What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[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

[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

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

[mrcopilot@mstdn.social]

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

Great Thread.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.nsh07.wikireader/

[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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard

[schroedingerspossum@mastodon.social]

@babe

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25