{"id":1265,"date":"2022-04-13T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2022-05-04T11:55:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T11:55:19","slug":"down-the-rabbit-hole-with-wikipedia-lilac-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/down-the-rabbit-hole-with-wikipedia-lilac-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Down the rabbit hole with Wikipedia – LILAC 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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High Five – by Bgubitz at English Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I asked LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2022 delegates what their favourite Wikipedia pages were and here’s what they answered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Boris Johnson<\/a> (It’s not flattering)<\/span><\/li>
  2. The Dyatlov Pass incident<\/a><\/li>
  3. Dolly Parton<\/a><\/li>
  4. Cellar door<\/a><\/li>
  5. High five<\/a><\/li>
  6. Mary Shelley<\/a><\/li>
  7. Loch_Ness_Monster<\/a><\/span><\/li>
  8. The Sopranos<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  9. List of Manufacturing processes<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  10. Disambiguation (disambiguation)<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  11. List of The Simpsons guest stars<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  12. Defenestrations of Prague<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  13. Marxist economics<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  14. List of Never Mind The Buzzcocks episodes<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  15. The ABBA page<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  16. Lists_of_films#By_genre<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  18. The one about the first women doctors in Edinburgh which only got added by Wikipedia after a protest at its absence. Edinburgh Seven<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>
  19. Toilet_paper_orientation<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  20. Wolf Alice Band page<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  21. Biographies i.e. person information pages<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  22. As Slow As Possible<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  23. A Cultural History of the Buttocks<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  24. Narwhals<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  25. Grey_Owl<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  26. Cats_and_the_Internet<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  27. Diggers<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  28. N\/a<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  29. LILAC<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  30. I don\u2019t have one, sorry\u2026.<\/span><\/li>
  31. Any public figure with a \u201ccontroversies\u201d section<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <\/li>
  32. All Wikipedia<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Thanks all! Have fun reading these on your way home \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Further links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Our University of Edinburgh website with lots of ‘how to’ advice.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Changing the Way Stories Are Told<\/em> <\/a>– Chapter 13 in Wikipedia and Academic Libraries open access book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n