User talk:WDTSF~enwikiquote

WDTSF, a self-referencial acronym. Those who know what it stands for knows, those who don't are encouraged to find out by figuring it out themselves instead of being told. Most people with a fluency in English are likely to get the acrynom without too much assistance, however, sometimes it takes certain people longer than others to arrive at the answer, which is actually the question itself.

The people who discovered this acronym began a silent movement of pointless mass confusion in 1998. It began with a advertising campaign without a product code named "Operation: Poopy Pants" in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where thousands of posters were printed bearing nothing but the letters WDTSF, white in a black box.

Over thousands of stickers were printed and given out for random distribution. There were 3 known designs: The original had nothing except the acronym, white text on black. The second generation had WDTSF approved and were designed to look like an official label so that when they were adhered in public on items such as parking metres and automatic hand-dryers in public washrooms, they were likely to be taken off by custodians since they looked like they looked more like an official label than a piece of advertising. The 3rd generation stickers had a more stylized LOGO and advertised the movement's website, however those were considered by the purists to be untrue to the spirit and philosophy of WDTSF.

There was one recorded "demonstration" of the WDTSF called The Pointless March. This took place downtown Toronto on a rainy day in 1999. WDTSF revolutionaries dressed in uniform black T-shirts bearing the acronym in bold white letters paraded with picket signs that read "Honk if your horn doesn't work", "This sign is not big enoug", "The reading of this sign is strictly prohibited" etc.

The Pointless March began in front of the Henry Moore sculpture on the corner of McCaul and Dundas and the revolutionaries proceeded a spontaneous route which included a circle around the Ontario Parliament building, Yonge street, and the party dispersed somewhere around Speakers Corner due to bad weather.

The WDTSF is still active today with various random projects of confusion around the world, the latest of which, include a full back cover "advertisment" in "That's Beijing" magazine, China, where a meaningless doodle in black and white were accompanied by the words "I don't understand it either."

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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:38, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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