User:Crunchydillpickle/cool

General links

 * Reward board
 * Facebook directory
 * Principle of Some Astonishment is EEng's cornucopia of good copyedits
 * There’s no record kept of Main Page/Errors (!) but here’s one incomplete one. Can archive versions you want to save with permalinks or check its pageviews
 * User:Radiant!/Classification of admins lol I love Wikipedia because of course someone sorted all the admins by their usernames
 * User:Angela/What Wikipedia is not — the OG! has lots of fun things like "a MySpace for canine fiction" and "a place to tell the truth about Nintendo" and "properly punctuated" and "entirely populated by sane people"
 * 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
 * User:Ritchie333/Euphemisms
 * why is Tartan sooo long lol (at least as of april 20 when i'm writing this)
 * Queen Elizabeth slipped majestically into the water
 * Before they were notable -- AOC, Spotify, plenty of things that were deleted from Wikipedia
 * How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
 * Editor of the Week/Hall of Fame
 * User:Vami IV/Completionism
 * User:Ihcoyc 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
 * Oversight logo
 * Red link/History of the example red link
 * User:Raul654/Raul's laws
 * User talk:Shock Brigade Harvester Boris
 * User:Phaedriel/Soundtrack of Wikipedians
 * 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 Things that should not be surprising
 * Fringe theories/Noticeboard. Idk just the fact that this is present on the encyclopedia.
 * 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
 * User:Eagles24/7 edits articles about the Philadelphia Eagles (and other football topics too!) and has for 15 years and 87,000 edits... but not 24/7 according to their timecard ;-)
 * 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_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
 * Featured sentences
 * Notability (mailboxes)
 * 353+ laws by Wikipedians! (on Raul654’s page)
 * Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/31999998, Articles for deletion/99999999 ("Another large and not particualrly notable number. ARRGH!") Articles for deletion/3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117068, Articles for deletion/3.14, Articles for deletion/Leviathan number
 * Commons "Wikimedia_servers_by_location" is what wikipedia looks like
 * Ooh, BarrelProofs unusual capitalization in names section
 * Ops Monitor (WMF)/sandbox is randomly edited from around the world to see if Wikipedia is being blocked. It's very unusual! It's the only member of its own special usergroup!
 * the Commons symbol used on Wikipedia is a file that's kept locally
 * On Coffeeandcrumbs’s userpage I saw THE edit that created the five pillars as we know ‘em. (other historic edits too).
 * Ooh, it's kinda fun that a few draft articles about music have been so popular (especially a decade or two ago). Draft:List_of_sets_of_unrelated_songs_with_identical_titles and Draft:List of songs with the word "song" in their title or lyrics
 * there is a language conversion feature built into MediaWiki and English to Pig Latin is one of the options!
 * User:Born2Cycle's userpage lists some interesting/controversial page moves of Wikipedia history. There's a lot of opinion mixed in, which I don't entirely agree with, but it's still interesting. Côte d'Ivoire → Ivory Coast, Hillary Rodham Clinton → Hillary Clinton ("Perhaps the most thoroughly researched and explained RM decision ever"), Cork → Cork (city). Born2Cycle claims that a dubious closure of the second of eight RMs prolonged the Yoghurt to Yogurt move by 5 years. There are sooo many more.
 * Bettridge contributed to the article Bettridges’s law of headlines. He wrote: “While flattering that this page has appeared, I fully expect prior art to be cited to show that the maxim pre-dates my use of it. Thus, it should probably be renamed.”
 * I tend to like everyone who greatly expands the list of emoticons
 * Wikipedia stubbed its toe for the first time in Nov 2003 (created a stub article about toes). The stub template has been on it a few times over the years.

First versions of articles, 2001 oddities, etc:
"first version" = earliest version currently on record (not counting the early revisions on old servers that are lost)
 * 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
 * Yogurt article didn’t exist til December 11 2002 which seems kinda late
 * Woman left a bit to be desired.
 * Back in 2001, Race (the human categorization) shared the same article as race (the competition of speed over distance).
 * The first version of the “Hobby” article (that we have on the servers) includes “Adding stuff to Wikipedia”
 * The entirety of the first Jennifer Aniston: "Jennifer Aniston is a wonderful woman and very beautiful.She is a one of the best 'Friends'"
 * First Mariah Carey from 2001 started with: "Woman with a beautiful voice (capable of spanning seven octaves). Sings pop music. She is one of the most talented, beautiful women out there today." And contained "Whilst she can surely sing, most of her songs are quite remarkably banal." POV much?!
 * Macaroni in October 2001 started with the line, “Maccaroni is a fancy kind of pasta.”
 * The first N.W.A article in March 2001 (created by Jimbo, unless the server backup is incomplete) with the edit summary “Learning something new every day”
 * Baywatch simply says “Pamela played CJ PARKER”

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
 * Evil has been around a lot longer than Good
 * Wikipedia has had an article on beauty since 2001(well, sorta, the first version wasn't great...) but ugliness wasn’t added until 2016.

Essays and stuff to read

 * 1) User:JPxG/All essays by size
 * 2) User:Tony1/How to improve your writing
 * 3) User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior
 * 4) Writing about women
 * 5) User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article
 * 6) User:Ihcoyc/The problem of anti-supernatural bias
 * 7) User:SandyGeorgia/Achieving excellence through featured content
 * 8) User:Tony1/How to improve your writing

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
 * Gobonobo on 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
 * Joe Roe on Man of the Hole

Interesting sentences

 * In an RfA: “Support - Nancy impressed me with her (many) swift reverts of vandalism over at Bread clip, so I'm pleased to support her here. Cumulus Clouds” idk just an odd sentence lol.
 * Also, Fish and karate made shoe polish an FA. Another good sentence
 * “The seeds of compromise need to be watered and nurtured, not fried in hot oil for an afternoon snack!” - the Foreskin talk page

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
 * John Wise was one of several top American balloonists who made a bid for Chief Aeronaut of a yet-to-be-established balloon corps for the Union Army during the opening months of the American Civil War (see Union Army Balloon Corps).
 * Humorous journals The Green Bag (law), The Mathematical Intelligencer (math), Stay Free! (politics)
 * Keith White (yachtsman) literally sailed around the world single handedly! (though it's a tad more complicated and DYK didn't allow that phrasing)

Wikipedia editors who I think are cool and/or interesting

 * User:Anna Frodesiak's beautifully designed userpage
 * Simple but great user pages: User:Begoon, User:Harold the Sheep, User:Coffee, User:The wub (simple but sublime!), User:Download (techy word art vibe), Miniapolis, Dog The Teddy Bear (a 50 year old teddy bear who edits the 'pedia), User:Chaotic_Enby's page is creative, User:Alanscottwalker has a satisfying section in which the lines are organized by length,
 * 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 charming yet 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. Not all doctor photo uploaders fare so well (Chicago plastic surgeon who uploaded before and after pics of things like breast augmentations and eventually got blocked for socking and other stuff)
 * 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 in the classics. Also Consumed Crustacean, who wrote about video games (and sort of pretended to be a shrimp) and now links his LinkedIn, which says he's a senior video game software engineer.
 * 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".
 * User:David Merrill's userpage says he wrote the first version of the homosexuality and gay rights articles. And he's still somewhat active here!
 * Very early Wikipedian from California and former admin Zoe. She wrote on her userpage “I’m a movie nut. I've made it through all of the movies listed in Academy Award for Best Picture and all of the movies and actors listed in Academy Award for Best Actor, and I'm about to tackle Academy Award for Best Actress."... "I don't seem to be able to tear myself away." In November 2002 she wrote that she was considering leaving because of hostility "would anyone say that to a person with a male or neutral name?" and Renata's reply included “I sometimes get the feeling that there aren't many active women on 'pedia, and that we can't afford to lose a single one of them. I've also been "shot at" a few times, but I've developed a thicker skin now, and I stay because I enjoy working on the 'pedia and because I learn a lot about the things I write about." Kind of interesting to see such early talk of the gender gap we talk about so much now. Sadly Zoe left in 2007 after Jimbo criticized her emails to Tim Pierce and Northern Illinois University administration after Pierce, a Communications instructor, gave students mandatory assignment to vandalize
 * Got any thoughts on userboxe(s|n)? User:Sam Hocevar sure does
 * User:My very best wishes is a theoretical molecular biophysics researcher who often edits articles about global politics and wars and wars. They also write Russian poems on their user page and talk page!
 * North Shoreman's userpage is not shockingly unique but it gives a wonderful little glimpse at who he is. I wish more people included simple bios like this. They make me happy! “I am a medicare eligible grandfather and retiree. The name North Shoreman refers to my residence on the Ohio side of Lake Erie in the western suburbs of Cleveland. My primary interest is the American Civil War and the antebellum period.”
 * User:ProveIt is a former admin who started as a content editor from 2005-2008ish and then mostly gave up his Wikipedia habit — except for one bizarre, rather mindless task that he performed from 2008 to 2023: creating fresh Categories for Discussion pages for each day of the year. He stopped after fifteen years when the task was automated by AnomieBOT.
 * Here on English Wikipedia where we speak English and write an encyclopedia it's pretty rare to see slangy creole-y writing anywhere so it's fun to spot editors conversing in a regional English that I don't hear every day. Here's a Nigerian Wikipedian dropping a couple Igbo phrases in a chatty post on one of his frequent collaborator's talk pages.
 * 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")
 * User:Brian Josephson has a Nobel Prize in physics (which you can read about on Brian Josephson, his article space page) and makes very careful copyedits to articles about things like Taylor Swift songs and brown bread.
 * I learned from Secret's 2013 Reddit AMA that he was a nightclub promoter in Miami for five years and thought of making a career out of nightclub management! I am always amazed when editors come from backgrounds I would not expect. He said he hasn't edited about Miami nightclubs but that "one time the nightclub I was working for was hosting some music video vixen and I decided to check [the] article out. I saw it was crap and she didn't meet our notability guidelines and I speedy deleted it the same day she was supposed to host." I do not typically imaging Wikipedians editing from nightclubs (or immediately before clubbing) and I love to be surprised. He also said Miami's nightlife scene was overrated, so I suppose now I don't have to have any FOMO. And he listed some particularly stupid AfDs (make sense since he does a lot of deletion): "List of groups of nine (an article that was about anything related to the number nine), Rugrats vocabulary (remember this show?) and List of songs featuring cowbells (obvious) among thousands of others. List of films that most frequently use the word fuck still exists though." Anyway, he's been blocked and desysopped but I still appreciate the good things he gave to Wikipedia and I wish only good things for his life with illness.


 * User:MER-C appears to do some of the most thankless administrative work, like contributor copyright investigations and conflict of interest enforcement.
 * Risker’s userpage has a list of milestones. I like this one: “Orangemoody paid editing sockpuppetry investigation - a different kind of answer to "So what did you do last summer?””
 * User:The person who loves reading’s user page starts with: “Hi, everybody! I am an editor who loves reading.”
 * Grumpylawnchair’s userpage has a photo of a lawn chair captioned “Me chilling on a nice lawn.”
 * User:Shadow345110 grew, according to his userpage infobox, from 5’9 in 2023 to 5’10 in 2024
 * I'm sad I never got to meet Possibly but I like the section of his userpage called "New name: Possibly" that says: "Formerly ThatMontrealIP. Out of curiosity I looked up the account Possibly. It turned out that the account had only made two edits, fourteen years ago. That made it possible to usurp the account. Is this new name better than the old one? Possibly."
 * Shearonink’s userpage stars with “Sometimes...sometimes I find little articles and I feel sorry for them. So I try to fix them up and hope they stay around.” Has 9 GAs, 2 FAs, and tons of barnstars, many of which are for patiently helping newbies on IRC. My fav thing is that the barnstars they give out say “Congrats, it’s a….” and then in a smaller font “Wikipedia Good Article!!”
 * I like the old userpage of User:Miranda, where her list of interests include scrapbooking, university Greek life, America’s Next Top Model, law, and fashion. I like when Wikipedians proclaim interest in stereotypically feminine topics, mostly just because it doesn't seem to happen as much as it should. Her top-edited articles were Alpha Kappa Alpha, Seth MacFarlane, and list of Alpha Kappa Alpha members and she made 34k edits overall, mostly in 2007. Her last edit was in 2012 :(
 * MelanieN got a COI notice (automated, I hope) for changing a comma in the Donald Trump article because her name is close to Melania Trump. She is, however, not Melania Trump!
 * I like Guy Vandegrift not only for his contributions to science articles but also because his name sounds like a parody of a person who doesn’t know what they’re talking about (yet he seems to know what he's talking about).
 * Featured pictures/Plants/Fruits is amazing. So many of the featured fruits were photographed by User:Iifar AKA Ivar Leidus, an Estonian railway engineer who was the subject of a Diff article in 2013. He joined Wikipedia in September 2011 after seeing banners on Estonian Wikipedia for the Wiki Loves Monuments contest.
 * User:Basket of Puppies is retired and their user page says “Don't get excited; I am only here to edit Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak.”
 * wholesome away message from Llywrch in 2006: I'll be away from Wikipedia until the end of May: it's not a Wikivacation, but a real tourist-style vacation involving travel, sun, sand & amusement parks. (I may stop by once or twice before then, but I'm not promising to respond to queries or even edit an article or talk page if I do.)"
 * the person who created an alt account on valentines day “in memory of one of his girlfriend" lol
 * At ScottishFinnishRadish’s RfA, after answering some questions, he wrote “every time I grab my wife's chromebook to answer these questions, rather than trying to do it on my phone, my wife says, 'Why don't you answer for your crimes, you Scottish Finnish Bitch!" She doesn't really understand what an RFA is, or what this discussion entails, but that line is absolutely hilarious and everyone needs a good chuckle in a discussion like this"
 * None of User:Aboutmovies’ 32 good articles are about movies, and neither is his career (attorney in Oregon). In contract, all of User:Rusted AutoParts’ 32 GAs are movies
 * User:Xwomanizerx wrote 32 GAs, almost all about Britney Spears.
 * User:Sims2aholic8 wrote 29 GAs between 2008 and 2024, literally all of them about Eurovision.
 * The userpage of User:NoD’ohnuts says “My real name is Ryan and I am a high schooler in Kansas, the state. And I know what your thinking a high schooler with a wikipedia account. NEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDD! Well...your partly right.” What’s amazing is that he has 33 Good Articles, mostly about episodes of The Simpsons and The Office.
 * Many Wikipedians run their own websites. The admin Nick Moyes runs a livestream of peregrine falcons in a Derby Cathedral. Unrelatedly, he also made the first Flora of Derbyshire book since 1969. Stamp-focused editor Stan Shebs maintains StampData.com, a resource he says has 744,000 stamps so far and hosts many of his stamp-related WP articles, even the deleted ones (like "List of people on the postage stamps of Zambia", "List of people on the postage stamps of Eswatini" etc). Dan Koehl, a Swedish elephant trainer in Cambodia, joined Wikipedia in 2002 and created the elephant encyclopedia in 2005
 * VictorianMutant “Dated a girl about 5 years ago who was an administrator, so I know a little about wikiculture.”
 * Kingoflettuce, who I met at a conference, has had a “Potato production in x” habit, like Potato production in Cambodia, Potato production in China, Potato production in Nigeria, Potato production in Zimbabwe. He also wrote the MrBeast article in 2018 which gets crazy traffic these days!
 * User:Wizardman did a 2013 Reddit AMA, and wrote that saw and enjoyed the Colbert bit that made fun of his username (it was June 4 2009 and the joke was like "good thing the arbitration committee is full of people that sound trustworthy like wizardman" or something). Colbert also mentioned Carcharoth, Newyorkbard, and Wizardman.“Spat my drink out first time I watched it,” he wrote.

Cool username info

 * User:Voice of Clam’s username was inspired by a typo in a church sheet (“Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, oh still small voice of clam)
 * Ice Welder’s username was inspired by Wikihow's "How to Make a Unique Username" article (“Try using two favorites from different categories. For instance, if you love ice hockey and creating art out of scrap metal, you might become "IceWelder.”)
 * Another username explanation that tickled me: Dora the Axe-plorer, who has written dozens and dozens of earthquake articles as well as Seoul Halloween crowd crush, wrote that he chose his username because he used to like Dora The Explorer but then started watching slasher films.
 * User:78.26 wrote "From whence does this humorless numerical handle originate? It is the precise speed of most high-speed phonograph records (commonly called "78s") in North America." Oh, of course!
 * Infrogmation, a part-time trombone player (and radio host, and jazz writer, etc) has had an account since 2002 and says he chose his username because “after I wore a frog costume for Mardi Gras, some people called me ‘Froggy’”
 * “Hello, I'm Relativity (the Wikipedian, not the concept.)” said the user Relativity.
 * “Hello! I'm Roundish. It's pronounced like 'Potato'". -Roundish's user page.
 * "My username's kind of stupid (I was 13 or so when I made it), but I can't really think of anything to change it to." -ThePlatypusofDoom
 * Joke by FourViolas about the username FourViolas: "So, this violist is coming home from a gig (that's not the joke). He stops to get some groceries, and as he's standing in the checkout line he realizes, to his horror, that he parked under a streetlight and left his viola on the back seat in plain view! He drops his bags and sprints outside, but it's too late: somebody has already smashed the back window and thrown in three more violas."
 * A user called “power” failed a request for adminship.
 * User:Supercool Dude. Joined in 2004 and has an interesting and unusual userpage with lots of info. “Everyone keeps asking Supercool Dude, how he got his screenname. One day in 1963, his father bought their family their very first Air Conditioner. That Summer it was very hot outside and he walked up to the huge A/C and turned the machine on super cool and he stood there cooling off and said out loud, "I am one super cool dude!”.

Wikipedian signatures I think are cool:

 *  Iamreallygoodatcheckerst@lk


 * PRAXIDICAE🌈


 * Andre🚐




 * Girth Summit  (blether)


 * Tamzin [ cetacean needed ]


 * The Most Comfortable Chair


 * Bluerasberry (talk)


 * Megan B....  It’s all coming to me till the end of time


 * ItcouldbepossibleTalk


 * AssumeGoodWraith (talk &#x7C; contribs)


 * GenQuest "scribble"


 * Reading Beans Talk to the Beans


 *  NW1223  &#x3C; Howl at me &#x2022; My hunts &#x3E;


 * Levivich


 *  Λυδ α  cιτγ 


 * Spintendo


 * Usedtobecool ✉️ ✨


 * EggRoll97 (talk)


 * RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions


 *  D Big X ray ᗙ 


 * - I Need Support -  :3


 * Captain Eek Edits Ho Cap'n!


 * samee converse


 * SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time?


 * Flooded with them hundreds


 * Ezekiel 7:19 Le†'s Go Buffalo! (sign)
 * The Hand That Feeds You :Bite
 * The 🏎 Corvette 🏍 ZR1(The Garage)
 * Joyous! Noise!
 * 🌿 Mt B o t a n y (talk)
 *  AstonishingTunesAdmirer 連絡
 * Star  Mississippi
 * She was a fairy
 * AddWitty NameHere
 * Kurt Rencel (Zirukurt01)✉
 * 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱
 *  V e r s a c e 1 6 0 8 (Talk)
 * INeverCry
 * ItcouldbepossibleTalk
 *  Me Three  ( talk to me ) 
 *  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket )
 *  SPLETTE &#32;:]&#32;How's my driving?
 * ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→
 *  spin  control
 *  D u s t i SPEAK!!
 *  Nerdy Science Dude  (✉ • ✐)
 * 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 (though these days, the "baby" is old enough to drive a car!)
 * WoohookittyWoohoo!
 *  bishzilla  ROA R R! !   pocket
 * -- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T
 *  J e n o v a  20
 * Atsme Talk 📧


 * oncamera (talk page)</i>
 * ’’’’’ SKATER ' Is Back
 * <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>)
 * ’’’ 1 2 3 Hedgehog  4 5 6 '''
 *  darwin bish  <sup style="color:lime;">BITE  <b style="color:black;"> ☠ </b>
 * Grab Up -  Talk
 * — Soap —
 *  Nascar <font color="Red">1996  
 * Rock drum Ba-dumCrash (Driving well?)
 * AirplanePro RadioChecklist
 *  ThinkBlue   (Hit   BLUE)
 *  Heart  (talk)
 * [ UseTheCommandLine  ~/ talk  ]# &#9604;
 *  Caden  cool
 *  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa?
 * I.R.B.A.T(yell at me) (The IRBAT Files)
 * <sub style="color:navy;">WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN <sup style="color:#666666;">play it cool.
 * Polly ( Parrot )
 * Just zis <span style="border: 1px; border-style:solid; padding:0px 2px 2px 2px; color:white; background-color:darkblue; font-weight:bold">Guy you know?
 * <span class="user-sig user-That Guy, From That Show!"> That Guy, From That Show! <i> (talk)</i>
 * GregJackP  Boomer!
 * Şłџğģő
 * <b style="color:#FFB521;">Jezebel's</b> Ponyo <sup style="color:#3773A5;">shhh
 * GARDEN
 * Coldplay Expért <sup style="color:#DC143C;">Let's talk
 * IP69.226.103.13 |  Talk about me.
 * om nom nom delirious  &amp;  lost  ☯ ~hugs~
 *  IShadowed  ✰
 *  Ryan Postlethwaite See the mess I've created or let's have banter
 * Liqudluck ✽ talk
 * Th e T hi ng Ed it or Rev iew
 * ⛵ <span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; background: linear-gradient(white, blue, navy, black)">WaltClipper - (talk) 
 * GenQuest "scribble"
 * GrammarDamner  how are things?
 * SUN EYE 1
 * <i style="font-family:Rockwell; font-size:medium; color:red;">Rusted AutoParts</i>
 *  MainPeanut 
 * <span style="letter-spacing:-1pt;font-family:'Helvetica', sans-serif;">Trey Maturin has spoken
 * &oelig; &trade;
 * <b style="color: #8B0000;"> Iamreallygoodatcheckers</b>t@lk
 *  Comr Melody Idoghor  (talk)
 * Helloheart  (talk)
 *  Pinguinn     🐧  
 * HelenDegenerate (💬📖)
 *  Dr vulpes  (💬 • 📝)
 *  Catfish  Jim <small style="COLOR:#313F33"> and the soapdish 
 * <span style="color: snow; font-weight: bold; background: linear-gradient(DarkGreen, Green, DarkOliveGreen, ForestGreen, SeaGreen)">PICKLEDICAE🥒
 * — VersaceSpace  🌃
 * `~HelpingWorld~` (👽🛸)
 * <b style="color:#FF0000">Jay</b><b style="color:#0000FF">Jay</b><sup style="color:black">What did I do?
 * 🐔 Chicdat <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman">Bawk to me! 
 *  Bait30  Talk 2 me pls?
 * ♥ Melody ♥
 * S warm  we ♥ our hive
 *  Konveyor   Belt  
 * § FreeRangeFrog croak
 * TheMesquito buzz
 * <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪
 * dain omite
 * ☯ Bonkers The Clown  \(^_^)/  Nonsensical Babble  ☯
 * SQL <sup style="font-size: 5pt;color:#999">Query Me!
 * Girth Summit <sub style="font-family:Segoe print;color:blue;"> (blether)
 * Eggishorn (talk) (contrib)
 * ときさき  くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard
 * <u style="color:#00F">Laun <u style="color:#00F">chba <u style="color:#00F">ller
 * the <em style="font-family:Matisse itc;color:red">WOLF  child 
 *  The C of E God Save the Queen!  ( talk )


 * Allmightyduck &#xF8FF; What did I do wrong?


 * SnottyWong  confess


 * White Shadows Nobody said it was easy


 * SemiHypercube ✎


 * Flip<sup style="color:purple">and Flopped  ツ


 * White Arabian Filly Neigh


 * KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬


 * Re alCy Gu y  - Talk?


 * PCHS-NJROTC (Messages)Have a blessed day.


 * SerialNumber54129 paranoia / cheap sh*t room


 *  Brookie :) { - like the mist - there one moment and then gone!}  (Whisper...)


 * AIRcorn (talk)


 *  TastyPoutine  talk (if you dare)


 * MBlaze Lightning


 *  Tide  rolls 


 * ~  Nerdy Science  Dude 


 * <font face="Lucida Calligraphy"> PrincessofLlyr royal court


 *  TheRas  IsBack!  


 *  Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм  •  Champagne?  


 * <font face="Century Gothic" color="#2B65EC" size="2">Dwayne was here!    &#x266B;


 * Ohconfucius ¡digame!


 * Wizardman Operation Big Bear


 * The Wordsmith Communicate


 * Just a random Wikipedian (talk)


 * LCU A ctively D isinterested  «@» °∆t°


 * microbiology Marcus [petri dish·growths]


 * ǝɥʇ M0N0


 * <span style="border:3px solid DarkRed;background:black;padding:1px;color:Snow;text-shadow:beige 0.5em 0.2em 0.4em; font-family:Papyrus, Georgia, Arial"> D IVINE


 * iGeM iN  ix


 * Access Denied [FATAL ERROR]


 *  Mr. R00t   Talk


 * Mlpearc  powwow


 * <span style="color:White;background:RGB(0,71,171)">Ocean  <span style="color:RGB(0,71,171)">Shores 


 * <font face="Papyrus"> - down  load  <font color="#7B68EE">׀  sign! 


 *  Nolelover  It's football season! 


 * White Shadows Your guess is as good as mine


 *  Bramble  claw  x  


 * KGirlTrucker81 huh? what I've been doing


 * O Fortuna semper crescis, aut decrescis


 * CubeSats 4U


 * The  Magnificentist


 * Linguist un Eins uno


 *  SilkTork  <sup style="color:#347C2C;">✔Tea time 


 * &#x21D2;  SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!


 * GABgab


 * <sup style="color:#093">My name is <small style="color:#4000FF">not <sup style="color:#093">dave (talk/contribs)


 * FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY <sup style="color:#c22">[u+1F602]


 *  TheSpecialUser TSU


 * LegoKontribsTalkM


 * stay ( sic ) !


 * Ched ZILLA


 * BugGhost 🪲👻


 * SorryGuy Talk


 * <font style="color:#7FFF00;background:#483C32;">Tiddly <font style="color:#483C32;background:#483C32;">- <font style="color:#DFFF00;background:#483C32;">Tom 


 * <font color="Purple">Pump  me  up (is awake!)


 * GimliDotNet ( Speak to me ,Stuff I've done )


 *  Royal broil 


 * KoshVorlon . We are all Kosh ...


 * Vertium  When all is said and done 


 * MurderByDeletionism<sup style="color:black;">"bang!"


 * Я£ΙИӺΘЯСΣĐᴙᶕᵻᴎᵮᴓᴚᴐᶒᵯɘᴎᴛᶊ <sup style="color:purple; font-size:x-small; font-family:papyrus;">Talk


 *  IShadowed  ✰


 * Liqudluck ✽ talk


 * delirious ☯ ~ nollaig shona duit~


 * December21st2012Freak   Happy Holidays!


 * Coldplay Expért <sup style="color:#DC143C;">Let's talk


 * Logical Premise Ergo?


 *  my name  inc <sup style="color:red;">Ottoman project 


 *  Marvellous Spider-Man  


 * Sparkling Pessimist  Scream at me!


 * Caballero /   Historiador ⎌


 * Full Rune Speak, child of Guthix


 * Gluons12 ☢&#x7C;☕


 * Smallbones( smalltalk )


 * 🍕 Boneless Pizza! 🍕 (🔔)


 * Lord Vold e  mort  <sup style="color:#3D9140;">(Dark Mark)


 * MrFi s  h Go Fish


 * Jumping cheese  Cont @ct


 * Union_flag_1606_(Kings_Colors).svg «ßØÛ®ßÖÑ§3» T


 *  Journalist C./ Holla @ me!


 *  fredgandt 


 * ▼PσlєοGєєк ƧɊƲΔƦΣƉ▼

Real sentences that were written

 * “The seeds of compromise need to be watered and nurtured, not fried in hot oil for an afternoon snack!” - the Foreskin talk page

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
 * Gantry (medical)
 * STS-400
 * External ballistics
 * 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
 * User:Theresa knott/image gallery these were made in ms word haha
 * the janky pic in Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
 * Fetal alcohol syndrome
 * File:Trephination.jpg in Frontal sinus trephination
 * Piledriver (professional wrestling)
 * Waiphot Phetsuphan

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[[File:CENTCOM_AOR_bilateral_exercise,_breach_and_air_assault_(Image_6_of_14)_(12753955674).jpg|thumb|They've overcome their differences and are enjoying each other's company.]]