http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1672.html

In the same theme, a number of other jokes about Wikipedia:

http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/comic.php...eme=9&dir=prev5

Another one just as amusing is this one:



Note that this web comic is why I first used Wikipedia. It talks about Wikipedia in almost every strip, referencing it non-stop, and comes from one of the most pro-Wikipedia people you'll ever find.

Even he has time to joke at the expense of Wikipedia.

Cute.

Notice the cat in No. 1634

IWC has some weird thing about hotlinking the images, so the first image will only work x amount of times, sorry about that.

The point is that its actually quite true. If you want to make something sound true, you can use Wikipedia to do it. You can't simply write it on Wikipedia directly, you first have to manipulate something else.

This was a fictional scenario of 3 martians landing on earth being falsely represented as Mars taking over Earth, which resulted in the Earth government surrendering. However, the scenario is one which could, at least to some extent, refer to anything.

I know where there's an image that was uploaded that was copyrighted but the image was falsely claimed as public domain because the uploader made a fake free hosting site claiming they made it and released it publically. That image eventually got put on commons. Years later the uploader changed their site to say something like "haha I fooled wikipedia" and so it get deleted on en. But it's still on commons by the same name so the article it's in remained the same with the image.

I'm often tempted to say what it was, but then that'd ruin the whole surprise when 10 years later wikipedia finally finds out.

Oh no IWC doesn't mind you using his images. Its just that if you hotlink it like this, then it comes out of his hosting costs. So he'd prefer it if you saved it somewhere on your machine, or else just used a link to the strip.