in 2006 there was a big discussion about whether to delete the "vice presidents who have shot people" category which only had two people (cheney and burr)

from 2003

Attention Bryan fans!! There's a group of Wikipedians called WikiPortraits that takes portraits of public figures and navigates press passes. Volunteer with them if you want to support more Bryans or be your own Bryan! website is wikiportraits.org and the account to follow is @wikiportraits.org

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

big thread of slang and emoji definitions from wiktionary that make me laugh!!!! can you favorite the ones you like to help me narrow them down I have too many saved for one instagram post!!!!!!

gonna infect you with this

AAHHHHH!!!!

scary

just found out pizza in the Ohio Valley has cold cheese and raw toppings?!

Wiktionary's visual aid to demonstrate what the Swedish word for "funny" means

Can't wait to watch a horror movie on my favorite free streaming platform, the main page of Wikipedia!!! The full 94 minute original Nosferatu is on up right now. Last halloween it had Night of the Living Dead!

happy anniversary of Hawaii 2 being named Hawaii 2

grokipedia inspired me to read about commercial Wikipedia clones/derivatives and omg "wikiwand" is such a racket! brands itself as "beautiful wikipedia UX" but basically just slaps ads on articles and charges $5/mo to remove them. and misleads you into thinking the $ supports wikipedia!!!

I want to talk about how good the article for the squash/pumpkin genus Cucurbita is. It was a featured article 10 years ago and continues to be one of the best articles about a group of plants. And I didn't do this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbita

In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped

can albanian speakers please tell me more about this verb that apparently means “to die” but only for humans and bees???

not to be confused with quesadilla

recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"

tomorrow will mark 100 years since this six-time divorcee, noted pants wearer, and professional taxidermist in Colorado singlehandedly killed 140 rattlesnakes and turned into an overnight celebrity as "Rattlesnake Kate"

met the guy from the "kubrick stare" wikipedia article

every link I click in the unrealized projects rabbit hole is another project I will never realize

via teddy bear article

i physically cannot stop myself from posting this even though no one will care but hands down best book for a hand cameo has gotta be "hand book". exact perfect book for a hand. thanks to this hands on google books employee whoever you are!!! (via wikimedia commons)

you know I'm not really sure what I expected the example for UK National Insurance Numbercards to be but

didn't post about this when it happened friday but..... heroes!

entire article

Nemiscam, Alberta

fascinated by this guy who uploads tons of free pics but they're exclusively of pro wrestling or eerie retail scenes

wikimedia commons category "abandoned shopping carts"

very random that they funded Airbnb with $40 boxes of political breakfast cereal back when it was AirBed & Breakfast because you literally slept on air mattresses

love the pic in the tattoo article on spanish wikipedia

Pre social media people used to make websites for Dougs to hang out with Dougs! Same for Shirlenes, Geoffreys, Susan Parkers... I dug up a bunch of them on the wayback machine (thread!!!)

happy 20th birthday to the internets