Quoting gwern0@gmail.com:
On 2007.12.10 08:48:47 -0500, Michael Noda michael.noda@gmail.com scribbled 0.3K characters:
On Dec 10, 2007 8:32 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/071209.html and later.
So much for Wikipe-tan. (And as for that ant thing ...)
This is a repeat appearance for us.
http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/070114.html
This, too, is funny because it's true.
No, it's not. It may be funny, but if it is funny, it is despite of its falsity, and not because of its truth.
It wasn't true back in '03 or '04 when people first began really pushing that joke - so the comic doesn't even have the virtue of originality; that criticism is as old and stale as 'all your base are belong to us'.
Give it a try; click through Special:Random and see how long it takes to hit even a single fictional article, much less on a nerdy topic. I had to go 26 pages before I finally landed on [[Core worlds]], and then I went another 23 before I hit _[[Tramp Royale]]_ (although even that is debate-able as it is merely *by* a science-fiction author, and not itself actually a work of or about fiction.)
We must write more science fiction articles to make up for this. This demonstrates a serious deficit.
Joking aside, some of this is likely due to the extensive mergers that have occurred in a lot of these topics. For example, where we use to have separate articles for almost every Stargate SG-1 character most are now part of a long list. And many articles have also been transwikied or deleted outright.