What's the craziest or funniest Wikipedia outline you've seen?

Kairos@lemmy.today to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 615 points –
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It’s not funny that they’ve made the M&M’s basically unfuckable now, I haven’t been fully erect for a year now.

Guess we found Tucker Carlson's lemmy account.

You still terrified of OSHA and guard rails

What do you mean? That yellow M&M is totally fuckable!

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"a trip down mammary lane" 😂😂😂 good lord

(not the craziest, but could only find this one)

I am actually kind of bummed that nobody's answering the question :(

Lol. Cuba?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)

Not to be confused with Pig War (2026)

Read the rules! No spoilers in this community! Most of us are living in 2023 or 2024 and don't want to know what happens later yet

I smoke a mixture of delirant herbs and dry industrial detergents to gain these insights. I'm no stanky time traveller.

Deleriant visions are considered equivalent to time travel under the SPARS Act of 2027. Under the Ex Post Facto Act of 2035 that gives me the authority to arrest you right now.

What did you just call me‽

It's not really something I look for or pay attention to when I see it. It's something fun to keep an eye out for from now on though.

I don't have a crazy or funny outline for you, but when it comes to humor and Wikipedia, almost every single act of pettiness on this very long page is pretty damn funny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars

The best one actually has its own separate article dedicated to its pettiness:

Star Trek (I/i)nto Darkness

Main article: Wikipedia Star Trek Into Darkness debate

Is it "Into" or "into"? A simple capitalized letter led to, as xkcd neatly summed up, "Forty thousand words of debate", before suggesting the "compromise" solution of "~~ StAr TrEk InTo DaRkNeSs ~~". Here's what the horrifying talk page looked like when the xkcd comic was published. A summary of the results was necessary to keep things sane. And that's over three months before the film's opening. Starfleet representatives have neglected to comment.

One time I wrote a program that would convert a wikipedia article into plain text then run that through the say command in mac os terminal.

For a while I’d put my computer to reading me a wikipedia article to fall asleep to. Or maybe I was trying to learn subconsciously through sleep or something, can’t remember.

But what I do remember is that listening to the article on The Fermi Paradox, read to me by a robot voice, seemed kind of theatrical and badass, just how it reads.

This was like 15 years ago so I don’t know if the article still reads badass.