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Ten wiki pages worth bookmarking

A great wiki is a library. A great wiki page is the book you never put down. Here are ten individual entries - the rabbit holes and reference tables - we come back to again and again.

  1. 01List of common misconceptions The single most link-worthy page on Wikipedia - you will lose an hour, and win a dozen arguments.
  2. 02Timeline of the far future What happens in a trillion years, laid out with citations. Equal parts humbling and unforgettable.
  3. 03List of lists of lists Wikipedia folding in on itself - the internet's most gloriously recursive page.
  4. 04Fatal familial insomnia A short, unsettling entry that shows how a wiki handles rare medical science with care.
  5. 05The Great Emu War Australia versus flightless birds, 1932. Proof that the best history reads like fiction.
  6. 06How to Tie a Tie (wikiHow) The canonical example of a how-to page done right: clear steps, clear diagrams, no fluff.
  7. 07Comparison of file systems The kind of exhaustive reference table no single vendor would ever publish honestly.
  8. 08Dihydrogen monoxide parody A masterclass in why you should always read past a scary-sounding headline.
  9. 09List of hoaxes on Wikipedia The site documenting its own failures - required reading before you trust any single entry.
  10. 10Kardashev scale How to rank a civilization by the energy it can harness. A perfect gateway to bigger ideas.

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