What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[mrcopilot@mstdn.social]

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

Great Thread.

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[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

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

One that I got reminded of in my bookmarks which inspired me to ask: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter

[nev@flipping.rocks]

@babe Folk song lists! Knock yourself out:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_Child_Ballads
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_folk_songs_by_Roud_number

[joblakely@mastodon.social]

@babe

You might enjoy D’arcy Carden’s podcast Wikihole. It’s good fun.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-wikihole-with-darcy-carden-157305042/

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@phil_browne @babe it's one of my top three favourite Wikipedia edits.

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@babe also to add... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_rabbit_hole

[swaldman@mendeddrum.org]

@babe I used to be a big fan of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
partly because it is absurdly pointless, but mostly because the Talk page used to have a huge argument about whether the page, being a list of lists of lists (of lists), should link to itself.

Regrettably that discussion seems to have been removed.

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@phil_browne @babe oh. And it's why I have cetaceanneeded.eu as my website...

[ginseng@23.social]

@babe

List of con artists - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

Including Victor Lustig "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice".