Wikipedia:Village stocks
It is a truth universally acknowledged that intelligent and otherwise sensible editors and administrators occasionally engage in acts of extreme stupidity.
Based on the fundamental principle that such blatant disregard of sensibility, however unintended, is best punished by humiliation, the village stocks have been built to identify the wiki-idiots in our midst.
Who while reverting vandalism to the article Pea with a new editing tool, ended up posting the entire contents of Christianity to the Main Page instead.
Who managed, on 8 April 2014, while deploying software updates, to take down not only all of Wikipedia but all other Wikimedia wikis as well, causing them all to display only "Unable to open /usr/local/apache/common-local/wikiversions.cdb." (see [1] from about 18:00 to 18:30)
On 12 December 2005, did, with shocking lack of situational awareness, indefinitely block WP co-founder and head honcho Jimbo.
Who used an unapproved bot to add over 1200 useless revisions to the main page to try to make it undeletable for curious individuals. They failed to hit the necessary 5000-revision mark, but did succeed in taking up lots of time and server resources.
Bad article creation bot.
His vandalism caused harej to accidentally autoblock the entire Wikiconference NYC 2009. English Wikipedia ArbCom member Kirill Lokshin looks on with disapproval.
