What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[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

[greem@cyberplace.social]

@babe slightly related to the one posted by @lukeharby

Therac-25 - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[homoevolutis0@mastodon.social]

@babe
My fave is my first Navy ship, USS Piedmont

[kryptykphysh@mastodon.kryptykphysh.xyz]

@babe There are just *so* many stories in here and you can even see the origins of later myths, legends and tales, like a lot of Arthurian stories.

Irish mythology - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[tonyangelo@mspsocial.net]

@schroedingerspossum @babe I’m sorry, but the finger guns are certainly not optional

[frazzledbrynn@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@babe Lāhainā Noon, the day without shadows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahaina_Noon#/media/File:Lahaina_Noon.jpg

[drchris@mastodon.ie]

@babe the page about bats is a corker (they evolved twice independently!!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat