What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[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.

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

[tonyangelo@mspsocial.net]

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

[pantransautie@elekk.xyz]

@babe there used to be a wikipedia entry about frogs written in middle english which i thought was pretty funny ; i don't think it's available anymore since i wasn't able to find it again ; but there is a narration of it on YouTube : https://youtu.be/Giqsjvur5Io?t=33

[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.

[pantransautie@elekk.xyz]

@babe have you read his book , a pickle for the knowing ones ?

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Pickle_for_the_Knowing_Ones/Main_Body

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

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

[ginseng@23.social]

@babe

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_con_artists

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

[adriano@lile.cl]

@babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus because it’s very clear and at the same time I cannot but read it as a huge continuous double-entendre.

[stuartyeates@cloudisland.nz]

@swaldman @babe

As is normal for #wikipedia talk pages, discussions are archived after three months, they're accessible via the links discussing this at the top of the page.

[serebit@floss.social]

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

[klara_tag@leipzig.town]

@babe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_serum_run_to_Nome

Because I like true stories with dogs as heros. And I like stories deifying the odds. Fund it via Wiki-Tok once.

[liferstate@mas.to]

@babe Fighting an entire war over Toledo, Ohio sounds ridiculous, but back then most Americans were drunk most of the time. Total casualties: no deaths, one injury (a teenager stabbed a sheriff in the leg).

I like to imagine that the U of Michigan-Ohio State U sports rivalry is a continuation of the war by other means.

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

[notthelbcguy@mstdn.social]

@babe in a similar vein is Emperor Norton "Emperor Norton" on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton?wprov=sfti1#Declaring_himself_%22Emperor%22