The place that you are searching for exists. It is called Uncyclopedia:
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
I'm sure your contributions would be most welcome over there.
On 17 September 2014 07:17, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote:
Howdy all,
One thing I've noticed in my short time
Wil Sinclair wrote:
...
I'm wondering if there is a place where the lighter side of
individual Wikimedians ... 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,
Yeah, uncyclopedia is a good suggestion for one possible form of
content, but what I'm talking about is really much more about having a
good time onwiki by poking fun at ourselves and putting things in to
perspective.
Someone sent me a link to this project privately:
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote:
Coincidentally, when I eye up the participation levels on this project
and other WP humor projects (there are several more listed near the
bottom of that page) with some rough metrics, activity seems to have
peaked around
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
Why are we talking (once again) about enwp as if it was the only project ?
Isn't there a better place to discuss this, like the village pump ?
Le 17 sept. 2014 15:19, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com a écrit :
Wil Sinclair wrote:
I'm wondering if there is place where the lighter side of individual
Surprising though it may be, many wikimedians enjoy... working on Wikimedia
projects. They sometimes go out to the pub with each other and have fun in
real life. But let us not confuse enjoyment with fun.
Writing WP articles, uploading photos to Commons, transcribing wikisource
articles, working
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:
As all these ideas seem to be specifically focused on the English
Wikipedia...
Can I suggest that wikien-l might be more appropriate:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Or... the village dump on Uncyclopedia would work too
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Village_Dump
On 9/17/14, 8:15 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
As all these ideas seem to be specifically focused on the English
Wikipedia...
Can I suggest that wikien-l might be more appropriate:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Or... the village dump on Uncyclopedia would work too
Actually
Will, there are several areas within Wikipedia or at least the English language
version where humour exists and is tolerated by most.
Most obviously humour, especially of the self deprecating variety, is welcome
on user pages and in usernames.
April fools day accounts for two more of them.
Howdy all,
One thing I've noticed in my short time as an active part of our
community is that the more welcoming and likable aspects of our
individual personalities aren't reflect in our most public
conversations. For example, if a new editor went by this forum alone,
we might come off as taking
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