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I recently unearthed a pile of funny things that I didn't know existed in (and about) Wikipedia. Most of them are Wikipedia Essays or other obscure jokes from the administrators.
1984
Association of Geriatric Editors
Assume Bad Faith
Complete Bollocks
Don't stuff beans up your nose
Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them , a response to
Please do not bite the newcomers
List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
Deleted Articles with Freaky Titles
Don't feed the Administrators
Editing Under the Influence
The five steps of Wikipedian spammer
grief
Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you , a response to
Don't Be a Dick
God: Valuable Wikipedian, or disruptive editor with a history of sockpuppetry?
Don't delete the main page
Argumentum Ad Jimbonem
Millionth Topic Pool , and perhaps even funnier, the
Last Topic Pool
No angry mastodons
No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
Unusual Articles (warning: may consume untold hours of your time)
OMGcom
Primogeniture
Requests for Edit Wars - somewhat of a Wikipedia editor inside joke
Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass
Have a nice cup of tea and sit down
Beware of the Tigers
Whacking with a Wet Trout
The Truth
Unusual Requests to Wikipedia
The Village Stocks
The Stephen Colbert Elephant-Tripling Pandemic
Wikipedia Widow
What Would Jimbo Do , containing a useful photo gallery of Things Jimbo Does
And any other random selections from
The Wikipedia Humour Repository , especially the many songs.
And, on an unrelated note:
Exploding Whales