I recently unearthed a pile of funny things that I didn't know existed in (and about) Wikipedia. Most of them are Wikipedia Essays or other obscure jokes from the administrators.
Within Wikipedia edit
- 1984
- Association of Geriatric Editors
- Assume Bad Faith
- Complete Bollocks
- Don't stuff beans up your nose
- Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them, a response to Please do not bite the newcomers
- List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
- Deleted Articles with Freaky Titles
- Don't feed the Administrators
- Editing Under the Influence
- The five steps of Wikipedian spammer grief
- Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you, a response to Don't Be a Dick
- God: Valuable Wikipedian, or disruptive editor with a history of sockpuppetry?
- Don't delete the main page
- Argumentum Ad Jimbonem
- Millionth Topic Pool, and perhaps even funnier, the Last Topic Pool
- No angry mastodons
- No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
- Unusual Articles (warning: may consume untold hours of your time)
- OMGcom
- Primogeniture
- Requests for Edit Wars - somewhat of a Wikipedia editor inside joke
- Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass
- Have a nice cup of tea and sit down
- Beware of the Tigers
- Whacking with a Wet Trout
- The Truth
- Unusual Requests to Wikipedia
- The Village Stocks
- The Stephen Colbert Elephant-Tripling Pandemic
- Wikipedia Widow
- What Would Jimbo Do, containing a useful photo gallery of Things Jimbo Does
And any other random selections from The Wikipedia Humour Repository, especially the many songs.
External Links edit
- Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
- For an interesting peek at the past: Wikipedia Nostalgia Archive
And, on an unrelated note: Exploding Whales