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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 math.stackexchange, and the education-oriented subreddits, like r/askscience/ and 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

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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

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Hook together,

maybe even

Example - watches

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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

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

r/Wikipedia and r/MediaWiki

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There are subreddits dedicated to

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

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The hugely popular browser extension RES (RedditEnhancementSuite), has a feature that expands links to Wikipedia. (screenshot)

Code: https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite/blob/master/lib/modules/hosts/wikipedia.js (open issues)

NOTE: As of 31 January 2022, RES is in maintenance mode, which means no new features will be rolled out. See the announcement by the developers on Reddit

See also

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