User:Crunchydillpickle/cool

Here's an incomplete list of links I like:

Funny requests
recent changes map
User:Bahamut0013 had a blog about odd Wikipedia articles
User:The Midnite Wolf/List of pages featured on Depths of Wikipedia
User:Jorge Stolfi/Templates that I sorely miss old templates!!
User:Carrite good userpage lots of old wp lore
User:Largoplazo#Telltale signs of candidates for deletion
User:Ritchie333/Euphemisms
why is Tartan sooo long lol (at least as of april 20 when i'm writing this)
Wikipedia:Queen Elizabeth slipped majestically into the water
Wikipedia:Before they were notable -- AOC, Spotify, plenty of things that were deleted from Wikipedia
Wikipedia:How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
Editor of the Week/Hall of Fame
User:Vami IV/Completionism
User:Ihcoyc#Favourite quotes from the Wikipedia has odd out-of-context snippets
The Periodic Table of Wikipedia shows the MANY wikipedia acronyms that happen to also be chemical elements
User:No Swan So Fine has been writing articles for almost twenty years, and their section of "interesting things" is full of things that are, indeed, interesting! Also it's fun to find people who's that experienced and still has such a high percentage of edits in the article space.
there is a disambiguator hall of fame!
User:HaeB/Timeline of distributed Wikipedia proposals
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Weekly_News prediction of the year 2022 that kinda wasn't that far off?
User:WhatamIdoing/Editors are people expected mental health stats
overly detailed plot summary of the boys are back in town
Category:Members of the Twenty Year Society of Wikipedia editors
A rare instance of humor in articles: Bracket#Uses of ( )
Wikipedia:Oversight logo
Wikipedia:Red link/History of the example red link
User:Raul654/Raul's laws
User talk:Shock Brigade Harvester Boris#Ray's Rules
User:Phaedriel/Soundtrack of Wikipedians
Wikipedia:High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors first paragraph of this made me smile
The featured article on April 1, 2021 (specifically "Recently featured" section)
Observations about Wikipedia by MastCell and Antandrus and Wikipedia:Things that should not be surprising
Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard. Idk just the fact that this is present on the encyclopedia.
Wikipedia:Press coverage 2023 is useful if you enjoy wikihistory
User:JackofOz/Favourites. there's something very delightful and charming about the people who dutifully stick to NPOV in articlespace and but pour tons of POV into their userpage! also he has Favourites#Words
Ways people have tried to destroy Wikipedia!
User:Milowent/BigBangWikipedia the first five days of wikipedia
User:Bilorv/Challenges#Rock around the clock
Wikipedia:Village stocks
User:Clovermoss/Editor reflections
When the WMF legal team had a tiger mascot named Rory (https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rory_(WMF)
Joke Machine.
User:Graham87/Personal Wikipedia timeline I like when people reflect on their time editing!
User:HostBot/Social media traffic report is often interesting
This DYK review for "Big Cocks"
2004 proposal for WikiPorn
Commons:Photo_challenge in December 2022 with the theme "Breaking_the_rules"
Voldemort is blocked
Lots of stuff that User:I dream of horses likes is very interesting to me too
EEng's user page
Signpost articles by author (for some reason I can never find this link)
Wikipedia_talk:List_of_Wikipedians_in_order_of_arrival/Archive_1
toolhub (there are 3000 tools!)
browsing recent queries on quarry
User talk:Rebert, Roger Ebert's userpage. One of his 25 edits includes an addition to Inherently funny word
the redirects from emoji searches
All human knowledge essay by Emijrp
User:Geni/The unreasonably difficult photo contest
User:Benjamin Mako Hill/List of animals that are also verbs
User:Benjamin Mako Hill/List of unintentionally offensive product names
User:Geni/citing encyclopedias
Wikipedia:Wikipedia_has_more... another similar one: "Among the significant problems that aren’t getting resolved is the site’s skewed coverage: its entries on Pokemon and female porn stars are comprehensive, but its pages on female novelists or places in sub-Saharan Africa are sketchy." from MIT Media Review in 2013
this 2007 something awful article about "Wikigroaning" hasn't totally stood the test of time, but sort of.
In August 2006, a Wikipedia article on the iPhone was deleted after discussion.
enwiki's 666,666,666th article was SatanCon
User:Dronebogus/True facts about Wikipe-tan
an important typo fix on the Jack Kerouac talk page
the one person with emoji username is Chad; a long confusing username that was ultimately allowed after RfC, darknipples and itchyjunk, the list of RfCs about usernames
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Please_consider_being_more_concise_so_as_not_to_confuse_other_parties_in_your_intentions_and_to_avoid_misunderstandings_as_multiple_remarks_in_a_conversation_typically_are_more_fruitful_than_a_single_long_post_that_will_feel_more_like_a_monologue%EF%BC%BB%E2%80%A6%EF%BC%BD
Wikipedia:Featured sentences
Wikipedia:Notability (mailboxes)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/31999998, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/99999999 ("Another large and not particualrly notable number. ARRGH!") Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117068, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/3.14, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leviathan number
Commons "Wikimedia_servers_by_location" is what wikipedia looks like
Ooh, BarrelProofs unusual capitalization in names section
User:Bilorv/Challenges! these are so fun! I particularly like rock around the clock ("Make an edit in each of the 168 hours of the week"), and ambiguation ("Create two articles that have the same title except for parentheticals")

First versions of articles that are humorously incomplete:

Beauty
Fetus
fly
Ant
Titanic film
Archimedes includes a note to add the "eureka thing"
Kansas State University talk page
Old Iowa article accidentally says Dick Clark was a senator
The first "List of comedians" had only three items: Groucho Marx, Marx Brothers, and George Carlin
first Latvia article called it "small and nice country in EasternEurope"
first Gangsta rap article's writer clearly loved Ice T haha
Earth

Articles that have existed for a surprisingly long time or a surprisingly short time

The Balloon-Hoax article existed September 29, 2001, very early in the encyclopedia's history.
Biggest ball of twine has existed since 2005-04-28
I knew that early Wikipedia editors were (and kinda still are) academically-inclined hacker dudes, but it's crazy when you realize the article about mole day, created January 2002, is an entire year older than the article "hip hop music" and five years older than "fashion show"
there were months when wikipedia had an article about Mole Day (created January 2002), a fake holiday celebrated in chemistry class, but not Kolkata or hip hop music. Mole Day is five years older than fashion show!
Laid edges didn't exist until the end of 2023

Essays and stuff to read

Discussions to check out

long discussions about Clippy

edit summary from the goatse article about whether or not a cantaloupe was involved

If there were a podcast with 5 min episodes in which Wikipedia editors talked about one silly or interesting articles they'd written, here's who I would want to be on it:

Lightburst talking about Beaver drop
Daniel Case talking about Action Park
Jengod talking about Andrew Johnson's drunk vice-presidential inaugural address
Sammi Brie talking about all the radio/tv stations in North America
Premeditated Chaos on Alexander McQueen
Gobonoboon on Parachuting animals or Pep (dog) or one of their other cool animal-related articles
User:Fig ureskatingfan on Sesame Street or figure skating or both

Images or graphics about TV or movies:

Halloween (franchise)#/media/File:Halloween Film Franchise Continuity.svg

Wikipedia articles

95 year old guy who makes weird sexual inventions
List of superlative trees
Category:Novelty and fad dances
List of hypothetical technologies
List of food and beverage museums (I want to go to all of them)
Frances Northcutt
List of obsolete technology
Guy who made self portraits as his dementia progressed
all the stunts Mark Malkoff did
Nebraska Admiral- triple landlocked state with historical Admiral program lol
Reuel Abraham first former Nazi to convert to Judaism
Dale Webster guy who surfed for 15,000 days straight
Matt Farley the guy who gives out his phone and answers it, wrote 24k songs
Timothy Dexter and Jørgen Jørgensen
Marie Tharp! just a cool lady
Smack dab in the center of the United States is a town called Joes, Colorado, named because many early settlers were named Joe
the sentence "Despite its name, the dish is not Mongolian and is only loosely related to barbecue" from Mongolian barbecue
Elizabeth Lee (writer), 19th century encyclopedia writer
Geraldine Doyle, who convinced everyone she was the model for Rosie the Riveter. It was actually (probably) Naomi Parker

Wikipedia editors who I think are cool

User:Anna Frodesiak's beautifully designed userpage :)
User:The wub's userpage
I like hearing the story of how articles got written, so I appreciate that Samwalton9 says "Think I have RSI from writing this in one go" about List of Honest Trailers episodes (though I hope his hands are okay?!??!)
User:Longhairadmirer's 17-year commitment to editing articles about long hair
User:Frankonno says he is Eva Braun's cousin????
User:Claude A. R. Kagan's very crochety userpage (he was foundational to the field of computing!)
User:AaronSw/Things without names Aaron Schwartz will forever be one of the Wikipedia greats and his "things without names" user subpage makes my heart ache
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciaal:Bijdragen/Diamant dutch editor who made 12,000 edits between the ages of 8 and 13, only stopping because he died of type 2 spinal muscular atrophy
User:Gmaxwell, who has given Wikipedia the adminship map, also developed the opus audio codec and the bitcoin protocol. his website lists some of his acomplishments ( "discovered a faster constant-time algorithm for computing a greatest common divisor" in 2021) and hobbies ("communicating by bouncing signals off the ionization trails left by meteors"). I think this is cool!
User:ToBeFree made a t-shirt with the css of their userpage
User:Lee Daniel Crocker, one of the MediaWiki programmers: "After the software had been running on my piclab.com server for a while and tested by the community, I installed the software on what was then Wikipedia's single server, named "pliny" after Pliny the elder. I later named Wikipedia's second server "larousse", following in the historical-encyclopedists line. Today, this software (now known as Mediawiki), has been expanded by dozens of other authors to the point where there's very little of my own code left. After my software enabled it, I was the first to add sound samples to Wikipedia, in the articles for The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel."
User:Jmabel, one of the Wikiepdia, old timers. and his self portrait!
Chilscout's Commons userpage just says "in depth knowledge of door closers, especialiy Powermatic concealed door closers" and their enwiki contribs are all related to door closing. they uploaded this awesome picture of flames
I like that User:Jeanne boleyn lists her favorite things, and her family tree, and dozens of bad pickup lines she has received lol
Lucy Ozarin was born in 1914, became a psychiatrist, served in WWII, and spent her late 90s writing about psychiatrists for Wikipedia
User:Peaceray has a section on his userpage "Why I edit Wikipedia" which discusses some of his early research interests. History of coffeehouses! 19th century vegetarianism in the United States! I like when people share what got them started.
User:Jengod, a "SAHM of four who writes encyclopedia articles on her phone while waiting to pick up the kids, etc"
When User:Mitchazenia chooses arbitrarily long, unusually specific lengths of time to block people
User:LunaEatsTuna's userpage has different versions in the web design style of different years!
User:TonyTheTiger's userpage is full of tigers
User:Dicklyon
User:Mstyslav_Chernov/ is an Academy Award winning documentary director with tons of wikimedia commons uploads.
User:Guy M... Vegas guy "known primarily for once having a Dodge Ram 1500 extended cab for a taxicab."
ok i think it's interesting that Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign communications director has an account lol User:Joedesantis
User:CoronalMassAffection who writes almost exclusively about the sun
Special:Contributions/Freya Lorelei -- never interacts with anyone, edits about hamsters for like 4 hours at a time
User:Stone, German chemist who is slowly turning the periodic table green
User:Karen Johnson is an Australian woman who created TONS of Wikipedia's most important articles back in 2003ish
User:Apokryltaros makes art of sea creatures
I like that Premeditated chaos describe their editing as "A process of leapfrogging hyperfixations has led to an interest in the goddesses of Georgian mythology, Inuit clothing, and obscure fashion articles, however." relatable
User:Queen of Hearts userpage's photo caption joke
User:Dispenser cool userpage with ASCII art wikipedia globe!
I like Doctree's userpage (specifically the squirrel story and Microsoft-bashing)
User:The Rambling Man -- inspiring and positive user page
Pbsouthwood, a guy surveying dive sites of Cape Town for WikiVoyage
First guy to reach 1 million edits, User:Koavf
amazing arthropod illustrator
MoviesandTelevisionFan who makes tons of articles about US politicians despite not speaking great English
person who only edits about cats :) SilverTiger12
User:Wilhelmina Will who has made a metric bazillion articles about beetles
User:Fylbecatulous's userpage is written in LOLCat language
photographers David Shankbone and gage skidmore and Evan Amos!
All the monochromatic editors, including Orange Mike (I think it's funny he was the one who blocked the username 2Dudes1Laptop
drop down menu of mental disorders (iconic) and lurid details of dog's death User:Shadow345110
Category:Wikipedians_who_are_indefinitely_blocked_for_a_violation_of_the_username_policy
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/HerB104&ilshowall=1 person who uploads drawings of people for French Wikipedia when "fair use" doesn't cut it
User:Flagvisioner visualizes flags
people who make those timelines of band members. one is NebulaGRILLZ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tetrarch_(band)&diff=prev&oldid=1022222756
Slgrandson writes most of the Care Bears-related articles!!
Kacper Surdy, a 20-year-old economics student at Durham University in England, who got a big Politico writeup for his social media corrections regarding the US congress. The article says that people thought he was AI and that he “frequently runs circles around veteran congressional experts”. He also has a Wikipedia account where he has made more than 2600 edits, mostly about US Congress
special:contributions/217.168.172.202, a user with more than 5,000 contributions between June and October 2002 who only got one message addressed to them (this was spotted by Graham87 and I took it from his userpage)
Sethant, who has been editing since December 20, 2003 and by the end of the month completed his goal of getting all executed prisoners in the U.S. since 1976, by state
User:DavidWBrooks, a 21-year Wikipedia veteran whose userpage says "I am a newspaper reporter in New Hampshire. (I am not the NY Times' David Brooks.)"
User:Vladyreaper is extremely focused on the niche but surprisingly complex topic of slalom canoeing
cool that User:ParkerHiggins gave the talk "Vegetation Wants To Be Free" about the images from Pomological Watercolor Collection
User:Figureskatingfan and her very patient, thorough, and rather profound answer to the question "where is sesame street". She's the one to thank for Wikipedia's coverage of female saints, Sesame Street, Maya Angelou's work, and yes, figure skating!
User:~delta is a Virginia high schooler who writes about Korean roller coasters!
I love the old userpage of Jivesh Boodhun, the guy from Mauritious who wrote 34 GAs and two FAs about Beyonce-related topics
Chris huh uploaded all 168 of those “size compared to an average human” illustrations in the articles for marine mammals such as narwhal
User:Daniel Quinlan's yearcard has a 20 year split! he took a break (mostly) between 2003 and 2023
User:Hitcher vs. Candyman/Articles created and User:The Film Creator this person, who has had two accounts, has created 1400 articles about films and counting! barely interacts with anyone. I'm curious what they are like IRL :-)
The Swedish-American doctor Mikael Häggström who uploads medical images from consenting patients. A volume-rendered CT scan gif of a woman 37 weeks pregnant (a featured picture!), computer tomography of the human brain (a featured picture!), a CT scan of a 73-year-old woman's accessory spleen, a wiggling 9-week-old embryo is in the fetal movement article, hip bone metastases in a 60-year-old woman with cancer, and so many more. He also created the article Everything which must be fun to brag about. And he gently explained to a concerned viewer of one of his brain pictures why it was so blue. (the anonymous person replied "This really does mean a lot to me, somehow it put my mind at ease :)) I appreciate it! <3". Wholesome!) Also, he uploaded a bunch of x-rays of his own bones.
One editor with very unconventional contribs is This lousy T-shirt whose edits are almost entirely adding welcome messages to new users with Hebrew usernames
I love when Wikipedia editors with great contributions in a particular niche get into programs/jobs in that niche. There are probably tons of examples, but the only one I can think of now is User:Katolophyromai AKA Spencer McDaniel, who has edited articles about ancient cultures as a high schooler in Kokomo (literally), college student studying Ancient Greek and Roman, and now grad student
User:Wilfredor on commons, aka The Photographer, who vectorizes stuff for people! Great bio too
User from Nepal whose constant food uploads include A_Banana.jpg, Buffalo_Milk_.jpg, Green_tea_that_look_brown.jpg, the rather cursed-looking Banana_Syrup.jpg, and many more
User:Agne27, the woman who has written more than 800 articles about wine!
I learned, thanks to Jengod, about the California-area mycologist/Wikipedian Alan Rockefeller. More than his 2000 of his photos are used on Wikipedia to illustrate obscure fungi and small weird plants (and scorpions he finds under rocks and photographs under UV light)
There's something endearing about the editors, usually old-timers, who treat their userspace like a blog. User:Greg L is one example. Another is User:Tomwsulcer(archived link) who has sections like "The problem with Canada," "The Palin-Revere brouhaha," "Fixing the US Constitution".

Wikipedian signatures I think are cool:

The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite
'''The 🏎 Corvette 🏍 ZR1'''^{(The Garage)}
Clovermoss🍀 (talk)
Joyous! Noise!
🌿MtBotany (talk)
AstonishingTunesAdmirer 連絡
Star Mississippi
She was ^afairy
AddWittyNameHere
Kurt Rencel (Zirukurt01)✉
𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱
Versace1608 (Talk)
INeverCry
Itcouldbepossible^Talk
Me Three (talk to me)
YellowMonkey (bananabucket)
SPLETTE :] ^{How's my driving?}
←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→
spin^control
Dusti^SPEAK!!
NerdyScienceDude (✉ • ✐)
A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire - past ops)
Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Many otters • One hammer • HELP)}
Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today}
Megan B.... ^{It’s all coming to me} till the end of time
Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} (which actually goes to a page to name his baby lol?!)

Cool redirects

List of dogs with fraudulent diplomas redirects to List of animals awarded human credentials
Banana_Song_(Minions) redirects to Barbara Ann lol
Science Guy (used to?) redirect to Bill Nye

Diagrams that kinda look like they were made in MS Paint

Constitution of Japan#Organs of government (Articles 41–95)
Gantry (medical)#/media/File:Linac radiotherapy.png
STS-400#/media/File:STS400CT.svg
External ballistics#/media/File:How Forensic Investigators use the evidence from a shooting to locate bullet trajectory.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Precambrian_rabbit&oldid=1086724003 precambrian rabbit added by jim henderson!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bellatrix.jpg (confirmed made in paint haha)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Circular_breathing.jpg
Meiji Constitution#/media/File:Politics Under Meiji Constitution 02.svg
User:Theresa knott/image gallery these were made in ms word haha
the janky pic in Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Fetal alcohol syndrome

Wikipetan

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipetan_looking_for_references.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipe-tan_20090731-CIMG2037H.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipe-tan_on_the_haystack.png
They've overcome their differences and are enjoying each other's company.