Wikipedia, the crowdsourced knowledge base that has become the go-to info source for eighth-graders and professionals alike, turns 15 today. Fifteen years! Can you even remember a time before Wikipedia? What did people even do? Pay for and then read books? Like a caveman? Yeesh.
In honor of Wikipedia’s quinceañera, we’re taking a page from the site’s famed list of lists of lists (and Fader’s annual Listmania) and creating some best-ofs.
Four Essential Lists
- List of sexually active popes
- List of animals with fraudulent diplomas
- List of inventors killed by their own inventions
- List of The Fast and the Furious characters
Three Entries That Should Be Edited Down, But I Hope They Never Are
- The synopsis for the music video for Maroon 5’s “She Will Be Loved”
- The list of memorable touchdown celebrations
- The entirely too-in-depth entry for Beyoncé’s “Schoolin’ Life”
One Entry That Should Never Be Edited Down
- List of changes in Star Wars rereleases
Best Wiki Entry About Wikipedia
- The entry for Seedfeeder, who illustrated dozens of sex acts
Three Best Images of Humans Interacting
- The old, now-replaced image for grinding
- The pair acting out a “too slow” high-five
- This guy getting pied
Five Great Wikipedia Hoaxes
- Reich Corps of the Trombone
- Amelia Bedelia was based on a maid from Cameroon
- The Bicholim Conflict
- Jar’Edo Wens
- Wander Donkey for the Nintendo DS
Seven Ridiculous Excerpts, As Presented by Citation Needed
