I watched the video about the heavy metal umlaut and found the part where the web page was defaced to be the most interesting (about 5 minutes in). Here Jon Udell showed a hacker editing this page at 11PM typing derogative sayings and someone cleaning it up within that very minute. Udell questioned whether it was the same person that vandalized it then fixed it but when he went back and checked, contrary to his disbelief that someone could actually be watching that page so closely, his suspicion proved to be wrong; a different user than the one publishing the demeaning sentences was cleaning the web page up and returning it to its original form that quickly.

Since this video was published in 2005, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at it now in 2012 and found that there were hundreds of changes that happened and the most recent one occurred 6 days ago! It’s amazing to me that this web page is still being edited to this day! I wasn’t aware that wikipedia pages were updated that often. There was probably three times as much information on this specific page and almost all of the original text is no longer there.

Here is a link to the present day wikipedia article now titled “Metal umlaut”:
Metal umlaut