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[A Thing]

I find the Portal:Current Events a decent way to stay up on news without actually having to visit any news sites.

Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this. I've got many enjoyable stories out of current events, like this one about plastic surgery in a camel beauty pageant in Saudi Arabia.

[misko27]

I strongly recommend checking out Wikipedia's own Lamest Edit Wars page.

Personally, I'm a fan of the pages discussing things like "Britain vs. England vs. the UK" and what precisely is a "Scotland" anyway:

Is Scotland a Constituent country (linking to constituent country), or a Country within a country (linking to constituent country), or a Country (linking to constituent country), or Country (linking to country), or a Semi autonomous subdivision of the United Kingdom, or a Semi autonomous constituent subdivision of the United Kingdom, or a Semi autonomous subdivision of the United Kingdom, or a Home Nation, or a Nation, or a Kingdom, or a Part, or a Province, or a Region, or a combination of any of the above, or none of the above?

There have also been similar edit wars on pages about England, Northern Ireland and Wales. Following in the fine tradition of truly Lame edit wars, the conflict has spilt over into unlikely places – for example, cities twinned with Scottish cities have had flag icons repeatedly switched between the Union Jack and that of Scotland, with collateral damage seen on Colin McRae and Chris Hoy (whose page during the 2008 Olympics saw both the Union Jack being removed/added from nationality and switching between being British and Scottish).

Spoiler: Also, this I also found on Wikipedia (click to show/hide)

God bless Wikipedia for documenting their own editwars and memery.

[Baffler]

If my boredom is truly severe, I'll find a random wiki article and fix typos, grammar, and tone. There are a lot of articles that are quite detailed in one language but stub length or completely nonexistent in others. People notice that, usually native speakers of the language with lots of info, and so they translate it into English. Sometimes directly through Google Translate. Others are clearly just stream of consciousness writing by the singular academic who studies that salamander or whatever. Less visited articles can get away from correction for a long time too, sometimes I'm the first person to touch the article in years, or even since the article was first created. I don't even want to imagine what the site looks like in less common languages.

[Enemy post]

Death – particularly the death of humans – has commonly been considered a sad or unpleasant occasion...

I mean, it is right. It is usually considered sad.

[Egan_BW]

"particularly the death of humans"