Makes sense, you want anyone following GPS to divert from the scene ASAP. Caching-wise, I see the updated bridge at zoom 15+ but the old intact bridge at zoom ≤14.
Yes, probably tile cache on different servers. I tried from some random TOR exit node and got a mixture of tiles showing parts of the "before" and parts of the "after": https://imgur.com/zLAdmUc
It makes me wonder what goes through someone's head when one sees a mass casualty event like this, and your first instinct is to rush to Wikipedia to change the article to past tense ('was' a bridge).
"I can't do much else, may as well keep folks up to date" I guess.
If they're sitting on the shore with a fully stocked rescue boat delaying help to post their edits, aye I'd be peeved too. Otherwise, might as well keep info updated as it becomes known.
One of the beauties of the internet is that there's enough people willing to do the work to keep the rest of the world up to date with real-time information.
Adding actual information about the event will naturally take a little longer as it needs writing first - they probably fired off the pastTensify automation while writing the meat and potatoes of their edit.
It was somebody on their phone, not signed in, and all they did was change "is" to "was" in two places, leaving the single word edit summary "was". But thank you for imagining Wikipedians are so professional.
Two days later, I come back to find this downvoted a lot, even though I meant it literally. I've been a Wikipedia editor for some 10+ years, only a few of us use bots, we're not generally very sophisticated, so the assumptions amused me.
Ah. I think the wording plus the existing downvote when I read your reply made me not even consider it might be literal and not at all snarky.. I'd like to blame my British sarcasm-as-a-first-language upbringing, but really that one's on me.
For what it's worth I've popped an upvote on your comment and will go out of my way to double check snark is actually snark before replying to things in future.
Some people are clinical -just an item to update. For others it’s the old “first post” mentality. It’s basically personal mores whether something is too recent and tragic to update.
Do you think that someone at the FBI, inspired by https://xkcd.com/2910/, will be checking the IP addresses of the Wikipedia editors who got there before the ambulances did?
