Wikipedia App Comes out Clean
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Welcome to Cool Freaks' Wikipedia Club (CFWC)an absurdity hub.
Cool Freaks' Wikipedia Club is the leading Facebook group for delivering the weirdest Wikipedia articles, from Tarrare to 52-hertz whale, to the top of every member's Facebook News Feeds. No longer will Belphegor's Prime and Potoooooooo languish in the doldrums of obscurityinstead, they can reach a new audience hell-bent on trivial pursuits and complete world knowledge.
Since its founding a year ago on 24 September 2013, the group has grown from a humble abode of esoterica to a sizable community of nearly 32,000 members. As the group has grown, so has its moderation, ensuring that the future of Cool Freaks sticks to its founding ideal of a "safe-space" for its thousands membersmany of whom are queer, transgender or people of color.
While reposts (or "retoasts") abound for regularsList of animals with fraudulent diplomas, List of inventors killed by their own inventions, and List of lists of listsnew gems like South-up map orientation and Impossible colors surface every day, new and sparkling treasures from the arcane depths.
To help introduce a wider audience to our community, we've listed below some old favorites and recent posts shared equally among both the membership and the moderation.
Not a terrifying new sexual act but an incident of anomalous weather. For several minutes in Bath County, Kentucky on March 3rd, 1876, pieces of meat, appearing to be beef (although some claim it tasted like "mutton, venison, or lamb"), rained down on an approximately 100 by 50-yard area. The meat was later identified as either lung tissue from a horse or a human infant, yet many theories linger over the identity and origin of the flesh related weather. [image via Super I.T.C.H.]
The queen of the Balobedu people, from northern South Africa. The Rain Queen is believed to have powers over the clouds and precipitation. Since 2005, the throne has been empty, due to controversy over the illegitimate children of the most recent Rain Queen, the late Makobo Modjadji, and criticism of Modjadji's "modern" lifestyle.
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Shawn Bose and Justin Halloran studied religion as college undergrads, but it was their experience helping create 21st-century digital retailers such as eBay and UShip that brought them back to the topic of faith.
Being part of broad sites that customers perceive as less manipulated and closer to the ground level, the 30-somethings thought they could transfer the idea to religion create a huge site populated not by news, commentary or pop culture but by primary source material sacred texts, unedited sermons, religious music and civil discussion about them. The items would be put there mostly by participants, who would pay nothing, ideally making the site like a Wikipedia for religion. Last month, the pair launched Deily.org with hundreds of thousands of pieces of content, and this week The Post spoke with Bose about this merger of online retail and religion.
MB: How do you decide what constitutes primary content? In other words, whats pop culture and what isnt? Whats news and what isnt?
SB: In our experience, weve built marketplaces like UShip. Its a community-managed marketplace. We have no agenda of our own; theres no invisible hand. We just say the content has to be about religion, not intolerant, not hateful, and we allow for the community to flag anything thats inappropriate.
MB: But couldnt much in religious texts be considered inappropriate to someone?
SB: Were building up a big advisory board to help us with this.
MB: What motivated this?
SB: For many people, their religious experience has become passive. They go to church, temple, synagogue, listen to a sermon, digest and leave. Its one-way. We wanted to let people engage with content. How can a community come together to explain things to one another? This way they can deepen their faith or understanding. ... In the wake of everything thats happened in the past couple of weeks [including the attacks in Paris], we said: What is peoples understanding of religion? For most people, its what theyve been told or the news they get. Theres not a lot of self-discovery going on.
We know the best thing the Internet does is it lets more information get to more people. If we can share traditions, we feel that goes a long way to impacting people in a positive way
MB: Whats on the site now?
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