User:OlEnglish/Useful links and bookmarks

This is not Wikipedia
A Brief History of Usenet: What went wrong? A great essay to read and compare with Wikipedia's growth
The Missing Wikipedians - On the current and future state of Wikipedia, very interesting reading
The Hive - On the history of Wikipedia and its processes, by Marshall Poe

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Countervandalism.net, WPCVN.com
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Odd links
IBM's Chromogram - Visualize your edit history
Java-based Wikipedia Library - An application programming interface for Wikipedia
Wikidata Reasonator
Wikipedia GapFinder

Deletion

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Wikipedia:Vanispamcruftisement

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Deletion review guide

meta:Inclupedia

WikiDumper.org

Includipedia (down)

Deletionpedia

Wikibin: The Recycle Bin of Wikipedia

Visualizing Deletion Discussions

It's all fun and games until...

User:I dream of horses/Funny stuff
User:KnowledgeOfSelf/Funny things
User:Hans Dunkelberg/Denis Diderot and Jimmy Wales
User:NawlinWiki/List of things that will get speedily deleted
User:Yomangan/A bastard's guide to writing a featured article
User:GlassCobra/Essays/Hotties are always notable
User:GlassCobra/Editor for deletion
User:Radiant!/Classification of admins
User:Tony1/Silliest wikilink of the month award
User:Bishonen/European toilet paper holder - A great hoax article
User:Thesevenseas - This user had an impressive image on his userpage that looks like it was created from only ASCII characters
User:Wasbeer - Another interesting piece of userpage ASCII art
User talk:Romulus32 - Our beloved one millionth registered user, his selfless dedication to Wikipedia and tireless contributing will live on...

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Picture of the day

Red-lored whistler

Photograph credit: John Harrison

Wacky Wikinews
Wiktionary's collection of penis names
A place on Wiktionary to add all your made-up words
Wiktionary:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
meta:Poles are evil!
meta:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles - "The last and most active group of vandals is, unfortunately, overly proud friends and acquaintances of gays and lesbians."
meta:Redirect arrow contest - check out the first one

[1], [2], [3] - funny edit summaries
Just a bit too informal..
the stay puft marshmellow man apparently he's a violent racist
the Canadarm commits Seppuku
This guy seriously needs help
Main Page vandalism

Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense! Dedicated site
How to be a sock-puppet
The High Priests of Wikipedia
Wickerpedia

The last page on Wikipedia.
User:MC10/Funny stuff - a collection of funny diffs and links from other Wikipedians

Interesting user names

-- Some of these use extended characters; if your browser or OS isn't setup to see these I've included descriptions.

▄▄█▀▀ █▬█ █ ▀█▀ (talk · contribs) -- This one spells something out that doesn't quite conform to Wikipedia:Username policy.
ಠ ಠ (talk · contribs) -- A pair of eyes with eyebrows.
☮ (talk · contribs) -- A peace sign.
º¡º (talk · contribs) -- Can be either a pair of eyes with a nose, or a penis and testicles depending on your frame of mind.

Active Wiki Fixup Projects
Must be active, systematic, have lists, & need help.
Writing
Articles that need to be wikified Massive backlog. Ongoing (category) Dead-end pages These pages are not wikified. Ongoing (category) Missing articles Wikipedia is not as complete as you might think. Ongoing Most wanted articles Updated February 2015 Oldest requested articles Updated November 2012
Other
Articles needing geo-coordinates Help locate places. See WP:GEO. Ongoing (category) Articles written by a single editor Reviewing articles written by a newer editor. Updated February 2013 Bluelink patrol Directing wayward links to the intended articles. Ongoing Check Wikipedia Fix the syntax of Wikipedia. Updated every 15 minutes Disambiguation pages with links Directing ambiguous links to the intended articles. Ongoing Fix Common Mistakes Fix common mistakes in English grammar (e.g. "the the", "and and"). Ongoing moss Currently doing a collaborative spell-check of the entire encyclopedia. Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons Moving free images to the Commons so they are easier to find. Ongoing (categories) Orphaned articles Help link to these orphaned articles. Ongoing (category) Red Link Recovery Turn red links blue. Ongoing Stubsensor Help remove stub tags from articles they don't belong on. Updated August 2011 Uncategorised articles Help categorise articles. Ongoing (category) Unreferenced articles Ensuring articles include at least one reference or source. Ongoing (category) Main Inactive Mini
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