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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 ==

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Hook together,

* httphttps://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/ and httphttps://www.reddit.com/r/science/

*: with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Science]]

* https://math.stackexchange.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/math/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/

*: with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics]] and [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Mathematics]]

* httphttps://www.reddit.com/r/literature/

*: with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature]]

* https://english.stackexchange.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/

*: with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Linguistics]]

* httphttps://www.reddit.com/r/history/ and httphttps://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/

*: with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History]]

* httphttps://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/

*: with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics]]

* httphttps://www.reddit.com/r/psychology/

*: with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychology]]

* httphttps://www.reddit.com/r/apple/

*: with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Apple Inc.]]

* httphttps://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars

*: with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars]]

*: AND with httphttps://starwars.wikia.com/

* https://www.reddit.com/r/tea

*: with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Beverages Task Force]]

* etc

maybe even

* httphttps://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 ==

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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 Autowikibotwiki bots==

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

also, https://www.reddit.com/user/autowikibot - a fantastic bot that comments with an excerpt from the Wikipedia article, anytime someone links to Wikipedia (it even works for subsections if the heading remains static) e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/2x8dnn/practice_your_geography_country_flag_state_region/coyj6ox?context=3

* [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. <small>([https://github.com/kittenswolf/WikiTextBot/issues/4 request filed])</small>

also,* [https://www.reddit.com/user/autowikibot Autowikibot] - a2014–2015 fantastic- bot([https://github.com/acini/autowikibot-py thatgithub]) comments- withIt andid excerptwork from the Wikipedia article, anytimefor someone#section links to Wikipedia (it even works for subsections if the heading remains static) e.g. [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's aare subredditsubreddits dedicated to
* Wikipedia, - https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/
* MediaWiki - ifhttps://www.reddit.com/r/mediawiki/
If you use the popular RES extension to enable fancy auto-expansion, the pageold (non-beta) design looks like this: http://imgur.com/u5II7JF

== RedditEnhancementSuite ==

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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]

== See also ==

* [[Wikipedia:Stack Exchange is eating our lunch]]