Wikipedia:Stackexchange and Reddit

We could forge better external collaboration with the purely education-oriented sites like math.stackexchange, and the education-oriented subreddits, like r/askscience/ and related - perhaps write them some quick guides for both finding good information in our sites, and assisting participation in our sites (and vice versa), so that we can hook /r/fashion/ together with WikiProject Fashion, and /r/chemicalreactiongifs/ with WikiProject Chemistry and Commons, and etc, in both directions. They're highly-active locations, filled with smart and helpful people. We could be helping and mingling with each other more. Not all of us, but some of us, more easily. More interconnected-web, less gated-community. Looser boundaries, and more informal pathways.

Guides
Make posts that are good enough to be permanent guides, linked from each subreddit's sidebar. (each subreddit has a sidebar, of FAQs and quick links to important threads.)

Mix with the brilliant w:WP:WPMED intro video.

Overview
Hook together,


 * https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/science/
 * with WikiProject Science
 * https://math.stackexchange.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/math/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/
 * with WikiProject Mathematics and Reference_desk/Mathematics
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/literature/
 * with WikiProject Literature
 * https://english.stackexchange.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/
 * with WikiProject Linguistics
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/history/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
 * with WikiProject History
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/
 * with WikiProject Economics
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/psychology/
 * with WikiProject Psychology
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/
 * with WikiProject Apple Inc.
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars
 * with WikiProject Star Wars
 * AND with https://starwars.wikia.com/
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/tea
 * with WikiProject Food and drink/Beverages Task Force
 * etc

maybe even
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive and https://simple.wikipedia.org/ - as people who are (potentially) skilled at using a reduced vocabulary to explain complex things.

Example - watches

 * /r/Watches + /r/WatchHorology + w:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Watches = Happiness!

WikiProject Watches currently has:
 * 1 article rated/peer-checked as "Good" quality: Bovet Fleurier
 * 1 list rated/peer-checked as "Featured" quality: List of chronometers on HMS Beagle
 * 8 "B" quality articles
 * Main category: Category:Watches

Those 2 subreddits have thousands of subscribers, contributing to dozens of threads each day. There are experts and passionate amateurs in there, who enjoy sharing knowledge and helping newcomers. We are natural allies.

Reddit wiki bots
There have been a few bots over the years that detect comment-links to Wikipedia and reply with an excerpt. Including:
 * WikiSummarizerBot - 2021–present - (github) - It can handle multiple links (example), AND section links (example) - More info: Intro post in r/botwatch
 * WikipediaSummary - ~2021
 * wikipedia_text_bot - ~2020
 * WikiTextBot - 2017–2020 - (github) - It could handle multiple links (example), but did not work with #section links. (request filed)
 * Autowikibot - 2014–2015 - (github) - It did work for #section links (example).

r/Wikipedia and r/MediaWiki
There are subreddits dedicated to If you use the popular RES extension to enable fancy auto-expansion, the old (non-beta) design looks like this: http://imgur.com/u5II7JF
 * Wikipedia - https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/
 * MediaWiki - https://www.reddit.com/r/mediawiki/

RedditEnhancementSuite
The hugely popular browser extension RES (RedditEnhancementSuite), has a feature that expands links to Wikipedia. (screenshot)

Code: https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite/blob/master/lib/modules/hosts/wikipedia.js (open issues)

NOTE: As of 31 January 2022, RES is in maintenance mode, which means no new features will be rolled out. See the announcement by the developers on Reddit