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When a man suddenly stormed the stage during the keynote speech at last weekend’s Wikipedia conference in New York, the audience of well over 100 volunteer Wikipedia editors was confused. Some thought the man was protesting the website’s nonprofit parent organization because the disruption came in the middle of remarks by Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander. Others wondered if this might be a bizarre but potentially harmless display of performance art.

“We have so many haters on Wikipedia,” Molly Stark Dean, a Wikipedian and conference organizer who was sitting in the front row, told Slate. “I was like, Which corner of the internet is this guy from? ”

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