Greetings! Starting on Monday, December 11, 2006, the WikiWorld comic found a home in The Wikipedia Signpost. You can check out the Signpost's introductory article here. And, if you come across any articles that might be well suited to a cartoon-style interpretation, please be sure to let me know. --Greg Williams 13:13, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Greg, WikiWorld was great - I'm planning to use some of the strips to motivate students to contribute to Wikipedia. I understand that you would like to explore Wikipedia on your own for comic strip ideas but you may also want to look at WP:PINQ and its archives as they comprise several interesting and obscure facts about India as well as around the world. Having 1 or 2 WikiWorld comic strips on Indian topics would also make my job of motivating students in India easier. I may also talk to a couple of publications to see if they will carry it out in their issues. Most importantly, I wanted to say that I am impressed by your resolve in ensuring that this initiative took off despite being new to Wikipedia. And a small award, to say thank you for that... --Gurubrahma 07:18, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
The Exceptional Newcomer Award | ||
Greg richly deserves this award for displaying creativity and resolve in bringing forth "WikiWorld", which, I hope would attract newer audiences to benefit from and contribute to Wikipedia. --Gurubrahma 07:18, 12 December 2006 (UTC) |
P.S. I am not sure if you have received this message before, but to make sure, I am leaving the standard welcome message and some useful links along with it!
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Greg, one of my favorite articles is Apples and oranges. It seems like it would make a good WikiWorld comic someday.--ragesoss 21:34, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi there! I just spotted your comic in the signpost. Nice work, it looks great there! (Radiant) 15:16, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
I really liked it too... I know its probably okay under the license, but wanted to clear it with you first, can I go ahead and throw the Redshirt comic up on my user page?? Thanks.. EnsRedShirt 20:46, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
WikiWorld cartoonist Greg Williams is shown below in a portrait by son Jeremy, 11. --Greg Williams 03:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Loved the redshirt comic! Your caricature of Kirk made me laugh out loud. Keep em coming! :) Kaldari 08:01, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Just saw the Redshirt comic, care of the Signpost. Needless to say, I look forward to seeing more. Excellent work, and informative. An excellent benefit to Wikipedia. Kaiser matias 05:39, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Have you talked to the guys who do the Wikipedia community paper? The signpost? You could probably do a weekly update for them, it's pretty cool, and might get others to contribute too. - hahnchen 02:12, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
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This barnstar is presented in recognition of the sheer awesomeness of WikiWorld. ragesoss 04:45, 11 December 2006 (UTC) |
I am removing your cartoon/comic drawings from Wikipedia. Your posting them into the relevant articles is unfortunately a major breach of WP:COI, and you've apparently given no notice or claim that your infringement of the Wikipedia logo trademark in your own logo is actually approved by the Wikimedia Foundation. They are cute cartoons, but entirely inappropriate for Wikipedia article main space. -- JossBuckle Swami 02:55, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Kizor. Good points. I think it's perfectly reasonable to keep the cartoons outside of the articles themselves - because of the size they'd need to run, and because of concerns that they don't add encyclopedic value. For me, the cartoons would work best as an illustrative promotional feature, to shine a light on some of the fascinating but little-seen articles in Wikipedia. Unfortunately, that only works if a casual user of Wikipedia could actually stumble across them. (Displaying them inside the little-seen articles themselves becomes a COMPLETELY nonsensical exercise, if promotion is the primary goal.) Another editor suggested posting them on a Project Page. But is there any chance that a casual user would ever encounter them there? --Greg Williams 13:12, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
You are cordially invited to participate in WikiProject Illustrated Wikipedia. Now it's on a more official footing, maybe people will start using those manners their mothers no doubt attempted to teach them. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 14:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Greg, I am much more comfortable, now that your project has been formalized, involves the participation of more cartoonists than just yourself, and doesn't hijack the articles themselves (which, you have to remember, are being viewed by many people on things like 56K modems and cell phones with slow connections). I hope that people like Phil who seem to be on a high horse about manners also see that my concerns were based more on the trademark use of the Wikipedia logo, the obvious violation of WP:COI, and the fact that the cartoons do not "add" to Wikipedia's mission (at least in the traditional sense). I honestly wish you all the best of success and happiness -- I just wanted it in the proper format, with proper licensing/permission, in the proper forum. I wish the leaders at the Wikimedia Foundation had done this properly (by executing through "beta testing" with the community, and asking for community input), rather than running it like the "boys club" that it too often appears to be. I still don't get how WMF can get so upset about the use of merely the Wikipedia NAME in something like a press release, whilst unofficially endorsing the complete theft (albeit for creative purposes) of the Wikipedia logo by a private artist. You can see, that by their failure to communicate this project to the community, it led to a lot of needless energy wasted by the slave-volunteers. --JossBuckle Swami 04:17, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
If it ends up you cannot do your comic project here, then I can set up a MediaWiki server outside of the wikimedia foundation, but with the same copyright policies dedicated to the project. It is a great idea, and I am a real believer in creating free content for the masses, while respecting the artists right to be attributed. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 22:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Greg, I really enjoyed your Redshirt comic which appeared in the Signpost; I immediately went and looked at the others. It struck me, as a mathematician (and a visually inclined one), that an article like Möbius strip would be great fun for your strip. --C S (Talk) 16:45, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Greg, I just dropped by to say thanks for your work on the WikiWorld cartoon strips, great stuff and long may it continue. I look forward to regular postings in the Signpost to add some colour, humour and a welcome smile to the site. I enjoyed the strips you've done so far very much indeed, (the veangeful pet skunk image is my personal highlight so far). It's a wonderful idea for Wikipedia' keep up the good work. Best wishes. --Cactus.man ✍ 13:04, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Nice work! (Especially the licence!) 68.39.174.238 13:21, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I haven't been editing long but your page inspired something close to epiphany in me. The say be bold round here, but suspect you may have set a new benchmark. I'm off to WikiProject: Illustrated Wikipedia as you suggested. Check out Hunt Emersons pages from the fortean times magazine. Regards Fred.e 14:31, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
I know you get tons of suggestions, but I just came across Beefalo, a cattle-buffalo hybrid. Something about the name just had me kind of chuckling on the inside. Also, if you weren't aware, Wikipedia:Unusual articles would be good fodder perhaps. Mahalo. --Ali'i 21:58, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
...but you need to do a survey of our screen settings. your boxes on the right hand of your page are chopped off and require some scrolling. Just thought I'd let you know. best. frummer 12:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)]]
Dear Greg, Fantastic comics, I really think you're doing us a great service by creating them - I hope "real world" publishers decide to take them up too! I am writing to request that you (or someone who knows how) create a little info box to place on the talk-page of the articles that you've drawn - rther than placing a little mention in the article itself. It should look something like the "Did you know" or the "featured article of the day" boxes which appear at the top of talk-pages - like this:
What do you think? I definately believe that the fact that you've drawn the article should be brought to the attention of readers - but not in the article itself, that's meta-info and belongs on the talk page. Let me know your opinion. Witty lama 19:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I really like your work on WikiWorld! Would you be up to providing a free image to illustrate Ligne claire to replace the fair-use image that's currently there? —Angr 12:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey Greg, we've been trying to come up with a picture to use on the Main Page on April Fool's day...in the "Featured Picture" section at the bottom. We want something funny - and completely unexpected for Wikipedia.
I think (and most people I ask agree) that a WikiWorld comic would be the perfect thing - but there is a problem. A picture - no matter how good it is - can only become the 'featured picture of the day' if it's used in an actual Wikipedia article - which I don't think any of your cartoons are. We could almost justify adding a WikiWorld cartoon into Comic or Web comic - but Wikipedia disallows 'self reference' - gratuitously mentioning Wikipedia inside an article isn't allowed.
So the idea that comes to my mind is to write a new article specifically so we can weasel one of your cartoons onto it. The one way I could think to do this 'within the rules' would be to write a biographical article about you, personally. The problem here is whether you meet the Wikipedia 'notability for a living person' standards. You evidently have lots of published works (in the newspaper you draw for presumably) - that's a huge plus point. Are there books of your cartoons? Have you ever won any kind of an award for your work? Have any 'critics' discussed it?
Another alternative - would be to beg and plead for you to draw us something that's NOT about Wikipedia (ie not a WikiWorld comic page) - but which could serve to illustrate an article like Comic but without being a 'self reference' but which would look very, very strange indeed on the Wikipedia front page. I have no clue what that might be - and it would have to be good enough to make it through the 'featured picture' process.
SteveBaker 17:17, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Kudos on writing possibly the only story ever to begin with the words "Dear God! I'm bleeding from the ears! Make it stop!!!" Ral315 (talk) 01:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Greg,
You have done good work for the Illustrated Wikipedia Project. I have a suggestion for you, which I think would help you in the long run. While uploading images, instead of writing same repetitive image description, prefer to use templates. This way you can update all the images that are under the purview of the project in one edit. I have created a sample template in my sandbox, and you are free to improve upon it. Regards, — Ambuj Saxena (☎) 15:03, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I have implemented the template. From now on, when you upload an image to commons, instead of the long text, just write ((WikiWorldImage)) in the image summary. This will include both the template message, as well as the two categories ("Greg Williams" and "WikiWorld Images by Greg Williams"). This should reduce the word you have had to do. But don't forget to put the cc-by-2.5 license. Regards, — Ambuj Saxena (☎) 16:07, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Greg,
As explained before, I have created and implemented the template feature for the comics. I have tested another feature, and if you wish, that can also be implemented in all the comics. What I have done is that I have allowed the template to have an optional parameter, which will provide a link to the English Wikipedia article the cartoon is used to illustrate. For example, you can see the Hyperthymesia cartoon which uses the parameter. The original image page shows how it renders. The actual text can be changed at any point of time. Also note that the images that don't use the parameter (like this one) still display the Template without any awkward formatting. It is up to you if you want to use it in the future or not. If yes, just remember to summarize the images as ((WikiWorldImage|Article name)). Regards, — Ambuj Saxena (☎) 14:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Moved WikiProject to Wikipedia:WikiProject WikiWorld, and merged the templates (some of which were being abused) into ((WikiWorld)). WikiProject (formerly WikiProject Illustrated Wikipedia) appears to be moribund, however. It is tagged with ((Inactive)) (which anyone can remove at any time if they're doing something with the project). There are some potentially interesting ideas in the talk page at the project, too. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 00:14, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Since you're listed as the major participant, please join us in this discussion. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 15:09, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
The vengeful frame me laugh, thanks and keep up the good work. -Ravedave (Adopt a State) 17:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi!
If the current week's wikiworld could ALSO always be in a file named current_wikiworld.png or similar, it would be much easier to contemplate syndicating it to my web site... (Assuming you would be friendly to that idea?) --BenBurch 19:14, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Greg, just want to say I love your cartoons :-) However, can I make a suggestion that you include a link to the permanent revision of the article you are quoting? It would be helpful, especially as this is what we suggest to those who cite our work. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:15, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Dumpster diving is a weird article. You should do it. LazyLaces 13:08, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Don't overlook World domination. Steve Dufour 02:17, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Your Week 16 "Buffalo buffalo..." comic forever ended my longstanding confusion regarding what that sentence means to say. You have enlightened a dark, ignorant, musky little corner of my brain, and I am in your debt. :) Best wishes, Xoloz 20:35, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for the cartoon about skunks. I liked it a lot!! Keep it up. --Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 02:15, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for your visuals, it is going to be a great hit!!! --Nirajrm talk | sign plz! 03:08, 4 April 2007 (UTC) |
Your comics are great! I am sure they are a lot of work, but please keep them coming. Remember 02:58, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 05:25, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey, you said over on the talk page for the project that you should get contacted if anyone knew of a good idea for a comic. I dunno if near brushes with deat are actually suitable or not, but you might like to consider one or more of the following articles well-known to a select bunch of aviation-type people but not at all to many others:
If you could reply on my talk page with initial thoughts, I would be grateful, but as I said, dunno if these are suitable. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 22:46, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Here are a few ideas for a WikiWorld comic:
The comic for Charles Lane is a JPG named Current comic.jpg. Do you possibly have a PNG version which could be uploaded under a more appropriate name? TIA HAND —Phil | Talk 10:33, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
William McGonagall would make a great WikiWorld comic. Fishal 23:24, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
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The sentence about the animated series in the Image:Bean wikiworld.png is incorrect. I watched "Double Trouble", the very last episode of the animated series. In the episode, Bean met a look-a-like man who is, revealed in the final moments, came from outer space. However, the title character was not shown to be an alien. (Ask Bob Castle for further information.) -- JSH-alive 00:01, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Beagle seems to have some potential for humor. Steve Dufour 18:44, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
A user keeps replacing the Vegas ambigram by an ugly one, like here. I've reverted a few times, but don't want to be drawn into a one-person revert war. Thought I'd let you know, in case you're interested. --Lambiam 08:59, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Props on having the 2007 version wearing a strong bad t-shirt, made me chuckle. Excellent as always. I'd also like to suggest Sopite syndrome, because I'd love to see "the space stupids" illustrated. -Ravedave 05:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Disavian - A few months back, you suggested George P. Burdell as a worthy topic for a WikiWorld comic - and this seemed like the right time to follow up, since a whole new crop of Georgia Tech freshman are learning about Burdell. Thanks for getting in touch. Hope you like my approach. --Greg Williams 05:20, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
British Rail flying saucer could really use getting the 'Greg-treatment' - maybe sharing a page with Tempest Prognosticator and other crazy inventions? SteveBaker 14:38, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Very nice work on the WikiWorld comics. You're a hell of an artist. — Scartol · Talk 22:02, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | ||
For your continuing and ceaseless efforts in illustrating Wikipedia, I, Sharkface217, hereby award you this barnstar. You've deserved it. --Sharkface217 23:33, 4 September 2007 (UTC) |
In the time that I took to state, "Don't anybody touch that chip yet!", the stopwatch I wear every day elapsed an average of 1.5 seconds. By the time the green bacteria counted to 4, another bacteria stated, "Too late!" Do you suppose it wasn't really too late, and that the image unwittingly appears to illustrate the bacteria obeying the 5-second rule? Becuase in the time it took for the bacteria to say, "Don't anybody touch that chip yet!" AND count, it was actually about 5.5 seconds before the red bacterium touched the chip. --70.179.175.240 03:36, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I feel terrible complaining before I've complemented you. So let me say this: I love each and every one of your caricatures -- until today when I saw Sarah Vowell. I'm no art critic, but I know what makes me think of severe deformity. I'm sure what happened is that you spent so much time on last week's superbly excellent drawings that you were exhausted and pressed for time this week.
I feel terrible saying this, but if I did something that made someone else feel the way I do, I'd want them to tell me. I think. Please take this constructively and please believe me when I say I like all the others.
It's the distance between the eyes, I think, and the lip. And if you look at this picture don't you think the base of the eyes tilt inward instead of outward? I feel like such a jerk complaining about your art. My repertoire extends to stick figures and no further.
Forgive me please. ←BenB4 02:09, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I love your work. I find it witty, informative and a tremendous lesson in that rarity of modern media... precis. However, I find that the topics often have no resonance with me, as they're so often from a specifically US cultural milieu. I appreciate that that's a) probably because that's what interests you and b) I'm better off "learning" about stuff I don't know than stuff I do, however... <grins... and then breathes again>
No real suggestions for how you could overcome this (if indeed it is an accurate perception AND you have any desire to address it) but there's so much stuff in Wikipedia of international interest, it can't be too hard. Can it?
Cheers. --Dweller 15:28, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm tempted to suggest Bodyline just because focusing on anything to do with cricket makes Americans howl (!) and this article more than perhaps any other "proves" just how important cricket is in the countries where it's played. It'll be a tough job in terms of precis! Lighter topics - pop. culture Bollywood, from history there's Carthago delenda est, from whimsy there's QED and from the dark side, Golem. NB It's the annual season of Jewish festivals. Tonight/tomorrow is Yom Kippur; from Wednesday night it's Sukkot. (And it's Ramadan too) Hope that's helpful food for thought. Thanks for your kind reply. --Dweller 07:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Greg, I went to UWEC with you and was thrilled to see your work in Wiki. Recently my parents moved and I came across all of the "Blandies" strips I had saved (yes, I saved them, they were so good). Certainly they deserve a mention, if not a Wiki page of their own! I knew back then you were the real deal. Good luck with all of your wonderful work! Laura J. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.149.16 (talk) 14:38, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
How amazingly cool! What a great use of an animated GIF! :D ←BenB4 17:37, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
On Soramimi Kashi. I think it brings your work here to a new level. Funny too. :-) Steve Dufour 01:36, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Capgras delusion. Basically where someone thinks their close family members are impostors (like an alien, the devil, a spy, etc) trying to fool them. Love that one - interesting, and surprisingly thorough. JoeSmack Talk 22:10, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Greg, a suggestion for you fantastic Wikiworld comic: Alizée, the French pop star, famous from her J'en ai marre dance, which is the dance used in World of Warcraft for the night-elf species, see this video (55 seconds into the video). Regards from a big fan! JACOPLANE • 2007-11-11 00:22
Chicken hypnotism. How can you resist? howcheng {chat} 19:38, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
I recognized Merl, but I'm wondering where you saw Will Shortz with grey around the temples. Just curious. MilesAgain (talk) 23:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for writing. The drawing is simplified, and overstates things somewhat - but that's the nature of a caricature. A number of resource photos show that Will is graying a bit at the temples. (Not unlike me.) Here's just one example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/datageneral/120598203/ --Greg Williams 12:04, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
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Awesome. How the heck did you find it? -Ravedave (talk) 15:26, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
I dont know if this was suggested to you before, but personally I think you could use some of the entries of Ben Yates' blog for ideas (not that you lack them! :D), they're often quite interesting. Waldir talk 16:06, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry to see that you won't be doing the comic (which I thought was great) regularly anymore but I'm sure you are busy outside of this. I just thought you should know that lots of people loved your comics and thought they were great! Remember (talk) 14:26, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
I'd just like to thank you for your monthly cartoons. They were (and are, hopefully!) fantastic! - Tbsdy lives (talk) 10:48, 30 January 2008 (UTC) (formerly Ta bu shi da yu)
I've just noticed that, to quote the signpost, "WikiWorld has ceased its weekly schedule" and was wondering if you would like any help in making comics. Admittedly, I could never equal your unique caricaturesque style, but am quite accomplished at drawing with both a pencil and a mouse myself. I could never keep a weekly rate (heck, I don't even know if I could keep a triweekly rate), but if there's two of us, we could have a sort of alternating output.
I don't think we could bring the comic back to being weekly, but it could come out more, and if ever both of us have a comic ready for the same week, yours would go before mine. I don't know if you would like to review my article choice or the comics I make themselves before they're published in The Signpost (nor indeed do I currently know how you manage to have them published in The Signpost).
The articles I'll take for making comics will mostly (if not totally) come from the suggestions currently on the WikiProject's talk page. I already have the excepted text for "Fourth wall" and "Time flies like an arrow" and ideas on what to draw for them; as well as an idea of what to draw for "sleepwalking", ontological paradox, and "Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116", though I wouldn't want to start on any of them before you give me the go-ahead.
Let me know what you think
--Once in a Blue Moon (talk) 18:06, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry I missed your note until now. I agree with Steve, that it would be great to see more people contributing unique creative work related to Wikipedia: cartoons, caricatures, serious illustrations or graphics, photographs, or whatever. As for the WikiWorld project itself, it's not really my call to open that up to other contributors - since the use of Wikipedia's name and logo had to be approved by the Wikimedia Foundation. Luckily, they liked my work well enough to give me the go-ahead. Likewise for the inclusion of the comics in The Wikipedia Signpost, which would be totally at the discretion of the Signpost's editor(s).
If you'd like to develop your own separate project (unconnected to WikiWorld), more power to you. Or, if you're mainly interested in continuing with the established WikiWorld template, I'd be happy to take a look at your stuff - and to speak up on your behalf, if I think it would be a good fit. Either way, I'd be happy to give you my thoughts after I've had a chance to see your work. Why don't you e-mail a couple of things to wikiworldcomic@yahoo.com and we can discuss the best way to proceed. (Or, feel free to approach the Wikimedia Foundation and the Signpost on your own, if you like.)
Thanks for your interest! --Greg Williams (talk) 14:25, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
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I am a bit fan of the awesome artwork, it make the article fun. I found out about them as I saw a slide during a presentation with a picture. I would propose to put them on the main welcome page once in a while. I am sure a petition can be done to make it so. I wanted to ask what is the current policy for the images, as I saw that some articles have removed them due to overly serious people. As it is irritating that a nice picture goes to waste as a 200px thumbnail is great and does no harm, is there anything to be done about it? On a useless sideline, about the serious=important misconseption, I would like to say that in genetics there are all sorts of in-jokes with the names of genes, fruit fly genes are the most entertaining (including Pokemon gene which causes cancer). I presented 2 weeks ago in journal club a gene called HotAir, hailed to be something not seen before... THANKS FOR THE GREAT WORK--Squidonius (talk) 13:16, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Over the past few months I couldn't help but sadly notice that WikiWorld is no longer a weekly. In fact, it is as it has been discontinued - no new comic in half a year is really "behind schedule" :( Perhaps you could amend your user page to reflect it and /or make a statement about the future of the Wikipedia:WikiWorld project? Thank you, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 19:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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