This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

also your username is appropriate for so many reasons right now

ha...i KNEW that's what for this thread were bumped

HA! holy shit

What are we going to do when wiki goes dark Wednesday?

Ask gygax!?

Ask Ned Day

What are we going to do when wiki goes dark Wednesday?

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:15 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is anyone else reading this to the melody of "now that we've found love"?!

or, you know, in the compatible lyric hole

"mildly"

i mean, it's only a line drawing! i clicked through some of the other sexual topics hoping the .gif was one of a series, but sadly the entry for "gerbilling" just had a picture of a boring old gerbil on it.

I dunno if this is "details" so much as "the whole damn entry is WTF":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahogany_%28band%29

References:

also known as "bands should really not write their own wikipedia articles" and "jesus christ these guys are capable of incredible pretentiousness"

Haha I know right! I thoguht I had the wrong article for half of it.

im guessing they're joking with that.

it's not out of character

rip wikipedia

If you hit "escape" before the blat screen comes up, page is yours.

^ scab

They made it like that for a reason, I'm sure.

whatever helps you sleep at night

what's the cheat code to bring back the picture of that contributor girl with 18000 edits?

+ phone number plz

Nick Drake is the featured article on blackout day. Still being snubbed after all these years.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzcrtxnzC1qzs5cqo1_1280.png

black day / black dog

That 'Esc' trick doesn't work on IE, which is what I'm stuck with at work. What browser are you using?

i was going to say it's bad move on wikipedia really now everybody realises the world goes on perfectly fine without it

xxpost

jon: just click on "Stop" instead?

works on IE8 and chrome

Hmmm, isn't working on IE9.

If you disable styling in your browser (Yay, Opera!!) you can still see Wikipedia. Woulda thought they would have taken down the content or severed a link to the database, or something..

you have to do it reallyquick!

when the page content appears, click on the "X", before the dark bit appears.

or just use the google's cached versions if that exist?

Or disable javascript

if i knew this earlier could have spent some effort making a "wikipediareader" site as well that can just strip out the codes from wikipedia pages and then churns out the contents.

IT WOULD BE IRONIC

Google cache works

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more

Is it still possible to access Wikipedia in any way?
Yes. During the blackout, Wikipedia is accessible on mobile devices and smart phones. You can also view Wikipedia normally by disabling JavaScript in your browser, as explained on this Technical FAQ page. Our purpose here isn't to make it completely impossible for people to read Wikipedia, and it's okay for you to circumvent the blackout. We just want to make sure you see our message.

so not too difficult to get around. I don't get why they don't just put a "click here to go to your article" link after their anti-SOPA message.

I was so into Susanna Hoffs as a teenager that it might have killed me to know that at the time.

― ERIC CANONTA FOR PRESIDETN! (onimo), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 13:06 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Its killing me to know that now!

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:24 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:20 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I mean, have you seen her lately? She still looks fantastic, especially with being 52!

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:22 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/301365_10150375349393781_39393223780_9143351_1287032696_n.jpg

What a wily old dog Mr Sigerttson was to use that line.

During the time of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the couple took part of a union and had the unborn child blessed in a Zulu ceremony, which took place in the Illovo suburb of South Africa.[32] Keys and Swizz Beatz held a wedding celebration on the French island of Corsica on July 31, 2010. Most attendees agreed that Beatz did very well for himself.[33]

the Illovo suburb of South Africa

wat

Most attendees agreed that Beatz did very well for himself.

lmao

Fireman Sam lives in a two-story house with several windows, a red door and the small bell at outside. It is at 3 Vale Road and contains seldom seen rooms:

Hall: The hall has a big shelf, a very large hanger, and a big mirror on the wall. The walls are yellow. There are also the stairs, which connect the ground floor with first floor...

(goes on to detail each room in the cartoon series...)

Connie Nielsen
File:ConnieNielsen09TIFF.jpg erection
Nielsen at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

Other ex-boxers have been said to have had dementia pugilistica when in fact they suffer from nothing worse than a working-class accent and a gruff demeanor, e.g. Rocky Graziano, Tony Zale.

Title is a British slang phrase gleaned by Dolenz from television, likely the UK sitcom Til Death Us Do Part; it roughly translates as "lustful fool from Liverpool" (Wiktionary: randy, Scouse, git) (though in fact, to call someone a "git" in Britain is the equivalent of "jerk" or "prat"). In the series the word was aimed by Alf Garnett at his son-in-law, played by *Tony Booth, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's father-in-law.*

They were decades ahead of their time in making their players train to improve not only their footballing skills, but also their stamina and strength - which in the harsh Scottish winters gave them often the edge against their opponents. The mastermind was Peter 'Big Pate' Campbell, who also insisted on his players drinking “chicken bree”, the ingredients believed to be a disgusting combination of port wine mixed in with eggs!

Big Pate

In the summer of 2008 Pirner, in one of his last pubic appearances, was spotted outside a club in Kansas City being mobbed by fans who could still recognize his handsome good-looks. He gave autographs and sang "Runaway Train" A cappella.

that reads as if he's now dead