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According to Wikipedia, 'Depths of Wikipedia' is a social media project dedicated to highlighting the unusual and entertaining facts from the platform. Annie Rauwerda started it in 2020 and has even performed live comedy shows based on the things she found.
Considering there are over seven million articles on the English version of the encyclopedia alone, she's probably not going to run out of material any time soon as well. And since it's open source, everyone gets to contribute to the madness.
If you're a fan of rabbit holes, this place is like a never ending tunnel, full of nooks and crannies.
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Ghostchaplain16 6 days ago
This may be the best (and most accurate) new word in recent memory.
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At the time when Rauwerda launched 'Depths of Wikipedia,' she was a sophomore at the University of Michigan.
"Wikipedia is the best thing on the internet,” she told The New York Times. "It's what the internet was supposed to be. It has this hacker ethos of working together and making something."
At first, only her friends were following the account, but it received a lot of attention when Rauwerda posted about the influencer Caroline Calloway, who was upset that the post featured an old version of her Wikipedia page that said her occupation was "nothing."
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Her followers often pitch her Wikipedia pages they think are worthy of a feature, but these days it's hard to find an entry that will impress Rauwerda.
"If it's a fun fact that's been on the Reddit home page, I'm definitely not going to repost it," she said.
"For example, there are only 25 blimps in the world. I've known about that for a long time, and it went around Twitter [for days]. I was shocked [when it was sent to me]. I was like, 'Everyone knows this.'"
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Michael Largey 6 days ago
Boo-Boo was to Yogi what Barney Rubble was to Fred Flintstone. (Both Boo-Boo and Barney were voiced by the great Mel Blanc.)
Rauwerda's account "makes the internet feel smaller," Heather Woods, an assistant professor of rhetoric and technology at Kansas State University also told the outlet.
"It shortcuts the rabbit-hole phenomenon by offering attractive — or sometimes hilariously unattractive — entry points to internet culture."
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Mark Alexander 6 days ago
Scott Kelly. You know. Now Senator Scott Kelly. The one our president is accusing of treason. Who may be recalled to active duty just so he can be court-martialed. Yeah, *that* Scott Kelly. This administration is a monkey flying, Monday to Friday, fuster cluck of an embarrassment.
In another interview, Rauwerda said rabbit holes are pretty much unavoidable if you want to understand a subject. "Everything is better when you know more about it. I didn't like hockey for a long time, but then it became interesting to me once I knew about the players and the history of the sport."
"I was studying neuroscience and I would wonder how I was possibly going to memorize these random proteins and enzymes. But if you dive in more than you have to, then that contextualizes and adds color in a way that helps you understand it on a different level."
According to her, the same is true with the internet. "If you're scrolling through social media, you're probably gleaning a bunch of fun and interesting surface-level content. But when you're digging through these murky backwaters, researching backstories, looking at old newspaper archives, or just visiting odd, old archived web pages that haven't been viewed by very many eyes, that's really fun," the woman behind Depths of Wikipedia said.
"It feels like treasure hunting: the internet is just so unfathomably large, and there are so many corners of it that haven't really been explored in a long time. And to me, that's very exciting."
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Zig Zag Wanderer 6 days ago (edited)
No. Because it isn't misspelled.... But, but.... Oh bollox!
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Spidercat 5 days ago
Stutter has three Ts and Lisp has an s in it... English doesn't take prisoners.
Asmodeus Hare 3 days ago
Go look up phobias... It's a hoot. Especially the one for fear of long words. Oh and the inability to pronounce the r sound is Rhotocism.
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Michael Largey 5 days ago (edited)
And how about words which express a property they don't possess? Example: "monosyllabic", because it isn't. "Misspelled" is also such a word.
Rali Meyer 5 days ago
Okay, but why doesn't "palindrome" reads the same backwards as forwards? Clearly a missed opportunity!
QuincyForrest 5 days ago
That's been my thought for decades: why is it that palindrome isn't one?
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Bartlet for world domination 5 days ago
Thirty years ago when country-level domains were expensive, the Dutch dyslexia association had many :)
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Lotekguy 4 days ago
My favorite example is sesquipedalian, which is a long word meaning long words. (How did the voice to text function get sesquipedalian right, when it whiffs on so many simpler, far more common words? When I used the word a second time here, it started with a c, further confusing me as to how tech works.)
Binky Melnik 3 days ago
Likely because “sesquipedalian” doesn’t sound like any other word, so it’s easy for autocorrect to guess at what you’re saying.
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Sally Moen 5 days ago
And when the name is transcribed, he will be known as ( ) formerly known as Casper
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Sally Moen 5 days ago
4 packs of cigarettes a day???? Gosh, except for the extra radiation from space, he was certainly enjoying better health on Mir
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Bob Brooce 5 days ago
The real problem with jurors that have watched CSI is that too many of them think that forensics is infallible. When jurors are too easily fooled by the prosecutions "evidence" innocent people can go to jail or even be executed. Ask Google about Cameron Todd Willingham.
Rauwerda said part of why there are so many Easter eggs on Wikipedia is that the contributors are very diligent and driven primarily by passion. After all, they aren’t getting paid for their work, so “they just [write and] edit the things that they think are interesting.”
As an example, she mentioned a guy from Seattle who has created dozens—maybe hundreds—of articles about different interstates in the American Northwest.
In the Middle Ages, we had monks who wrote by hand in monasteries, copying religious texts and classical literature onto parchment using quills and ink. Now, we have Wikipedians!
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Chich the witch 6 days ago
Way back in the before times when cptrs were a new thing in offices, they were not given to those of us who understood and needed them. They were more often given to luddites. I was asked to look at one by its user because the cup holder wasn't working properly. "The What?" yeah..
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Michael Largey 6 days ago
Ships were immediately dispatched to the Caribbean to bring back bananas.
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BeesEelsAndPups 6 days ago (edited)
I'm a huge fan of this. Also Turned Out Tuesday, where you should be happy I evened turned out. Why Am I Here Wednesday, where I spend my work day questioning my life choices. Think Again Thursdays, where I glare at you if you ask me to do anything. And also Phoning it in Fridays, I'd tell you more about that, but it's Friday
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QuincyForrest 5 days ago
At least here in California we make you jump through a bureaucratic hoop and possess a piece of paper before you can own one. It's not like we're stupid or anything.
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Guess the song!
highwaycrossingfrog 5 days ago
I believe this is "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC, due to the fact that a computer virus once attacked Iran's nuclear facility by causing its computers to play the song at full volume
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Sally Moen 5 days ago
Wait a minute. What happened if SHE were at home that day and her best friend were at home that day and then they tried to visit one another on, say, Mondays, but neither of them were at home. What would they do then? The mysteries of life before telephones existed
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Michael Largey 6 days ago
Why come up with a term like "jobless unemployed" for people who have little or no work while remaining employed when we already have a perfectly serviceable term like "management"?
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Michael Largey 6 days ago
Because why would you move your children to a place with no schools?
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Imagine if you devoted your life to calculating pi, toiled hours a day for YEARS until you the end of your life. and it turns out 20 years ago you were off by one and everything after that was basically a waste
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Michael Largey 6 days ago (edited)
Or an example of how the lack of a smile reminds us of a human these days.
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Cuppa tea? 5 days ago
In Namibia is local politician named Adolf Hitler. He just won fifth elections for local council.
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sofacushionfort 5 days ago
"A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field" - George Orwell
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Sally Moen 5 days ago
Excess sebum can lead to hair loss. Washing your hair does not. Some shampoos clean the sebum on your scalp and let your hair follicles grow hair. If nothing else, give your scalp a good scrub when you wash your hair, no matter what kind of hair on your head nor how much hair
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Rali Meyer 5 days ago
how about JnG for an infinite number ("n") of guys? Then you don't have to constantly do a head-count
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Gingersnap In Iowa 6 days ago
Do you know why donkeys aren't allowed in school? No body likes a smart a*s. I'll show myself out...
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Bruce Mardle 2 days ago
I ordered a copy of that book from Amazon decades ago. They sent me "Llama, Llama, Red Pyjama". I sent it back. They sent it to me again. I sent it back again. They refused to do any more to fulfill my order 🙁
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