Talk:Wikipedia Art

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Ongoing list of sites where Wikipedia Art is installed

Beginning June 2, 2009, a copy of the original "Wikipedia Art" article that was inserted into Wikipedia has been inserted also into the following wikis:

A primitive version of the page already had been created by a bot on April 23, 2009.
June 9, 2009: No revisions to original post.
June 9, 2009: No revisions to original post.
June 9, 2009: User:Wikademia added a template to suppress the table of contents, cleaned up reference tags, and changed "External links" heading to "Links".
June 9, 2009: User:Sycamore removed eight categories, leaving only those for "Wikipedia" and "Art". Also added a template "factual" to the lead of the article, so that it now warns, "FACTS DETECTED - This page may contain factual material. In order to avoid the mental strain of processing this information, please add 'in bed' to the end of each sentence as you read it aloud." An upraised middle finger also adorns the "factual" template!
The Wikipedia Art logo had already been uploaded by Nathaniel Stern to this site.
June 9, 2009: User:Wikademia added a template to suppress the table of contents, and he cleaned up category formatting.
June 9, 2009: User:Anime addict added a template that creates a "hat-note" linking to a page for "Criticism" of the subject Wikipedia Art. Extensive clean-up of wikilinks, reference tags, and clarifying that the Wikipedia-based categories are found at Wikipedia.
June 9, 2009: No revisions to original post.

MyWikiBiz will be following up on these insertions after a period of one week (June 9, 2009), then one month (July 2, 2009), then one quarter (September 2, 2009), then one year (June 2, 2010). Any notes from these follow-ups will be posted here on this page, which we hope will be reinforced through a feedback loop on the Wikipedia Art / remixes page.

Summary of 1st week

The process of collaborative intervention yielded few results thus far. Three of the seven wikis paid no attention to the insertion at all. Three witnessed an editor making "wiki-gnome" adjustments to the wikitext code, so that the article would be somewhat more appealing to the reader's eye, but not substantively altering the message conveyed by the original article. Only Uncyclopedia took cautious steps toward interactive play; flipping the bird to readers, and playfully offering a tongue-in-cheek recommendation to verbally add the words "in bed" to the end of each sentence.