Wikipedia:Department of Fun

Internal Wikipedia humor project

For the essay, see Wikipedia:Fun.

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Only pages tagged {{ Humor", the guideline "Please do not bite the newcomers", and the project "Wikipedia:WikiProject Comedy " are NOT part of this project!

The Department of Fun is dedicated to providing the

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.

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To-do list for Wikipedia:Department of Fun: I'm trying to find the person who said "Millard Fillmore ate a rutabaga and badger muffaletta", it was in a discussion about deleting funny word but I cannot spot the original discussion... Pedant 03:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC) It's on User:Pedant and Talk:Inherently funny word#homunculus. Ronbo76 21:24, 20 February 2007 (UTC) You're welcome! Aha! it was Deltabeignet! WODUP 02:44, 16 May 2007 (UTC) Update 2020... Just for clarity, let it be hereby known that Deltabeignet's Millard Fillmore post was archived in December of 2016 to this location, where it is found not under the subsection "homunculus," but instead under the subsection "sock." Cellodont (talk) 15:33, 24 March 2020 (UTC) I would like to see more people using the template Youshouldbe or signed to category Egocentric Wikipedians [1], what can I do? I'd be satisfied with such thing done. — E&M 15:44, 21 May 2007 (UTC) I think we need to set up more voluntary associations, like one for Wikipedians who are interesting in being representatives to the other projects run by Wikipedia, click here for a prototype. Laleena 12:04, 6 September 2007 (UTC) Some concepts for development: AfD – Articles for Dilution BLP – Biographies of Living Penguins Don't Inflate the Blowhards Meatups for Sockpuppets — TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 18:16, 5 March 2010 (UTC) (Addition 13:04, 1 April 2010 (UTC) — TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK)) I have created the WikiProject Articles for dilution. RealSanix (talk) 21:19, 1 November 2019 (UTC) A template would be cool. A template that you could leave on a user talk page before your sig that said something to the effect of "the Wikipedia Department of Fun has been here." (Obviously more creative, I just can't think of anything right now). That way if I left a message with someone in the name of fun I could tag it with that template too. You know, so they know who's responsible for spreading the fun. Any takers for this fun assignment?A mcmurray 20:57, 20 February 2007 (UTC) I think a template for humorous related articles would be a better idea. Ronbo76 22:04, 20 February 2007 (UTC) Not sureI don't know if most users here are interested in contributing to humor related articles, but sure why not. IvoShandor 06:34, 30 March 2007 (UTC) Department_of_Fun}} E&M 01:56, 29 May 2007 (UTC) Easily mistakened for WikProject tags. Kayau David Copperfield MOBY DICK the great gatsby 06:48, 2 August 2009 (UTC) I am currently applying for a Wikia decicated for pages just like the above. When I get it I will send a link here.Darkside2000 (talk) 09:40, 29 September 2009 (UTC) ω Awaiting When you get it, can you apply for a Wikia for Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles? I would, but I'm not completely sure how it works. Leave a message 21:20, 14 June 2011 (UTC) We need to finish the Wikipedia movies, as documented in the "Movies" section in the page. We haven't finished #3, and we're starting #4 D: Thekillerpenguin (talk) 03:41, 21 March 2012 (UTC)  Done The third Wikipedia movie has been completed, so all of our focus can be on the fourth. Brambleberry Chat ♠ Watch 20:51, 19 April 2012 (UTC) Do you think that we should have flag icons for the WikiFauna? It would be quite interesting, and it would help me out with the battles in the Wikipedia movies that have the WikiPumas. Brambleberry Chat ♠ Watch 19:44, 19 April 2012 (UTC) Yes. Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty | Averted crashes 16:55, 20 April 2012 (UTC) Well, in that case, we probably need someone who can make them. All I've got is MS Paint, which I doubt would work. Brambleberry Chat ♠ Watch 22:40, 20 April 2012 (UTC) Some more help at User:Brambleberry of RiverClan/Wikipedia V: Brambleberry's Journey would be appreciated. Right now only three of us are really writing. Thekillerpenguin (talk) 02:38, 3 August 2012 (UTC) More WikiFauna! Daemon64 (talk) 18:20, 19 October 2014 (UTC) We need to have a complete census of all WikiFaunas. Anyone up to this task? Cheers, CompassOwl (talk to me!) 18:01, 1 August 2020 (UTC) Some people like having arguments, whether they do them respectfully or not, its good to get your opinion out. The Department of Fun should have a page designed for debating, maybe like Wikipedia:Department of Fun/Debate Page or something similar Someone can state/edit in their opinion about something, being entertainment, history, hopefully not politics, etc. and someone can reply their argument back, and they can go at it. It'd be fun for the debaters, and fun for people observing, either a civil argument or a nonsense spiral. I just came up with this now. (Talk tome?) 14:21, 13 October 2020 (UTC)  Done I added the link near the bottom of the page under Wikiactivities. --​-Keagen J. Cole ​🐾 (talk) 15:11, 18 December 2023 (UTC) What happened to the Wikipedia Movies? The sixth one is abruptly left unfinished on a cliffhanger, I also seem to see that editors feature themselves as major protagonists [insert promotion here: YAY MEisSCAMMER] can I do that too? MEisSCAMMER(talk)Hello! 22:10, 28 February 2021 (UTC) I'm working on the seventh Wikipedia movie! Anyone who wants to contribute scenes can do so here. Minkai (talk to me)(see where I screwed up ) 23:33, 23 September 2021 (UTC) I'll see how I can help Julie Minkai Wikiwow:) I've made a {{humor}} piece at Wikipedia talk:List of cabals § The WikiKnighthood cabal. Unfortunately, I've been taken to ANI over it. I need some urgent help in making it more funny, so I don't get permanently blocked. If you see a strikethrough my signature, then I'm gone, and sorry for failing you all. Jaredscribe (talk) 23:49, 29 March 2023 (UTC) I am hungry, please point me to the nearest McDonalds pls. thanks LilBigBoat (talk) 02:06, 3 August 2023 (UTC)lilbigboat  Done Taco Bell starve. SAMBOT2000xp (talk) 14:55, 13 September 2023 (UTC) I may have found a secret somewhere on Wikipedia. Need more Wikipedians to uncover Secret Pages. - Master of Hedgehogs (converse) (hate that hedgehog!) 12:37, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Quality and importance assessment

All Department of Fun pages are of the Utmost Bottom importance.

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All Department of Fun pages should be Stub-quality. Any better ones ought to be messed with until they've satisfactorily degraded.

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This article is supported by the Department of Fun, which aims to provide Wikipedians with fun so that they stay on Wikipedia and keep on improving articles. If you have any ideas, do not hesitate to post them to the discussion page or access our home page to join the Department of Fun.Department of FunWikipedia:Department of FunTemplate:WikiProject Department of FunDepartment of Fun articles Project This article has been rated as Project-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Bottom This article has been rated as Bottom-importance on the importance scale.

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Templates for user pages

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Icons

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Contests

• Wikipedia:Contests (article-writing and other kinds) are another fun thing to do, all of which encourage users to make contributions.
• WikiQuizzes, a game made up of various quizzes pertaining to a wide variety of subjects where users obtain points and awards. New quizzes are added often.
• 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

• Wikipedia: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.
• Wikipedia: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

WikiGames

Active Games

• Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure
• Wikipedia trading card game
• 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.
• Wikipedia: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.
• Wikipedia: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!
• Wikipedia: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!
• Wikipedia: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!

WikiActivities

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)

Humor

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.
• Wikipedia:List of jokes about Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Silly Things Self-explanatory.
• Wikipedia: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?
• Wikipedia:Featured article criteria/another level of detail
• Wikipedia:List of cabals
• Wikipedia:April fools Every year on April Fools' Day
  , some editors may decide to pull a few pranks on Wikipedia.

• Wikipedia: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.
• 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
• meta:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
• Rage comic about
  HWY Cup – The link
• 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
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• 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
• Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles A list of some true gems of hilarity that have alas fallen victim to deletionism over the years
• Wikipedia: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

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 Wikipedia:Poems about Wikipedia.

Quizzes

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

Galleries

• A Wikipedian Signature Art Gallery – by User:Athaenara
• Wikipedia: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.

Wikipedia:Department of Fun/Squabble Board