‘Depths Of Wikipedia’: This Page Is Dedicated To The Weird Side Of Wikipedia And Here Are 30 Of The Best Examples
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Born on 15 January 2001, Wikipedia has forever changed the ways we consume knowledge as nothing was out of reach anymore. It made it possible to solve trivia if you had access to wifi, it made us consume thousands of random facts, names, dates and places we won’t ever need, it helped us to make a fierce impression on a first date, and served as a holy grail of all of our high school Powerpoint presentations.
Still today, it’s our go-to source for learning stuff we don’t even bother to double-check, and it’s the place you stumble across a whole Wikipedia page dedicated to the life of your random-ass neighbor.
But something as big and influential as our beloved digital encyclopedia has to have something so much more going on we don’t see. Luckily, thanks to the ‘Depths of Wikipedia’ Instagram page, we now are able to dive deep beneath that iceberg and see all the weird and wonderful things published on there. “Wikipedia is Weird!” states the page’s slogan, but trust me, it gets way weirder than that. Get your snorkels ready, we’re about to dive deep!
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This Is A Good One
In Turkey there are actually view windows for that s-721da317...86bbc8.jpg 
Some people are still just smart-asses after all.
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i live in the area and the term is growing to national interest. some designer also made a desk "umarell" which you can buy and keep on your desk so that he watches you while you work. https://www.superstuff.it/prodotto/umarell/?lang=en
Don’t get me wrong when you read this; he’s actually a really nice guy. But our landlord is an “Umarell” every time he has repairmen come in to work on the house we’re renting from him. Next week is going to be the downstairs A/C and duct work. He’ll be in his element. BTW, he’s a retired John Deere franchise owner. So no, he does not have construction, HVAC, electrical, painting (inside or out), or plumbing experience. But he sure likes to “supervise” any professionals in those fields that he hires (who have confided to us in the past that they just smile and nod and wait for him to decide to get back in his truck and “leave them to it”, so they can actually get their work done).
In England they line the coast looking outward (source: Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island).
Hahaha brilliant! Just now realized the world needed a word for this.
italy is full of them but (at least in tuscany) they've not a specific name like in bologna
Haha this is amazing, my dad is Italian and 70, he loves nothing more than chatting to trade workers, when he had builders round a few years ago he was watching them the whole time like this, my mum tried to get him to stop and just leave them alone but he wasn't having it. EDIT, sometimes they get paid to count the number of trucks going in and out and keep an eye on things when the workers aren't around, quote from Wikipedia "In 2015, the city of Riccione, approximately 130 kilometres (80 miles) southeast of Bologna, allocated an €11,000 budget to pay a wage to umarells to oversee worksites in the city – counting the number of trucks in and out to ensure materials were delivered/removed according to the receipts, and guarding against theft when the site was otherwise unattended". Amazing, I love old people.
On vacation with my parents, our hotel rooms overlooked a major construction site. Not a great view for most people but my dad, a retired foreman, liked it. He’d eat breakfast by the window and tell us about the tower crane in use and the other equipment on the site. It was nice.
About ten years ago, the road by a retirement home was widened. All the men came out and offered good advice all day long for as long as the work took. Fortunately, no old men were assaulted.
In Protest, A Guy Made A 10 Hour Film Of Paint Drying Just To Force The Film Classification Committee To Watch It
I partially work with quality control of films. Not for censorship but still, I have to focus on every frame of a film for its length, this.....meditative......film I'd be the one to watch all ten hours.
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
To find out more about the creator of this weird and wonderful corner of the internet, Bored Panda reached out to Annie Rauwerda, a 21-year-old neuroscience student at the University of Michigan. Annie told us that there was no lightbulb-over-the-head epiphany when deciding to create “Depths Of Wikipedia.”
“It was early quarantine (the stage when everyone was attempting new projects) and I was working on a page of my friend's quaranzine. I wanted to piece together Wikipedia excerpts into some virtual art.”
And They Were Roommates
We're All Guilty Of That
Oh god yes. Books 🙈 . I even have bought books that read to me piling up .
Kafka
The author said she ended up having a ton of fun collecting Wikipedia screenshots and she was shocked that there was no Instagram dedicated to it. “I spent many quarantine evenings hunting for weird Wikipedia articles. Now, I get a lot of great submissions!”
Annie believes her fascination with all things internet is because she “didn't have many screen time limits during my teenage years and as a result became very entrenched in the internet,” she said and added: “I love collaborative sites like Reddit and Wikipedia—they have so many hidden gems!”
Planned Procrastination— When The Only Time You Can Find Motivation For A Task Is When You’re Under A Tight Deadline. student Syndrome Has Similarities To Parkinson’s Law, The Old Adage That The Work Expands To Fill The Time Allotted (Save It Til The Last Minute And The Job Will Only Take A Minute)
Rigged, I Knew Josh Would Win
Relates To The Concept Of Automaticity: The Ability To Do Things Without Occupying The Mind With Low-Level Details
It freaks me out when I do this. I'm sure I was probably driving properly, but I don't know! I'm just at my destination
When asked what was the weirdest thing she has come across on Wikipedia, Annie said that there are so many good ones. “Some that come to mind are Tourist guy, List of films that most frequently use the word 'f**k,' Roadkill cuisine, and Timeline of the far future.”
And when it comes to using Wikipedia in her daily life, the creator assured us she definitely uses it. “Protecting open-access information is so vital. You should definitely start editing if you don't already,” Annie said and added that “it's such a rewarding and impactful hobby, and we need more people with diverse perspectives in editing.”
April Fools Lore
Obsessed With The Complexity Of The Chart On The Third Slide
This Is The Deepest Stuff I’ve Heard In A While
Aside from “Depths of Wikipedia,” Annie runs two more cool projects, “Depths Of Amazon” and “Depths Of Craigslist.” “My best friend Hajin and I teamed up to foray into more 'depths.' Wikipedia will always be closest to my heart, but it's been fun to look at other weird corners of the internet.” Hajin and Annie also recently started the Depths of Wikipedia podcast, which you can listen to right here.
Filling My Exam Answers With Swag
Just Gals Being Pals
Financial independence is extremely important for any person. It is difficult to live as a human without that.
Just Like Crabs In A Bucket Block The Escape Attempts Of Other Crabs, People In A Group May Attempt To Sabotage The The Most Talented Group Member Out Of Envy And Spite
Referenced in Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett. It's also covered by the attitude "they think they're better than they are" - note, this doesn't mean "they think they're better than ME", but rather "we come from the same background, how DARE they think they're better than me". Stops people improving their lot in life by sheer peer pressure. And a lot of it (as mentioned in the novel) is *inside our own heads*
Dilbert Principle
When Incompetent People Can’t Understand Their Relative Incompetence
This Could Be Us
When A Thing/Concept/Word You Just Learned About Suddenly Seems To Crop Up Everywhere
In 2003, A High Schooler Named Mike Rowe Had His Website Cease-And-Desisted By Microsoft. Eventually, After Media Attention, The Tech Giant Gave Him A Settlement Including A Trip To Microsoft Tech Fest And An Xbox
Well damn I would have given up my site too they really rewarded him
Your Life Is A TV Show
Going Out With A Bit
The Popemobile
The centuries of child abuse and exploitation of vulnerable people is totally cool though apparently.
Young And Rebellious
You specially get this after reading a lot web novels, light novels, manga and watching anime. Then you start believing that your right eye is special and there's a dragon sealed in your right arm. Most of this is just a way of entertaining yourself, a form of play-fantasy.
Very Important Chart!!!in The Streets, In The Sheets, Etc.
I’ve been staring at this for twelve minutes and still have no idea how “in the streets, in the sheets” fits in.
Explained By Multiple Theories— Alcohol, Increased Familiarity (Mere Exposure Effect), And Having Fewer And Fewer Options (Commodity Effect)
Do Not Knit Your So A Sweater Without Making Them Sign A “Pre-Knitual Agreement!”
Are You In Your Prime? Single? This Is For You!!!
RIP Pluto 1930-2006
Dudes Rock
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