Things you expect when joining Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement? Laptops, sources and citations, debates, policies and infoboxes.

Things you don’t expect? Karaoke, weddings, catchy songs, celebrations, friends, and candy (So. Much. Candy).

Yes, Wikipedia exists to share free, neutral and reliable knowledge. But this mission is fueled by people: curious, generous, and passionate. And with that kind of people, joy sparks pretty much naturally.

A careful observer of the Wikimedia movement soon notices that joy is an underlying thread, running through almost everything that we do, on our projects and at our events, in every corner of the wikiworld.

In this blogpost we tried to gather some of it but be warned:

this list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items

[[Category:Joy through music]]

An international community of passionate and skillful amateurs creating something together to share with everyone : that describes the Wikimedia movement, and it describes the Wikichoir and Wikiorchestra…