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For the essay, see Wikipedia:Fun.
Smile, Wikipedian, smile!

The Department of Fun is dedicated to providing Wikipedians with things to make them 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!

Wikitainment

Contests

  • Wikipedia:Contests (article-writing and other kinds) are another fun thing to do, all of which encourage users to make contributions.
  • Wikifun*retained for historical reference* This page deals mostly with a trivia/scavenger hunt type of competition. The winner of a round goes on to create new tasks for the next round and so on so forth.
  • WikiCup 2009 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 will likely become an annual event.
  • Wikipedia:Martin Luther King Day of Service - On January 15th, 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

Games

For an extensive, all inclusive, and extremely long, List of Games; click "show".

Humor

Songs

While Meta: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.

Trivia

  • Wikifun This page deals mostly with a trivia/scavenger hunt type of competition. The winner of a round goes on to create new tasks for the next round and so on so forth.
  • On IRC, there is already a bot (Sarti) that does this. Sarti is a bit flaky though, so I'm working on a bot to replace it. It will be a bit closer to quiz bowl style of play, with multiple clues per answer and a pyramidal question structure. Right now, the bot is command line only, so I need to add IRC functionality. →Raul654
  • Wikipedia:Articles for creation - some of the ideas for new articles can be interestingly offbeat. --Aquarius Rising 19:45, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Quizzes

Useful and fun

Templates

Project Template

WikiProject iconDepartment of Fun Project‑class Bottom‑importance
WikiProject iconThis 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
ProjectThis article has been rated as Project-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
BottomThis article has been rated as Bottom-importance on the importance scale.
{{Department of Fun}}

Running with Scissors

To view The Department of Fun Quality and Importance Assessment - click "show"
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Wikipediholism Navigation Box

{{Wikipediholism}}

Article or Policy Guideline templates

{{humour}}

{{Humorantipolicy}}


Member userboxes

This user is a member of the Wikipedia Department of Fun.

{{user Department of Fun}} --Aquarius Rising 05:07, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This user is a member of the Wikipedia Department of Fun.

{{User wikipedia/Department of Fun/v2}}

This user is a member of the Wikipedia Department of Fun.

{{User wikipedia/Department of Fun/v3}}

This user is a member of the Wikipedia Department of Fun.

{{User wikipedia/Department of Fun/v4}} --E&M 01:31, 29 May 2007 (UTC) fun is at the centre of parties,also at the centre of good friends.[reply]


This Wikipedian recites the Wiki Prayer regularly.		God, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,
The courage to edit the pages I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

{{User wikiprayer}}

Templates for user pages

Use the following template, mostly by User:Pier Snake, in your userpage:

{{User:Pier Snake/Fun}}

{{User:Pier Snake/Evil Bananas}}

{{User:Pier Snake/Aliens}}

{{User:Kayau/Disambiguation}}

{{User:Kayau/Insane}}

{{User:Kayau/Template:Vulgar}}

{{User:Kayau/Template:Disturbing}}

{{scrubmouse}}Template:Scrubmouse

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.

Members

Extensive, all inclusive, and extremely long, List of Members

*GreaterWikiholic 16:13, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not an anon anymore!!!! Yeah!!!! 16:35, 24 May 2007 (UTC) history.) Runewiki777 20:23, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ANOMALY-117 19:46, 2 December 2007 (UTC) im adhd i don't have a choice.[reply]

۩ Dracion ۩ ✎ ✉ 13:03, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

--Crehberg (talk) 23:59, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  *░▒▓Frogger3140▓▒░ (talk) 01:32, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

* ←Kalajan→ 

Talk to Gnmng Jreck here >>> (talk) 23:35, 6 July 2009 (UTC) Fun is cool[reply]

Assignments

If there is any work that needs to be done please post a description and the department of fun will see that it is dealt with.

It's on User:Pedant and Talk:Inherently funny word#homunculus. Ronbo76 21:24, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Aha! it was Deltabeignet! WODUP 02:44, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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))[reply]

New request

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)[reply]

I think a template for humorous related articles would be a better idea. Ronbo76 22:04, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I 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)[reply]
I've created a Department of Fun template to use on humorous related articles, review it. {{Department_of_Fun}} E&M 01:56, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Easily mistakened for WikPRoject tags. Kayau David Copperfield MOBY DICK the great gatsby 06:48, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Other fun Wikipedian associations

Some Wikipedians[who?] have formed voluntary associations to participate in various activities on Wikipedia. Consult their pages if you are interested in participating.

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