What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[groupnebula563@mastodon.social]

@babe not necessarily a wikipedia article, but funny bootleg toys:

http://chinafake.wiki (and i have some videos of em on @groupnebula563@cuddly.tube, as do my friends @emily and @blingflinklemacine)

[slatsgrobnik@mastodon.social]

@babe Curse of the Billy Goat

[phil_browne@fediscience.org]

@quixoticgeek @babe you beat me to it. Clearly the best pun out there

[lukeharby@infosec.exchange]

@babe

Lists of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

Adrian Carton de Wiart - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

Obsolete golf clubs - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

(The last one is personal)

[swisslet@mas.to]

@babe a bit niche, maybe, but I like the multiple sclerosis page as it takes a very complex condition and explains it without dumbing down.

Multiple sclerosis - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@babe You know me well.

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@xgranade @babe

[blodwenn@mouse.photos]

@babe i havent looked at it much yet but the pages for each period of chinese history is neatly categorized here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@lukeharby Damn that dude really did not wanna die

[lukeharby@infosec.exchange]

@babe Also this is rad

Anatoli Bugorski - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@lukeharby Holy shit

[sambeaven@toot.wales]

@babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis is a good one

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@woe2you Should have seen that coming

[solderandchaos@mastodon.me.uk]

@babe the list of common misconceptions

List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[mrcopilot@mstdn.social]

@babe Too many. I wear out the random article button on wikireader somedays.

Great Thread.

WikiReader | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Read Wikipedia pages distraction-free

(f-droid.org)

[solderandchaos@mastodon.me.uk]

@babe first cat to author and co author a physics paper. Largely because someone couldn’t be bothered to change “we” to “I”, and it kind of spiralled from there.

F. D. C. Willard - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[schroedingerspossum@mastodon.social]

@babe

High five - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

As for why: the oscar level acting is part of it

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@sambeaven Oooh I read about this a while ago (though I can't recall why)

[sambeaven@toot.wales]

@babe If you love reading about a weird extinct animal, here's Paraceratherium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraceratherium

[porky_fox@mastodon.social]

@babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerton_Man