As all these ideas seem to be specifically focused on the English
Wikipedia...
Can I suggest that wikien-l might be more appropriate:
Or... the village dump on Uncyclopedia would work too
Peace, love & metadata
On 17 September 2014 16:51, Wil Sinclair <wllm(a)wllm.com> wrote:
And here I was, wondering aloud if anyone had thought
of something
like this before. :D As it turns out, Wikipedia has a rich history of
not taking itself too seriously.
Adding your link to some others efforts linked to by the Department of
Fun I've got:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Llama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Department_of_Fun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiFun_Police, which inspired
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Grey_Knight/Wikipedia_Fun_Police,
not to be confused with the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kausill/Anti-Fun_Police (splitters!)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Apathetic_Wikipedians
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Wikipedians_Who_Dislike_Makiā¦
,
or AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDAYBCADSPBATDMTAD for short
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Motto_of_the_day
Unfortunately, most of them are either completely inactive or
significantly less active than they have been in years past.
I think this is a tradition worth bringing back in a big way. To kick
things off, I'll reach out on the defunct projects' talk pages to see
if there are stragglers who might be interested in helping out with a
new or renewed attempt at humor; if appropriate, I'll help clean up
behind myself by archiving inactive pages. I'd prefer to kickstart
things by becoming part of a larger effort like Signpost, so I'll
approach the editors of the Signpost to see if they'd have any
interest in what would be the Wikipedian equivalent of a funnies page.
Lastly, this is getting down to specifics that are better taken
elsewhere. If you'd like to follow along or take part mail me offlist
at wllm(a)wllm.com, and I'll let you know once the effort has found an
onwiki home. As always, suggestions and ridicule welcome, but please
help me to continue the discussion offlist by mailing me directly
about matters that aren't of general interest to this audience.
Thanks.
,Wil
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:19 AM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Wil Sinclair wrote:
I'm wondering if there is place where the
lighter side of individual
Wikimedians and our movement can be shown front and center. What I'm
talking about would leave the controversial issues for wikimedia-l and
other fora, instead presenting stuff like funny stats about our
wikiprojects surfaced through clever metrics, the weirdest of the
weird factoids that we uncover in the process of documenting our
universe, interviews of Wikipedians on stuff they do beyond editing
wikis, and humorous essays that might venture in to good natured
lampooning of the movement. I'm already writing an article about the
next software feature to be enabled: Project Fish Bicycle. It will add
such features as full vertical reflections pioneered by Apple 10 years
ago under all articles, taking up only half the final rendered page
while compromising on a few minor existing article features, like
vowels. Think The Onion or your alma mater's humor publication:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_humor_magazines. With a lot of
poor attempts at humor, and the occasional viral grand slam.
So. . . is there something like this already? If so, could someone
please point me in the direction of the nearest editor, so I can start
contributing myself? If not, would anyone be interested in helping me
line up a first issue?
Well, there's <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Llama>. I feel
like
The Signpost used to include more humor(ous)
content as well. There was a
recurring cartoon called WikiWorld for a while, anyway.
Newsletters are typically delivered via MassMessage
(<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MassMessage>) these days. Anyone can
start one!
MZMcBride
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