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Wikipedia:Stackexchange and Reddit

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We could forge better external collaboration with the purely education-oriented sites like [https://math.stackexchange.com/ math.stackexchange], and the education-oriented subreddits, like [https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/ r/askscience/] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/wiki/subreddit_links related] - perhaps write them some quick guides for both finding good information in our sites, and assisting participation in our sites (and vice versa), so that we can hook /r/fashion/ together with WikiProject Fashion, and /r/chemicalreactiongifs/ with WikiProject Chemistry and Commons, and etc, in both directions. They're highly-active locations, filled with smart and helpful people. We could be helping and mingling with each other more. Not all of us, but some of us, more easily. More interconnected-web, less gated-community. Looser boundaries, and more informal pathways.

Guides

Make posts that are good enough to be permanent guides, linked from each subreddit's sidebar. (each subreddit has a sidebar, of FAQs and quick links to important threads.)

Mix with the brilliant w:WP:WPMED intro video.

Overview

Hook together,

maybe even

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive and https://simple.wikipedia.org/ - as people who are (potentially) skilled at using a reduced vocabulary to explain complex things.

Example - watches

WikiProject Watches currently has:

::1 article rated/peer-checked as "Good" quality: Bovet Fleurier

::1 list rated/peer-checked as "Featured" quality: List of chronometers on HMS Beagle

::8 "B" quality articles

::Main category: :Category:Watches

Those 2 subreddits have thousands of subscribers, contributing to dozens of threads each day. There are experts and passionate amateurs in there, who enjoy sharing knowledge and helping newcomers. We are natural allies.

Reddit wiki bots

There have been a few bots over the years that detect comment-links to Wikipedia and reply with an excerpt. Including:

  • [https://www.reddit.com/user/WikiSummarizerBot WikiSummarizerBot] - 2021–present - ([https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot github]) - It can handle multiple links ([https://www.reddit.com/r/dogelore/comments/pmfvdl/le_adventure_communist_and_its_500/hci36f8/?context=3 example]), AND section links ([https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/pm0g9o/here_are_the_vaccine_mandate_rejection_states_if/hci1sg5/?context=3 example]) - More info: [https://www.reddit.com/r/botwatch/comments/ml9crr/introducing_uwikisummarizerbot/ Intro post in r/botwatch]
  • [https://www.reddit.com/user/WikipediaSummary WikipediaSummary] - ~2021
  • [https://www.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot wikipedia_text_bot] - ~2020
  • [https://www.reddit.com/user/WikiTextBot WikiTextBot] - 2017–2020 - ([https://github.com/kittenswolf/WikiTextBot github]) - It could handle multiple links ([https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryWhatIf/comments/7158e1/wi_in_june_of_1942_the_japanese_joined_in/dn8c33m/?context=3 example]), but did not work with #section links. ([https://github.com/kittenswolf/WikiTextBot/issues/4 request filed])
  • [https://www.reddit.com/user/autowikibot Autowikibot] - 2014–2015 - ([https://github.com/acini/autowikibot-py github]) - It did work for #section links ([https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/2x8dnn/practice_your_geography_country_flag_state_region/coyj6ox?context=3 example]).

r/Wikipedia and r/MediaWiki

There are subreddits dedicated to

  • Wikipedia - https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/
  • MediaWiki - https://www.reddit.com/r/mediawiki/

If you use the popular RES extension to enable fancy auto-expansion, the old (non-beta) design looks like this: http://imgur.com/u5II7JF

RedditEnhancementSuite

The hugely popular browser extension [https://redditenhancementsuite.com/ RES] (RedditEnhancementSuite), has a feature that expands links to Wikipedia. ([http://storage4.static.itmages.com/i/17/0601/h_1496349656_8870266_675218bdc2.png screenshot])

Code: https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite/blob/master/lib/modules/hosts/wikipedia.js ([https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20wikipedia open issues])

NOTE: As of 31 January 2022, RES is in maintenance mode, which means no new features will be rolled out. [https://www.reddit.com/r/RESAnnouncements/comments/sh83gx/announcement_life_of_reddit_enhancement_suite/ See the announcement by the developers on Reddit]

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