The New Yorker:

A group of comics discuss how to explore the strangest corners of human knowledge—via Wikipedia articles such as “List of soups” and “List of sexually active popes”—in front of a live audience.

By Naaman Zhou 

There are more than 6.4 million English-language articles on Wikipedia, covering knowledge as useful as “Bee removal” and as specific as “List of people who have lived in airports.” If compressed, the entire online encyclopedia would take up only twenty gigabytes. (Source for this claim? The Wikipedia article “Size of Wikipedia.”) On a recent Tuesday, four friends gathered via Google Meet to work out a way to turn Wikipedia into a tight ninety-minute show, to take place in downtown Manhattan, the following Friday. Three were local comedians; the fourth was Annie Rauwerda, a University of Michigan senior, studying neuroscience, who is the founder of the popular Instagram account @DepthsofWikipedia.

Rauwerda, twenty-two, is a year older than Wikipedia itself. For @DepthsofWikipedia, she ferrets out and posts the most esoteric extracts from the Web site—which is to say, from the collective sum of human knowledge. Some recent articles posted: “Timeline of the far future”; “Unknot,” a mathematical concept of the least-knotted possible knot; “Judaism in Rugrats.”
 

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