In 2017, someone changed Wikipedia's Vatican flag SVG to look more like the Vatican Coat of Arms, which was an honest mistake. Now, you can tell which flag manufacturers and even emojis used the faulty Wikipedia file lol (thread) noticed by Redditor horizontalhole!
tons of flags have red in the tiara... AKA they appear to have used that faulty file that was on Wikimedia Commons from 2017-2022
reminds me of old map-makers who'd add fake towns to see who copied their map. or the guy who put pics of himself being depressed at the beach onto wikimedia commons specifically so that the pics would spread around the internet dismagazine.com/blog/76800/moo…
(the "mood disorder at the beach" photos were eventually removed because the photographer, david horvitz, was kinda spamming pages with his photos and basically using wikipedia as a billboard) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:D…
citogenesis has been a thing for a long time. wikipedia even keeps a list of incidents! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…
anyway, thanks to redditor u/horizontalhole for noticing this! reddit.com/r/vexillology/…
@depthsofwiki This is one of my fears about CHATGPT (and kin) misuse: flood the zone with circular references faster than the unpaid humans can keep up with them. 😖😬
@depthsofwiki This is how we get Tommy Talarico
@depthsofwiki I remember researching some obscure materials science topics over 10 years ago. The wikipedia page for one of them had a few references, but it was obvious that all of them had just copy pasted the wikipedia page and hadn't even bothered to update the formatting.
@depthsofwiki Dangit, usually I don't click through to look at the stuff you share but this one's gonna suck some of my time. Thanks a ton (both ironically and unironically).
@depthsofwiki ain't no way Twitter redirects me to this "article" when retweeting this 💀