just discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death" and had to compile my favorite edit summaries
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annie rauwerda
@annierau@wikis.world
mastodon 4.7.3big fan of wikipedia, crossword puzzles, my cat, venn diagrams, the library, joking around, etc! I have accounts called "depths of wikipedia" on other sites!
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whenever i check mastodon (which is every week or so and not as often as i probably should) i am overwhelmed by how wonderful this corner of the world is!!!!
okay, let's say i wanted to search wikipedia edit summaries to see if any match e.g. one of these medieval messages written in the margin by frustrated scribes... there's really no easy way to do this right? it would be fun
last week at a Wikipedia conference I did the Kubrick stare with the guy from the "Kubrick stare" article! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubrick_stare
Some good hidden comments on Wikipedia
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I may have a chaotic stage presence but at least I don't pretend like anything I'm saying actually matters
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Here I am talking about Y2K compliant can openers and other hard hitting info at the Internet Archive's trillion web pages party last week!!! I'm from 30:06 to 35ish but I love the entire program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfKPJJQvIn0
The Web We've Built: Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
Calvin's dad would be retirement age now and I just know he would be spending his golden years as a shrewd and well-respected Wikipedia administrator
For most of Wikipedia's history, there were duplicate articles about "lazy argument" (the idea that there's no point in ever doing anything). Fittingly, no one even bothered to mention it for almost a decade, and when one lone voice eventually suggested a merge, it took another five years for anyone to actually do it
inspired by true events
In 2022, TSA stopped me and was like “what is this” and I had to explain that I recently bought an undersea internet cable because I thought it would be a cool thing to have
Recently one of my family members (whom I love very much) thought it was trash and threw it away. So if you or someone you know has an undersea cable to spare, I would love to buy it!
today I learned that almost one percent of all the titles on English Wikipedia start with the word John!
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@petealexharris I know, I know, still amusing though :-) and here's the story https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43327103
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@mathias @luis_in_brief Wow, thanks for checking! No problem about the shovels — I got one from someone else and now it's prominently featured on my shelf of wiki knickknacks :)
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@dan oh cool! My cursory search only turned up a few and they were all >$300 but I will keep checking