wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
it's the anniversary of the time a grandma accidentally cut off the whole country's internet while digging around for scrap metal
are there any more things like this
huge fan of the 70 year old german guy who uploaded this 360 degree interactive panorama of inside a corn flakes bag. it's in the corn flakes article on
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)
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
if you've noticed a lot of chocolate on the main page of wikipedia it's because 6 mo ago one random person started cranking out a tooooon of amazing overhauls to chocolate articles and now the quality of chocolate content has literally never been better. thank you chocolate hero whoever you are