Streaming satire: Hard Drive, a satirical site recently in the news for its spat with Elon Musk, "reports" that Wikipedia's biography of an up-and-coming streamer includes a controversy section saying nothing but "TBD".The net you needed to pay: S$194.50 (about US$145) to get the S$474.50 tickets.
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It turns out the "free tickets" weren't really free because a fuel surcharge, taxes and other fees needed to be paid to get the tickets. A Wikipedia admin locked the article at about the same time.Ĭathay Pacific named the winners on-time on March 20, as Mothership reported the outcome.
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In the first 43 minutes that registration was open 100,000 people entered the contest and the contest was closed early. For example the founding date in the article was changed from 1946 to 1947 and then to 1949. And about 5 people, using IP addresses traceable to Singapore, made about a dozen edits "to prevent others from winning". To find the answers ( according to pageview data) about 6,000 more people than usual visited the English Wikipedia's article about Cathay Pacific on March 2. All you had to do to enter the contest was fill out an online form and answer some trivia questions about the history of Cathay Pacific. According to Mothership, Cathay Pacific was to give out 12,500 of those tickets for the Singapore-Hong Kong route, to people who applied between March 2 and March 8. The plan was to give away 500,000 tickets via multiple lotteries, including 80,000 to be distributed by Cathay Pacific. The Hong Kong International Airport sponsored free airline tickets to let tourists know that the the city was open for business after a long COVID slowdown. – S Using Wikipedia to win a lottery? There are no free airline tickets WMF staffer Alex Stinson is quoted giving some good advice in a 2020 article, as well as on a Wikiproject page, including finding malicious edits, flagging bad information, and marking a missing citation. They urge "climatetech professionals" to edit articles because "The problem is that Wikipedia is often out of date, particularly when it comes to emerging or fast-changing subjects such as clean energy and decarbonization." Help correct outdated or incomplete coverage about climate changeĬanary Media, an affiliate of the activist non-profit RMI, reports that Wikipedia has a climatetech problem.
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