The Inventory

Wiki Wormhole

Wiki Wormhole

Wiki Wormhole

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,664,405-week series, Wiki Wormhole.

The Muscogee maintained independence against colonizers for 200 years

With more than 5.7 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

Meet the man who might have been the real-life Lone Ranger

9/09/18 10:00am

With more than 5.7 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

In 1862, a slave hijacked a Confederate ship and became a national hero

9/02/18 10:00am

With more than 5.7 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

20 years ago, the world lost a singular comic talent in Phil Hartman

8/26/18 10:00am

With more than 5.7 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

Meet the 19th-century female pirate who launched a thousand (pirate) ships

8/19/18 10:00am

This week’s entry: Ching Shih

Forget the Bermuda Triangle—legends speak of a lost ship in the California desert

8/12/18 10:00am

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

17th-century French Opera’s a lot more fun when the singer also sword-fights

8/05/18 10:00am

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

Tomato, ToMacco: Farmers are elevating their crops with vertical farming

7/29/18 10:00am

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

From Calisota to Moosylvania, America has a lot of made-up states

7/22/18 10:00am

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

Ghosts are haunting Hollywood

7/15/18 10:00am

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

"Till death do us part" is no obstacle to a posthumous marriage

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

This folkloric animal’s only real-life power is cuteness

7/01/18 10:00am

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

Greetings from the UFO zealots who say aliens created life on Earth

6/24/18 10:00am

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

Hitler goes west: The secret plans for Nazi America

6/17/18 10:30am

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

Here’s how we’re trying to get to space without rockets

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

In your face, gravity: A look at the most visionary, ridiculously tall structures

6/03/18 10:00am

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

Science finds a way to bring back extinct animals

5/27/18 10:00am

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

An invisible warship is at the center of WWII’s greatest urban legend

5/20/18 10:00am

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

Penis panic and the mysterious case of the retracting phallus

5/13/18 10:00am

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…

Once, all a politician needed to defuse a scandal was an adorable puppy

5/06/18 10:00am

With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together…