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,
- https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/science/
- https://math.stackexchange.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/math/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/literature/
- https://english.stackexchange.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/history/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/psychology/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars
- with Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars
- AND with https://starwars.wikia.com/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/tea
- etc
maybe even
- https://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
- /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.
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.request filed
- Autowikibot
- 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
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
RedditEnhancementSuite
The hugely popular browser extension RES (RedditEnhancementSuite), has a feature that expands links to Wikipedia. (screenshot)
Code: https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite/blob/master/lib/modules/hosts/wikipedia.js (open issues)