Wikipedia:Department of Fun

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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.

Wikitainment

Contests

(Main Article: Wikipedia: Contests)

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.
Longest Page Name Ever The quest to find the longest page name on Wikipedia.

Games

Are You A Wikipediholic? Test Take this test to see how high you rank. Cheaters will be crushed by elephant.
WikiLadders, open two random articles and try to get from the first article to the second article using only the links on the first page.
Word Association - One person says one word, then another says a word that relates to it, and so on. This eventually evolved into something ~~huge~~ ~~enormous~~ ~~behemothic~~ ~~brobdingnagian, with many two, three, or Z-dimensional variants.~~ now quite bland and boring.
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.
Wikipedia:Contests (article-writing and other kinds) are another fun thing to do, all of which encourage users to make contributions.
Wikistory - A collaborative project to write a story.
Wikistory Sentences - Alternate version.
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.
Wikipedia:Wiki Game - Multiplayer game, see who can "find their way" to a specific page in the least number of clicks.
N Degrees of Separation Find the shortest path connecting two randomly chosen pages!
Wikipedia:WikiRPG
You know you've been on Wikipedia way too often when you...
Wikipedia the Movie.
Help improve Wikipedia while playing a game!
WikiQuiz - A contest similar to Wikifun but easier!
Three word story - Fun for the bored! Toppling records! Don't try to delete this one...or else!
another wiki quiz this one different
Wiki Scavenger hunt - Click the link and read how to play!
WikiJeopardy!

Humor

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. These articles are valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are somewhat odd, whimsical, or... well, something you wouldn't expect to find in the Encyclopædia Britannica. See Exploding whale for an example or just go to the unusual article link.

File:AtlasAward.jpg

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.
Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia anyone can edit, is a parody of Wikipedia.
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.
Humor category at Meta
meta:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
Grand Theft Jimbo - A project for an upcoming Grand Theft Auto game starring Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
Funny Quotes — List of funny quotes. Please add to.

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

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 Disney/Ride_Quiz - a Disney ride affiliated quiz
Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Quiz - a The Beatles related quiz
Wikipedia:WikiProject Futurama/Quiz - a Futurama realated quiz

Useful and fun

Wikipedia:WikiProject R&B and Soul Music need more members, are you able to join and contribute to articles with this scoupe? Take a look!

Wikipedia:Untagged images. Yet another Wikipedia fixing project. You'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures.

Wikipedia:Featured article criteria/another level of detail An expansion of the official Featured Article tutorial, with more info.

The Werewolves of Swinford

Template

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Member userboxes

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

--Aquarius Rising 05:07, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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

--E&M 01:31, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Templates For User Pages

I, Pier Snake have created a template for all users to put at the top of his/her user page. To add it to your user page use this. {{User:Pier Snake/Fun}} The template looks like this.

Members

Larsie 18:52, 27 Oct 2004 - Department of fun creator
Pheonix15 19:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In 2007, Wikipedia lay in ruins, and the words on the screen said: "Missingno. was here." 02:50, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Jimbo Herndan (talk · contribs)
Ravn 19:59, 27 Oct 2004
Chrispy 18:49, 28 Oct 2004
User: ISOLA'd ELBA
Pedant 01:10, 28 Oct 2004
+s j + 20:57, 29 Oct 2004
→Raul654 22:16, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
-- Grun t 🇪🇺 22:42, 2004 Oct 29 (UTC)
SweetLittleFluffyThing 07:47, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Danny 12:11, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Jimbo Wales 22:19, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Neutrality^talk
JesseW 12:24, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
BrokenSegue 12:35, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Dante Alighieri | Talk 22:21, Nov 3, 2004 (UTC)
--Jondel 00:57, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Ta bu shi da yu 08:03, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC) (how could I not join up? I'm the original author and substantial editor of exploding whale!)
— Dan | Talk 01:24, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
JRM 20:45, 2004 Nov 8 (UTC)
[[User:Marie Rowley|Marie | Talk]] 07:05, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Johnleemk | Talk 15:14, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Bart133 02:36, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Juraj Betak 07:57, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
kaal 22:12, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
PhaniSridhar 6 Jan 2005
WikiUser 18:34, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
r3m0t 01:27, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Lucky 6.9 20:13, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
multima 15:06, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
Gkhan 23:44, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
Grue 13:54, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
RENTASTRAWBERRY ^{FOR LET?} röck 16:23, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)
addesso 21:39, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Project2501a 13:09, 17 May 2005 (UTC) IN SOVIET RUSSIA, DEPARTMENT HAS FUN WITH YOU![reply]
Scnd 09:36, May 17, 2006 (UTC-5)
Demi 2005-05-18
Frenchman113 20:32, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
Ypacaraí 02:56, 2005 May 20 (UTC)
WikiFan04 02:14, 30 May 2005 (CDT)
the wub (talk) 11:15, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 23:55, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) Have taken over responsibilities of Wikipedia:Mind Benders
Zxcvbnm 16:50, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Eric 15:32, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
Bcat (talk | email) 4 July 2005 18:32 (UTC)
Quinobi PA system: main | monitor 16:17, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Ray 19:50, 27 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
—Gaff ^ταλκ 04:29, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Carptrash 17:18, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Tdxi a ng 陈鼎翔 (Talk) 11:12, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Aquarius Rising 22:47, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
deeptrivia (talk) 06:40, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Sean (talk || contribs)
WindFish 09:47, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
5aret
--Banana.girl 11:35, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
zachjones4 01:46, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
F e tofs ^Hello! 18:54, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
--Lewk_of_Serthic _contrib ^talk 01:44, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
(trogga) 13:11, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
tv316 20:51, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Perl 18:26, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Giftexpert 03:50, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Osbus 22:27, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
preschooler @heart my talk - contribs 16:36, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
General Eisenhower 23:46, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The Prophet Wizard of the Crayon Cake ^{Prophesize)
the_ed1 7 17:42, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Exteray Ray 18:00, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Stormscape 09:47, 25 July 2006 (UTC) Wikipedia is Funnuism![reply]
Hezzy 20:06, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Admiral06 04:18, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
bibliomaniac15 02:18, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Konako 15:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Friendly Porpoise 00:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC) I have Ideas![reply]
Jcam 16:08, 4 October 2006 (UTC) Fun is good ![reply]
Ilikefood 21:30, 4 October 2006 (UTC) I like food ''AND'' fun.[reply]
Dfrg.m s c ^{1 . 2 . 3} 22:34, 8 October 2006 (UTC) Chippy.[reply]
---Releeshan 18:13, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The Corsair 02:18, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
weirdoactor 21:27, 3 November 2006 (UTC) - HONK HONK![reply]
Lard-laden man-breasts Love me
Nyjen
Geekler 16:56, 18 Nov 2006
FML ^{hi me at pt} 18:55, 21 November 2006 (UTC) I love you![reply]
DJLarZ 20:23, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Nö†$®åM 00:42, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
1B6 15:29, 25th November 2006 (UTC)
Editor37 01:23, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
tgies 04:55, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
CanaryInACoalmine 14:56, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Debaser23 15:33, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
IWishIWasASuperstar 09:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
--Menasim( discuss | ) 13:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Stop The Lies 02:05, 14 December 2006 (UTC)Stop_The_Lies[reply]
--Sir james paul 03:29, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
--Blueflashlight07 11:13, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
-- Smcafirst is Glad to serve you, click here • Sign here • Chit-Chat with me • What I give at 16:16, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
--Insineratehymn^{(talk • contribs)} 04:07, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
--St.daniel 03:06, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
--01kkk 00:46, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
SUIT⁴² 21:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC) - Yay. Fun.[reply]
--Vassyana 11:01, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
-- ACBestMy Contributions 15:20, 9 February 2007 (UTC) I'll Join![reply]
LoganK 17:01, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Koolone i like fun
V60 ^{VTalk · VDemolitions · Editor review 2!} 03:54, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
ronbo76 Ronbo76 16:53, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
IvoShandor 17:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ebyabe 18:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Basilwhite 04:58, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
SensibleMenace 18:35, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
oshvision 11:39, 11 Mar 2007
AAA! ^(AAAA) 03:38, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A•N•N•Afoxlov e r hello!
theunicyclegirl
Alihandk| 15:46, 20 Mar 2007 (UTC)
Thor Malmjursson 16:23, 21 Mar 2007
Bass fishing physicist 19:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Emperor Walter Humala · ^{( talk? · help! )} 15:20, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Jet123 04:16, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
~ Giggy! ^Talk_Contribs 07:38, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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

AlexHillan 18:50, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- hmwith talk

Politics rule 23:22, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
TheThingy ^Talk 00:06, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PhishRCool 17:19, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Littleghostboo[ talk ] (Win an argument and leave your mark in

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

Eduemoni^↑talk↓ 22:34, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Mammamiamania 23:48, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Kevinwong913 ^{Speak out loud!} 13:34, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
FunJulie Hope I'll be barrels of fun! FunJulie 03:22, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Kylesandell 05:55, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Laleena^{talk to me contributions to Wikipedia} 18:51, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
File:Jacks personal flag2.png JacќяМ ¿Qué? 07:34, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sidatio - yes, the signature's a bit bland, but that's to hide my jovial nature. ;-)
Yaoi Kat na-no-da Am I fun? ...Yes. Yes I am. At least, I like to think so. ^_^
Sseballos 21:38, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Utopianfiat 21:06, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
G134dr 17:03, 15 August 2007 (ETC)
TomRed 15:12, 19 August 2007 (GMT)
Sector X 10:29, 20 August 2007 (UTC) I PWN J00 ALL!!1[reply]
l337p4wn^{talk to me contributions to Wikipedia}
EarthShift 31 AUGUST 2007 [[1]]
Darkside2000 20th Sept 2007 (UTC)
Roosterrulez (talk · contribs)
Munchman^Talk
Phgao 13:53, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Zacx8 (BeeTz)TuneNZ 19:34, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Extremecircuitz (Talk | Userboxes page) 01:03, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
KXS-KXS 18:53, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This user is a member of the Wikipedia Department of Fun.
dran0258 18:28, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
New4325
—Coastergeekperson 04^{'s talk} 00:28, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Surplu 00:08, 08 November, 2007 (GMT) I can has USERBAR naou
UPGO Monkeys
-- Vintei talk 21:51, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Monkey Man

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.

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)[reply]

It's on this User:Pedant and here 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 would like to see more people using the template Youshouldbe or signed to category Egocentric Wikipedians [2], what can I do? I'd be satisfied with such thing done. — E&M 15:44, 21 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]

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]

Other Wikipedian Associations

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