My favourite page on Wikipedia is the description of the ‘Lamest Edit Wars’<\/p>\n
https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars<\/p>\n
Wikipedia is a treasure trove of (very) dry humour about often very controversial topics. Normally, if you’re in a conversation about a controversial topic, you can step out, but not an encyclopedia, which is expected to have words on everything.<\/p>\n
You can see the workshopping that must have gone into it. I wonder if there are ways to detect the most workshopped phrases? To detect the ‘most controversial*’ parts of Wikipedia? (Although parsing the revision history may give you this.)<\/p>\n
“Both frequencies coexist today (Japan uses both) with no great technical reason to prefer one over the other[1] and no apparent desire for complete worldwide standardization.”<\/p>\n
https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Utility_frequency<\/p>\n
If you enjoyed the humour above, you may also enjoy (hattip to AM):<\/p>\n
https:\/\/github.com\/bup\/bup#things-that-are-stupid-for-now-but-which-well-fix-later<\/p>\n
And my favourite subreddit of them all:
\nhttps:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/notinteresting<\/p>\n
It is truly sublime, including such gems as:
\n“checking the radiator pipe cover”<\/p>\n