Monday, May 9, 2016

Wikipedia's Directory of Unusual and Odd Articles

If you're in search of finding and reading about unusual things, Wikipedia might help you out. The encyclopedia publishes odd and unusual information in one of their pages called "Unusual Articles".


There are over five million articles in the English Wikipedia. These are the ones that Wikipedians have identified as being a bit unusual. These articles are verifiable, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whimsical, or something you would not expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica. We should take special care to meet the highest standards of an encyclopedia with these articles lest they make Wikipedia appear idiosyncratic. […]

Via Big Think.

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