Folks Online Are Chuckling At These 30 Ridiculous “Edits” Of Wikipedia Pages As Shared By This Dedicated Twitter Page
Let's be clear on one thing. Wikipedia is an amazing tool for doing any kind of research. Sure, teachers and folk in general have good reason to warn people of how it can be unreliable—after all, it's run by users and dedicated editors. But if you're ever in doubt, check the resources. The internet can't alter that.
What it can do, however, is still have some harmless fun with it. Since anyone can write and edit anything on Wikipedia, it has become a bit of a sport among netizens to slip in details that wouldn't otherwise ever be present in an encyclopedic article. Note that this is considered a form of vandalism and if you are going to do it, do it how this Twitter page does it—in a harmless way with the Inspect Elements tool.
Yep, there is a Twitter page, appropriately called Wikipedia, But I Made Them Up, that "vandalizes" Wikipedia articles using a very harmless browser tool to make it look like it's the real thing, then takes a screencap of it and then everyone laughs at the pure absurdity of it all.
Bored Panda has gathered the best of the best posts found on the page and has created the neat little listicle for you to enjoy below. So, go vote, go comment, share the article with your funny friends, and above all, do not actually edit Wikipedia articles for the fun of it. We'll explain what you can do instead, if you insist on having some fun.
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*wraps around table leg and never lets go* *screeches like my namesake if someone tries to pry me off*
Load More Replies...but no matter how much/hard you blow your nose there is NOTHING but you CANT BREATHE OH MY GOD
Mozart based one of his symphonies on his sleeping wife's nose whistle. (I'm lying)
I was curious why one nostril gets clogged when people have a cold, so I did painful years of...OK I Googled it. Our noses only use one nostril at a time. The nostrils are rotated with one held open and one closed (resting). So the resting nostril is the one that gets really clogged up.
So, Wikipedia, But I Made Them Up is a Twitter page dedicated to sharing screenshots of snippets from Wikipedia articles that don't really exist. It might look like some hooligan edited the article, but we assure you no actual edits were made. Just some technological wizardry.
The page features mostly absurd, and sometimes just straight up spot-on, humor embedded into the Wikipedia environment. And nothing is really safe from this page: illustrations and pictures, the table of contents, the contents themselves, the references, everything that you could ever find in a given article can be altered from very serious to absolutely redonculous.
Note that there isn't any actual vandalism happening. The page itself notes that it uses the Inspect Elements tool to make these edits—they don't actually appear to anyone else other than the person making these changes. The page actually is against Wikipedia vandalism, so if you want to have fun, do it the harmless way explained further.
I know right? There’s a 50% chance to break it if you put a single pound on it but a 90% it won’t break if you stand on it. Lol
Can hold my 300lb aunt, but breaks when my niece puts her stuffed teddy on it. 😭🤔
Ooooo "Should I sit down in this thing slowly or just full send and hope for the best?" always goes through my head..
My emotionally abusive ex broke one of these once. We were visiting my parents, eating taco salads, and SFB (sh*t-for-brains) tried to scoot his chair back so he could stand up to get more tortilla chips but the back legs stuck on the carpet. He lost his balance and ended up falling and breaking the chair. He was fine, but as we helped him up and I went to get him more chips, my Dad said, "well, I guess it's not your day," pronouncing it like 'nacho' instead of 'not your.' For some reason, SFB didn't appreciate the joke. I can't imagine why....
*files SFB in the "save for future use" area of my brain*
Load More Replies...Everyone’s heart rate went from 100 to zero real f*****g quick.
Load More Replies...Poor trout, they will be extinct sooner than we think. There goes my side business and hobby.
its like a short and weak mob boss with the most terrifying body guards money can buy
I'm thinking what a nice new coat and a few pairs of the nicest croc leather boots! 😉😉
On personal computers, every browser has some form of Inspect Elements. It is a web development tool that allows folks to analyze and mess about with specific website elements, among others things. You can access this feature by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + I for Google Chrome or simply press F12 on Mozilla Firefox of Microsoft Edge.
This in turn opens up the tool where you can find the element selector function (box with a mouse cursor on it) and use it to select the area you want to edit. Once you've done that, the tool should automatically show you where the element is buried in the sea of code, where you should be able to recognize the phrase that you'll want to edit.
Double click, type in whatever, and you're done. Take a screencap of that and send it to your unsuspecting family or friends. You can actually do the same with any website. Even Bored Panda.
He must be a success on dating apps.
Load More Replies...there wikipedia page named bros before woes let me search that up * searching* its a movie i thought it would of mean cooler
The heading above the axolotl (bottom ½ of black letters at top) says 'Ukrainian Institute'
This image reminds me of the reason why I stopped eating meat altogether. I'd already been cutting out beef and poultry on the bone. And one night I was up late watching tv in bed and a commercial came on (didn't know what it was for). We were shown a tender, sweet moment between a lobster and a human. It honestly looked like they were in the same environment and were about to hold hands/claws, looking so adoringly at each other. Background music was "Happy Together" by The Turtles. The scene then cut to a piping hot steaming lobster being pulled out of a pot with serving tongs and the human smiling in anticipation. The commercial was for Lobsterfest at Red Lobster and the moment we had just seen was of the man selecting his dinner out of the tank. TRAUMATIZED. I haven't eaten meat since. That was in early 2000.
am i the only one who noticed that he is happy because he made the letter L to disrespect his opponent
There is a Polish encyclopedia from 18th century ('Nowe Ateny', eng: 'New Athens'), which says about the horse 'Horse: Everyone knows what a horse is.'
Yes. They’re raisins with grape juice added. (Hence the name “grape”) (/j)
Not necessarily - to me, as a non-native English speaker, the words grape and grapefruit are for some reason terrifyingly interchangeable :-) Don't know why. In my native language, the words are 'greippi' and 'viinirypäle'. Go figure.
I can put a whole grape in my mouth, but definitely not a grapefruit. How about this? Grapefruit is the longer word, so it's the bigger fruit?
Load More Replies...A duck walked up to a lemonade stand, And he said to the man, running the stand, "Hey! (Bum bum bum) Got any grapes?"
Not to be confused with the grapefruit.... Death will surely follow...
Dunkleosteus. A more recent edit changed it to "Grrr I'm a scary fish". Now corrected, again.
As of this article, the twitter page has over 170,000 followers, with some of their most popular tweets racking upwards of 389,000 likes.
Speaking of which, among the most popular tweets on the page is the plastic patio chair that is both the strongest and the weakest material known to mankind, the grape that everyone knows, and the capybara who made a friend, but, rest assured, it can also make enemies.
Why do you think I live on the 24th floor with a nice balcony and a swimming pool right below me?
I took one look at the Rorschach and damned if it isn't the Wizard parting the waters in Fantasia. Am I right or what? fantasia-w...24b764.jpg
i thought it looked like a pig walking on water showing its reflection
Thats wrong, thats clearly a POV of my ex gf telling me She cheated on me when She went to Brazil in vacation.
Me too! I wasn't going to post it in case someone thought that was creepy, but I'll be brave with you.
Load More Replies...Two Pikachus doing a circus act by riding on a motorcycle, one hanging on each side. ....I really don't know where this came from, please send help.
That's actually very clever and I see it clearly now.
Load More Replies...To me it look like a very tiny woman swinging a very giant a*s Chihuahua lmao
It is a frog with wings, hands up and fingers raised, on a souped up bike, popping a wheelie, with smoke coming out of the front and rear exhaust manifolds
If you've enjoyed this list, you might enjoy others that we've covered in the past, like this one about weird Wikipedia articles, or this one with hilarious things found on Wikipedia, or this one with actual vandalism (again, don't do it) on Wikipedia, and these amusing Wikipedia out of context screenshots.
But before you go, there's plenty more where that came from, so scroll on, and share your thoughts and acts of mischief on Wikipedia in the comment section below!
You should photgraphed the pig ton his back that flew off into the sky earlier, man! 😉
The cat haz gots the cheezburger... the internet is done for...
And no one who noticed Neil being slightly disappointed??? Didn't he ask santa for a little drum-kitt. 🤣
"Give it up for the spirit in the sky! Thats where I'm gonna go when I die! When I die and you lay me to rest, I'm gonna go to the place next to this!"
Huh, I’ve never heard of it. You learn something new every day. (/j)
They want to defeat the grape before it's too late
Load More Replies...The mining trucks are bred and trained by very tiny people. Mine munchkins.
I sure know which one I would prefer if had 'irritable bowel syndrome'. 😜
As in those smurfs with the extra intestine flap sticking out of their head?
There was one of these hidden in every box of Krusty Brand Rusteos!
The last 4 digits of the 36 million number (0085) almost match my phone number from 25 years ago (0885)
AHHHHHH. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
That is a sunfish. Here's a much better picture. ocean-sunf...fbd91a.jpg
the Sunfish--a slow-moving, big-azz, flat-faced f****r who loves scaring the c**p out of divers.
Reminds me of the YT clip of albino oscar fish: "Let the bodies hit the FLOOOOOOR!!!"
For the curious, this is a photo recreation of an accident that killed Louis Alexander Slotin. He was a scientist for the Manhattan Project. He was trying to simulate part of the reaction of an atomic bomb. Slotin was using a screw driver that slipped causing the top half to fall creating a critical reaction exposing him to a lethal dose of radiation. The "bruh" moment is because he was not supposed to be using a screw driver.
they thought a piece of paper would be enough to keep fission from happening
I hope Bongwater isn't his name or he'll more than this posting, to overcome that ordeal. 🙄🤣
PenitentEyeball comments on stuff people could care less about. PenitentEyeball has interdimensional bed sheets. Me and PenitentEybeall are the same
Load More Replies...You know, I'm more interested in hearing more about the "cow wall". What?
In case anyone's wondering, that image is usually used to refer to hypothetical scrunched-up space within which the theoretical physicists are hoping to find extra dimensions. I don't understand enough nearly enough physics to know how that works. But here we are.
For anyone curious, this animal is actually a Fossa! I recommend looking it up, they are pretty interesting. Edit: Oh my gosh! 25 upvotes?! Usually people hate it when I talk about animals. Ahg I'm tearing up, thank you!
Aren't they the things the lemurs and King Julian fear in Madagascar?
Load More Replies...I sometimes make my own wall art by painting canvasses with abstract backgrounds and putting paper cut-out quotes on them - I might do this one. (My last one was “it’s not a wh*re house, it’s a wh*re HOME” said by my last roommate to a guy she was kicking out of our apartment for insulting us 😇)
The expressions on the beasties: "Hey, do you mind if we do this? Does that hurt?"
Like my dudes, what gives there are more a village a stones throw, with juicier meat in that direction
Load More Replies...People in paintings getting absolutely destroyed but acting like they don't mind
Isn’t it obvious? It’s literally a bird, you can quite clearly see it. Sorry Tim! You were sleeping? Oh, sorry mate, sweet dreams!
From red to grey in the following order; scapula, humerus, ulna(thin long one), radius(one next to ulna), carpales-metacarpales-philangies
I'd hate to see that experiment now with all the series added to the list
I had a rat drawing competition with someone at school today!
You would think that but the "feet" are wrong it looks like an electric wire pylon that buckled
Load More Replies...Does he change back into a human at some point after a full moon
Load More Replies...The Alligator has become more intellectual after being thrown in a Wendy´s drive-thru window in Florida.
Oh I know what’s wrong with this! You didn’t use proper citation, it should be “The Deliciously Spicy Kiki (left) alongside the Refreshingly Sweet Bouba (right).” (/j)
The Kiki is deep fried, while Bouba are usually served with a side of yogurt.
Load More Replies...I have a buddy that would use this to describe the Fast and Furious movies.
Wouldn't that technically be 2 and 2 half potatoes? Don't want your eligibility for office thrown out for inaccuracies.
not sure you want to know my friend. I certainly don't
Load More Replies...Kinda freaks me out that the kitchen has the lowest mortality rate.
Is he officially the last in his line of work or did he eat the last worm? 🤔
Before the James Bond villain finished his degree, this was used to keep him out of dorm rooms
Load More Replies...“What should we name our town in Arkansas?” “Psh, isn’t it obvious?”
I learned this from BP, thought I'd add it here for educational purposes
Load More Replies...What happens if you click that link at the bottom? The “putting it in a cup” one?
It changed to something boring now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agra_absurdis
Load More Replies...There's a village in Scotland called California.
Load More Replies...i love how bizarre and outlandish these are, exactly my humor lol
Everyone can edit wikipedia posts, to include new info, correct something, add something that can help people who access the site, but... you can also include or change some things just for laughts.
Load More Replies...i love how bizarre and outlandish these are, exactly my humor lol
Everyone can edit wikipedia posts, to include new info, correct something, add something that can help people who access the site, but... you can also include or change some things just for laughts.
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