What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

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

[cathos@merveilles.town]

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

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@babe list of cetacean species, cos when there's no photo of the species (usually cos fossil records) it says [cetacean needed].

List of humourous units of measurement.

[woe2you@beige.party]

@babe This one, for the photo. I believe it was entirely deliberate. Dunno how much of a rabbit hole it'll lead to, but it's glorious and everyone should see it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Without_Hats

[daswarkeinhuhn@netzkae.se]

@babe@glitterkitten.co.uk one day I'm gonna write a screenplay about this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Execution_of_Emperor_Maximilian

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@babe Static electricity (see cat photo)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_electricity

[sharif@fosstodon.org]

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

[rhinosworryme@climatejustice.social]

@babe

Sadly the list of assassinations of US presidents page no longer says "You can help by expanding this list!"

[mespique@mastodon.social]

@babe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sable_Island_horse

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@catsalad I somehow missed the 'see cat photo' part of your post, looked at the article and assumed it was the cat picture

[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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unusual_deaths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_golf_clubs

(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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis

[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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski