This week sees the 10th Birthday of Wikipedia. From the humble beginnings of its first edit “Hello World”, a test by founder Jimmy Wales, to being one of the biggest website in the world, Wikipedia has been on quite a journey. I thought it would be a good opportunity on this landmark occasion to look the amusing forgotten pages of Wikipedia that didnt make the cut into the 3,529,000 English pages. I have picked my favourites of the list of bizarre Wikipedia pages people have created and where possible written what they wanted to say.
Science/Health
Potato Coma – “…when a digestive system, that is use to potatos eaten regularly, has a lack of potatoes.”
Paper: The fat free chocolate
Shoes and Degenerative Diseases
Squirrels and booze
MASSIVE TRAFFIC CONE SHAPED ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE
Oscillating penguin of ultimate seduction
Homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck – Was referring to an IgNobel Prize winning study
Why not to sleep in a bamboo forest? – Single sentence. “Because the bamboo will grow through you… resulting in Death.”
Aeroneurophycosis – “in which the sufferer developes a sexual atraction to aircraft”
Religion
The belief that a cosmic jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity – Was a redirect to Christianity.
Jesus built the Pyramids
Judaism and bus stops
Pope Hamster
Politics
The Smurfs and Communism
United States Senate Special Committee on Bondage
List of convicted drunk drivers who have become President of the United States – Page contained one item “George W Bush”
Just plain random…
Buildings Elvis has left – A rather long list of places
CheeseCheeseCheese
Don’t Move your Panda
There are hundreds of these online and there are many more funny ones up there, going through the discussions on the pages on whether or not to deleted them is a very interesting thing to do! Who knows what will be up there in the next 10 years…
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