Wiki Rabbit Hole

[ExLight]

Do you ever find yourself in Wikipedia jumping from page to page? If so, how much time do you usually waste when you get caught up on those?
Have you ever learned anything cool from it? What was the last interesting page you visited?

A small thread dedicated to our favorite digital encyclopedia and its strange articles~

 

[Uwu_Oocoo2]

If you're ever bored, check out the Transformers Wiki. It's got the most insanely hilarious rabbit trails. There's a page for basically everything that appears in the show or comics, no matter how small. A comic book you see a kid reading in the background? Yes! Things that don't exist? Sure! An entire page on the backstory of Megatron's rubber ducky in Beast Wars? Absolutely!

 

[Morbid Minish]

Most wiki rabbit holes I go down end up being related to true crime. Like if I find a case that is particularly interesting and then I see related cases or whatever I'll keep going through those. Also the weird/mysterious wikis about strange and unexplained things that have happened through history. Usually those will lead to similar events or have a relation to some interesting phenomena/occurrence and can lead to some fun rabbit holes.

 

[thePlinko]

Something that I find interesting about Wikipedia rabbit holes is that if you go to any Wikipedia article, click on the first link you find that brings you to another article, and then continue to do so, you will always eventually end up on the article for philosophy.

 

[Mikey the Moblin]

Something that I find interesting about Wikipedia rabbit holes is that if you go to any Wikipedia article, click on the first link you find that brings you to another article, and then continue to do so, you will always eventually end up on the article for philosophy.

Not always

 

[thePlinko]

Not always

You’re right, It’s actually about 97% of the time, with the other 3% only happening because of things like broken links.

 

[Fraxinus]

That probably happens because of how the first couple lines of an article is usually structured similarly, when they're doing an overview of what the topic is. And usually one of the first things they mention is the field of study the topic is tied to, so you'll eventually end up with one that is tied to philosophy.

 

[Mikey the Moblin]

You’re right, It’s actually about 97% of the time, with the other 3% only happening because of things like broken links.

No, some pages form self contained loops with each other that exist outside the philosophy chain

 

[Chevywolf30]

I always found myself in a loop involving ancient Greece whenever I would always click the first link

 

[ExLight]

Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

thinking about Germany's labeling of beef today

 

[Dizzi]

Hours on them...