Editing the 2016 candidates’ Wikipedia pages

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The most challenging job of the 2016 race: Editing the candidates’ Wikipedia pages
By Chris Alcantara

Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website in the world, and in a presidential race in which millions of people use the site to research Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, some of the most influential figures in the race are almost completely unknown.

Wikipedia editors, many of whom are unpaid and live across the globe, take it upon themselves to manage every word, link and image published to Trump’s and Clinton’s biographical and campaign pages.

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“There is a sense of shared responsibility to maintain this vast resource,” said Samantha Lien, a spokeswoman with the Wikimedia Foundation. “Wikipedia might mean something a little different to everyone.”

It can also be a time-draining hobby.

Ryan Ng, a 17-year-old high school student from New York City who goes by Epicgenius (T-C-L) on Wikipedia, has contributed thousands of edits since 2012, including more than 100 recently to Clinton’s and Trump’s pages. The work has been so consuming, he said, he was almost expelled from high school two years ago.

In a comment on The Gothamist in 2013, Ng said he'd been editing wikipedia for six years.

[Poetlister]

Thus someone too young to vote is enabled to have some sort of influence on the election. Isn't the Internet wonderful.

[Moral Hazard]

An 8 year old became addicted to editing Wikipedia.

[Poetlister]

An 8 year old became addicted to editing Wikipedia.

Probably not the only one; there are certainly quite a few addicts under 16.

[Vigilant]

The most challenging job of the 2016 race: Editing the candidates’ Wikipedia pages

In a crossover from the 2016 General Election thread and as penance for participation in a shit flinging contest, I submit this article.

[Zoloft]

The most challenging job of the 2016 race: Editing the candidates’ Wikipedia pages

In a crossover from the 2016 General Election thread and as penance for participation in a shit flinging contest, I submit this article.

Sadly I've had to merge you into an existing topic on this article. Changing the title a bit above too.

[DHeyward]

The most challenging job of the 2016 race: Editing the candidates’ Wikipedia pages

Ryan Ng, a 17-year-old high school student from New York City who goes by Epicgenius (T-C-L) on Wikipedia, has contributed thousands of edits since 2012, including more than 100 recently to Clinton’s and Trump’s pages. The work has been so consuming, he said, he was almost expelled from high school two years ago.

In a comment on The Gothamist in 2013, Ng said he'd been editing wikipedia for six years.

Funny, his user page says he was a teenager when he started. He also used to say he lived in Boston and was nearly a Havard grad linkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =554374813[/link]. He likes My Little Pony articles as well. The age disclosure being nearly impossible to believe is adding a bit of a creepiness factor.

I guess the journalist may have misunderstood his starting age (17?) with his current age (??). He used to list his birth year as 1992.