲法法令》界定了「女皇陛下」（Her Majesty the Queen）一詞。 > 《1867年憲法法令》是加拿大建國的憲制法規，初名為《1867年英屬北美法令》。儘管自1867年以來經過多次修訂，該法令仍然是加拿大憲法的基礎性法規，現被認為是加拿大最高法律的一部分。 > 《1867年憲法法令》是加拿大憲法的一部分，因此也是加拿大最高法律的一部分。它是1860年代英屬北美各省政府廣泛談判的產物。該法令列明了加拿大的憲制框架，包括聯邦政府的結構以及聯邦政府及各省的權力。最初於1867年由英國國會以《1867年英屬北美法令》之名制定。1982年，該法令因加拿大憲法本國化而移交予加拿大，並更名為《1867年憲法法令》。自憲法本國化以來，該法令只能根據《1982年憲法法令》中列明的修訂程序在加拿大修訂。 > 第2條最初制定時條文如下：.mw-parser-output .templatequote{margin-top:0;overflow:hidden}.mw-parser-output .templatequo... ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-wikipedi-ing-i-discovered-i-could-edit-a-page-in-russian-wikipedia/962198/6 "2023-07-16T04:22:58Z")
Heh. I’ve been translated into Chinese too. Back in 1989 (long before I became a lawyer, @Northern_Piper), I served on a coroner’s jury in Ontario. It was a fairly high-profile matter, bringing into question just how much the provincial minister of health actually knew about Ontario’s health system. Anyway, the media kept their hands off us jurors until it was all over, at which point it was anything goes. We tried to get out the back door of the courthouse, but the media were waiting there too. Most of us were of the shrinking violet type, but then there’s me, who loves an audience. I ran an impromptu press conference in front of the cameras, handled a few questions, said, “That’s it,” and we all left. Next day, at work, a colleague from Hong Kong asked me if I knew that I was on the news. Of course, I did. “But you were subtitled on the Chinese channel,” he said. He could speak English perfectly, and also Chinese, and he said that the subtitles in Chinese matched perfectly with my remarks in front of the cameras and microphones. Never thought I’d ever be translated into Chinese, but I guess I was. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-wikipedi-ing-i-discovered-i-could-edit-a-page-in-russian-wikipedia/962198/7 "2023-07-16T04:33:04Z")
I’ll bet the other jurors were glad you took the heat for them. 🥸 Neat story. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-wikipedi-ing-i-discovered-i-could-edit-a-page-in-russian-wikipedia/962198/8 "2023-07-16T04:59:18Z")
I posted a bit of trivia on the IMDb trivia page for the video game Baldur’s Gate II. Googling one of the key phrases (“Minster Lloyd Wainwright”), I see trivia pages in Poland, Russia and Czechia that have translated that factoid as well. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-wikipedi-ing-i-discovered-i-could-edit-a-page-in-russian-wikipedia/962198/9 "2023-07-17T05:46:08Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I’ll bet the other jurors were glad you took the heat for them. 🥸 > > Neat story. He speaks Russian, too. 🙂