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The Department of Fun is dedicated to providing Wikipedians with an entertaining Wikipedia experience. 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.

Contents

[edit] Wikitainment

[edit] 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.

[edit] Games

[edit] Humor

  • Wikipediholic This page describes the pros/cons of Wikipediholism and also includes a test to see how "wikidicted" you really are.
  • Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense This one is pretty much self-explanatory.
  • 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.

[edit] 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 Wikipedia:song 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.

[edit] 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.
  • Keep an eye out for an upcoming Jeopardy style trivia contest!
  • 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)

[edit] Quizzes

[edit] Useful and fun

[edit] Member userbox

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

{{user Department of Fun}}

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

[edit] Members

[edit] 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 am on the hunt for the best userpage. If you think yours could be it, or you know a good one, Leave me a message--Ali K 15:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  • 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)

[edit] 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.

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