2006 August 1, Phil Carmody, “Apple II Debugger”, inalt.lang.asm[1] (Usenet), archived fromthe original on26 October 2025:
> Well, so says the Wikipedia (and we know how reliable that is). Good call. Anything I see inWonkypedia I always verify elsewhere.
2007 March 12, Dave, “Re: Recovery, just not the normal sort”, inalt.sysadmin.recovery[2] (Usenet), archived fromthe original on26 October 2025:
According towonkypedia[sic] it's an urban myth, and was really said by an inexperienced leftpondian sent over to cover a by-election in some godforsaken northern hole in the eighties.
2007 April 19, Richard Bos, “Recruiters who place people first...”, inalt.sysadmin.recovery[3] (Usenet), archived fromthe original on26 October 2025:
And for all the topnotchery of these programmers, their best efforts on half of all searches turn out onlywonkypedia[sic] pages, and (usually unattributed, so not easily filterable to the end user) outdated copies ofwonkypedia.
2019 July 22, MB, “New BBC soap”, inuk.tech.broadcast[4] (Usenet), archived fromthe original on26 October 2025:
I suspectWonkypedia raises a lot by selling content. There are lots of books on sale that are basically printouts ofWonkypedia pages, I presume that pay to use it though of course the people who contributed the pages toWonkypedia don't get anything.
2024 January 17, Roland Perry, “The Register reprises arguments about use of AI in legal work”, inuk.legal.moderated[5] (Usenet), archived fromthe original on26 October 2025:
According toWonkypedia: "In October 1886, Scotsman David Danskin and fifteen fellow munitions workers in Woolwich formed Dial Square Football Club, named after a workshop at the heart of the Royal Arsenal complex.[…]"
