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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