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WikiWorld comic: "Molasses"

WikiWorld is a weekly comic, carried by the Signpost, that highlights a few of the fascinating but little-known articles in the vast Wikipedia archives. The text for each comic is excerpted from one or more existing Wikipedia articles. WikiWorld offers visual interpretations on a wide range of topics: offbeat cultural references and personality profiles, obscure moments in history and unlikely slices of everyday life - as well as "mainstream" subjects with humorous potential.

Cartoonist Greg Williams developed the WikiWorld project in cooperation with the Wikimedia Foundation, and is releasing the comics under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 license for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere. Williams works as a visual journalist for the US-based The Tampa Tribune, a daily newspaper in Tampa, Florida. He also has worked as an illustrator and designer at newspapers in Dubuque, Iowa, and Dayton, Ohio.

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Rats. I was looking forward to an illustration of the Boston molasses disaster, though the Molasses Gang is interesting too. —An gr 08:40, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Double rats! I was looking forward to linking to Boston molasses disaster on this page, but someone beat me to it! :-) Carcharoth 16:56, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Candied rats!! Like you, I found the Boston molasses disaster article to be interesting - but there was just too much molasses-related goodness for a single cartoon. (Also, I'm not sure how I would have presented the death toll information in a lighthearted manner ...). Thanks for the notes. --Greg Williams 22:21, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Candied rats? LOL! In case you ever find a way to present deaths in a light-hearted manner, there is the Baldock Beer Disaster in a similar vein. Note the mention of a dog and "two further deaths from alcohol-related conditions". Strange. Carcharoth 00:48, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That comic kind of makes me hungry, kinda.... Just H 01:37, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You could just conveniently ignore the deaths...it might have been worth it for the comic effect. I also like the idea of the gingerbread-men, and right in time for the holidays, too!--Here T oHelp 01:39, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

LOLROTF!!!!!!!1111one __earth ^(Talk) 03:46, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, there's no way that handcuffs would work on a gingerbread man! :-) KarlBunker 21:00, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shhhhhhh, don't tell him. I don't think he's figured that out. --Greg Williams 13:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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