I did (I’m not proud of it - well actually I do think it was quite funny 
), but it lasted approximately 1 minute before being reverted.
I should point out that I don’t mean just replacing pages with YOU SUCK!111 or switching pictures of respected politicians with bonobos and genitalia. Oh no.
So… fess up!
I haven’t, and I must say, I think it’s a deplorable practice.
Yes, several times. I’m indefinitely blocked from editing. 
Wikipedia, no. Wikihow, yes, and was temporarily blocked from editing. (Block has since been lifted. I’m still considering doing constructive edits to the article in question, but can’t be arsed).
After a night of heavy drinking, my buddy “won” a bet by editing Mia Hamm’s page to say that she was the lady on TV who flashed the camera during the world cup. I think it lasted 4 hours.
What he said. Wiki vandalism certainly falls below ethnic cleansing and moose diddling on the list of Worst Things in the World, but it’s annoying far more often than it’s funny, and it runs counter to what makes Wikipedia work.
That depends. If it is funny, and easily recognisable as false, I’m okay with it.
I haven’t, but I ran across a horrific edit the other day. I was reading about the von Trapp family (hey, it was a Sound of Music kind of weekend) and when I got to the page about Georg…there was Tubgirl. It was gross, disgusting, unexpected and almost made me lose my dinner.
If the moose’s lips said, “No,” but his eyes said, “Yes,” that’s a completely different story.
I agree that that sort of thing is deplorable. (As well as not funny.)
Part of the reason I did it was simply to see how quickly it would be reverted. I was amazed and impressed that it took less time to revert than it took me to edit in the first place!
FWIW, I’m the bitter individual responsible for this version of the Autostereogram page.
I think the people who do that are the same type as those who kick sandcastles at the beach.
I don’t see why you’re bitter. It’s a shark.
You’re not fooling anyone, you and the rest of the hoaxers…
Yeah, don’t let 'em fool you. It’s actually a sailboat.
Gah. I never have either but this is just…gah!
If I’m seeing what’s intended, that’s one deformed shark. I think it’s one of those boats used in crew.
-Lil
I have created an obviously fake entry for a practical joke where several people convinced the poor unwitting victim that that particular day was in fact… some new holiday… damn if I remember… something like Natural History Appreciation Day or somesuch. Well, what holiday could go without being mentioned in a couple random blogs found via Google and Wikipedia – it made the illusion complete and was taken down as “Not sufficiently important” within three hours.
So, what do you mean?
I dunno…I found the entire ‘Colbert elephant’ debacle particularly amusing.
WTF? It’s tubgirl. You guys are all demented.
I’ve never vandalized a page but I did see one particularly hilarious one. It was on the Jerry Jeff Walker page - I looked him up because I noticed that a vintage Telecaster that was selling for many thousands of dollars on eBay was advertised as having belonged to him. So I come to his page, and all the way down at the bottom, it says:
I couldn’t help but laughing over that.