- Pictures of Swastikas briefly replaced certain
Wikipedia pages on Monday morning. - Users said the symbol replaced pages for Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Madonna, and Joseph Stalin.
- The Wikimedia Foundation was not immediately available for comment.
Dozens of Wikipedia pages were temporarily replaced with pictures of Swastikas Monday morning.
The changes, which were only in place for a few minutes before the pages reverted to their usual contents, removed all the text and images from the pages and replaced them with a bright red background and large Swastika image, which is also the German Nazi Party's flag.
A spokeperson for Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that oversees Wikipedia, said a wiki template used to support page functionality was vandalized on English Wikipedia, resulting in the Nazi flag appearing for a few minutes.
The spokesperson added volunteer editors reverted the vandalism within five minutes and protected the pages from additional negative behavior.
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"This particularly vile action - a form of vandalism on Wikipedia - is something Wikipedia volunteers have experience with," a spokesperon said in an email. "Over the years, a number of tools and processes have been developed to quickly spot and revert vandalism on the site."
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