Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-17 Thread Liam Wyatt
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 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 ourselves too seriously to leave room for
 the fun and satisfaction that usually comes along with volunteering.
 Moreover, we might be missing out on some of that fun and satisfaction
 ourselves. ;)

 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?

 Feel free to contact me directly or reply to the list. Whatever floats
 boats.

 Toodles.
 ,Wil

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-17 Thread James Salsman
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, interviews of Wikipedians on
 stuff they do beyond editing wikis, and humorous essays

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Humor

The Society for the Proper Summarizarion of Biased Sources meets
Saturday afternoons at http://tawk.com/notcabal except in case of rain.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-17 Thread Wil Sinclair
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
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-17 Thread Nathan
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 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)


Snipped this bit because... activity declining as activity declines is not
unexpected behavior :P

Perhaps you should found a humor column for the Signpost? I'm sure if you
are willing to contribute fairly regularly (or able to find others), they
would consider making it a standard bit.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-17 Thread MZMcBride
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
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-17 Thread Pipo Le Clown
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
 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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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-17 Thread Liam Wyatt
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 with newbies anywhere... these are not fun and are not
supposed to be fun. Because we all believe in the greater mission of
free-knowledge these activities are enjoyable.

If you want to see *funny* things on [English] Wikipedia, go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project:Bad_Jokes_and_Other_Deleted_Nonsense
or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles

For everything else - there's always http://zombo.com/ Anyone can have fun
there for as long as they wish.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-17 Thread Wil Sinclair
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_Making_Broad_Judgments_About_the_Worthiness_of_a_General_Category_of_Article,_and_Who_Are_in_Favor_of_the_Deletion_of_Some_Particularly_Bad_Articles,_but_That_Doesn%27t_Mean_They_Are_Deletionists,
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 w...@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...@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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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-17 Thread Liam Wyatt
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

wittylama.com
Peace, love  metadata

On 17 September 2014 16:51, Wil Sinclair w...@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_Making_Broad_Judgments_About_the_Worthiness_of_a_General_Category_of_Article,_and_Who_Are_in_Favor_of_the_Deletion_of_Some_Particularly_Bad_Articles,_but_That_Doesn%27t_Mean_They_Are_Deletionists
 ,
 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 w...@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...@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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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-17 Thread Legoktm
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 Uncyclopedia left Wikia a while back[1], the real Village Dump
is at [2].

[1] http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2013/01/07/uncyclopedia-has-left-wikia/
[2] http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Forum:Village_Dump

-- Legoktm

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-17 Thread WereSpielChequers
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. The collaborative and 
premeditated one is that on that special day the main page of Wikipedia will be 
full of stories that look like spoofs but are as real as the museum of bad art. 
At this time of the year people are probably already discussing the possible 
featured article for that day. My hope is that some year it will be Heavy metal 
umlaut. One of the beauties of that process is it is the day you are most 
likely to have a featured article that is actually crowd sourced rather than 
largely the work of one individual.

Also on April fools day there are usually an assortment of humorous AFDs MFDs, 
RFAs and on one occasion even a request for signatureship. As long as people 
keep their antics out of article space there is a long tradition of this, and 
of criticising it for lack of originality. There are of course only so many 
ways in which one can argue for the article on the Earth to be deleted.

But while it is tolerated by most, there are people who don't like to see 
humour in the project. I suspect that some see it as a slippery slope to 
vandalism. Certainly there is the common excuse among vandals that they were 
only having a joke. Latitude is obviously cut for people who are primarily here 
to further the project, but editors who are solely or primarily involved in 
humour will soon find their humour at MFD.


 

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[Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-16 Thread Wil Sinclair
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 ourselves too seriously to leave room for
the fun and satisfaction that usually comes along with volunteering.
Moreover, we might be missing out on some of that fun and satisfaction
ourselves. ;)

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?

Feel free to contact me directly or reply to the list. Whatever floats boats.

Toodles.
,Wil

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