Welcome to WikiProject WikiWorld, a dedicated to improving visibility of the "WikiWorld" cartoon series on Wikipedia.
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Goals
is a designer and illustrator for ' in Tampa, Florida. In cooperation with the Wikimedia Foundation, he is producing comic strips based on various articles and releasing them under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License for use on Wikipedia. This WikiProject is intended to coordinate the process of organising the comics.
Scope
The WikiWorld comic summarizes and highlights some of the fascinating but little-known articles in Wikipedia's vast archives. This ongoing series of comics will present visual interpretations on a wide range of topics: obscure concepts and offbeat moments in history and culture, unexpected personality profiles and unlikely slices of everyday life - as well as "mainstream" subjects with humorous potential.
Open tasks
Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
- (creator of )
- , creator of the WikiWorld comic strip.
- , attempting to syndicate them.
- and , as the Beaver
- , rebuilt the template, and undid rampant template misuse (WikiProject banners claiming that the articles fall within the assessment purview of this project, putting WikiProject templates on article pages instead of their talk pages, etc.)
- Drawn in to the project by the extra work caused by some potentially not well thought out actions of other participants, may stick around, we'll see.
- Will do anything <s>un</s>necessary. Stupid spell checker...
- organizing this page's images into four-month groups
Resources
Images of the comics
These are all the images of the comic, placed in the order in which they appeared in the . When a comic was repeated in another month, it is not shown.
2006 December
2007 January through April
2007 May through August
2007 September through December
2008 January through June
Commons Category for images
These images can also be seen at this commons category: .
To refer people to this category, you can use like this:
:<nowiki></nowiki>
which results in the box to the right...
Perhaps discussion should occur on whether this is duplicate effort (maintaining the gallery and also having a category on Commons)?
Discussions about the project or related resources elsewhere
- a deletion discussion, closed as keep.
- another one, closed as speedy keep.
- nomed at the same time, closed as speedy keep
- a deletion discussion, closed as keep.
- a deletion discussion, closed as delete.
Templates
- — for use on the talk pages of Wikipedia articles that have been excerpted in "WikiWorld"; see for how to use the template.
- <nowiki></nowiki> — Commons template for use on images, adds standard explanatory text and optional link to en:wp article that uses the image (typically this is used by Greg when he uploads, but if Greg forgets anyone else could add it). It also places the image in the commons category described above:
Non-article WikiWorld pages
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