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This page in a nutshell: An edit-a-thon is a special type of meetup to improve the encyclopedia. It is usually focused on a specific encyclopedic topic, and is a great way to attract new Wikipedians.
This is a guide for how (and why) to run a Wikipedia "edit-a-thon". An edit-a-thon can be:
a scheduled time where people edit Wikipedia together, offline and/or online;
typically focused on a specific topic, such as science or women's history;
a way to give newcomers an insight into how Wikipedia works.
Edit-a-thons improve the encyclopedia and can be a great way to help new Wikipedians learn to edit. This is quite different from large conferences such as Wikimania, which often have multiple speakers or panels about a huge variety of topics. An edit-a-thon is also unlike a regular meetup, which tends to be without a single goal and/or for socializing. In other words: an edit-a-thon is like a hackathon for Wikipedians (and definitely not like a telethon).
A training session on how to develop editathons and other editing events can be taken on the Programs and Events Dashboard.
Why run an edit-a-thon?edit
It helps build the encyclopedia
It provides access to topic experts, and to offline source materials
It builds relationships in the community
It encourages editors to learn from each other, and by doing
It entices people to become new Wikipedians
It helps new Wikipedians to contribute
It's fun!
There may be other benefits, such as promoting Wikipedia in cultural institutions such as libraries or museums, but it doesn't need to be more complicated than the reasons above.
Important: You should be aware of Wikipedia's conflict of interest (COI) guideline, which covers employees of an institution editing that institution's article. Also please check the Wikipedia:Advocacy essay; while not a Wikipedia policy or guideline itself, it is intended to supplement the WP:SOAP and WP:NPOV pages.
What you should have beforehandedit
Clear goalsedit
Define clear goals for your intended audience, such as a general group of articles you want to work on. This can be a broad topic, like women's history or items in the collection of a museum, or you can target a specific backlog. Newcomers often feel most comfortable with either a topic in which they have some degree of interest and a very simple activity, like copyediting or wikifying.
Be prepared with a list of things that need work or attention. It may be a list of subjects for which an article ought to exist. Even if nothing on the list gets worked on, it can help generate ideas.
Determine logisticsedit
When determining the date, time, and venue for an edit-a-thon, keep the following in mind.
Sizeedit
Find out how many people your venue can hold and limit the number of signups to that number. Alternatively, guess how many attendees you'll have and try to find a venue that will accommodate that many. It's simple with half a dozen participants, while hundreds can be successful given the right planning.
Internet accessedit
Participants must have reliable access to the internet, preferably strong wifi. This is important, as Wikipedia skills are best learned by live editing. Usually venues are chosen that can provide access, but some chapters have portable wifi hotspots to ensure connections anywhere.
Computersedit
If the venue has computers, consider the following when deciding on how to incorporate them into your event:
Which accounts/passwords do attendees need to access the computers? Does anything need to be done in advance?
Which browser is used, and does it play nicely with Wikipedia?
Can people connect cameras and memory card readers? Do the computers have image editing software?
If participants will be bringing devices, consider:
Does the venue have wifi? Can it cope with the expected number of users?
Which accounts or passwords do you need to access wifi?
If the wifi has a single password, post a sign with the details and check that you can see the sign from the farthest point of the room.
If the wifi requires you to have individual accounts, then have slips of paper and hand them out to each person as they arrive.
Can people use power sockets? Do you need extension cables?
Refreshmentsedit
Drinks and food will encourage people to stick around for longer than they might otherwise and provide an opportunity to take a break and talk with other editors. Make sure water is available.
Accessedit
Especially when edit-a-thons are hosted within cultural institutions, attending the event may not be as simple as coming in. Find out what the access arrangements are for the venue. Ideally you want people to turn up on time and be able to get in without disrupting your event. But there will be latecomers. If the venue has receptionists then introduce yourself and make sure they know what to tell people who ask for the Wikipedia event (if you have bling then offer the receptionist a badge, biro or beermat). If people are going to have to phone you to be let in:
If the only way in is to text or call you, warn them to bring a mobile phone and put a Wikipedia sign outside with a phone number .
Assign someone other than the presenter to answer the phone and let people in.
Find out if your venue is wheelchair accessible or has a hearing loop and put those details on your event page.
Real life or online?edit
Is it easier/safer/cheaper to run your editathon online rather than in real life? Post-Covid, more and more editathons are being delivered via Zoom or similar meeting platforms. Consider how you will send out invites, manage the platform whilst training is being delivered. You may need to appoint colleagues to manage the delivery platform and deal with chat queries, unexpected attendees, etc. Check if a subscription is needed to have meetings of a suitable length. Ensure you familiarise yourself with the practicalities of the online meeting platform well in advance of your event.
Recruit active Wikipedia editors and research expertsedit
Edit-a-thons go most smoothly when experienced editors are there to help new editors. One-on-one coaching is ideal, and one longtime Wikipedian per 10 attendees is a bare minimum. Coaches should also apply in advance for Wikipedia:IP block exemption and Wikipedia:Event coordinator, to be ready for problems that may arise. Connecting with a local Wikimedia affiliate or chapter provides access to support, expertise and promotion.
It can also help to include people who aren't experienced with Wikipedia, but are good at teaching information literacy. Librarians, for example, can teach about finding reliable sources and help build Wikipedia experience at libraries.
Determine how to create user accountsedit
Within a 24-hour period, only six Wikipedia accounts can be created via a single IP address. If there's a chance you'll have more than six new editors at your edit-a-thon, you'll want to have a plan for how they'll create accounts. As of 2019, this limit does not apply to event account creations that are run through the Programs and Events Dashboard, unless you will be manually flagging your attendees as "confirmed".
You can do one or more of the following:
Encourage new editors to create their account before they arrive;
Recruit an event coordinator to (remotely or in-person) help at your event; or
Request an exception to the limit for your IP address at least a week in advance.
Remember the limit applies per wiki, so if you have more than six newbies try starting some of them at Commons; bonus points for running multilingual editathons and encouraging people to create an account on the language version of Wikipedia where they are going to edit.
While actual editing may be difficult on the mobile site, people who can get a signal can create an account on their mobile; then use it on a PC.
Provide a way to find details and sign upedit
Write an event page. This is especially useful to recruit insiders to help. A subpage of Wikipedia:Meetup is easiest, but there are other options depending on the location and topic of your event. For an institution such as a gallery, library, archive, or museum, a subpage of WP:GLAM may be appropriate. If you are aiming this at newbies don't confuse them with a sign up page on a different wiki such as a chapter wiki, especially if that requires a different account to be created.
Providing a way for people to sign up outside of Wikipedia will be more inviting to new editors. Asking people who may have never edited before to navigate a meetup wiki page presents a Catch-22 where they have to edit a page filled with wiki markup in order to learn how to edit wiki markup. Good secondary alternatives are free tools such as Eventbrite, Meetup.com, or even a Facebook event.
Have appropriate forms for data collection afterwardsedit
This is important if you plan to report statistics on participant activity. There are two main ways to do this:
Using Wikimetrics – to use this tool you need to record participants' usernames and use appropriate forms to get their consent for you to collect data about their activity.
Using the Programs and Events Dashboard – contributors join events, and through joining those events, can be tracked for their contributions during a window of time.
You can encourage participants to make a user page, with a notice that they are under your instruction, to help other editors understand.
Ways to advertise an edit-a-thonedit
Although everyone is usually welcome at an edit-a-thon, invitations and publicity help encourage participation. Consider who will be most interested in attending (is the event intended for mostly experienced Wikipedians? Medical professionals? Women who haven't edited before? Some combination?), and where they're most likely to be. Then, tailor your outreach to the audience(s) you're trying to reach.
In rough order of effectiveness:
Geographically-specific software notice; these invite existing editors via their watchlist. Aim for people within two hours travel.
Scheduling an edit-a-thon in conjunction with a well-known event—such as the subject African Americans during Black History Month (February) or of women during Women's History Month (March)—can maximize attendance.
Ask people to help promote it to their friends and colleagues. Social connections are your friend.
Email relevant mailing lists (which may not always be a Wikimedia list! University departments, professional associations, and other groups can be good places to reach potential editors) (Remember that informing an email list is useful not just for potential attendees, but for letting others know of your activities which may inspire them.)
Contact editors who have self identified as being in the area.
Ask for help and participation from relevant WikiProjects, if a project exists.
Suggest a tidbit in the Signpost, Wikipedia's online newsletter.
Talk about it on social media, if that's your thing.
Write a blog post. If you don't have one, ask someone who has an active blog in Planet Wikimedia. (Yes, that includes the Wikimedia Foundation blog! You can draft a proposed Wikimedia Foundation blog post here.)
For the benefit of online participants, make clear the time zone in which the event will take place.
Tip: For a great registration URL link to use in your advertisements, go to your Wikipedia event page while signed out and click "Create account". The URL now in your browser will automatically direct people to your event page after they create their account.
During an edit-a-thonedit
Welcomeedit
Welcome people, find them a seat, tell them where the toilets and fire escapes are.
Keep in mind that whatever their experience level, editors will likely come with a set of interests. Ask them, and try to direct them to any related work that needs doing.
Unless everyone knows each other or there are dozens, you can start with a round of introductions. Nametags help, and experienced editors can wear a special sticker or color or otherwise mark themselves. At a minimum get all the trainers/helpers to stand up so people know whom to ask for help.
If you expect more than a handful of people and, particularly, if they aren't all going to show up at once, consider having someone volunteer to be a "greeter," to welcome people as they arrive and help them get started.
Make sure all participants have signed-in if necessary, and have access to any WiFi passwords, and are told whether any group training sessions are working in Visual Editor or Source Editor, and in desktop or in mobile view (and how to switch over).
Teachedit
Take time to help new editors create an account and learn a few editing basics. If there are several new editors at the event, they might like to be grouped together along with an experienced Wikipedian for guidance, so that they can support each other as they get setup.
Familiarize new editors with Wikipedia's core content policies (neutral point of view, verifiability, no original research) and content guidelines (particularly notability and reliable sources).
Demonstrate the use of draft space and userspace sandboxes for incomplete articles.
Demonstrate using the Article Wizard and Articles for Creation to confirm that a new article is appropriate before publishing.
Creating acceptable new pages is an advanced activity unsuitable for brand new editors. Encourage improving existing Mainspace pages as the best way for new users to learn. It is usually better to expand an existing topic until it's ready to become a spinout page, than to create a dubious stub. Data clearly shows pages created by new users get deleted at a much higher rate than pages created by users with as few as 10 edits over 4 days. Don't set new users up for disappointment as their new page gets speedy tagged or sent to WP:AfD.
Experienced editors are comfortable editing with the classic wikitext interface, but that user interface can be challenging for new editors. Suggest new editors use VisualEditor, particularly since it has Citoid (editors only need a URL to generate a full citation, at least for the most common news sources).
Experienced editors should have prior experience in VE, so they understand the interface. They should also know where the user guide is located.
With dozens of newbies, designated spaces for doing and teaching different tasks is a good idea (such as "Creating an account and making your first edit", "Starting a new article", or "Improving existing articles"). Whether that is simply a table per topic or a separate room should depend on the size of the group; no use isolating less than a handful into their own space when a larger group can bring more opportunities for mutual help.
Concludeedit
Make sure new editors know where to go to ask for help before the event is over (e.g., the Help desk or Village pump). It might also be good to have materials such as the Wikipedia:Cheatsheet printed out.
Take some photos! Even just one group photo at the end is better than nothing.
If you can get it before the event, hand out some Wikipedia merchandise. If there are many people and not enough t-shirts or other materials, you can raffle them off to be fair and create some fun. Having merchandise as a prize for the most-improved article is also a great motivator.
If your edit-a-thon is happening purely online, try to have a real-time discussion space where people can ask questions and chat. An IRC channel, Slack, group Skype chat, or a Google Meet are about as close to the ease of offline communication as you can get.
If you have another event planned for the future then make sure you announce it before people start to leave.
What to do afterwardsedit
Thank everyone who attended, especially anyone else who helped organize the event (a talk page message works great!).
Try to get a list of all the articles edited or created, the usernames of participants, and anything else produced at the event.
Upload event photos to Wikimedia Commons in "Category:Wikimedia edit-a-thons" (or a subcategory of that).
Write a blog post or op-ed for the Wikipedia Signpost talking about who attended, what got done, and how it went overall.
Send a survey to participants (optional)
Selective list of edit-a-thons in the English language or in English-speaking countriesedit
Below is an incomplete list, in reverse chronological order, of edit-a-thons organized in English language or in English speaking countries, including some others in non-English-speaking countries or regions.
2022
2022.10.12 Wikipedia:Mallorca Wikipedia Editathon - Octobre 2022 - Local editathon organized for a company by Wikimédia France
2021
2021.02.22 to 23 Wikipedia:First People Power Wikipedia Editathon - February 2021 Online and local editathon about the 1987 People Power Revolution
2021.02.19 to 21 Wikipedia:WikiProject Organized Labour/Online edit-a-thon Tech February 2021 - Online and global about trade unions and technology
2020
2020.09.21 to 23 The First Martial Law Edit-a-thon - Online event sponsored by both the Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission and the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Foundation. Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos
2020.09.19 to 26 Wikipedia:Meetup/Online edit-a-thon SDGs September 2020 - Online and global about topics related to the Sustainable Development Goals
2020.11.24 to 2020.12.01 Wikipedia:Meetup/Online edit-a-thon on climate change - November 2020 - Online and global about topics related to climate change
2019
2019.08.06 to 08 African Wikipedia edit-a-thon on climate change in Cape Town, South Africa
2018
2018.02.09 Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/New England New Play Alliance and HowlRound Wikipedia Hackathon in Boston, MA focusing on New England playwrights and theatres.
2018.03.08 International Women's Day editathon at University of Derby, England.
2018.03.30 Wikipedia:Edit-a-thon/Women Warriors in Times of War Edit-a-thon 2018 at Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
2017.01.18 Wikipedia:Meetup/St. Louis/Women's March in St. Louis, Missouri focusing on topics surrounding women and marginalized populations
2017.02.08 Liverpool's Medical History
2017.03.19-21 Wikipedia:Meetup/Sustainable Sanitation Alliance Edit-a-thon for World Water Day March 2017 @ SuSanA Platform Worldwide - Online edit-a-thon for World Water Day in March 2017 by Sustainable Sanitation Alliance
2017.05.25 Wikipedia:Meetup/Eugene/WikiAPA
2017.10.27 Edit-a-thon at UMass Amherst, on Black and militant women suffragists. Celebrating Open Access Week.
2017.10.28 Wikipedia:Meetup/St. Cloud/What is Wikipedia?
2017.12.05 2017 World Soil Day Edit-a-thon
2016
2016.03.16 Wikipedia:Black Women Intelligentsia/Virtual/Meetups Global Virtual Meetup Group
2016.03.25 Wikipedia: Edit-a-thon/Women's History Month Edit-a-thon at Tennessee State University
2016.03.30 Wikipedia:Meetup/Denton/TWU Women 2016 at Texas Woman's University
2016.08.06 Disordered & Reconsidered Wikipedia-Edit-A-Thon at 198 Community Arts and Learning, London
2016.09.21 Wikipedia:Meetup/Vancouver/LocalWomeninScience in celebration of Science Literacy Week and Wikipedia Year of Science, concurrent edit-a-thons at British Columbia Institute of Technology Library, Simon Fraser University Library, and University of British Columbia Library (meeting at Woodward Library)
2016.10.16 Wikipedia:Meetup/Utah/Foremothers Edit-a-thon at the Harold B. Lee Library in Provo, Utah, focusing on Mormon women's history.
2015.01.28 Medieval and Early Modern Women Edit-a-thon Swansea University's Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice project, Wikimedia UK, and Trinity College Dublin
2015.04.07 Art+Feminism Edit-a-Thon, UNC-Chapel Hill
2015.04.08 Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2015.04.17 Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Tech LadyMafia Edit-a-thon, April 2015: Women in Tech
2015.05.01 Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/UMDLabor - part of DC LaborFest 2015
2015.11.15 Wikipedia:Meetup/Whanganui/2015 River Week Edit-a-thon
2015.12.05 Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Wikipedia Primary School/Edit-a-thon 1 in Cape Town
2015.12.21 Wikipedia:University of Dayton Libraries/Edit-a-thon 1 in Dayton, Ohio
2014
2014.02.01 Art and Feminism 2014 Edit-a-Thon
2014.02.12 Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/AmericanArt COMM535 - American Art Edit-a-Thon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
2014.02.26 Wellcome Library edit-a-thon (Medicine, History of Medicine and Medical Humanities), London, UK supported by the Jisc/Wikimedia UK collaboration
2014.02.26 McGill University - Wikipedia edit-a-thon McGill in Montreal, Montreal, QC
2014.03.01 Harlem History Editathon - in New York City
2014.03.08 Innovation Law and Policy Editathon at New York University Law School
2014.03.18 Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Women Science - at the Smithsonian Institution Archives
2014.03.30 Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Women in the Arts2014
2014.04.04 Women in Jewish History, New York, NY
2014.04.15 tfm edit-a-thon at the Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies (University of Vienna), Vienna, AT
2014.04.19 Battle of Clontarf Editathon, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2014.05.10 Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedia APA
2014.05.23 Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Federal Register - at the National Archives and Records Administration's Office of the Federal Register
2013.03.14-15 Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Legislative Data Workshop at the Cato institute in Washington, DC
2013.03.22 Fashion edit-a-thon in Stockholm, SE
2013.03.23 Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/DC History - History Editathon at the Washington D.C. Historical Society
2013.03.29 Wikipedia:Meetup/Womens History Edit-a-thon - Harvard
2013.03.29 Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Women in the Arts2013 - sponsored by the Archives of American Art, of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts
2013.04.01-30 National Contribution Month in Canada
2013.04.14 African Americans in North Carolina edit-a-thon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2013.04.18 Ethnology edit-a-thon in Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden, NL
2013.04.26 Wikipedia:Meetup/globalwomen, a Global Women Wikipedia Write-In #GWWI, part of Rewriting Wikipedia Project
2013.04.29 Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Women in the Arts2013,In honor of Women's History Month and with food
2013.05.13 edit-a-thon in Utrecht, NL
2013.05.28 and 2013.05.30 Edit-a-thon at the NIH in collaboration with Wikimedia DC and Wiki Project Med Foundation
2013.05.31 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at American Library Association Annual, Chicago
2013.10.11 Women in Science edit-a-thon, the Royal Society, London, UK
2013.10.15 Women in Science edit-a-thon for Ada Lovelace Day, University of Oxford, UK supported by the Bodleian Library and the Jisc/Wikimedia UK collaboration
2013.10.15 Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2013 - Brown
2013.10.25 WikiProject: Chicago Edit-a-thon at the Pritzker Military
2012.06.16 World War I edit-a-thon, London, UK organised by Wikimedia UK and Jisc
2012.06.16 Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2
2012.07.22 Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/7
2012.10.12 Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/WLL/2012 - Backstage at the Smithsonian Libraries
2012.10.19 Women in Science edit-a-thon for Ada Lovelace Day sponsored by Wikimedia UK and Royal Society
2012.10.22 UMass Amherst Edit-a-Thon 1
2012.10.25 Independence Public Library, KS Edit-a-thon
2012.10.26 Wikipedia:Meetup/FemTech Edit-a-thon
2012.11.01 Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedia Loves Eagle Rock
2012.11.17 Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedia Loves West Hollywood
2012.12.01 Wikipedia:Wikipedia Goes to the Movies
2011
2011.01.14 wmuk:Editathon, British Library/January 2011
2011.06.04 wmuk:Editathon, British Library
2011.06.29 Wikipedia:GLAM/Archives of American Art/Backstage pass
2011.08.20 Wikipedia:GLAM/TCMI/Caplan Collection
2011.10.08 Wikipedia:GLAM/MoMA/Events
2011.10.22 Wikipedia:The Musical
2011.11.05 Wikipedia:GLAM/DCPL/Edit-a-thon
2011.11.19 Wikipedia:Meetup/NARA 3
See alsoedit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikimedia edit-a-thons.
Edit-a-thon on the Outreach wiki
Art+Feminism Organizing Kit - An editathon organizing kit, that works well for dealing with topics related to WP:Systemic Bias, specifically about underrepresented or minority community
mw:Wikimedia Research/Showcase#July 2021, about the long-term contributions of campaigns to article improvements
Referencesedit
^"Social Justice Wikipedia Edit-a-thon workshop - University of Victoria".
External linksedit
Case study: Wikipedia edit-a-thons (Europeana blog)
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Don't come down like a ton of bricks
Don't cry COI
Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify
Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid
Don't eat the troll's food
Don't fight fire with fire
Don't give a fuck
Don't help too much
Don't ignore community consensus
Don't knit beside the guillotine
Don't make a smarmy valediction part of your signature
Don't remind others of past misdeeds
Don't shout
Don't spite your face
Don't take the bait
Don't template the regulars
Don't throw your toys out of the pram
Do not insult the vandals
Griefing
Nationalist editing
No angry mastodons
just madmen
No Nazis
No racists
No Confederates
No queerphobes
No, you can't have a pony
Passive aggression
POV railroad
Superhatting
There are no oracles
There's no need to guess someone's preferred pronouns
You can't squeeze blood from a turnip
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Articles with a single source
Avoid template creep
Bare notability
Big events make key participants notable
Businesses with a single location
But it's true!
Common sourcing mistakes
Clones
Coatrack
Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
Don't cite GNG
Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity
Every snowflake is unique
Existence ≠ Notability
Existence does not prove notability
Extracting the meaning of significant coverage
Google searches and numbers
High Schools
Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
Independent sources
Inherent notability
Insignificant
Masking the lack of notability
Make stubs
Minimum coverage
News coverage does not decrease notability
No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability
No big loss
No one cares about your garage band
No one really cares
Notability/Historical/Arguments
Notability cannot be purchased
Notability comparison test
Notability is not a level playing field
Notability is not a matter of opinion
Notability is not relevance or reliability
Notability means impact
Notability points
Notability sub-pages
Notabilitymandering
Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article
Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
Offline sources
One hundred words
One sentence does not an article make
Other stuff exists
Overreliance upon Google
Perennial websites
Pokémon test
Read the source
Reducing consensus to an algorithm
Run-of-the-mill
Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
Subjective importance
Third-party sources
Trivial mentions
Video links
Vanispamcruftisement
What BLP1E is not
What is and is not routine coverage
What notability is not
What to include
Wikipedia is not Crunchbase
Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé
Two prongs of merit
Humorous essays
Adminitis
Akin's Laws of Article Writing
Alternatives to edit warring
ANI flu
Anti-Wikipedian
Anti-Wikipedianism
Articlecountitis
Asshole John rule
Assume bad faith
Assume faith
Assume good wraith
Assume stupidity
Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith
Avoid using preview button
Avoid using wikilinks
Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
Barnstaritis
Before they were notable
BOLD, revert, revert, revert
Boston Tea Party
Butterfly effect
CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh?
Complete bollocks
Counting forks
Counting juntas
Crap
Don't stuff beans up your nose
Don't-give-a-fuckism
Don't abbreviate "Wikipedia" as "Wiki"!
Don't delete the main page
Editcountitis
Edits Per Day
Editsummarisis
Editing Under the Influence
Embrace Stop Signs
Emerson
Fart
Five Fs of Wikipedia
Seven Ages of Editor, by Will E. Spear-Shake
Go ahead, vandalize
How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
How to get away with UPE
How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle
How to vandalize correctly
How to win a citation war
Ignore all essays
Ignore every single rule
Is that even an essay?
Mess with the templates
My local pond
Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them
Legal vandalism
List of jokes about Wikipedia
LTTAUTMAOK
No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
No one cares about your garage band
No one really cares
No, really
No sorcery threats
Notability is not eternal
Oops Defense
Play the game
Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
Please bite the newbies
Please do not murder the newcomers
Pledge of Tranquility
R-e-s-p-e-c-t
Requests for medication
Requirements for adminship
Rouge admin
Rouge editor
Sarcasm is really helpful
Sausages for tasting
The Night Before Wikimas
The first rule of Wikipedia
The Five Pillars of Untruth
Things that should not be surprising
The WikiBible
Watchlistitis
Wikipedia is an MMORPG
WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
What Wikipedia is not/Outtakes
Why not create an account?
Yes legal threats
You don't have to be mad to work here, but
You should not write meaningless lists
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