Wikipedia:Department of Fun



The Department of Fun is dedicated to providing the Wikipedia community, both young and old editors, with humour to encourage them to stay at Wikipedia, indirectly improving the encyclopedia. Below, you can find links to fun pages or fun things to do, other Wikipedian Associations, and a list of members who help with the creation and upkeep of entertaining or fun pages.

Please, if you have ideas for activities or competitions, do not hesitate to post them to the discussion page or join the Department of Fun. And above all, enjoy yourself! No whats or buts.

Assignments
If there is any work that needs to be done please post a task and the Department of Fun will see that it is dealt with. Add new tasks to the bottom of the To Do List, by "Editing" this section. Use an asterisk, followed by your Task Description. Replies require a colon, not a small intestine. Template:Done not required, but encouraged. Sign with four tildes ~. This Section Is NOT For General Discussion.

Project Template

 * Department of Fun creates:

Navigation Boxes
Wikipediholism

Wikipedia fauna

WikiLove templates

Word Association

Civility

WP:UBS

Article or Policy Guideline templates
humour

humorantipolicy

humorous essay

Templates for user pages
{{ hidden {{tlu|User:Pier Snake/Fun}} {{User:Pier Snake/Fun}}
 * header = You can use the following humorous templates on your user page – click "show" to view
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{{tlu|User:Listroiderbob/Snazz line}} {{User:Listroiderbob/Snazz line}}

{{tlu|User:Pier Snake/Evil Bananas}} {{User:Pier Snake/Evil Bananas}}

{{tlu|User:Pier Snake/Aliens}} {{User:Pier Snake/Aliens}}

{{tlu|User:Kayau/Disambiguation}} {{User:Kayau/Disambiguation}}

{{tlu|User:Kayau/Insane}} {{User:Kayau/Insane}}

{{tlu|User:Kayau/Confirmed insane}} {{User:Kayau/Confirmed insane}}

{{tlu|User:Kayau/Template:Vulgar}} {{User:Kayau/Template:Vulgar}} {{-}} {{tlu|User:Kayau/Template:Disturbing}} {{User:Kayau/Template:Disturbing}} {{-}} {{tlu|User:Coastergeekperson04/Scrubmouse}} {{User:Coastergeekperson04/Scrubmouse}} {{-}} {{tlu|User:WVRMad/Smileback}} Hello ! Your smile has livened my day so much I have smiled back at you! You can share the wikilove at any time by adding   or    on someone's talk page. {{-}} User:EWikist/Templates/PunGenerator

{{-}} User:Mrjulesd/templates/silly

{{-}} meta

{{-}} User:Qwerty6811/EUS

Userboxes
You can also use some of the userboxes at the humour userboxes, as long as the userbox you choose does not contain any oaths. We do not encourage anyone to swear.

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DoF
A DoF icon has been created. Use User:Hi878/DoF Icon to put it on your user page. It is based on topicon, so it can be positioned in the same way.

Click for details, instructions, and an example of what it looks like.

Contests

 * Contests (article-writing and other kinds) are another fun thing to do, all of which encourage users to make contributions.
 * WikiCup, The WikiCup is a championship which takes place every year on Wikipedia. The cup is played and won by skill of editing, in which the purpose of the cup is to encourage mainspace editing and to make editing fun here on Wikipedia. Entry is available for any registered user; experience doesn't matter.
 * Last topic pool, a pool for guessing what the topic of the last article created on Wikipedia may be, and other pools.

Events

 * The Great Wikipedia Dramaout – On July 18, 2009, Wikipedians were asked to voluntarily refrain from editing all non-article areas of Wikipedia for 5 days, and instead dedicate themselves to creating, cleaning up, and building articles. The Dramaout was a huge success and was held two more times in 2010 and one time in 2012.
 * Martin Luther King Day of Service – On January 15, interested Wikipedians will work collectively on some of the thankless, but worthwhile maintenance tasks that have serious backlogs.
 * Community bulletin board – For more event postings

Active Games

 * The Wikipedia Adventure
 * The Elimination Game: WikiMedia – Finding out which Wikimedia project is the GREATEST OF THEM ALL!!!
 * What the Wikipedian saw – a tour of the inner sanctums of Wikipedia. A story that you can edit!
 * The Longest Wiki-Story Continue this story related to Wikipedia and while you're at it, add your name to the list of Legendary Storytellers! (I hope we get at least 1000 pages worth of Wikipediholism in the story.)
 * Are You A Wikipediholic? Test — Take this test to see how high you rank. Cheaters will be crushed by the elephant. Versions ordered from least to most funny:
 * Standard
 * Legacy
 * Modern
 * Word Association – One person says one word, then another says a word that relates to it, and so on.
 * Six degrees of Wikipedia This particular page is actually really fun. Based on the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, users are able to find the common links between any two pages.
 * Wiki-Link Game Although difficult to win, the Wiki-Link Game guarantees a random walk that might be diverting.
 * Wikipedia Roulette To play Wikipedia Roulette click the link, and if a page comes up that you have edited, you win. Extra points if you can either contribute something to, or correct something on, the page you land on.
 * Wikipoem – A collaborative project to write a poem!
 * Wikirace – A game for two or more players to see who can reach a certain page first.
 * You know you've been on Wikipedia way too often when you...
 * Three word story – Fun for the bored! Toppling records! Don't try to delete this one...or else!
 * Oops Defense – Add your examples of "Oops!" situations you've encountered
 * Fear Test – how brave are you?
 * The Odd Editor – What would strange people and animals contribute to Wikipedia? Now you can decide!

Wikipedia Movies
Currently only offered in script until it becomes possible, through technological advances, to edit movies like Wikipedia articles.


 * Wikipedia the Movie (2006).
 * Wikipedia II: The Users Strike Back. – The sequel to the above. (2008)
 * Wikipedia III: Revenge of Jimbo. – The sequel to the sequel to the above above the above. (2010)
 * Wikipedia IV: Attack of the Vandals – The sequel to the sequel to the sequel to the above above the above above the above. (2011)
 * Wikipedia V: Brambleberry's Journey The beginning of a new saga. (2012)
 * Wikipedia VI: The Last Editor The sequel to the directly above. (2012)
 * Rogue Vandal: A Wikipedian Story – A prequel set between the above two. (2017)

Wikipedia Musicals

 * Wikipedia: The Musical – a musical about a Wikipedian situation. (2011)

Funny (haha)

 * ______ Keep it blank.
 * User:Dannyniu/sandbox/The Ultimate Hoax of All Hoaxes
 * User:Thomas888b/Updatetheday Here is a list of fun things I post on my user page. It's small, But it's growing.
 * List of jokes about Wikipedia
 * Silly Things Self-explanatory.
 * Talk page highlights, some of the strangest exchanges that have ever occurred between editors.
 * The Editor510 Museum Of Wonderment, a new light-hearted museum. Visit and edit NOW. NOT Tomorrow. NOW.
 * Silliest wikilink of the month award
 * Wikipedia:God: Valuable Wikipedian, or disruptive editor with a history of sockpuppetry?
 * Featured article criteria/another level of detail
 * List of cabals
 * April fools Every year on April Fools' Day, some editors may decide to pull a few pranks on Wikipedia.
 * Or have massive edit wars over the title of a section documenting said pranks.


 * Terminal Event Management Policy
 * Wikipediholic This page describes the pros/cons of Wikipediholism and also includes a test to see how "wikidicted" you really are.
 * Unusual articles This page is for Wikipedians to list articles that seem a bit unusual.
 * The sandbox used for edit tests can sometimes be quite amusing. You might browse through the page's history to see what fun, or outright mischief, has happened to this page. If you remove something offensive from the sandbox, you might be awarded the "Atlas Award" -- named after Charles Atlas, the famed bodybuilder, who based his mail order sales business on his claim to have been a "98-pound weakling" who had had "sand kicked in (his) face" by bullies.  The sandbox is not a litterbox. If you want an easier way to find funny stuff put in the Sandbox, go to the Sandbox Highlights page, and if you find something funny, add it!
 * Religion and Wikipedia
 * Really Reformed Church of Wikipedia — Excerpt: Jimbo loves me this I know, For the Wiki tells me so . . .
 * Wikipedia Anti-rules is a compendium of... uh, advice.
 * Wikipedia Anti-regelm is the same as the one above, except in Wikipediholicish German.
 * Humor category at Meta
 * Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
 * Rage comic about HWY Cup – The link
 * Grand Theft Jimbo – A project for an upcoming Grand Theft Auto game starring Jimmy Wales
 * How the Senate or other such body might act if it were a wiki.
 * How Wikipedia can influence the course of history (originally posted in a sandbox here on Wikipedia).
 * Go here to see the End of Wikipedia.
 * Miniature Fun Department: Made to put a smile on your face. Don't worry, it'll grow.
 * WP:ANI *gets popcorn*
 * WP:Articles for dilution A Wikiproject to determine whether certain articles should be diluted or not.
 * Template:Uw-constructive1, a user warning template for editing constructively.
 * Template:User reverted by Jimbo, oops... looks like you upset Jumbo (you had better apologize RUN!).

Funny (weird)

 * List of bizarre and inane categories
 * Deleted articles with freaky titles A list of some true gems of hilarity that have alas fallen victim to deletionism over the years
 * Lamest edit wars, strange and often, but not always, trivial edit wars throughout the history of Wikipedia
 * Vandalism sonnets at User:Geogre

Songs, poems and other literary fun
While Hotel Wikipedia is the official theme song, there's no reason not to make up your own songs. Since it has been recognized that the Wikiholic in particular needs lots of ways to create their own culture or at least encounter their own despair, we probably needs lots more songs on the Wikisong list. Don't worry! You don't have to write music, just rip off a tune everyone knows and change the lyrics, marking it TTTO for "to the tune of" the victimized song.

These songs can be sung in public, but, that may only compound your problem. Just humming a few bars of the song can remind people of the Wikipedia-themed lyrics and create yet more in-jokes that will further isolate you from non-Wikipedian human contact. Which we encourage.

There also exists (as of 20 March 2011) a poem and a soliloquy about Wikipedia at Poems about Wikipedia.

Quizzes

 * WikiQuizzes, (see Contests)
 * WikiProject Cricket/Quiz – a quiz for lovers of cricket
 * Portal:Fish/Quiz – the Fish quiz
 * Portal:India/Quiz – the India quiz
 * WikiProject AFL/Quiz – Australian Football League quiz
 * WikiProject The Beatles/Quiz – a The Beatles related quiz
 * WikiProject Futurama/Quiz – a Futurama related quiz
 * WikiProject Warriors/Quiz – a Warriors quiz

Galleries

 * A Wikipedian Signature Art Gallery – by User:Athaenara
 * Facebook directory – A Wikipedian photo gallery
 * Wikipedian User Page Design Gallery
 * Visual cardlist for the Wikipedia expansion of Magic: The Gathering – by User:GeeJo

Misc.
Department of Fun/Squabble Board

Other fun Wikipedian associations
Some Wikipedians have formed voluntary associations to participate in various activities on Wikipedia. Consult their pages if you are interested in participating.
 * WikiFun Police, a WikiProject devoted to the improvement and development of the humorous aspects of Wikipedia.
 * not to be confused with Wikipedia Fun Police :)
 * Association of Apathetic Wikipedians
 * 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't Mean They Are Deletionists
 * Birthday Committee
 * Harmonious editing club
 * Welcoming committee
 * Anti-Fun Police
 * Motto of the day
 * Kindness Campaign
 * Invisible Association of Wikipedians

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