2006-08-01 Stephen Colbert Causes Chaos on Wikipedia, Gets Blocked from Site
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- when: 2006/08/01 (2006/08/01)
- topics: Wikipedia Stephen Colbert
- URL: http://spring.newsvine.com/ news/2006/08/01/307864-stephen-colbert-causes-chaos-on-wikipedia-gets-blocked-from-site
- title: Stephen Colbert Causes Chaos on Wikipedia, Gets Blocked from Site
- summary: «On Monday night's episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert addressed the online resource Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can read or edit. Colbert praised Wikipedia for "wikiality," the reality that exists if you make something up and enough people agree with you - it becomes reality. Colbert's subsequent examples to prove "wikiality" would cause chaos on the site, and lead an administrator to subsequently block his account.»
Note that The Colbert Report featured Colbert as a character representing a parody of conservatism rather than his later face-value presentation in The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, so this was doubtless intended as a dig at the right rather than at Wikipedia.