Four years ago, on February 9, a major Polish newspaper called Gazeta Wyborcza published news about a hoax in the Polish Wikipedia entitled Henryk Batuta. The author of this article was Konrad Godlewski . Several weeks after, Godlewski started editing on the Polish Wikipedia. Results of his work include one featured article - pismo chińskie (Polish for "Chinese character") , as well as various articles relating to China. During the interview, Godlewski discussed memes, hoaxes  and the Batuta Army - the authors of this hoax . From February 1, 2010, in the Polish Wikipedia users improve articles in special action BATUTA . BATUTA stands for "Bezwzględna Akcja Troskliwego Uźródławiania Tysięcy artykłów", which can be translated as "Ruthless Action of Careful Adding References to Thousands of Articles". Interview You are the author of the first news story about Henryk Batuta hoax, uncovered four years ago in the Polish Wikipedia. Do you remember when did the authors of the hoax first come to you? Was it just before the publication or earlier? The hoax was uncovered on January 20th and the story was published on February 9, so there was a period of time between those two dates...
Four years ago, on February 9, a major Polish newspaper , Gazeta Wyborcza published a report detailing a hoax in Polish Wikipedia entitled Henryk Batuta. The author of the report was Konrad Godlewski ; several weeks later, Godlewski began editing Polish Wikipedia. The results of his work include one featured article – pismo chińskie (Polish for "Chinese character") – as well as various articles relating to China. During our interview, Godlewski discusses memes, hoaxes , and the Batuta Army – the creators of the hoax his paper reported on . From February this year, a special project on the Polish Wikipedia , BATUTA, saw a makeshift taskforce work on improving the quality of content . BATUTA stands for "Bezwzględna Akcja Troskliwego Uźródławiania Tysięcy artykłów", roughly translated as "Ruthless Action of Carefully Adding References to Thousands of Articles". Interview You are the author of the first news story about Henryk Batuta hoax, uncovered four years ago in the Polish Wikipedia. Do you remember when did the authors of the hoax first come to you? Was it just before the publication or earlier? The hoax was uncovered on January 20th and the story was published on February 9, so there was a period of time between those two dates...
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