Perhaps a place in the "Wikitainment" section for the following two pages might be found:

• User:Theresa_knott/Those_who_disagree_with_Angela_must_not_sign_their_comments
• Religion and Wikipedia

IMHO they're both very funny. Paul August 23:12, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

I see now that Religion and Wikipedia has been added. No takers for: User:Theresa_knott/Those_who_disagree_with_Angela_must_not_sign_their_comments, I guess? Perhaps it's an acquired taste ;-)

Paul August 17:57, Nov 1, 2004 (UTC)

Could I join the Department of Fun because it sounds like well...Fun :)--[[User:Marie Rowley|Marie | Talk]] 06:26, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Just add your name under the member's list! This is Wiki. JesseW 06:56, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ohh allright. Thank you, I'm new here :)--[[User:Marie Rowley|Marie | Talk]] 07:04, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Under the 'Humor' section, the link to a sandbox edit, titled 'This version is amusing' does not appear to be working.

Clicking it gives me the error:

"The database did not find the text of a page that it should have found, named "Wikipedia:Sandbox,oldid=7310538"." Hazzamon 10:52, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)

I've also encountered said error. - RoyBoy [∞] 06:13, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Aha! Me too. The link as it currently appears goes to

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&oldid=7310538 ] Anyone know where the amusing old Sandbox page is archived? -- PaulHammond 00:08, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Probably that version got deleted. Since the sandbox gets modified very frequently, the no. of entries in its history become "unmanageably large" so developers manually hack the database to remove some of the oldest versions not yet removed. At least this has been done once, so I assume it is still continued. HTH -- Paddu 21:55, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hey, I have an idea about the 6 degrees of seperation. Instead of following links just seeing where ever we end up. I propose that a start page be chosen at random and then a goal page be selected at random again and see how long it takes to get from the start to the goal by folowing links in the manner described of say every 5th link. The start and the goal pages could be announced and then when someone is tired of following the links the last page that they were on could then be announced for someone else to pick up on and follow. I think it would be a cool idea! Jaberwocky6669 09:29, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

I agree. Want to organize it? Feel free to set up a page, pick the links, and annouce it on the Dept. of Fun. I look forward to playing it. JesseW 17:35, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Should User:Ardonik/I ate my cat get a mention here? -- Paddu 21:57, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

User:Theresa knott/Those who disagree with Angela must not sign their comments too, at least for the sake of the options for the vote on Appendix B at the end. ROTF typing this comment. -- Paddu 22:10, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

What I meant was that I want these links to be added to the page:

• User:Ardonik/I ate my cat
• User:Theresa knott/Those who disagree with Angela must not sign their comments

Now I've found another page that should be mentioned IMHO:

• meta:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles

I don't want something from the page to be removed. -- Paddu 20:15, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Well, I just came up with this fun idea. It's like a competition on article writing. There is a page, where people add random tasks like "create an article that links both to Bart Simpson and Exploding whale" or "create an article that contains a phrase "jumping off the bridge is bad for your health"". Articles should be created as subpages or sections of VfI. Then the fun part begins: people vote for inclusion of these articles in the main namespace! If one manages to create such article, he is considered a winner. Grue 11:59, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I was wondering if there would be any interest in starting a movement to replace the "\" key with an unshifted "|" key? And someone please don't say, "Set it as a macro," because where's the fun in that? -- addesso 22:49, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I envision this turning into something like a "C programmers vs. sh programmers" holy war. Nickptar 05:46, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking about starting a page labled WikipediaFiction:Deletionist-Inclusionist War, creating an alternate history fiction about a battle that occoured between the two viewpoints of wikipedians. This would make a new category for search and such, WikiFiction or WikipediaFiction. I would have went ahead with it, but I am a little shy since I am a new member. If someone else starts off or says its a good idea, i'd like to try it. The idea would be to illustrate actual historical events of wikipedia that lead to the formation of such groups as the Association of Apathetic Wikipedians,the Association of Deletionist Wikipedians , the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians, or the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgements About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are In Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They are Deletionist

Any ideas? -scnd

All your fun are belong to us. --Wikipedia.

C'mon guys. Department of fun? Gimme a break! Silly rabbit, kicks are for Trigs.

I've decided to take this challege on the road. There are not so many links now (well, I mean there are, but not sooo many) - but there will surely be after the next database dump! BD2412 T 20:03, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ive created the following humor articles. Does anyone think they are well-written and humorous enough to be added under the humor section?

• Wikitopia
• Humrous Fake Barnstars
  

--TBC 11:25, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WikiHunt

On various pages around the wiki, a tag is put reading something like:
<!-- Congradulations! You have found a secret Wikihunt page worth 10 Points. Sign your name after this message to recieve points -->

In addition, there will be trails of clues that people will need to find in order. These will look something like:
<!-- You have found Part 3 of Wikihunt Trail A. IF YOU HAVE FOUND PART 2, sign your name after this message. IF YOU HAVE NOT FOUND PART 2 YET, YOUR SIG WILL NOT COUNT!

Those who find the final clue will get 100 points.

So...how does it sound? -AtionSong 14:15, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly object the idea of vandalizing Wikipedia pages in this way. -- Ravn 17:37, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't vandalizing since the messages are put into the html comment thing and won't show up...but you have to be clear to players that they sign their name inside the comment tag. If they sign outside, well, that would be unintentional vandalism. But I like the idea, except there is the problem of anons and unawares going wtf? --Osbus 00:27, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps in the light of all the bad press we've had in the last year, perhaps Jimbo should follow President Shrub's lead and declare a War On Error? Wikipostate 09:39, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

I would like to see a game similar to this or this. They're Choose Your Own Adventure style games, using the wiki software. Since Wikipedia has a signifigantly larger userbase than Uncyclopedia, I imagine this would grow and get much longer than those versions. Anyone like the idea? I'll start it if enough people are interested. --Nintendorulez (talk) 22:32, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm conducting a Classic Rock survey for the most liked classic rock song on my user page and was thinking that maybe it would be considered as a part of the DOF so tell me what you guys think on my talk page. Right now I'm only accepting songs that I feel are considered to be classic rock, however if the DOF has a problem with it being only for one specific genre, I'll change it to all songs in English. The only thing I won't do is start off the survey new. Hey...classic rock is the superior genre anyway. RENTA^{FOR LET?} 00:40, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Uncyclopedia:Departure_of_Fun

From Uncyclopedia, a parody site of us. --Nintendorulez talk 17:36, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How about adding a section for user-submitted webcomics in the Department of Fun?