Born on 15 January 2001, Wikipedia has forever changed the ways we consume knowledge as nothing was out of reach anymore. It made it possible to solve trivia if you had access to wifi, it made us consume thousands of random facts, names, dates and places we won’t ever need, it helped us to make a fierce impression on a first date, and served as a holy grail of all of our high school Powerpoint presentations.
Still today, it’s our go-to source for learning stuff we don’t even bother to double-check, and it’s the place you stumble across a whole Wikipedia page dedicated to the life of your random-ass neighbor.
But something as big and influential as our beloved digital encyclopedia has to have something so much more going on we don’t see. Luckily, thanks to the ‘Depths of Wikipedia’ Instagram page, we now are able to dive deep beneath that iceberg and see all the weird and wonderful things published on there. “Wikipedia is Weird!” states the page’s slogan, but trust me, it gets way weirder than that. Get your snorkels ready, we’re about to dive deep!
#1 This Is A Good One
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#2 In Protest, A Guy Made A 10 Hour Film Of Paint Drying Just To Force The Film Classification Committee To Watch It
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#3 Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
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#4 And They Were Roommates
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#5 We’re All Guilty Of That
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#6 Kafka
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#7 Planned Procrastination— When The Only Time You Can Find Motivation For A Task Is When You’re Under A Tight Deadline.
student Syndrome Has Similarities To Parkinson’s Law, The Old Adage That The Work Expands To Fill The Time Allotted (Save It Til The Last Minute And The Job Will Only Take A Minute)
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#8 Rigged, I Knew Josh Would Win
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#9 Relates To The Concept Of Automaticity: The Ability To Do Things Without Occupying The Mind With Low-Level Details
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#10 April Fools Lore
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#11 Obsessed With The Complexity Of The Chart On The Third Slide
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#12 This Is The Deepest Stuff I’ve Heard In A While
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#13 Filling My Exam Answers With Swag
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#14 Just Gals Being Pals
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#15 Just Like Crabs In A Bucket Block The Escape Attempts Of Other Crabs, People In A Group May Attempt To Sabotage The The Most Talented Group Member Out Of Envy And Spite
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#16 Dilbert Principle
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#17 When Incompetent People Can’t Understand Their Relative Incompetence
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#18 This Could Be Us
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#19 When A Thing/Concept/Word You Just Learned About Suddenly Seems To Crop Up Everywhere
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#20 In 2003, A High Schooler Named Mike Rowe Had His Website Cease-And-Desisted By Microsoft. Eventually, After Media Attention, The Tech Giant Gave Him A Settlement Including A Trip To Microsoft Tech Fest And An Xbox
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#21 Your Life Is A TV Show
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#22 Going Out With A Bit
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#23 The Popemobile
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#24 Young And Rebellious
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#25 Very Important Chart!!!in The Streets, In The Sheets, Etc.
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#26 Explained By Multiple Theories— Alcohol, Increased Familiarity (Mere Exposure Effect), And Having Fewer And Fewer Options (Commodity Effect)
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#27 Do Not Knit Your So A Sweater Without Making Them Sign A “Pre-Knitual Agreement!”
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#28 Are You In Your Prime? Single? This Is For You!!!
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#29 RIP Pluto 1930-2006
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#30 Dudes Rock
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