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Canadian Rangers participate in Operation Enduring Encyclopedia: Analogies between how Wikipedia works and how Canada works.

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Canadian Rangers participate in Operation Enduring Encyclopedia

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  Training boat for cadets
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  Candidates who pass the bar exam may become janitors.
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  Morning assembly
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  Data stream monitoring unit
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  Screening for contraband edits
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  On the lookout for incidents
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  Historical photo of early janitors, circa 2002
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  Wikipedians are on watch 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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  Emergency database change to read-only
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  Coordination centre
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  Counter-drone team watching for unauthorised bots
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  RCMP (Recent Changes Mobile Patrol) officer waiting for a deployment
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  Those accused of disruptive behaviour may be restricted or banished.
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  Rangers being alert in Alert
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  Marching band
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  Another type of Canadian Ranger
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  Officer uniforms
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  Briefing before searching for undisclosed paid editors
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  Examining a Wikipedia article's history for evidence
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  Checkusers on a routine investigation
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  Advanced training in deep learning
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  Network engineers work with a packet analyzer
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  Snack delivery for a hackathon
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  After years of experience, a ranger may take their final form.
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  Ordinary users may participate in making policy.
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  The official residence of User:Jimbo Wales
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  The stately building of the Arbitration Committee
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  Award given upon an honourable discharge

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• Please clearly mark this as attempted-humour in some way at the top. It is currently unclear and thus potentially insulting to actual Canadian Rangers who might not appreciate being compared to Power Rangers, etc. ~2026-20077-04 (talk) 21:02, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
  • You really think it's necessary to amplify beyond "Operation Enduring Encyclopedia" in the title? ☆ Bri (talk) 22:47, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Thank you for sharing the concern. For what it's worth, I think of this as being complimentary in a humorous way, both for Canadian Rangers and their teammates, and for Wikipedia functionaries. I considered the possibility that someone might take this in a bad way, but I asked a Canadian, admittedly not a Ranger, to look at an earlier version, and that person had no objections and even a compliment. By the the way, the title is derived from the redirect page Wikipedia:Operation Enduring Encyclopedia. Also by the way, I previously posted a different Operation Enduring Encyclopedia gallery in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-09-30/On the bright side. ↠Pine (✉) 03:42, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
  • If a Canadian Ranger were to actually think this is real, I don't think they should be a Canadian Ranger :) I have a lot more faith in their abilities. --Hammersoft (talk) 20:54, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
  • I'm not concerned about the Rangers' feelings, but I was a little confused to find the usual "Humor" section missing. I think it might've been funnier to know that was the idea going in. Toadspike [Talk] 09:56, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
    

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