Some other stuff
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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
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Respect your fellow Wikipedians, even when you disagree. Apply Wikipedia etiquette, and do not engage in personal attacks. Seek consensus, avoid edit wars, and never disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. Act in good faith, and assume good faith on the part of others. Be open and welcoming to newcomers. Should conflicts arise, discuss them calmly on the appropriate talk pages, follow dispute resolution procedures, and consider that there are 6,810,917 other articles on the English Wikipedia to improve and discuss.
Wikipedia has no firm rules
Wikipedia has policies and guidelines, but they are not carved in stone; their content and interpretation can evolve over time. The principles and spirit matter more than literal wording, and sometimes improving Wikipedia requires making exceptions. Be bold, but not reckless, in updating articles. And do not agonize over making mistakes: they can be corrected easily because (almost) every past version of each article is saved.
Significant wiki-squirrel accidents
Other smaller wiki-squirrel accidents have also ocurred from time to time.
Please do not request a wiki-squirrel accident, or suggest one, as they are only accidental.
Citing stuff available on the National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia is (as far as I have ever found) virtually the only site of its kind which provides Wikipedia citations, all the others will give you BibTex, APA, and all that, but NLA give you a formatted, CS2 style, wikitext citation, whether it be on trove.nla.gov.au (old newspapers and magazines etc.), or (apparently) anywhere on nla.gov.au. They seem to know that editing Wikipedia is relatively popular in Australia.
AFL, a lighthearted jibe
Australian Rules football is a strange game played by some inhabitants of Australia, and watched and followed by many more. It is a bizarre game and generally played through the middle of winter (June to August in the Southern Hemisphere). Despite only having two teams, WA is disproportionately daft about "Footy". At around the end of winter and early spring, people "all over the country" (I.e. Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, a bit of Queensland, and Western Australia) go nuts 'cos Grand Final weekend is coming. This excitement is expressed in several ways, such as drinking way too much beer, perhaps having a bit of a punch-up, swearing a lot, wearing your favourite team's colours, making crude jokes about the other teams (and particularly the one your favourite team will be facing next) and sometimes vandalising player's Wikipedia pages. Why this last one makes any sense is beyond me. So, next time you happen to be a bit tipsy and decide to edit Wikipedia (a really, really bad decision), feel free to edit here, instead of vandalising your least favourite player's Wikipedia page.
A two speaker poem about WP:AGF and WP:BITE.
For my own benefit more than any other.
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My edit count...
...isn't a particularly worthwhile measure of my usefulness. Most took little effort on my part. So far, I haven't written a single Good or Featured article, and that probably won't change, since I don't really have the patience/focus to stick at writing an article for that long. Many editors with only a few hundred edits have contributed much more than I have.
WP:ROPE in action
Demonstrated marvellously at User talk:Froggeee562.
The-Site-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named
[That Wikipedia criticism site] is (probably) not run by Voldemort, but the Dark Lord and [that site] have got some things in common. When editing here, you may notice that users have an aversion towards mentioning [that site] by name, as though it will attract some sort of evil attention. And they aren't entirely wrong. Like Voldemort, users of [that site] can tell when you say [the site's name] due to the magical forces of search engines. By simply searching [the site's name] in Google, and limiting the results to Wikipedia, or using Wikipedia's own search engine, you can find any mention of [that site] and enjoy reading what is being said about [that site]. Whether this is something to be afraid of is another thing entirely, and whilst the wizarding world sure should've been afraid of saying Voldemort's name, it isn't too clear if Wikipedians should be afraid of saying Wikipediocracy's name. Oh crap, I said it!
(BTW, if any Wikipediocracy users see this, I hope you can have good laugh at our expense)
Some random images
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