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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
