Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Internet culture

Overlap WikiProject (Merge?)

I just stumbled upon this WikiProject while tagging articles for the Internet pop culture WikiProject. It seems to me that the two projects have enough overlap to warrant a potential merge. Both projects suffer from a lack of participants (just over a dozen on WP:IPC; even fewer on this one) and putting everyone's heads together might get a lot more accomplished.

Relevant AFD - Everybody Draw Mohammad Day

• Everybody Draw Mohammad Day

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Everybody Draw Mohammad Day. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 17:16, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Newgrounds up for deletion

FYI, Newgrounds has been sent to AfD for deletion. 76.66.193.224 (talk) 05:50, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Facebook at GAR

Main page: Talk:Facebook/GA1

Thought this project might like to now. Issues are mainly short paragraphs, sourcing, and fair use images. Tezero (talk) 21:48, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Creation of Jessi Slaughter

I believe this article should be created as it clearly passes WP:GNG. However, I don't know enough about the subject to create it. Christopher Connor (talk) 08:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Hey, Can you tell me why you thnk there should be an article? I could try to figure it out. ReginaldTQ (talk) 07:50, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

New article: Twackle

I've added Twackle (with help from the nice folks at AFC). It looks like it might be of interest to this project --Dmh (talk) 22:58, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

(It's a sports-oriented Twitter aggregator) --Dmh (talk) 23:02, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Relevant AFD discussion page

• Please see Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia.

AFD discussion is at, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 13:21, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Relevant AFD - The Bridge (2006 drama)

• The Bridge (2006 drama)

Relevant AFD, please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Bridge (2006 drama). -- Cirt (talk) 06:18, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Request for comment (eHarmony)

I am posting this here because "online dating service" is a member article of this project. Please visit eHarmony's discussion page for a discussion regarding the use of a citation that is critical of eHarmony. Some feel that it is a commentary by a notable competitor and should be presented as such, but others consider it too biased to be reliable. Shawnc (talk) 07:25, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Justine Ezarik/1

Be advised that there is a reconsideration of a delisting going on at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Justine Ezarik/1.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:03, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to participation!

Hello!

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Visit the Contribution project page and the Fundraising page to find out how you can help us support and spread free knowledge. Keegan, Wikimedia Fundraiser 2010 (talk) 06:04, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Exploding whale — Featured Article Review

I have nominated Exploding whale for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.

Scope question

Is this project limited to "pop" culture on the Internet (memes etc)? My reason for asking is that I run a blog exploring the impact of the Internet on society ([Human 2.0]) and am interested in the large scale ways in which society is being transformed. (As covered for example by The Virtual Revolution documentary). Let me know if this stuff is relevant here and I will get involved. Thanks Alexbowyer (talk) 18:08, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

It's an interesting topic area, and I'd be happy to collaborate with you. It might be best to start collaborating on some articles, attract other participants, and see where it fits the best. There are a lot of related articles in Category:Computing and society.

As you can see, this project is fairly inactive. I think its scope could be more useful if it were modified and expanded to cover computing and society, or technology and society. --Pnm (talk) 18:57, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps. As a sociologist of the Internet, and member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology, I'd like to note that I think all subjects covered by this project fall under WikiProject Sociology. Of course, they also fall under WikiProjects Internet, and Culture... I'd assume that Internet and society is part of this project scope. Computing and society, and technology and society, are however broader themes. C and S may not fall under Culture, and T and S may not fall under Internet, as they are broader.

On the sociological theme, members of this WikiProject may be interested in the existence of the Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association, which is very much the "Internet sociology" section, and AFAIK the closet professional body in scope to that of this WikiProject (note that ASA has also a separate Science, Knowledge, and Technology section, which is the one that deals broadly with non-computer/Internet "technology and society" aspect). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 19:23, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

New article: Net.wars

New article, created, at Net.wars. Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 21:53, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Semi-active

Considering the low activity here, I am marking this WikiProject as semi-active. Feel free to disagree :) --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 19:29, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

aXXo GA reassessment

One of the articles under this project, aXXo, is having its good article status reassessed, and may be delisted. Feel free to comment on the review at Talk:AXXo/GA2. Swarm ^X 20:59, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

twitter/facebook and Arab regime change

wondering if this should be mentioned here. Does social media have its own project? Going to go look. Elinruby (talk) 02:24, 23 March 2011 (UTC)elinruby

Sadly, no. This project is barely active, and so, frankly, is WP:SOCIOLOGY. You are more then welcome to join them and help us breath some more life into them! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 19:58, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Santorum (neologism)

Santorum (neologism)

This article has recently been expanded with additional sources and referencing improvements. There is also some ongoing discussion about that, at the article's talk page. If you are interested, please have a look at Santorum (neologism) and the associated talk page discussion at Talk:Santorum (neologism). Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 20:50, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

New article - Slender Man

I'm trying to get this article on its feet, and any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Cougar Draven (talk) 23:09, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

PORTAL ASAP

I think it's extra important to get a Portal for this project up. It would help with the organization for editing as well. I'm new to editing so could be mistaken and there may even be a portal already...? I might not even have the correct understanding of a Portal. Let me know! :) MrJosiahT (talk) 03:40, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Request for comment - Santorum (neologism)

• Santorum (neologism)

Request for Comment discussion started, please see Talk:Santorum_(neologism)#Proposal_to_rename.2C_redirect.2C_and_merge_content.

Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 06:25, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Want to advertise your WikiProject?

I have started making a Wikipedia page purely to advertise GOOD and ACTIVE WikiProject some users may find interesting. It's hard for new users to find a good WikiProject. That's why I'm starting this project, to help new users find WikiProjects that are interesting and can give them a few simple jobs. I've selected this WikiProject as one of the few I initially want to see advertised on this very special page. This will bring in a lot of new members to your WikiProject, so make sure you are ready! To get started, all you need is a statement, userbox or any form of advert-so leave a message on my talk page and I'll see what I can do! RDN1F (talk) 19:10, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Project

This seems to have slowed down a bit :(

Has there ever been a discussion on the validity of each (well known - origins and use citable) meme having it's own article? Who.was.phone (talk) 14:23, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

I don't know but I would suggest to put all the memes in one article named "Meme" and redirecting individual pages to this article --Spiningpunk360 (talk) 16:18, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Logo

Possible project logo

Why is the logo for this project a photo of the Earth? Why not a lolcat or some such thing? --B (talk) 05:06, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

botnet

you gotta be joking rigt? you mean i can try and send you these comments and you'll never get 'em back or the machine might as well die out on me so i can try and try to send this maessage over and over again? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.173.54.11 (talk) 22:51, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Uncyclopedia#Criticism_and_controversy

Uncyclopedia#Criticism_and_controversy needs to have its page content spread throughout the article. Having a single "criticism and controversy" section like that is NOT good writing WhisperToMe (talk) 00:22, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

possible hoax

I discovered a new article about a hoax or Internet meme which I suspect may itself be a hoax. I'd be grateful if someone from this project would look into it: Wyoming Conspiracy. —Stepheng3 (talk) 04:33, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Pageview stats

After a recent request, I added WikiProject Internet Culture to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Internet Culture/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 22:44, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Request for comments at Talk:Campaign for "santorum" neologism

Hi there. I've added an RfC to this discussion at Talk:Campaign for "santorum" neologism and am looking for additional input. Thanks. SGMD1 ^Talk/_Contribs 02:49, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Where are the "examples" of flaming?

In the section "Examples of flaming" there isn't a single example of flaming. It gives examples of topics that are frequently involved in flaming but zero examples of flaming. If the authors of this particular wiki wish to refrain from regurgitating examples of flaming then please re-title the sections to reflect the content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.26.107 (talk) 15:43, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Facepalm article for deletion

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Facepalm (3rd nomination). — Cirt (talk) 21:48, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

I will check it out. LMK if I can help weigh in ReginaldTQ (talk) 19:09, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Request for Tagged article

Hi.

There seems to be a stalemate in discussion (and possible COI issues) with the Tagged social media article. Any advice, contributions or general help by internet culture project editors would be appreciated. Thanks NCSS (talk) 04:41, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

I will check it out soon(ish). ReginaldTQ (talk) 03:10, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Rage comics

Good news everyone! Rage comics, the new internets lingua franca, now has an article and has even been verified by a contentious AfD! Now we just have to improve it!

So I'm putting the call out to all interested editors to lend a hand!

--Qwerty0 (talk) 10:38, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

I rewrote the content that was there and adopted a consistent citation style. Hope that gets it off to a good start! – Pnm (talk) 22:39, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Nice... I think I can add to it with an 'appears in' section. ReginaldTQ (talk) 08:22, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

So I did a 'see also' section, but it was remoed by someone. I would not mind doing some work for appears in altho would that get removed too? ReginaldTQ (talk) 21:17, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Well, I was the one who removed it. When something like that happens, feel free to post on the article talk page: Talk:Rage comic. Editors don't always agree about the best way to handle content, style, layout, so we try to reach consensus through discussion. There's a good essay on the bold, revert, discuss cycle which describes the approach I was taking.

The Wikipedia style manual gives some advice on See also sections which says, "as a general rule the 'See also' section should not repeat links which appear in the article's body or its navigation boxes." Since Internet meme was already linked from the lead sentence, and 4chan was linked from the relevant sentence, I don't think they need to be in the See also section, too. – Pnm (talk) 21:51, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Category:Internet memes and Category:Viral videos

The category viral videos is a subcategory of Internet memes. Yet everything in the categorized as a viral video is also categorized as Internet meme. Shouldn't this be changed? JDDJS (talk) 21:59, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Probably so. For a few I checked that did not seem to be the case, but this one was in both categories so I removed it from Category:Internet memes. – Pnm (talk) 23:26, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Qian Zhijun/Little Fatty debate

Hi! There is a debate over whether Qian Zhijun is now notable enough for Wikipedia,. Please see: Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Qian_Zhijun Especially for people who know Chinese, it is appreciated if you review the noticeboard post! WhisperToMe (talk) 02:08, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Shay Carl article

I am working on an article for Shay Carl under my user space which could eventually be moved into the Shay Carl name space. Please feel free to help and contribute at User:Aaronmchale/Shay Carl. --Aaron McHale (talk) 13:35, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

WP Internet Culture in the Signpost

The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Internet Culture for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 04:13, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

cool! I will check it outReginaldTQ (talk) 18:07, 12 February 2012 (UTC)