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This page is about the best humorous occurrences in Wikipedia's history. For guidelines on when humor is acceptable on Wikipedia, see
WP:HUMOR
. For guidelines for April Fools' Day, see
WP:FOOLS
.
Humorous Wikipedia essay
It is not a great secret that, over the years, Wikipedia has seen many 'colorful' moments of fun. Also, no great secret is that Wikipedia has seen many forms of
vandalism
( it's true,
:-)
could result in
:-(
). Because Wikipedia lets people freely edit sources, occasionally, an edit falls into both categories: it is vandalism, needing to be reverted, but it is also creative, and some Wikipedians find it entertaining. For many years, the bits of vandalism and/or fun that struck people's fancy were kept here on a page called "
Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
" (
BJAODN
). In fact, it was one of the oldest pages on Wikipedia, having been created on
January 26, 2001
.
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Here is the original explanation of the page:
We need a page where bad jokes and other deleted nonsense can rest in peace. So, here it is! [I'm half tempted to suggest keeping the jokes inline with the pages, as they must sort of give the encyclopedia some lively colour. But I do know it'd just get carried away and turn into an
encyclopedia of silliness
, so look forward to frequent updates of this page.?;-)]
However, in 2007, consensus (sort of) shifted against keeping most BJAODN on Wikipedia (see
Wikipedia talk:Silly Things
), and it came to be viewed by many as encouraging vandalism. Things are no longer added to this group of pages on Wikipedia itself (except on rare occasions), but have been moved to another site, and only a few highlights are maintained below. (Please go
to an external wiki
to add to BJAODN. Thank you very much.)
For all those who thought BJAODN was some sort of alien mating call or Swedish swear word, please read the things above.
Historical content
Best of Jokes
Subpages
Other funny articles
- Category:Wikipedia humor
- m:Category:Humor
, a far-out selection of, like,
meta
-topics that totally
transcend
the English Wikipedia, man.
- The Unofficial WikiZoo
Provides a permanent home for the strange fauna of WikiLand.
- Wikipedia:April Fools
? Once a year, some Wikipedians seem to lose their minds
- Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Helpdesk Emails
? Mailing list oddities!
- Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Unblock Emails
? Strange Unblock requests!
- Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Non Deleted Nonsense
would be BJAODN if it had been deleted.
- Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles
(
WP:DAFT
) ? Weird article titles!
- Wikipedia:Department of Fun
- Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars
? Occasionally, Wikipedians get into edit wars over the most petty things
- Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
- Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
- Wikipedia:Silly Things/Wikipedia's article on George W. Bush
- Wikipedia:Talk page highlights
? Some of the strangest exchanges that have ever occurred between editors
- Wikipedia:Unusual articles
? ranging from
Death erection
to
The Hands of Che Guevara
- Wikipedia:Unusual place names
? The weirdest place names in the world.
- Wikipedia:Unusual requests
that have been posted to the
village pump
and other places.
- Wikipedia:Wikiality and Other Tripling Elephants
? Stephen Colbert trolls Wikipedia!
- Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia
- Category:
(Redacted)
? If you want to know the darkest secrets of Wikipedia. Proceed at your own risk.
- c:Category:Unusual signs
/
c:Absurd use of road signs
c:Category:Cursed images
?
deleted in 08/2022
c:Category:Commons' weirdest photographs
? deleted in 08/2022
See also
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Lists of
silly
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Best of BJAODN editions
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April Fools'
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Inactive historical references
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See also
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Italic
denotes upcoming April Fools' event
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- Adminitis
- Akin's Laws of Article Writing
- Alternatives to edit warring
- ANI flu
- Anti-Wikipedian
- Anti-Wikipedianism
- Articlecountitis
- Asshole John rule
- Assume bad faith
- Assume faith
- Assume good wraith
- Assume stupidity
- Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith
- Avoid using preview button
- Avoid using wikilinks
- Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
- Barnstaritis
- Before they were notable
- BOLD, revert, revert, revert
- Boston Tea Party
- Butterfly effect
- CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh?
- Complete bollocks
- Counting forks
- Counting juntas
- Crap
- Don't stuff beans up your nose
- Don't-give-a-fuckism
- Don't abbreviate "Wikipedia" as "Wiki"!
- Don't delete the main page
- Editcountitis
- Edits Per Day
- Editsummarisis
- Editing Under the Influence
- Embrace Stop Signs
- Emerson
- Fart
- Five Fs of Wikipedia
- Seven Ages of Editor, by Will E. Spear-Shake
- Go ahead, vandalize
- How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
- How to get away with UPE
- How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle
- How to vandalize correctly
- How to win a citation war
- Ignore all essays
- Ignore every single rule
- Is that even an essay?
- Mess with the templates
- My local pond
- Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them
- Legal vandalism
- List of jokes about Wikipedia
- LTTAUTMAOK
- No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
- No one cares about your garage band
- No one really cares
- No, really
- No sorcery threats
- Notability is not eternal
- Oops Defense
- Play the game
- Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
- Please bite the newbies
- Please do not murder the newcomers
- Pledge of Tranquility
- R-e-s-p-e-c-t
- Requests for medication
- Requirements for adminship
- Rouge admin
- Rouge editor
- Sarcasm is really helpful
- Sausages for tasting
- The Night Before Wikimas
- The first rule of Wikipedia
- The Five Pillars of Untruth
- Things that should not be surprising
- The WikiBible
- Watchlistitis
- Wikipedia is an MMORPG
- WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
- What Wikipedia is not/Outtakes
- Why not create an account?
- Yes legal threats
- You don't have to be mad to work here, but
- You should not write meaningless lists
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