This is a page listing
webcomics which feature Wikipedia. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all the ones that merely use the word "Wikipedia". Instead, these are a compilation of those strips whose topic centrally relates to the encyclopedia and its perception in popular culture.
Common themes in the comics reflect
Criticism of Wikipedia—especially jabs at its vulnerability to vandalism and accuracy as a source. Frequently people who edit or read Wikipedia are mocked as the butt of the joke, with the insinuation that Wikipedia enthusiasts lack social skills and are "nerds", thus using the site is something one should be embarrassed about. The existence of this list creates an additional recursive topic for those authors that discuss Wikipedia for the mere purpose of seeing if their comic can be mentioned here.
A topic which has particularly heated coverage from webcomic authors is that Wikipedia will not allow entries describing many webcomics in the encyclopedia. This determination is made using
guidelines for notability, which is a subjective process that—although democratic at some level—is ultimately in the hands of Wikipedia administrators. Another wiki has been established which welcomes coverage of all webcomics regardless of fame (see
Comixpedia).
Series that always involve Wikipedia
Each instance of
WikiWorld webcomic gives an illustrated summary of little-known articles in Wikipedia.
2005
2005-05-27 : Jerkcity —
"Wikipedia" — A character complains about her name as listed in Wikipedia.
2005-09-14 : Nukees —
"Comic 20050914" — On a character's To-Do list, an item for doing
Quantum Chromodynamics homework is followed up with another item to "Wikipede" Quantum Chromodynamics.
2005-11-18 : Goats/Machall —
"comic strip from Nov 18 2005" — After receiving extended explanations with diagrams about how alcohol arrives from another dimension, characters describe a conversation as being like "watching Wikipedia have sex with a
Sommelier".
2005-12-16 : Penny Arcade —
"I Have The Power" — Shows a case of extreme editing bias when an editor alters
He-Man's glowing Wikipedia entry to say that he is "not really that powerful"...but turns out to be He-Man's arch-enemy
Skeletor.
2005-12-27 : Irregular Webcomic! —
"No. 1066" — Wikipedia is likened to a version of Google that just "makes up" information when there are no search hits on a topic. What's more, the comic goes on to mention the page about webcomics that mention Wikipedia, and goes on to tell the readers that the page about webcomics that mention Wikipedia should mention comics that mention the page about Wikipedia.
(date needed) : Diesel Sweeties —
"No. 1349" — A girl trying to hit on a programmer suggests he write her on
Friendster, and the tech-savvy guy responds that as she admits to using the site he's unsure whether to edit his wiki article for "adorable" or "naive".
2006-02-23 : Kernel Panic — "
The Senator Wore Teal" — Character is accused of impersonating a U.S. Senator to post inappropriate material to Wikipedia.
2006-04-06 : User Friendly —
"for April 6th, 2006" — Though dissatisfied with results comparing Wikipedia favorably to the Encyclopædia Britannica
as covered by Nature magazine, Brittanica admits Wikipedia is good for something when Nature magazine's entry is vandalized to say "Stuck up nasty little cuss".
2006-05-19 : Applegeeks Lite :
"Applegeeks Lite 010" — An anthropomorphic final-exam chides a student to drop out of school and instead study "Wiki Pedia" (the test-taker points out that the exam might not know what it's talking about, as Wikipedia is one word and not two).
2006-05-19 : Cat and Girl —
"Cat and Girl versus Legitimacy" — Contrasted with a physical encyclopedia, characters note that in Wikipedia "the more voices that shout, the less legitimacy each voice has"—and the Catch-22 is that they cannot speak out against this trend to fight it.
2006-06-17 : Funny Farm —
"2006-06-17" — A character memorizes the Wikipedia entries on
Transformers to try and qualify him to act in the movie, and argues that although the authors of the article would be more qualified they're not desirable as actors because people who actually the articles are "nerds".
2006-07-18 : Jerkcity—
"With Your Mom Dot Com" — Criticism of the capitalization of a character's name in the comic's Wikipedia entry.
2006-07-21 : Punks and Nerds —
"strip 07212006" — Suggests that Wikipedia vandalism is rampant when one character urges another to vandalize the
Pringles article by adding "buttsex" to it, but she reports that it was already there.
2006-07-25 : Dinosaur Comics —
"#816" — Character decides to play a prank and substitute the word
evil on Wikipedia to
Irish evil, and instead of being chastised is praised by Jimbo Wales for his contributions to the Irish Evil article.
2006-11-06 : Shortpacked! —
Noncanon: Character at first vehemently denies to have been getting information about
Power Rangers movie from Wikipedia, and then sheepishly confesses that he actually was reading Wikipedia.
2006-11-08 : Dinosaur Comics —
"#879" — Suggests that Wikipedia
vandalism can be eliminated if there is agreement to vandalise only the
chicken article, and that this will have little consequence because chickens are well-understood (and thus no one should be looking them up anyway).
2006-12-15 : Questionable Content —
"Also Certain Webcomics" — Character attempts to argue that her life as a single person has meaning, but this is undermined when she reveals that she spends her free time arguing this viewpoint on the
DeBeers Wikipedia entry.
2006-12-21 : Applegeeks —
"Noodliness" — Insinuation that Wikipedia presents the
Flying Spaghetti Monster as factual serves to suggest that reading Wikipedia shouldn't be used as a substitute for traditional schooling.
2007-01-14 : Sheldon —
"Comic 070114" — When a character's response to a question is characterized as "a long, rambling answer that didn't really make sense" and likened to Wikipedia, this comparison deeply offends the speaker.
2007-01-17 : Sconeborough —
"the horror of Wikipedia addiction" — Characters suggest they failed to achieve life's goals because of a website even more addictive than Google (namely Wikipedia).
2007-01-18 : BoxJam's Doodle —
"Comic 20070118" — In a mock commercial for the "National Meat Council", characters tout meat's importance by pointing out that it has its own Wikipedia article.
2007-01-22 : F@NBOY$ —
"Wikipediatics" — As a response to the deletion of this webcomic's Wikipedia page, a character retaliates violently against an unflattering caricature of a Wikipedia editor who is portrayed as being impossible to torture due to lack of a life, genitals or brains.
2007-02-13 : Cat and Girl —
"Those Who Forget History..." — Suggests that with Wikipedia, it's no longer the case that "victors write history" but rather the I.T. professionals.
2007-02-14 : God Mode —
"strip 20070214" — Kraig looks up why
Clippy is not in
Office 2007, and is led to believe a fanciful story of his death posted on Wikipedia (the feature was removed in that release due to user dissatisfaction).
2007-02-20 : PartiallyClips —
"King and Jester" — A debate on
deletion policy is played out as a Wikipedia administrator (portrayed as a jester) argues that a King can't accept his article being deleted because of a fear of democracy, yet does not see himself as hypocritical by preventing the king from recreating it freely.
2007-02-21 : Joe and Monkey —
"#701" — Parodies guidelines for notability of a subject to have a Wikipedia page by suggesting
Earth shouldn't have a page, since "the only people who give a crap about the world are the people on it".
2007-03-03 : Halfpixel —
"Wiki of the Future" — Characters travel to the future where they every webcomic is considered notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia—but are horrified to find that Wikipedia is also how the society of the future decides who to execute.
2007-03-14 : Overcompensating —
"L Ron Harbl" — When asked how he knows so much about
Scientology, a character responds that he actually "only got Wikipedia knowledge" and they should find an actual expert in the subject.
2007-03-15 : Achewood —
"Comic 03152007" — While trying to enact revenge on a
sender of an email they've accused of
advance fee fraud, characters are shocked to find the sender has an entry on Wikipedia supporting his story (the punch line of
following strip indicates that the entry is probably legitimate).
2007-04-13 : Wondermark —
"In which Notability is determined" — Mocks the requirement of a printed source as the only way to verify a fact, by showing people pleading to be saved from Barbarians being asked if they have a printed reference proving they are under attack.
2007-04-22 : Wellington Grey –
"WikiPopes" – God is forced to intervene in an edit war between succeeding Popes.
2007-05-02 : xkcd —
"Online Communities": A geographic map of various
online communities depicts Wikipedia as being located among those which are more intellectual than they are practical.
2007-10-23 : Scary Go Round — "
Ch. 40: Most Haunted" — Ester derogatively suggests the reason Ryan is panicking is that he read the Wikipedia article on
gout.
2007-12-05 : Help Desk by
Christopher B. Wright — "
Climbing On The Banwagon" — A news reporter covers the Durova / secret mailing list incident, while a scrolling banner reports that Wikipedia has classified the tomato as a vegetable.
2007-12-18 : Girly (guest artist Diana Knox of Jinxville) Autumn 'n' Chuy – A Time For Love – A character looks up Wikipedia for dating advice and his girlfriend tells him never to trust Wikipedia. A stereotypical fat, lonely nerd is shown plotting to break up happy couples by editing Wikipedia.
2007-12-31 : History's Cup by
Ryan Estrada —
Emelio Largo mutters to a henchman, "You know, when I ask you to get information for me, I don't mean to check Wikipedia."
2008-02-14 : Irregular Webcomic! —
"Strip 1845" —
Kurt Gödel expresses frustration that "no matter what anyone does, there always remain statements which are true, but which cannot be proven within the system", implicitly referring to
Gödel's incompleteness theorems. It turns out he is frustrated at "citation needed" tags on the Wikipedia article for
elementary arithmetic.
2008-03-26 : Fans! –
#1645 – A person interviewing for a job with Aegis lists his greatest success as deleting all webcomic articles from Wikipedia.
2008-05-13 : Achewood –
[1] – Searching for "anything good" about
Finland.
2008-05-15 : Married to the Sea –
"Survival of the Spitefullest" – A
Woolly Mammoth (skeleton) expresses his surprise that humans can survive despite their relatively frail bodies, and a human (skeleton) remarks that we survive on spite...and he is going to edit Wikipedia to make the Mammoth "go down in history as the animal with the smallest dick".
2008-06-14 :
Unshelved –
2008-06-14 Dewey alludes obscurely to three comic book characters, prompting Mel to wish for "one conversation with you where I don't have to access Wikipedia."
2008-07-06 : xkcd —
In Popular Culture — Poking fun at the typical "In Popular Culture" header that many Wikipedia articles have.
2008-08-06 : Dinosaur Comics –
t-rexor mact-rexor – T-Rex tells about
Gregor MacGregor as though Poyais was an actual place and not a fictional one, because he didn't read the whole Wikipedia-article since it got boring.
2008-08-18 : Wigu –
[2] — an unnamed character calls out "Somebody check Wikipedia!" for exorcism instructions.
2008-09-27 : Achewood –
[3] – Ray asks Téodor to search for "commodore sex act", but Téodor gets redirected to "Guild of Purpose-Driven Commodores".
2008-12-27 : Slow Wave –
"Competing Churches" – In a dream, a man discovers that scraps of Wikipedia are the only knowledge left in a dystopian world.
2009
2009-01-13 : Charliehorse: Reaganomics –
[4] – "Are you going to spend every computer lab vandalizing Wikipedia?" "Wikipedia is a scourge that needs to die!"
2009-01-16 : Two Lumps –
[5] – Snooch justifies a logically unsound statement with "You have no
cited source for proof! So I'm right!" Eben notes: "...I should never have shown you Wikipedia."
2009-02-18 : xkcd –
Neutrality Schmeutrality – "Trivia: It's possible to create events which Wikipedia cannot cover neutrally."
2009-02-19 : Sandra and Woo –
Reliable Sources – Woo hates it when his opponent cites noted experts to back up his claims. (including a References section beneath the comic)
2009-06-20 : Unshelved –
[7] – Colleen objects to using Wikipedia to answer a patron's question.
2009-06-22 : Stripy Six –
comic #61 – Fuzzball (one of the main characters) discovers the
recent changes button on the sidebar.
2009-08-16 : Plan B –
fly1_01 – Wikipedia is listed almost next to last of the wonderful things on the Internet.
2009-09-25 : Piled Higher and Deeper[8]- an argument of the rules of softball in a professors vs graduates game results in an attempt to consult Wikipedia to settle the matter although this attempt is at least temporary thwarted by difficultly in finding a signal to allow wireless web access.
2009-12-14 : Doghouse Diaries —
More Funding Needed! — Puzzle logo discusses funding, in space.
2010
2010-03-01 : Unshelved –
[9] – A claim that gullible is not in Wikipedia results in the patron trying to add it.
2011-01-04 : xkcd – "
Misconceptions" – The author wishes he lived in a universe that requires, by law, that students to study the Wikipedia
list of common misconceptions the first Tuesday of February.
2011-04-01 : Doghouse Diaries – "
Who is, smartest?" – A comparison of the smartness of
Ken Jennings,
Watson and "any fool with a smartphone and Wikipedia".
2011-05-24 : xkcd –
Extended Mind The author's apparent IQ drops 30 points every time there is a Wikipedia server outage. Also, how to follow links in articles that will eventually end up at
Philosophy.
2011-05-31 : xkcd –
Advertising Discovery Wikipedia has trained us to believe anything with a little blue number after it, and advertisers will use it against us.[1]
2011-11-29 : The Magnificent Whatever -
What is this Wikipedia Nonsense Anyway? Some dim fellows find out that porn boxes also contain all of the information in the world.
2011-11-16 : xkcd -
Citogenesis Careless writers end up creating citations for dubious facts on Wikipedia.
2011-11-21 : xkcd -
Money Chart In a couple of areas it discusses different ways to look at the costs to run Wikipedia.
2011-12-19 : xkcd -
Mnemonics Wikipedia is referenced as part of a mnemonic to remember color resistor codes.
2015-03-17: Marvin -
Mar 17 Two-year-old Marvin Miller vandalizes the
St Patrick's Day article in an attempt to trick his playmate into giving Marvin all his toys. See also
before and
after.
Comics that mention the page on Wikipedia about comics that mention Wikipedia
2006-09-09: Irregular Webcomic! –
[10] – The Author, in a "Real Life" comic, mentions this exact page, and suggests adding a page about "Comics that mention the page on Wikipedia about comics that mention Wikipedia..." Note that his suggestion was a complete joke, and he actually asks readers not to make that specific page, because meta-jokes are not welcome in Wikipedia.
A later annotation from 2016-03-12 notes the existence of this section.[2]
Comics that mention comics that mention the page on Wikipedia about comics that mention Wikipedia
2006-10-26: Ninja Verses -
[11] - The character of Regular Ninja makes a point of mentioning comics which mention this exact page.
Comics that merely use Wiki terminology or cite Wikipedia
2005-11-27: Ghastly's Ghastly Comic —
"Blinded Me With Hentai" — (contains cartoon nudity and sex acts) A character's knowledge of cartoon pornography is expressed as encyclopedic by calling him a "Wikipedia of Hentai".
(date needed) : Diesel Sweeties —
"strip 1681" — Cites Wikipedia as a source for a definition of viral marketing.
2006-06-09: Quirk's Evil Little Webcomic —
[12] — Uses Wikipedia entry on metal fatigue as a source, links to it, in noting the statistics and experiments cited on Wiki and the lack of such data on the websites for "defense of marriage" groups.
2007-07-20: Quirk's Evil Little Webcomic —
[13] — References finding this Wikipedia page as incoming link in web server log, and creating a web comic about it, thereby causing a
recursive effect.
^Thus making Irregular Webcomic! a comic that mentions the section on the page on Wikipedia about comics that mention Wikipedia, about comics that mention the page on Wikipedia about comics that mention Wikipedia.
This is a page listing
webcomics which feature Wikipedia. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all the ones that merely use the word "Wikipedia". Instead, these are a compilation of those strips whose topic centrally relates to the encyclopedia and its perception in popular culture.
Common themes in the comics reflect
Criticism of Wikipedia—especially jabs at its vulnerability to vandalism and accuracy as a source. Frequently people who edit or read Wikipedia are mocked as the butt of the joke, with the insinuation that Wikipedia enthusiasts lack social skills and are "nerds", thus using the site is something one should be embarrassed about. The existence of this list creates an additional recursive topic for those authors that discuss Wikipedia for the mere purpose of seeing if their comic can be mentioned here.
A topic which has particularly heated coverage from webcomic authors is that Wikipedia will not allow entries describing many webcomics in the encyclopedia. This determination is made using
guidelines for notability, which is a subjective process that—although democratic at some level—is ultimately in the hands of Wikipedia administrators. Another wiki has been established which welcomes coverage of all webcomics regardless of fame (see
Comixpedia).
Series that always involve Wikipedia
Each instance of
WikiWorld webcomic gives an illustrated summary of little-known articles in Wikipedia.
2005
2005-05-27 : Jerkcity —
"Wikipedia" — A character complains about her name as listed in Wikipedia.
2005-09-14 : Nukees —
"Comic 20050914" — On a character's To-Do list, an item for doing
Quantum Chromodynamics homework is followed up with another item to "Wikipede" Quantum Chromodynamics.
2005-11-18 : Goats/Machall —
"comic strip from Nov 18 2005" — After receiving extended explanations with diagrams about how alcohol arrives from another dimension, characters describe a conversation as being like "watching Wikipedia have sex with a
Sommelier".
2005-12-16 : Penny Arcade —
"I Have The Power" — Shows a case of extreme editing bias when an editor alters
He-Man's glowing Wikipedia entry to say that he is "not really that powerful"...but turns out to be He-Man's arch-enemy
Skeletor.
2005-12-27 : Irregular Webcomic! —
"No. 1066" — Wikipedia is likened to a version of Google that just "makes up" information when there are no search hits on a topic. What's more, the comic goes on to mention the page about webcomics that mention Wikipedia, and goes on to tell the readers that the page about webcomics that mention Wikipedia should mention comics that mention the page about Wikipedia.
(date needed) : Diesel Sweeties —
"No. 1349" — A girl trying to hit on a programmer suggests he write her on
Friendster, and the tech-savvy guy responds that as she admits to using the site he's unsure whether to edit his wiki article for "adorable" or "naive".
2006-02-23 : Kernel Panic — "
The Senator Wore Teal" — Character is accused of impersonating a U.S. Senator to post inappropriate material to Wikipedia.
2006-04-06 : User Friendly —
"for April 6th, 2006" — Though dissatisfied with results comparing Wikipedia favorably to the Encyclopædia Britannica
as covered by Nature magazine, Brittanica admits Wikipedia is good for something when Nature magazine's entry is vandalized to say "Stuck up nasty little cuss".
2006-05-19 : Applegeeks Lite :
"Applegeeks Lite 010" — An anthropomorphic final-exam chides a student to drop out of school and instead study "Wiki Pedia" (the test-taker points out that the exam might not know what it's talking about, as Wikipedia is one word and not two).
2006-05-19 : Cat and Girl —
"Cat and Girl versus Legitimacy" — Contrasted with a physical encyclopedia, characters note that in Wikipedia "the more voices that shout, the less legitimacy each voice has"—and the Catch-22 is that they cannot speak out against this trend to fight it.
2006-06-17 : Funny Farm —
"2006-06-17" — A character memorizes the Wikipedia entries on
Transformers to try and qualify him to act in the movie, and argues that although the authors of the article would be more qualified they're not desirable as actors because people who actually the articles are "nerds".
2006-07-18 : Jerkcity—
"With Your Mom Dot Com" — Criticism of the capitalization of a character's name in the comic's Wikipedia entry.
2006-07-21 : Punks and Nerds —
"strip 07212006" — Suggests that Wikipedia vandalism is rampant when one character urges another to vandalize the
Pringles article by adding "buttsex" to it, but she reports that it was already there.
2006-07-25 : Dinosaur Comics —
"#816" — Character decides to play a prank and substitute the word
evil on Wikipedia to
Irish evil, and instead of being chastised is praised by Jimbo Wales for his contributions to the Irish Evil article.
2006-11-06 : Shortpacked! —
Noncanon: Character at first vehemently denies to have been getting information about
Power Rangers movie from Wikipedia, and then sheepishly confesses that he actually was reading Wikipedia.
2006-11-08 : Dinosaur Comics —
"#879" — Suggests that Wikipedia
vandalism can be eliminated if there is agreement to vandalise only the
chicken article, and that this will have little consequence because chickens are well-understood (and thus no one should be looking them up anyway).
2006-12-15 : Questionable Content —
"Also Certain Webcomics" — Character attempts to argue that her life as a single person has meaning, but this is undermined when she reveals that she spends her free time arguing this viewpoint on the
DeBeers Wikipedia entry.
2006-12-21 : Applegeeks —
"Noodliness" — Insinuation that Wikipedia presents the
Flying Spaghetti Monster as factual serves to suggest that reading Wikipedia shouldn't be used as a substitute for traditional schooling.
2007-01-14 : Sheldon —
"Comic 070114" — When a character's response to a question is characterized as "a long, rambling answer that didn't really make sense" and likened to Wikipedia, this comparison deeply offends the speaker.
2007-01-17 : Sconeborough —
"the horror of Wikipedia addiction" — Characters suggest they failed to achieve life's goals because of a website even more addictive than Google (namely Wikipedia).
2007-01-18 : BoxJam's Doodle —
"Comic 20070118" — In a mock commercial for the "National Meat Council", characters tout meat's importance by pointing out that it has its own Wikipedia article.
2007-01-22 : F@NBOY$ —
"Wikipediatics" — As a response to the deletion of this webcomic's Wikipedia page, a character retaliates violently against an unflattering caricature of a Wikipedia editor who is portrayed as being impossible to torture due to lack of a life, genitals or brains.
2007-02-13 : Cat and Girl —
"Those Who Forget History..." — Suggests that with Wikipedia, it's no longer the case that "victors write history" but rather the I.T. professionals.
2007-02-14 : God Mode —
"strip 20070214" — Kraig looks up why
Clippy is not in
Office 2007, and is led to believe a fanciful story of his death posted on Wikipedia (the feature was removed in that release due to user dissatisfaction).
2007-02-20 : PartiallyClips —
"King and Jester" — A debate on
deletion policy is played out as a Wikipedia administrator (portrayed as a jester) argues that a King can't accept his article being deleted because of a fear of democracy, yet does not see himself as hypocritical by preventing the king from recreating it freely.
2007-02-21 : Joe and Monkey —
"#701" — Parodies guidelines for notability of a subject to have a Wikipedia page by suggesting
Earth shouldn't have a page, since "the only people who give a crap about the world are the people on it".
2007-03-03 : Halfpixel —
"Wiki of the Future" — Characters travel to the future where they every webcomic is considered notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia—but are horrified to find that Wikipedia is also how the society of the future decides who to execute.
2007-03-14 : Overcompensating —
"L Ron Harbl" — When asked how he knows so much about
Scientology, a character responds that he actually "only got Wikipedia knowledge" and they should find an actual expert in the subject.
2007-03-15 : Achewood —
"Comic 03152007" — While trying to enact revenge on a
sender of an email they've accused of
advance fee fraud, characters are shocked to find the sender has an entry on Wikipedia supporting his story (the punch line of
following strip indicates that the entry is probably legitimate).
2007-04-13 : Wondermark —
"In which Notability is determined" — Mocks the requirement of a printed source as the only way to verify a fact, by showing people pleading to be saved from Barbarians being asked if they have a printed reference proving they are under attack.
2007-04-22 : Wellington Grey –
"WikiPopes" – God is forced to intervene in an edit war between succeeding Popes.
2007-05-02 : xkcd —
"Online Communities": A geographic map of various
online communities depicts Wikipedia as being located among those which are more intellectual than they are practical.
2007-10-23 : Scary Go Round — "
Ch. 40: Most Haunted" — Ester derogatively suggests the reason Ryan is panicking is that he read the Wikipedia article on
gout.
2007-12-05 : Help Desk by
Christopher B. Wright — "
Climbing On The Banwagon" — A news reporter covers the Durova / secret mailing list incident, while a scrolling banner reports that Wikipedia has classified the tomato as a vegetable.
2007-12-18 : Girly (guest artist Diana Knox of Jinxville) Autumn 'n' Chuy – A Time For Love – A character looks up Wikipedia for dating advice and his girlfriend tells him never to trust Wikipedia. A stereotypical fat, lonely nerd is shown plotting to break up happy couples by editing Wikipedia.
2007-12-31 : History's Cup by
Ryan Estrada —
Emelio Largo mutters to a henchman, "You know, when I ask you to get information for me, I don't mean to check Wikipedia."
2008-02-14 : Irregular Webcomic! —
"Strip 1845" —
Kurt Gödel expresses frustration that "no matter what anyone does, there always remain statements which are true, but which cannot be proven within the system", implicitly referring to
Gödel's incompleteness theorems. It turns out he is frustrated at "citation needed" tags on the Wikipedia article for
elementary arithmetic.
2008-03-26 : Fans! –
#1645 – A person interviewing for a job with Aegis lists his greatest success as deleting all webcomic articles from Wikipedia.
2008-05-13 : Achewood –
[1] – Searching for "anything good" about
Finland.
2008-05-15 : Married to the Sea –
"Survival of the Spitefullest" – A
Woolly Mammoth (skeleton) expresses his surprise that humans can survive despite their relatively frail bodies, and a human (skeleton) remarks that we survive on spite...and he is going to edit Wikipedia to make the Mammoth "go down in history as the animal with the smallest dick".
2008-06-14 :
Unshelved –
2008-06-14 Dewey alludes obscurely to three comic book characters, prompting Mel to wish for "one conversation with you where I don't have to access Wikipedia."
2008-07-06 : xkcd —
In Popular Culture — Poking fun at the typical "In Popular Culture" header that many Wikipedia articles have.
2008-08-06 : Dinosaur Comics –
t-rexor mact-rexor – T-Rex tells about
Gregor MacGregor as though Poyais was an actual place and not a fictional one, because he didn't read the whole Wikipedia-article since it got boring.
2008-08-18 : Wigu –
[2] — an unnamed character calls out "Somebody check Wikipedia!" for exorcism instructions.
2008-09-27 : Achewood –
[3] – Ray asks Téodor to search for "commodore sex act", but Téodor gets redirected to "Guild of Purpose-Driven Commodores".
2008-12-27 : Slow Wave –
"Competing Churches" – In a dream, a man discovers that scraps of Wikipedia are the only knowledge left in a dystopian world.
2009
2009-01-13 : Charliehorse: Reaganomics –
[4] – "Are you going to spend every computer lab vandalizing Wikipedia?" "Wikipedia is a scourge that needs to die!"
2009-01-16 : Two Lumps –
[5] – Snooch justifies a logically unsound statement with "You have no
cited source for proof! So I'm right!" Eben notes: "...I should never have shown you Wikipedia."
2009-02-18 : xkcd –
Neutrality Schmeutrality – "Trivia: It's possible to create events which Wikipedia cannot cover neutrally."
2009-02-19 : Sandra and Woo –
Reliable Sources – Woo hates it when his opponent cites noted experts to back up his claims. (including a References section beneath the comic)
2009-06-20 : Unshelved –
[7] – Colleen objects to using Wikipedia to answer a patron's question.
2009-06-22 : Stripy Six –
comic #61 – Fuzzball (one of the main characters) discovers the
recent changes button on the sidebar.
2009-08-16 : Plan B –
fly1_01 – Wikipedia is listed almost next to last of the wonderful things on the Internet.
2009-09-25 : Piled Higher and Deeper[8]- an argument of the rules of softball in a professors vs graduates game results in an attempt to consult Wikipedia to settle the matter although this attempt is at least temporary thwarted by difficultly in finding a signal to allow wireless web access.
2009-12-14 : Doghouse Diaries —
More Funding Needed! — Puzzle logo discusses funding, in space.
2010
2010-03-01 : Unshelved –
[9] – A claim that gullible is not in Wikipedia results in the patron trying to add it.
2011-01-04 : xkcd – "
Misconceptions" – The author wishes he lived in a universe that requires, by law, that students to study the Wikipedia
list of common misconceptions the first Tuesday of February.
2011-04-01 : Doghouse Diaries – "
Who is, smartest?" – A comparison of the smartness of
Ken Jennings,
Watson and "any fool with a smartphone and Wikipedia".
2011-05-24 : xkcd –
Extended Mind The author's apparent IQ drops 30 points every time there is a Wikipedia server outage. Also, how to follow links in articles that will eventually end up at
Philosophy.
2011-05-31 : xkcd –
Advertising Discovery Wikipedia has trained us to believe anything with a little blue number after it, and advertisers will use it against us.[1]
2011-11-29 : The Magnificent Whatever -
What is this Wikipedia Nonsense Anyway? Some dim fellows find out that porn boxes also contain all of the information in the world.
2011-11-16 : xkcd -
Citogenesis Careless writers end up creating citations for dubious facts on Wikipedia.
2011-11-21 : xkcd -
Money Chart In a couple of areas it discusses different ways to look at the costs to run Wikipedia.
2011-12-19 : xkcd -
Mnemonics Wikipedia is referenced as part of a mnemonic to remember color resistor codes.
2015-03-17: Marvin -
Mar 17 Two-year-old Marvin Miller vandalizes the
St Patrick's Day article in an attempt to trick his playmate into giving Marvin all his toys. See also
before and
after.
Comics that mention the page on Wikipedia about comics that mention Wikipedia
2006-09-09: Irregular Webcomic! –
[10] – The Author, in a "Real Life" comic, mentions this exact page, and suggests adding a page about "Comics that mention the page on Wikipedia about comics that mention Wikipedia..." Note that his suggestion was a complete joke, and he actually asks readers not to make that specific page, because meta-jokes are not welcome in Wikipedia.
A later annotation from 2016-03-12 notes the existence of this section.[2]
Comics that mention comics that mention the page on Wikipedia about comics that mention Wikipedia
2006-10-26: Ninja Verses -
[11] - The character of Regular Ninja makes a point of mentioning comics which mention this exact page.
Comics that merely use Wiki terminology or cite Wikipedia
2005-11-27: Ghastly's Ghastly Comic —
"Blinded Me With Hentai" — (contains cartoon nudity and sex acts) A character's knowledge of cartoon pornography is expressed as encyclopedic by calling him a "Wikipedia of Hentai".
(date needed) : Diesel Sweeties —
"strip 1681" — Cites Wikipedia as a source for a definition of viral marketing.
2006-06-09: Quirk's Evil Little Webcomic —
[12] — Uses Wikipedia entry on metal fatigue as a source, links to it, in noting the statistics and experiments cited on Wiki and the lack of such data on the websites for "defense of marriage" groups.
2007-07-20: Quirk's Evil Little Webcomic —
[13] — References finding this Wikipedia page as incoming link in web server log, and creating a web comic about it, thereby causing a
recursive effect.
^Thus making Irregular Webcomic! a comic that mentions the section on the page on Wikipedia about comics that mention Wikipedia, about comics that mention the page on Wikipedia about comics that mention Wikipedia.