The kids in Congress are editing Wikipedia like, a lot.

[blogslut]

There's a Twitter account, @congressedits, that auto-posts every edit to Wikipedia emanating from the IP addresses of Congress. If you follow this twitter account you will have noticed that the Wiki edits have increased from every once-in-a-while to several a day.

Here are some articles about it:

https://www.mediaite.com/online/someone-in-congress-is-going-on-the-weirdest-wikipedia-editing-spree/

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/19/politics/congress-edits-wikipedia/index.html

https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/porgs-are-dope

From the Buzzfeed article:

...While the bot(has) been tweeting for three years, something has been happening these past few weeks. The edits have gotten...particularly interesting.

For example, the Carly Rae Jepsen page was edited to call her the "worlds [sic] greatest singer."
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And someone edited a page on Star Wars species to clarify that "Porgs are dope."

There used to be occasionally goofy page changes, but now we're getting completely bonkers edits pretty much daily.

In fact, it kiiind of seems like someone in the House of Representatives is trolling the bot...

And today:

Link to tweet

Philip Bump Verified account @pbump

someone on the house network is sending a message through wikipedia edits (read bottom-up)

Make of this what you will. All requests to get off lawns will result in gentle chuckles, face-hands and the slight shaking of heads.

[DK504]

1. Does anybody actually use Wikipedia any longer?

[blogslut]

2. Yes

[left-of-center2012]

3. yes

"... around 13.89 million unique visitors every day"

https://www.quora.com/How-many-users-visit-Wikipedia-daily

[tenderfoot]

4. I use it everyday...

especially to look up books, movies and music

[dewsgirl]

5. I'm loving all the ways D.C. staffers find different ways to let us know they are

Concerned.