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Wikipedia:Department of Fun

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The official symbol for Humor on Wikipedia

The Department of Fun is dedicated to providing the Wikipedia community, both young and 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.

News and Alerts

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Templates for discussion

  • 08 Sep 2024 – Template:ClockBlock (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Pigsonthewing (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Miscellany for deletion

Assignments

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If there is any work that needs to be done please post a task and the Department of Fun will see that it is dealt with.
Add new tasks to the bottom of the To Do List, by "Editing" this section. Use an asterisk, followed by your Task Description.
Replies require a colon, not a small intestine. Template:Done not required, but encouraged. Sign with four tildes~~~~.
This Section Is NOT For General Discussion.

Quality and importance assessment

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Templates

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Project Template

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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
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Advertisements for talk pages

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Add a Smile to your posts on talk pages. – click "show" to see Smiles
  • {{subst:Smile}}


 

Hello Recipient, Example User has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.


  • {{subst:Smile|[[User:Example User]]}}


 

Hello Recipient, User:Example User has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.


  • {{subst:Smile|~~~}}


 

Hello Recipient, Example User (Talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.


  • {{subst:Smile|[[User:Example User]]|~~~~}}


 

Hello Recipient, User:Example User has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! Example User Talk 03:25, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.


  • {{subst:Smile|~~~|~~~~}}


 

Hello Recipient, Example User (Talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! Example User Talk 03:25, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.



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{{Wikipediholism}}

{{Wikipedia fauna}}

{{WikiLove templates}}

{{Word Association}}

{{Civility}}

{{WP:UBS}}

Article or Policy Guideline templates

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{{humour}}

{{humorantipolicy}}

{{humorous essay}}

Member userbox templates

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Wikitext userbox where used
{{Template:User wikipedia/Department of Fun}}
 This user is a member of the Wikipedia Department of Fun.
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{{Template:User wikipedia/Department of Fun/v2}}
 This user is a member of the Wikipedia Department of Fun.
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 This user is a member of the Wikipedia Department of Fun.
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{{Template:User wikipedia/Department of Fun/v4}}
 This user is a member of the Wikipedia Department of Fun.
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{{Template:User wikipedia/Department of Fun/v5}}
 This user is a member of the Wikipedia Department of Fun.
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{{Template:User wikiprayer}}
 
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.
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{{User:TheGreenMartian/UBX/nuke}}
 This user will nuke you if you try to delete their pages.
Wikipedia Department of Fun
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See Template:Userboxtop for grouping multiple userboxes.

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Templates for user pages

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You can use the following humorous templates on your user page – click "show" to view

{{User:Pier Snake/Fun}}

{{User:Listroiderbob/Snazz line}}

This user has a snazzy line at the top of their userpage ↗

{{User:Pier Snake/Evil Bananas}}

{{User:Pier Snake/Aliens}}

{{User:Kayau/Disambiguation}}

{{User:Kayau/Insane}}

{{User:Kayau/Confirmed insane}}

{{User:Kayau/Template:Vulgar}}

{{User:Kayau/Template:Disturbing}}

{{User:Coastergeekperson04/Scrubmouse}}

{{User:WVRMad/Smileback}}
 
You have new smiles
Hello Department of Fun! Your smile has livened my day so much I have smiled back at you!
You can share the wikilove at any time by adding {{Smile}} or {{User:WVRMad/Smileback}} on someone's talk page.

{{User:EWikist/Templates/PunGenerator}}

Pun Generator



The local pet store had a bird contest; no perches necessary.

{{User:Mrjulesd/templates/silly}}

{{User:Mrjulesd/templates/silly|meta}}

{{User:Qwerty6811/EUS}}

Emergency user shutoff button

 

Administrators: Use this button if the user is malfunctioning. (direct link)

Non-administrators can report a malfunctioning user to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.

Userboxes

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.

Icons

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DoF

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A DoF icon has been created. Use {{User:Hi878/DoF Icon}} to put it on your user page. It is based on {{topicon}}, so it can be positioned in the same way.

  Fixed Click for details, instructions, and an example of what it looks like.

Wikitainment

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Contests

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  • Wikipedia:Contests (article-writing and other kinds) are another fun thing to do, all of which encourage users to make contributions.
  • 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

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  • 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

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See also: Wikipedia:Wikipedia games

Active Games

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WikiActivities

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Wikipedia Movies

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Currently only offered in script until it becomes possible, through technological advances, to edit movies like Wikipedia articles.

Wikipedia Musicals

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Humor

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"Pulleth my holy finger," sayeth the Lord.

Funny (haha)

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Funny (weird)

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Songs, poems and other literary fun

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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.

There also exists (as of 20 March 2011) a poem and a soliloquy about Wikipedia at Wikipedia:Poems about Wikipedia.

See also: Wikipedia:Wikiderata

Quizzes

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Galleries

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Misc.

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Wikipedia:Department of Fun/Squabble Board

Members

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Extensive, all inclusive, and extremely long, List of Members. – click "show" to view.
 
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.
*EarthShift 31 AUGUST 2007 [2]

  19:36, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Other fun Wikipedian associations

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The Grand Smiley, overseer of the WikiFun Police

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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Who's slept with your mum...

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The dog that bites a lot

The guy that gets bitten

  • You;
...also see Bite force quotient

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