The Wikipedia roads thread

[NE2]

Also, MA 28 had vandalism for 17 days

17 days? Clutch the pearls!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alabama_State_Route_33&diff=583059849&oldid=564138530 (the actual reason was that 33 was east-west and 36 was north-south, and Alabama changed to directional parity in 1957, but that's original research without a better source than maps)

[J N Winkler]

Apologies for the bump, but this Slate article on Wikipedia's bureaucratic creep may be of interest to some:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/06/wikipedia_s_bureaucracy_problem_and_how_to_fix_it.html

[rschen7754]

Heh, I know who that is :O

Getting your user account renamed is probably one of the most bureaucratic things on Wikimedia though. You have to go to each language Wikipedia/Commons/Wikisource/Wiktionary etc. that you have an account on and make a request, and prove that the account is yours. There's also usurpations, and global account deletion...