# Make us laugh with Wikipedia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-us-laugh-with-wikipedia/341750 "2006-01-26T20:59:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-us-laugh-with-wikipedia/341750/1 "2006-01-26T20:59:18Z")
I came across [this entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Diarrhea) in Wikipedia, and literally has a snarfing fit over this part of the discussion. > [@](#): > > Is it necessary? If you REALLY feel it necesary to have a photograph of diarrhea, please put up something other than child playing in it. When people come to this article for information about diarrhea, I really don’t think they’re going to expect to see that. A vast majority of people will be disgusted by that. Let’s not get into a discussion over how feces is a taboo, though. What needs to be considered is whether the photograph is useful. I don’t see how a picture of a child playing in his diarrhea is useful. (a Wikipedia editor) > > First, I think it is pretty obvious that the child is playing in mud. Second, even if the picture were of a child playing with its own stool, a more appropriate picture would be one of JUST diarrhea. The child playing adds no value and is in fact a distraction from the valuable information in the article. (another Wiki editor) There’s just something about the thought of grown adults seriously discussing the idea of diarrhea photos that made me lose it. What have you seen in Wikipedia that made you laugh out loud? ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-us-laugh-with-wikipedia/341750/2 "2006-01-26T21:05:37Z")
[This frog](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%27s_tree_frog) , which I started a thread on a while back. It just looks so incredibly fake. ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-us-laugh-with-wikipedia/341750/3 "2006-01-26T23:08:23Z")
Not something IN Wikipedia, but something ABOUT Wikipedia that made me laugh, during that whole controversy over the Professor who was “misrepresented” in Wikipedia: > **[Penny Arcade - Comic - I Have The Power](https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/16)** > > Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-us-laugh-with-wikipedia/341750/4 "2006-01-26T23:19:53Z")
[List of films ordered by uses of the word “fuck”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_ordered_by_uses_of_the_word_%22fuck%22) ---
**Author:** ![Spiratu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Spiratu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiratu)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-us-laugh-with-wikipedia/341750/5 "2006-01-26T23:36:02Z")
I noticed yesterday that if you look up classical literature, like, say, The Odyssey, or Romeo and Juliet, you get the same spoiler warning before the information that you’d get if you looked up any sort of modern movie or book. Thanks for your concern, wikipedia! ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-us-laugh-with-wikipedia/341750/6 "2006-01-27T00:45:27Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > I came across [this entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Diarrhea) in Wikipedia, and literally has a snarfing fit over this part of the discussion. > > There’s just something about the thought of **grown adults** seriously discussing the idea of diarrhea photos that made me lose it. What have you seen in Wikipedia that made you laugh out loud? Not necessarily. It’s entirely possible that everyone involved in this discussion was 15 or 16. The only requirements of being a Wikipedia editor are, well, internet access and literacy. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-us-laugh-with-wikipedia/341750/7 "2006-01-27T01:37:40Z")
[Heavy metal umlaut](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy-metal_umlaut) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-us-laugh-with-wikipedia/341750/8 "2006-01-27T06:07:42Z")
[Crushing by Elephant.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crushing_by_elephant) Hey, makes _me_ laugh! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-us-laugh-with-wikipedia/341750/9 "2006-01-27T06:22:25Z")
I clicked this [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse) on sexual intercourse posted in another thread. There’s nothing funny about it–until you click “edit this page” at the top and read the notes at the top of the page. We are a nation of sixth-graders. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-us-laugh-with-wikipedia/341750/10 "2006-01-27T14:12:48Z")
> [@Large Marge](#): > > I clicked this [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse) on sexual intercourse posted in another thread. There’s nothing funny about it–until you click “edit this page” at the top and read the notes at the top of the page. > > We are a nation of sixth-graders. :rolleyes: Haha, in the “doggy style” picture, there is a Harry Potter book. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-us-laugh-with-wikipedia/341750/11 "2006-01-28T03:31:00Z")
> [@rinni](#): > > Haha, in the “doggy style” picture, there is a Harry Potter book. > > WTF? How do you know it’s a Harry Potter book?? I can’t make anything out but scribbles and some sort of picture. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-us-laugh-with-wikipedia/341750/12 "2006-01-28T11:42:08Z")
When I click the image to zoom in, I can see it. It might not actually say Harry Potter, maybe it says Hairy Pooter or something, but it’s definitely supposed to look like the Harry Potter logo.