#Microblog Monday 346: Usual Wikipedia
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There is an Instagram account that pulls out nuggets from lesser-read Wikipedia pages. A case in point: crab mentality. Or Buffalo buffalo buffalo. (For that one, I had to go to the full Wikipedia page to understand it.)
We recently told the twins about the joy of turning to random pages in the World Book encyclopedia, but I’m not sure how well it competes against today’s Wikipedia with 6,281,779 articles. Nevermind, I looked it up. 17,000 articles in 2019.
Wikipedia has a feature to randomly send you to an article. I got Umtentweni. What did you get?
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You find the coolest things. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the Buffalo thing—the pic on the insta post helped a lot. I don’t currently have instagram and I’m loathe to add a new time-waster to my phone but if I did, I’d definitely add that lesser-known Wikipedia site, its cool 🙂
I got some weird beetle on the random Wiki tab.
I got Basic Math, one of Atari’s original games in 1977. 🙂
I got Javi Navarro, a Spanish footballer. Then I tried again, and again once more, and got another footballer. Does this mean 2/3s of Wikipedia is footballers? Lol
I got Cristina Luca Boico, a Romanian communist activist. Interesting?!
LOL, Mali, I tried it again and got Hồ Tuấn Tài, a Vietnamese footballer!!
I got Preordered Class, which is a type of mathy thing in a mathy set and as soon as I saw “set” and “special cases” and realized it was higher order math, I started getting the shakes. HAHA. I have to look up your links after this, because I am dying to know what “crab mentality” is. The Buffalo thing sounds like it’s going to twist my mind.
I am totally going to use “crab mentality” from now on. And I CAN’T USE BUFFALO AS A VERB! That was nuts. The full page definitely clears it up!