{"id":8780,"date":"2015-04-20T15:44:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8780"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:09:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:09:57","slug":"the-story-behind-the-longest-running-hoax-in-wikipedia-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/20\/the-story-behind-the-longest-running-hoax-in-wikipedia-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The story behind the longest-running hoax in Wikipedia history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-intersect\/wp\/2015\/04\/15\/the-great-wikipedia-hoax\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2012-01-18T082049Z_01_YH10_RTRIDSP_3_INTERNET-PROTEST.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;font-family: Georgia;line-height: 1.8em;color: #111111;font-style: normal\">Jar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Edo Wens is an Australian aboriginal deity, the god of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153physical might\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153earthly knowledge.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been name-dropped in books. Carved into rocks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;font-family: Georgia;line-height: 1.8em;color: #111111;font-style: normal\">And, as of March,<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;border-bottom-width: 1px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-bottom-color: #d4d4d4\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia\/Jar%27Edo_Wens\">conclusively debunked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;font-family: Georgia;line-height: 1.8em;color: #111111;font-style: normal\">There is no such figure, it turns out, in aboriginal mythology; instead, Jar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Edo Wens was a blatant prank, a bald invention, dropped into Wikipedia nine years ago by some unknown and anonymous Australian. By the time editors found Jar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Edo Wens, he had leaked off Wikipedia and onto the wider Internet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;font-family: Georgia;line-height: 1.8em;color: #111111;font-style: normal\">He had also broken every other Wikipedia hoaxing record. At nine years, nine months and three long days, Jar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Edo Wens is the longest-lived hoax found on the free encyclopedia yet.<strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-intersect\/wp\/2015\/04\/15\/the-great-wikipedia-hoax\/\">The story behind Jar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Edo Wens, the longest-running hoax in Wikipedia history &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out about Jar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Edo Wens. Find out about the longest-lived hoax uncovered on Wikipedia to-date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1048,1015,123],"class_list":["post-8780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-hoax","tag-washington-post","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8788,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions\/8788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}