Wikipedia:Stackexchange and Reddit

We could forge better external collaboration with the purely education-oriented sites like math.stackexchange, and the education-oriented subreddits, like /r/askscience/ and 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

Make posts that are good enough to be permanent guides, linked from each subreddit's sidebar. (each subreddit has a sidebar, of FAQs and quick links to important threads.)

Mix with the brilliant w:WP:WPMED intro video.

Overview

Hook together,

• http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/ and http://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

• http://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

• http://www.reddit.com/r/history/ and http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/

  with Wikipedia:WikiProject History

• http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/

  with Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics

• http://www.reddit.com/r/psychology/

  with Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychology

• http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/

  with Wikipedia:WikiProject Apple Inc.

• http://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars

  with Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars

  AND with http://starwars.wikia.com/

maybe even

• http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive and https://simple.wikipedia.org/ - as people who are skilled at using a reduced vocabulary to explain complex things.

Example - watches

• /r/Watches + /r/WatchHorology + w:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Watches = Happiness!

WikiProject Watches currently has:

1 article rated/peer-checked as "Good" quality: Bovet Fleurier

1 list rated/peer-checked as "Featured" quality: List of chronometers on HMS Beagle

8 "B" quality articles

Main category: Category:Watches

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.

Autowikibot

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

r/Wikipedia

There's a subreddit dedicated to Wikipedia, https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/ - if you use the popular RES extension to enable fancy auto-expansion, the page looks like this: http://imgur.com/u5II7JF