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{{Essay}}

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]]

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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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==Reddit wiki bots==

; WikiTextBot

: https://www.reddit.com/user/WikiTextBot - a bot that comments with an excerpt from the Wikipedia article, anytime someone links to Wikipedia. Can handle multiple links, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryWhatIf/comments/7158e1/wi_in_june_of_1942_the_japanese_joined_in/dn8c33m/?context=3 -- but does not work with #section links.<small>[https://github.com/kittenswolf/WikiTextBot/issues/4 request filed]</small>

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

; Autowikibot

* [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]

: The previous incarnation, retired in 2015 https://www.reddit.com/user/autowikibot - it did work for subsections, 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/WikipediaSummary WikipediaSummary] - ~2021

* [https://www.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot wikipedia_text_bot] - ~2020

:* [https://www.reddit.com/user/WikiTextBot WikiTextBot] - a2017–2020 bot- that([https://github.com/kittenswolf/WikiTextBot commentsgithub]) with- anIt excerpt from the Wikipedia article, anytime someone links to Wikipedia. Cancould handle multiple links, e.g. ([https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryWhatIf/comments/7158e1/wi_in_june_of_1942_the_japanese_joined_in/dn8c33m/?context=3 --example]), but doesdid not work with #section links. <small>([https://github.com/kittenswolf/WikiTextBot/issues/4 request filed])</small>

* [https://www.reddit.com/user/autowikibot TheAutowikibot] previous- incarnation,2014–2015 retired in 2015- ([https://www.redditgithub.com/useracini/autowikibot-py github]) - itIt did work for subsections,#section e.g.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'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 ==