Wikicruft

Revision as of 19:45, 3 June 2010

Wikipedia has a problem with listing all the Jills that have appeared in every video game and cartoon episode that has every aired.

Wikipedia also has a solution. Apparently the phenomenon is called fancruft and gamecruft and I found a ton of great stuff under the hood while digging around to see what they do about it:

Here are the policies:

This is for the encyclopedia's passionate defenders of useless pop subculture references:

This was fun and funny stuff I stumbled on:

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 *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games/Deletion
-This is for people who find the term cruft offensive:
+This is for the encyclopedia's passionate defenders of useless pop subculture references:
 *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Fancruft
 *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Fancruft_(second_nomination)
-This was fun funny stuff I stumbled on:
+This was fun and funny stuff I stumbled on:
 *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars
 *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Discussing_cruft

Wikicruft

From enfascination

Revision as of 19:45, 3 June 2010