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.
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.
Add a Smile to your posts on talk pages. – click "show" to see Smiles
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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
DoF
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.
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
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.
What the Wikipedian saw – a tour of the inner sanctums of Wikipedia. A story that you can edit!
The Never-Ending Story Continue this story related to Wikipedia and while you're at it, add your name to the list of Legendary Storytellers! (I hope we get at least 1000 pages worth of Wikipediholism in the story.)
Are You A Wikipediholic? Test — Take this test to see how high you rank. Cheaters will be crushed by the elephant. Versions ordered from least to most funny:
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.
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.
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.
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. If you want an easier way to find funny stuff put in the Sandbox, go to the Sandbox Highlights page, and if you find something funny, add it!
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.
Wikipedia Anti-regelm is the same as the one above, except in Wikipediholicish German.
Humor category at Meta
meta:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
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.
Editor510drop us a line, mate 19:53, 20 May 2008 (UTC) I IZ DA FUN RULER OF DA UNIVERS-Oh mum, please! I'm in the middle of something! Where was I? Oh yeah! UNIVERSE! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH-cough cough-HAHAHA[reply]
--OrduinDiscuss 21:36, 29 January 2015 (UTC) Well my UserPage is in the humor category... And that should tell you everything you need to know about me. Or does it?[reply]
The Wrong Tea (talk) 18:05, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thereallaurak12345 (talk) 18:50, 17 April 2017 (UTC) I am also a member of The Dark Side! (As well as the American Mafia.)[reply]
So, I guess I'm in this now? I believe that part of the purpose of life is to have fun, so I think I qualify. WikiSquirrel42 (talk) 04:15, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Some Wikipedians[who?] have formed voluntary associations to participate in various activities on Wikipedia. Consult their pages if you are interested in participating.
WikiFun Police, a WikiProject devoted to the improvement and development of the humorous aspects of Wikipedia.
Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are in Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They Are Deletionists
Father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate's new roommate's friend from when they were two years old's sister's husband's son's wife's mother's favorite actor's second-cousin twice removed