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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Department_of_Fun. That basically includes all the ideas I had thought up + some. In fact, what I'm describing is what might result from an regular publication or section of a publication produced by this project. There are some ~280 members listed on that page, though many are inactive. It's hard to tell which might still be relevant and/or appropriate, but the hundreds of articles categorized as Wikipedia humor that can be reached from that page would provide an great pool of content to keep a newsletter running with a consistent size and format when there isn't enough new content produced for an entire issue. Does anyone know what this project is currently doing to raise the visibility of its content and activities? Has a regular publication been considered or tried, then decided against for some reason? It seems like a pretty natural fit. The original creator seems to have gone inactive. Does anyone know who is leading this effort today? I'll ask these questions on the project's talk page, too, but if you're currently involved or are also interested in contributing to a completely unencyclopedic effort like this, please contact me so we can coordinate efforts. 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 the same time as the number of active WP editors. Correlation doesn't imply causation one way or the other, but it is definitely a coincidence worth noting. Ta's. ,Wil (aka wllm) On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Cristian Consonni <kikkocrist...@gmail.com> wrote: > Il 17/Set/2014 09:50 "Liam Wyatt" <liamwy...@gmail.com> ha scritto: >> >> The place that you are searching for exists. It is called Uncyclopedia: >> http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page > > But please note that Unencyclopedia is not a project of the Wikimedia > Foundation. > > C > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
