Wikipedia:WikiProject Internet culture

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WikiProject Internet pop culture has invaded this project

Shortcut: WP:WPIC WP:NETPOP

Some Wikipedians have formed a WikiProject to better organize information in articles related to Internet culture. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians.

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[edit] Get Involved!

Internet Portal

1 Get Involved!
2 Scope
3 Goals
4 Open tasks
5 Members
6 Articles
- 6.1 Candidates
- 6.2 New or modified articles
7 Templates
8 Categories
9 Stubs

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[edit] Scope

Internet humour and memes.
Some websites.
Computer game and hacker culture.
Internet freedom and the intenet.
Notable blogs and podcasts, etc.
All fads of the Internet.
Anything else along those sort of lines - see also the categories below.

but avoid

Webcomics - leave that to WikiProject Webcomics.
Computer games themselves - leave that to WikiProject Video games.
Web animation - leave that to WikiProject Web Animation
How the internet works - leave that to Ted "Tubes" Stevens.

[edit] Goals

To unite the people who adore Internet culture and Internet pop culture
To categorize Wikipedia's already bountiful information on Internet culture.
To help destinguish between different sorts of Internet culture.
To create an internet culture portal that binds all relevant information.
Expand and improve on the articles related to Internet pop culture

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Internet culture:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:

Cleanup: 4chan; Homestar Runner (too many articles in its category, some need to be deleted and merged.)
Stubs: Pick one from Category:Stub-Class Internet culture articles, or elsewhere.
Update: Kate's playground, All your base are belong to us
Other: Category:Internet self-classification codes (!?); Try to get YouTube to FA; Tag all articles you find with {{WP Internet culture}}

Add {{todo|target=Wikipedia:WikiProject Internet culture}} to include this on your user page.

[edit] Members

Methulah (talk • contribs)

I know a lot about internet humour and culture in general, and I am free to do a lot of editing
Blast_san (talk • contribs)

my home is on the internet
Bole2 (talk • contribs)
AxiomShell (talk • contribs)
Messedrocker (talk • contribs)

MessedRocker is the original founder of the WikiProject Internet pop culture, now retured due to a lack of time.
ShadowMan1od (talk • contribs)

Second in command of WikiProject Internet pop culture
No Parking (talk • contribs)
Paradox CT (talk • contribs)
207.157.68.62 (talk • contribs • WHOIS)
User:Ollj (talk • contribs)
Xianxxx (talk • contribs)
Crystallina (talk • contribs)
Douglasr007 (talk • contribs)
CorbinSimpson (talk • contribs)
Ifrit (talk • contribs)
Superior1 (talk • contribs)
Volpeculus sagacis (talk • contribs)
Electricbassguy (talk • contribs)
Zytron (talk • contribs)
Machchunk (talk • contribs)
h2g2bob (talk • contribs)

[edit] Articles

For a full list of articles, see Category:Internet culture articles.

Featured articles

Exploding whale (7 November 2004)
Red vs. Blue (June 10, 2006)

Good articles

Featured pictures

Featured lists

[edit] Candidates

Please list here anything applicable to the project that's already listed at Featured article candidates, Featured picture candidates, or Featured list candidates.

[edit] New or modified articles

Please feel free to list your new Internet Culture-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

[edit] Templates

{{WP Internet culture}}

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Internet culture, an attempt to better organise information in articles related to the Internet culture. For more information, visit the project page.
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