Stump Wikipedia

I think we should start a new game: “What Can’t You Find on Wikipedia?”, or, alternatively, “Stump Wikipedia”. Seriously, they have over 1.4 million articles now, and it keeps going up. Is there a ceiling?

Although you have to stick to real subjects… you can’t punch something in like “nitrate waffles” and expect a legitimate response. (See Googlewhacking if that’s the game you want to play.)

Of course, the irony here is even if someone were to find such a subject, that person or another could immediately create a new article for it… thereby negating the point.

So how soon before Wikipedia becomes sentient?

4 comments

  1. The internet is exactly what he was imagining, isn’t it? — Which writer was that, whose network came to life? Heinlein?

    Todd Lake has no entry, nor Sparks Lake etc.

  2. Jennifer, couldn’t say. Clarke predicted satellites, I think. Gibson invented the word "cyberspace." Etc.

    And you win Stumping Wikipedia for today. Only til someone adds those articles. 😉

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