The Zhemao hoaxes were over 200 interconnected Wikipedia articles about falsified aspects of medieval Russian history written from 2012 to 2022 by Zhemao (Chinese: 折毛; pinyin: Zhémáo), a pseudonymous editor of the Chinese Wikipedia. The articles were fictive embellishments on real entities; Zhemao used machine translation to understand Russian-language sources and invented elaborate detail to fill gaps in the translation.
The Zhemao hoaxes were over 200 interconnected Wikipedia articles about falsified aspects of medieval Russian history written from 2012 to 2022 by Zhemao (Chinese: 折毛; pinyin: Zhémáo), a pseudonymous editor of the Chinese Wikipedia. The articles were fictive embellishments on real entities; Zhemao used machine translation to understand Russian-language sources and invented elaborate detail to fill gaps in the translation.
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