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First versions of articles, 2001 oddities, etc:

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"first version" = earliest version currently on record (not counting the early revisions on old servers that are lost)

  • Beauty starts with "Eventually, we'll have an article on beauty here. Apparently, flowers are beautiful."
  • fly "A fly is a small insect which lands on food and carries germs. Not as nasty as a cocroach, but more mobile."
  • America: "Continent located between the PacificOcean and the AtlanticOcean. It was connected to AsiA long ago..."
  • Ant: "STUB The poor little ant doesn't have an article? I know nothing about ants, but at least I didn't crack the "Wife of my uncle" joke."
  • Titanic film: "Quite possibly the worst film to ever receive an award of any kind. I know, I know, that's a very bad writeup. I'm just having fun and trying to get some attention. We can erase this when we get a good writeup.  :-) --JimboWales"
  • Archimedes simply says "mathematician and inventor" but includes a note to add the "eureka thing"
  • Al Gore was Albert Arnold Gore and Bill Clinton was William Jefferson Clinton
  • Alabama: "Homestate of JimboWales."
  • Country music: only lists Pete Seeger and Peter, Paul and Mary and Garth Brooks (twice)
  • Delaware: "A state made famous by the movie WaynesWorld."
  • Kansas State University talk page
  • Horror Film only listed two: Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream
  • Old Iowa article links the entertainer Dick Clark instead of the much less famous Iowa senator by the same name
  • The first "List of comedians" only had Groucho Marx, Marx Brothers, and George Carlin
  • first Latvia article called it "small and nice country in EasternEurope"
  • first Gangsta rap article's writer clearly loved Ice T haha
  • Earth
  • Europe: "Contintent stretching from the NorthSea and the AtlanticOcean in the west to the UralMountains in the east. From the MediteraineanOcean in the south to the north pole. Contains all the following countries: SwedeN, DenmarK, FinlanD, EstoniA, some more" (spells continent wrong, only lists four countries, misclassifies Mediterranean Sea as ocean, spells Mediterranean wrong)
  • Grunge Music: under “prominent bands,” the only two listed are “Mudhoney” and “NirvanaBand”
  • Hobbies: "I would love someone to give us a good definition of ''hobby''. Hobbies include: Collecting, Coin collecting, Stamp collecting, Gardening, Antiquing (what's the word?), Cooking of course, MuSic Etc."
  • Los Angeles: the only thing under "Places/Things of Interest" was "Hollywood"
  • Islands:
  • MammaMia: “An exclamation, meaning "Oh my gosh!" or something of that sort. This may be an ItalianLanguage expression, or perhaps only English-speaking people's fantasy of an ItalianLanguage expression, I do not know. Not to be confused with MammaLia, the order of Mammals in our Science area.  ;-)” – Jimbo
  • Mullet describes both the fish and the haircut.
  • Yogurt article didn’t exist til December 11 2002 which seems kinda late
  • Woman left a bit to be desired.
  • Back in 2001, Race (the human categorization) shared the same article as race (the competition of speed over distance).
  • The first version of the “Hobby” article (that we have on the servers) includes “Adding stuff to Wikipedia”
  • The entirety of the first Jennifer Aniston: "Jennifer Aniston is a wonderful woman and very beautiful.She is a one of the best 'Friends'"
  • First Mariah Carey from 2001 started with: "Woman with a beautiful voice (capable of spanning seven octaves). Sings pop music. She is one of the most talented, beautiful women out there today." And contained "Whilst she can surely sing, most of her songs are quite remarkably banal." Very opinionated!
    • The first Mariah Carey article in the old Reagle archives says "Chick with big t*ts and a hell of a voice (capable of spanning seven octaves). Still wonder why she uses her music to do such boring pop-music."
  • Macaroni in October 2001 started with the line, “Maccaroni is a fancy kind of pasta.”
  • The first N.W.A article in March 2001 (created by Jimbo, unless the server backup is incomplete) with the edit summary “Learning something new every day”
  • MuSic: "That which soothes the savage beast..."
  • Baywatch simply says “Pamela played CJ PARKER”
  • The second version of the BeeR article Jan 29 2001: said “after eight or nine pints, you may begin to a: fall asleep b: ThrowUp c: start a FiGht d: have CasualSex.”
  • The first version of MTV had a section for "MTV shows of note" which only listed Beavis and Butthead.
  • Before talk pages existed, when there were comments in the article itself: London, William Jefferson Clinton ("statements like "the most controversial Presidential Pardon in US history" should probably be left till more than 4 weeks after the event"), Thomas Edison
  • UuU lists the United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay. But not Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, or Uzbekistan
  • The very colorfully-written Warsaw article says “It is a phoenix that has risen repeatedly from the ashes of war.”
  • Wikimedia (Foundation) 's article in March 2003 (before WMF existed): "Wikimedia is an offshoot of Wikipedia first proposed by Daniel Ehrenberg (LittleDan). Instead of writing encyclopedia articles, users write articles about current events. Instead of writing NPOV, users write every point of view."
  • Wine: started with the quote: "Good wine is a necessity of life for me." -- ThomasJefferson

Articles that have existed for a surprisingly long time or a surprisingly short time

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  • The Balloon-Hoax article existed September 29, 2001, very early in the encyclopedia's history.
  • Biggest ball of twine has existed since 2005-04-28
  • I knew that early Wikipedia editors were (and kinda still are) academically-inclined hacker dudes, but it's crazy when you realize the article about mole day, created January 2002, is an entire year older than the article "hip hop music" and five years older than "fashion show"
  • there were months when wikipedia had an article about Mole Day (created January 2002), a fake holiday celebrated in chemistry class, but not Kolkata or hip hop music. Mole Day is five years older than fashion show!
  • Laid edges didn't exist until the end of 2023
  • Evil has been around a lot longer than Good
  • Wikipedia has had an article on beauty since 2001(well, sorta, the first version wasn't great...) but ugliness wasn’t added until 2016.

Essays and stuff to read

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  1. User:JPxG/All essays by size
  2. User:Tony1/How to improve your writing
  3. User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior
  4. Wikipedia:Writing about women
  5. User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article
  6. User:Ihcoyc/The problem of anti-supernatural bias
  7. User:SandyGeorgia/Achieving excellence through featured content
  8. User:Tony1/How to improve your writing

Discussions to check out

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If there were a podcast with 5 min episodes in which Wikipedia editors talked about one silly or interesting articles they'd written, here's who I would want to be on it:

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Interesting sentences

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  • In an RfA: “Support - Nancy impressed me with her (many) swift reverts of vandalism over at Bread clip, so I'm pleased to support her here. Cumulus Clouds” idk just an odd sentence lol.
  • Also, Fish and karate made shoe polish an FA. Another good sentence
  • “The seeds of compromise need to be watered and nurtured, not fried in hot oil for an afternoon snack!” - the Foreskin talk page

Images or graphics about TV or movies:

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Wikipedia articles

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Wikipedia editors who I think are cool and/or interesting

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  • User:MER-C appears to do some of the most thankless administrative work, like contributor copyright investigations and conflict of interest enforcement.
  • Risker’s userpage has a list of milestones. I like this one: “Orangemoody paid editing sockpuppetry investigation - a different kind of answer to "So what did you do last summer?””
  • User:The person who loves reading’s user page starts with: “Hi, everybody! I am an editor who loves reading.”
  • Grumpylawnchair’s userpage has a photo of a lawn chair captioned “Me chilling on a nice lawn.”
  • User:Shadow345110 grew, according to his userpage infobox, from 5’9 in 2023 to 5’10 in 2024
  • I'm sad I never got to meet Possibly but I like the section of his userpage called "New name: Possibly" that says: "Formerly ThatMontrealIP. Out of curiosity I looked up the account Possibly. It turned out that the account had only made two edits, fourteen years ago. That made it possible to usurp the account. Is this new name better than the old one? Possibly."
  • Shearonink’s userpage stars with “Sometimes...sometimes I find little articles and I feel sorry for them. So I try to fix them up and hope they stay around.” Has 9 GAs, 2 FAs, and tons of barnstars, many of which are for patiently helping newbies on IRC. My fav thing is that the barnstars they give out say “Congrats, it’s a….” and then in a smaller font “Wikipedia Good Article!!”
  • I like the old userpage of User:Miranda, where her list of interests include scrapbooking, university Greek life, America’s Next Top Model, law, and fashion. I like when Wikipedians proclaim interest in stereotypically feminine topics, mostly just because it doesn't seem to happen as much as it should. Her top-edited articles were Alpha Kappa Alpha, Seth MacFarlane, and list of Alpha Kappa Alpha members and she made 34k edits overall, mostly in 2007. Her last edit was in 2012 :(
  • MelanieN got a COI notice (automated, I hope) for changing a comma in the Donald Trump article because her name is close to Melania Trump. She is, however, not Melania Trump!
  • I like Guy Vandegrift not only for his contributions to science articles but also because his name sounds like a parody of a person who doesn’t know what they’re talking about (yet he seems to know what he's talking about).
  • Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Fruits is amazing. So many of the featured fruits were photographed by User:Iifar AKA Ivar Leidus, an Estonian railway engineer who was the subject of a Diff article in 2013. He joined Wikipedia in September 2011 after seeing banners on Estonian Wikipedia for the Wiki Loves Monuments contest.
  • User:Basket of Puppies is retired and their user page says “Don't get excited; I am only here to edit Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak.”
  • wholesome away message from Llywrch in 2006: I'll be away from Wikipedia until the end of May: it's not a Wikivacation, but a real tourist-style vacation involving travel, sun, sand & amusement parks. (I may stop by once or twice before then, but I'm not promising to respond to queries or even edit an article or talk page if I do.)"
  • the person who created an alt account on valentines day “in memory of one of his girlfriend" lol
  • At ScottishFinnishRadish’s RfA, after answering some questions, he wrote “every time I grab my wife's chromebook to answer these questions, rather than trying to do it on my phone, my wife says, 'Why don't you answer for your crimes, you Scottish Finnish Bitch!" She doesn't really understand what an RFA is, or what this discussion entails, but that line is absolutely hilarious and everyone needs a good chuckle in a discussion like this"
  • None of User:Aboutmovies’ 32 good articles are about movies, and neither is his career (attorney in Oregon). In contract, all of User:Rusted AutoParts’ 32 GAs are movies
  • User:Xwomanizerx wrote 32 GAs, almost all about Britney Spears.
  • User:Sims2aholic8 wrote 29 GAs between 2008 and 2024, literally all of them about Eurovision.
  • The userpage of User:NoD’ohnuts says “My real name is Ryan and I am a high schooler in Kansas, the state. And I know what your thinking a high schooler with a wikipedia account. NEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDD! Well...your partly right.” What’s amazing is that he has 33 Good Articles, mostly about episodes of The Simpsons and The Office.
  • Many Wikipedians run their own websites. The admin Nick Moyes runs a livestream of peregrine falcons in a Derby Cathedral. Unrelatedly, he also made the first Flora of Derbyshire book since 1969. Stamp-focused editor Stan Shebs maintains StampData.com, a resource he says has 744,000 stamps so far and hosts many of his stamp-related WP articles, even the deleted ones (like "List of people on the postage stamps of Zambia", "List of people on the postage stamps of Eswatini" etc). Dan Koehl, a Swedish elephant trainer in Cambodia, joined Wikipedia in 2002 and created the elephant encyclopedia in 2005, User:Kbdank71 ran a site called "The Opinionated Beer Page" Editor Nigelj maintains a sailing site. User:IagoQnsi documents sports history on sportsarchive.net
  • VictorianMutant “Dated a girl about 5 years ago who was an administrator, so I know a little about wikiculture.”
  • Kingoflettuce, who I met at a conference, has had a “Potato production in x” habit, like Potato production in Cambodia, Potato production in China, Potato production in Nigeria, Potato production in Zimbabwe. He also wrote the MrBeast article in 2018 which gets crazy traffic these days!
  • User:Wizardman did a 2013 Reddit AMA, and wrote that saw and enjoyed the Colbert bit that made fun of his username (it was June 4 2009 and the joke was like "good thing the arbitration committee is full of people that sound trustworthy like wizardman" or something). Colbert also mentioned Carcharoth, Newyorkbard, and Wizardman.“Spat my drink out first time I watched it,” he wrote.
  • Jpgordon apparently was the lead trumpet in the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo for a couple of years in the '70s and is the cousin of Eddie Carmel (a "Jewish giant" with an interesting Wikipedia article!)
  • Mike Godwin, Wikimedia Foundation's former lawyer who is the namesake of Godwin's law and the guy that popularized the term "internet meme"!

Cool username info

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  • User:Voice of Clam’s username was inspired by a typo in a church sheet (“Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, oh still small voice of clam)
  • Ice Welder’s username was inspired by Wikihow's "How to Make a Unique Username" article (“Try using two favorites from different categories. For instance, if you love ice hockey and creating art out of scrap metal, you might become "IceWelder.”)
  • Another username explanation that tickled me: Dora the Axe-plorer, who has written dozens and dozens of earthquake articles as well as Seoul Halloween crowd crush, wrote that he chose his username because he used to like Dora The Explorer but then started watching slasher films.
  • User:78.26 wrote "From whence does this humorless numerical handle originate? It is the precise speed of most high-speed phonograph records (commonly called "78s") in North America." Oh, of course!
  • Infrogmation, a part-time trombone player (and radio host, and jazz writer, etc) has had an account since 2002 and says he chose his username because “after I wore a frog costume for Mardi Gras, some people called me ‘Froggy’”
  • “Hello, I'm Relativity (the Wikipedian, not the concept.)” said the user Relativity.
  • “Hello! I'm Roundish. It's pronounced like 'Potato'". -Roundish's user page.
  • "My username's kind of stupid (I was 13 or so when I made it), but I can't really think of anything to change it to." -ThePlatypusofDoom
  • Joke by FourViolas about the username FourViolas: "So, this violist is coming home from a gig (that's not the joke). He stops to get some groceries, and as he's standing in the checkout line he realizes, to his horror, that he parked under a streetlight and left his viola on the back seat in plain view! He drops his bags and sprints outside, but it's too late: somebody has already smashed the back window and thrown in three more violas."
  • A user called “power” failed a request for adminship.
  • User:Supercool Dude. Joined in 2004 and has an interesting and unusual userpage with lots of info. “Everyone keeps asking Supercool Dude, how he got his screenname. One day in 1963, his father bought their family their very first Air Conditioner. That Summer it was very hot outside and he walked up to the huge A/C and turned the machine on super cool and he stood there cooling off and said out loud, "I am one super cool dude!”.
  • "Hi, I'm Peter aka Shirt58. My username comes from the field hockey shirt I was allocated some while ago. Yes, men do play field hockey. And Tasmania is not a fictional place."

Wikipedian signatures I think are cool:

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Real sentences that were written

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  • "The seeds of compromise need to be watered and nurtured, not fried in hot oil for an afternoon snack!" - the Foreskin talk page
  • "it brings a whole new meaning to the term 'jerkin' the gherkin'" - the “Pickle fetish” AfD
  • ...I say bring on the bird turd! Sounds like a good example to me. --AndyKali on talk page of Pareidolia.
  • "Walls are often seen in popular culture" - the "Walls in popular culture" section of the Wall article

Cool redirects

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Diagrams that kinda look like they were made in MS Paint

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Wikipetan

Wikipede books
The real me by Achraf Baznani
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