depths of wikipedia

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

in the article of former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry:

losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is

ok who says that last one

ten years ago today no one clapped

it's the big day

this is a renaissance painting

this week marks 10 years since "milkshake duck" was coined

are there any more things like this

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

btw wikipedia's only usable image of toby fox is still the one where he's completely covered in foam

it's the anniversary of the time a grandma accidentally cut off the whole country's internet while digging around for scrap metal

amazing photo on spanish wikipedia's chinchilla article