Shout out to this Wikipedia bot that you absolutely should've followed three months ago
Every Wikipedia page deserves love, especially the ones that share names with other pages. @wikishoutouts is doling out that love.
@wikishoutouts is a Twitter bot that’s been up since mid-June, and was made by Jeff Sisson. Sisson made the bot based on a suggestion that there should be a Twitter account that turned Wikipedia disambiguation pages into George Wallace-style shout outs.
For reference, Wallace’s shoutouts read like this:
Disambiguation pages are Wikipedia’s way of “resolving the conflicts that occur when articles about two or more different topics could have the same ‘natural’ page title.” You’ve probably run into a Wikipedia disambiguation page before: They delineate articles that would have the same title, and describe each article is about. For example, here’s the disambiguation page for “tailor,” which can refer to the profession, the kind of fish, and the character from a Heinrich Hoffman children’s book: