diff --git a/examples/quickstart/wikiticker-index.json b/examples/quickstart/wikiticker-index.json
index 0f2356e86f8..aefe3642189 100644
--- a/examples/quickstart/wikiticker-index.json
+++ b/examples/quickstart/wikiticker-index.json
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
         "intervals" : ["2015-09-12/2015-09-13"]
       },
       "parser" : {
-        "type" : "string",
+        "type" : "hadoopyString",
         "parseSpec" : {
           "format" : "json",
           "dimensionsSpec" : {