Something to procrastinate going back to work

April 10, 2023 9:39 AM

Some Monday fun: Which Wikipedia Page is Longer? Article titles are also clickable on the page, for all your Wikipedia rabbit hole needs.
posted by cozenedindigo (7 comments total)

A bit of trivia. I looked at the 1910 Who's Who (US) for who had the longest biography. Teddy Roosevelt was in first place. Nikola Tesla was in second, well ahead of Edison and others.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 10:03 AM on April 10, 2023 [1 favorite]

i failed to see that the page about the bacon brothers, who are gangsters, would be much longer than the seniority list of congress

i must have been confused by all the other similarities
posted by pyramid termite at 10:30 AM on April 10, 2023

I'm a park ranger in Colorado. The main area I work in is the Gunnison Gorge, which is a Bureau of Land Management National Conservation Area with nice whitewater boating stretch within wilderness. It's a cool spot, decently big, with a pretty interesting and unique history and geology. The body of the wikipedia article gets 83 words. Whenever I'm surfing wikipedia with my brain half off, which is often, I make a mental note when something totally silly has considerably more words devoted to it than the real-ass place I work. Cool game.
posted by Rinku at 12:36 PM on April 10, 2023 [2 favorites]

One of the articles it gave me is not an article, which feels like cheating.
posted by HeroZero at 12:42 PM on April 10, 2023

It gave me two articles that were 8,962 and 8,915 words.

Dude.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 2:14 PM on April 10, 2023

Some niche anime no one has ever heard of (six trillion words) vs the economics of pre-industrial circumcision in Andalusia (sixteen hundred words, nine trillion if you count the talk page).
posted by Literaryhero at 5:51 AM on April 11, 2023

Some of my highlights:

Inflammatory bowel disease (9,396) vs Kent County Cricket Club in 2005 (10,058)
List of people from Greece (6,770) vs List of shipwrecks in October 1882 (6,443)
Human rights violations by the CIA (11,700) vs 2018 in aquatic sports (5,881)

And, the one that made me close the page because nothing will ever top this for me personally:

Armenian population by urban area (5,053) vs Kingdom Hearts (14,161)

posted by brook horse at 7:36 AM on April 11, 2023