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(Wired) Spiffy Jan. 15, 2001: The "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" is invented by Thomas Edison and Malcolm Jamal-Warner. Happy 15th Birthday, Wikipedia   (wired.com) divider line 187
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jake_lex [TotalFark] 2008-01-14 11:04:57 PM  
[Citation needed]

 
AntiNorm [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 12:12:51 AM  
submitter: Happy 15th Birthday, Wikipedia

Somebody missed a few of their first grade math classes, it seems...

 
azmoviez [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 12:18:52 AM  
AntiNorm: Somebody missed a few of their first grade math classes, it seems...

Sorry you missed the joke(s). Great headline.

 
jiyuu_musouka 2008-01-15 12:19:15 AM  
img242.imageshack.us

 
King Something [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 12:28:59 AM  
This post is a stub. You can help Fark by expanding it.

 
radish042 [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-01-15 12:37:54 AM  
+1!

/who am I kidding, +2!
//damn near fell out of my chair laughing at the mental picture
///was sad to find out that wiki has no entry for "jammin on the one"

 
BKITU [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 12:39:02 AM  
No, Wikipedia was invented by Albert Einstein and JASON SUCKS CAWK!11!!1!

 
R.A.Danny [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 12:41:03 AM  
Took me a second..... Ha!

 
Sussman [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 01:06:57 AM  
It is well known that Wikipedia was behind 9/11.[1]

 
NeauxFear [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 01:09:20 AM  
radish042: ///was sad to find out that wiki has no entry for "jammin on the one"

jam
jamjamjammin
jammin on the one

*snert*

 
gilbyguy [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 01:22:37 AM  
Great headline!!!!!!

 
veale728 [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 01:28:39 AM  
Sussman: [1]

I should have known better than to click on that

 
slackist [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 01:32:44 AM  
+1, nicely done submitter

 
quadropheniac 2008-01-15 02:04:35 AM  
I'd like a moment of silence in this thread for the brave men we lost in the Upper Peninsula War.

/happy birthday, Wikipedia!

 
radish042 [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-01-15 02:08:25 AM  
NeauxFear:
jam
jamjamjammin
jammin on the one

*snert*


yay, someone gets it. so it turns out wiki has no entry, but urbandictionary does. go fig.

 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 03:42:58 AM  
AntiNorm: Somebody missed a few of their first grade math classes, it seems...

Epic failure.

 
And-1 2008-01-15 04:43:21 AM  
Most excellent headline, submitter. Golf clap!

 
Two Dogs Farking [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 05:17:12 AM  
AntiNorm: Somebody missed a few of their first grade math classes, it seems...

Whoa, a 4-digit Fark ID and that one went right over your head? Looks like you need to get some more sleep, pal.

 
CheekyMunky [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 05:35:37 AM  
AntiNorm should read this and then revisit the headline.

 
slackist [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 06:19:28 AM  
CheekyMunky: AntiNorm should read this and then revisit the headline.

From TLA: said speaker Tim Capodice, who has edited hundreds of Wikipedia entries on subjects as diverse as Euclidian geometry and Ratfarking.


heehee

 
mdfitzsimmons 2008-01-15 06:54:19 AM  
Malcolm Jamal-Warner. What an obscure reference. I loved him as the blind guy on star trek.

 
medius [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 07:00:04 AM  
i'll drink to that

 
Scaryduck 2008-01-15 07:01:17 AM  
Happy birthday Wikipedia, says former Wikipedia entry, deleted for being (and I quote) a 'non-notable journalist'.

It's not the deletion. It's the 'non-notable' bit.

 
bonecows 2008-01-15 07:07:07 AM  
Subby wins!

img185.imageshack.us

/...and owes me a new keyboard.

 
Merus 2008-01-15 07:08:16 AM  
Wikipedia's definition of 'notable' is 'we found a piece of paper with their name on it'. If they're a staff writer and most of their articles are online, they'll be 'non-notable', but that doesn't stop every Buffy episode from getting its own entry.

 
Heterodyne 2008-01-15 07:10:42 AM  
Wikipedia is the victim of its own success.

 
phillydrifter 2008-01-15 07:19:31 AM  
i36.photobucket.com

"hoo doo puddin' la dee da"

/piss poor imitation of the coz
//but the cosby show rocked when i was a kid

 
Balchinian 2008-01-15 07:19:32 AM  
Teh headline...it is full of WIN.

/BTW, Malcolm Jamal Warner was not the blind guy on Star Trek. He was the guy in Police Academy who made all the funny noises with his mouth. He is also the great-grandson of one of the original Warner Brothers.

//And Wikipedia was actually not incented by Ediaon or Warner, but by...John Lovitz! Yeah, that's the ticket!

 
supernaturaltoe 2008-01-15 07:21:26 AM  
NeauxFear: radish042: ///was sad to find out that wiki has no entry for "jammin on the one"

jam
jamjamjammin
jammin on the one

*snert*


I came here for that.

Bless.

 
leftoverbacon 2008-01-15 07:25:39 AM  
The neutrality of this thread is highly suspect. I would recommend that we revert to a prior submission and lock the thread until we can come to a consensus or find more accurate sources.

 
ederosia 2008-01-15 07:26:16 AM  
+1 subby

 
sgtbarthel 2008-01-15 07:28:03 AM  
Thank you Subby. I lol'ed....hard!

 
clown-freak 2008-01-15 07:33:53 AM  
hee-hee, ho-ho , ha-ha!
Thanks Subby :)

/+1

 
AaaPha 2008-01-15 07:36:37 AM  
AntiNorm: Somebody missed a few of their first grade math classes, it seems...

I don't do this often but...

Pet peeve?

Sorry.

 
bighairyguy [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 07:37:06 AM  
You know who else liked to spread mis-information.

 
An tSaoi 2008-01-15 07:37:15 AM  
i232.photobucket.com

 
LemSkroob 2008-01-15 07:37:54 AM  
AntiNorm: submitter: Happy 15th Birthday, Wikipedia

Somebody missed a few of their first grade math classes, it seems...


Hey everyone, let's point and laugh!

i26.photobucket.com

 
Dead-Guy 2008-01-15 07:37:56 AM  
Hmm.. I thought Florida trumped all other tags.

Ohh.. that's right, you want to use it as a source, so the fact it's in Florida is supposed to be a secret.

"Well of COURSE I'm right, here, let's see what the folks in FloriDUH have to say about it..."

 
TheAbstractor [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 07:38:34 AM  
Fark.com

History

Originally, the web server on Drew Curtis's fark.com domain contained no content except for an image of a squirrel with large testicles (however, since the site redesign on April 25, 2007, all references to this large-testicled squirrel have been removed, with the exception of the 404 error page[1]).

 
DjangoStonereaver [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 07:39:59 AM  
Great! Now all google search results for pages that were
cut-and-pasted from one another can all be summarized on one page!

/At least its pretty authoritative for technology, porn and anime.

 
cryinoutloud [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 07:41:54 AM  
I hardly ever look at Wikipedia, but some of those up-to-the-minute edits are priceless.

 
Johnny Mash 2008-01-15 07:43:08 AM  
Top headline, great replies. I'm going to just skip having a small keyboard-wrecking laughing accident. I will now resign to the fact it is going to need replacing by the Subby, and simply unplug it and back over it with the car, as is fitting of it. BBL.

/a0e9f3c000000000000

 
shelledpanda 2008-01-15 07:47:31 AM  
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information.

 
Snowberry Tart 2008-01-15 07:47:39 AM  
>(Reverting possible vandalism by XX.XXX.XXX.XXX to version by XX.XXX.XX.XXX. False positive? report it. Thanks, User:ClueBot. (156692) (Bot))
== History ==
- No, John. You are the wombat. And then John was a marsupial.
== Ecology and behavior ==

 
dittybopper [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-01-15 07:54:02 AM  
DjangoStonereaver: Great! Now all google search results for pages that were
cut-and-pasted from one another can all be summarized on one page!

/At least its pretty authoritative for technology, porn and anime.


It is actually pretty good for a lot of things: Non-controversial history (ie., want to know who commanded U-123 in WWII?), it's great for looking up pure science stuff (What is a quasar?), and as you said for technology and such.

 
Bathroom Gumshoe 2008-01-15 07:56:33 AM  
This headline made me laugh out loud and type full words.

 
velmacruz 2008-01-15 07:58:06 AM  
Malcom Jaml Warner's most famous moment was when he said "... by any means necessary."

 
mialynneb [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-01-15 07:59:37 AM  
That is damn funny, submitter!

 
Zmog [TotalFark] 2008-01-15 07:59:57 AM  
Allow me to genuflect mildly in venerable submitter's general direction.

 
RoyBatty 2008-01-15 08:01:32 AM  
The wikipedia is shiat and should be nuked from orbit. Great headline!

 
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