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Mr Renz

German singer-songwriter Stefan Renz aka "Mr Renz" has posted an mp3 on his website ([1] under 26.07.2006) of a song "Ich habe keinen Eintrag bei Wikipedia" (I have no entry in Wikipedia / so I ask myself am I for real? / do I really exist? / or do I just make believe?). Copyright status is unknown, so probably not "free". --LA2 00:33, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I found the song you're talking about. I'm just starting to learn German, so I'm having trouble with the lyrics and can't seem to find them anywhere. Do you know where I might find the lyrics to Mr Renz's song? Thanks. Professor Chaos 05:34, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the german text:

ich habe keinen eintrag bei wikipedia,
drum frag ich mich manchmal, bin ich wirklich da,
bin ich wirklich existent oder bild ich's mir nur ein,
denn wäre es so, dann müsst der eintrag doch da sein.

ich habe keinen eintrag bei wikipedia,
ich kann doch nicht real sein, das ist schonmal klar,
meine existenz, ist für mich höchst umstritten
und suche ich bei google, wird auch schwer gelitten.

nich mal tausend treffer, was heißt das hier schon,
bei milliarde seiten, scheint das fast wie hohn,
nur weil da mein name vorkommt, steht da noch nix über mich,
und in der bildersuche sieht keiner mein gesicht.

ich habe keinen eintrag bei wikipedia,
drum frag ich mich manchmal, bin ich wirklich da,
bin ich wirklich existent oder bild ich's mir nur ein,
denn wäre es so, dann müsst der eintrag doch da sein.

bei youtube läuft kein video, mit mir im abspann,
das wäre immerhin ein indiz, du bist am leben mann,
im duden such ich vergeblich, naja, war zu erwarten,
das telefonbuch gibt mir hoffnung und branchenbücherarten.

doch das ist alles regional und vielleicht gefälscht,
es gibt nur ein sache, die als beweis zählt,
neben siegmund freud, bei Dumbo und Plektrum,
sollte doch auch ich stehn, wikipedia ergo sum.

ich habe keinen eintrag bei wikipedia,
drum frag ich mich manchmal, bin ich wirklich da,
bin ich wirklich existent oder bild ich's mir nur ein,
denn wäre es so, dann müsst der eintrag doch da sein.

Bad Color Scheme

I changed the chart to be all black text on a white background. I stumbled on this article by chance, and couldn't read some of the list, because the colors are stupid. Sorry, but it's true. If you guys must have color, pick ones that a) aren't ugly, and b) are legible. Professor Chaos 05:14, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

audio links

I know at least one these songs has an audio performance of it as an .ogg file. Perhaps we should add a column with links to these audio clips for those that are available. And more importantly, let's get some more audio clips made :). NoSeptember 19:47, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

We must have more people visit this page

I notice that the Wikipedia: Song Page has grown large. Shall we make this place larger and share these songs with the rest of the Wikipedia community by making it publicGreaterWikiholic 21:45, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposition

Hi! I am AlexHillan composer of "Wikipedia the Beautiful." I would like to propose that it becomes the official song. You may post comments on my talk page telling me what you think. I will contact Elf, composer of "Hotel Wikipedia" to get his opinion.

Thanks, AlexHillan 03:28, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've created Wikipedian Idiot, thus this might not be likely to be chosen as official, nevermind--Andersmusician $ 23:55, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever people want is fine by me. I don't know by what process Hotel became the "official song" anyway. You might want to try to backtrack that and then set up a similar vote here with a link to the original discussion if you can find it. Elf | Talk 02:59, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How would Wikipedian Guy be like if it was the theme song. Marlith ^T/C 04:13, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikadelphia

Meh, I don't really feel like posting it, but you could replace instances of "love" with "wiki"/"wiki-love", "city" with "wiki", and "Philadelphia" with "Wikipedia" in Neil Young's song "Philadelphia" and have yourself a pretty chill Wikipedia tune. heqs ·:. 06:39, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How does a parody of American Pie sound to you? Marlith 03:47, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey!

I just had a thought! I composed Another Article, based on a song from The Wall. What if we made a Wikified spoof of the Pink Floyd The Wall movie? Agreed? Answer here, not on my talkpage.--Editor510 (talk) 19:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me, I just made a point! Somebody say something!--Editor510 ^{drop us a line, mate} 11:26, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You mean an online full-length film? ^Tezkag₇₂ 19:15, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Song

Hallo, I am from the german Wikipedia from the sociologic section, and I found out that you wrote a song text on http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Song . We want to know the reason(s) why you wrote this song. It would be kind of you to leave an english (or german) comment on http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedistik/Soziologie/Musik&action=edit&redlink=1 . Thank you --84.166.123.219 (talk) 07:44, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiSong The Musical!

LOL. Something along the lines of

Wikipedian: Hehe, now that I've signed up on Wikipedia I'm going to vanda-

Beurocrat: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here are a few tips to get you started!

First of all -

Wikipedian: Er... dude. I just signed up 'cause I want to vandalise Wikipedia.

Beurocrat: :(. No. First thing you have to learn is WikiLove!

Wikipedian: WikiWhat?

Beurocrat: WikiLove! Come on! Sing with me!

WikiLove You!

WikiLove Me!

Let's all go and save Jimmey,

With a CAPSLOCK, edit war

Vandal get's the block.

That IP is gone for good! HOORAY!

Wikipedian: Er... WikiLove? More like WikiBLAMBLAMBLAM.

:Beaurocrat: Blam-Blam-Blam? Oh I get you! You're from NewGrounds!

Something stupid like that. Kausill (talk) 08:17, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

LOL. Zappa O Mati 02:25, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SONG

Why is WP:SONG taking me to this humor page? It's supposed to go to WikiProject Songs. The actual redirect seems to be correct, but if you type "WP:SONG" into the search field on the left column, you'll be directed to to Wikipedia:Song. This is definitely annoying. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 22:52, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Xeno explained to me that it has to do with caps/no caps. wp:song will arrive to this page, and WP:SONG will take me where I really want to go. Case closed I suppose. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 18:32, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 23:51, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Song → Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia — Users, such as myself, typing WP:Song or wp:song in the search field are being taken to this humor page instead of the WP:SONG page. The name change will resolve the caps issue. Serious editors should be able to type in the search shortcut and be taken to the information they need immediately, without being diverted by a confusing humor page. Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 18:49, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I support this move to regain consistency among the lower and uppercase "song", though I personally think that WP:SONG should actually redirect to where WP:NSONG goes for consistency with other "Notability guidelines for foos and bars". But that's an issue for another page =) –xeno^talk 18:59, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I Support the move, a few times I've mistakenly ended up at the wrong page. The same occurs for WT:Song so perhaps that could be moved also. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 23:00, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support - WP:SONG and WP:Song—and WP:song and wp:song, for that matter—should go to the same place. WT:Song also needs to be resolved, of course. Would also support changing all of these to jump to the notability guidelines per WP:MUSIC/wp:music and WT:MUSIC/wt:music as suggested by Xeno (wt:music now resolved by me to redirect to the wp:music talk page per WT:MUSIC/WP:MUSIC)--Jubilee♫clipman 23:21, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Lyrics?

Please where is a list of the texts of all these songs? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:47, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Click on a song title to see the lyrics. I'm sorry it took so long to get a response, I have that problem too. ChromaNebula (talk) 16:11, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My idea

I plan to write a whole bunch (of Wikisongs) based on Christmas carols. Would that be OK or too politically incorrect for Wikipedia? ChromaNebula (talk) 23:10, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That'd be fine, even if it's past Christmas! Zappa O Mati 04:57, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Can anyone just create a song, or are there some prerequisites to what users can create what kinds of songs? This might seem like a stupid question, but I'm kinda new here and I haven't seen anything quite like this before. CondenserCoil (talk) 00:27, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone can, even if it's just stupid, like my created song. Zappa O Mati 04:58, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Molly Lewis wikipedia song

Here's another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFxWhzJWJ4U

--Kim Bruning (talk) 22:29, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio

I see that many are based on copyrighted works, should they be deleted or whatever? --- Champion (talk) (contribs) (Formerly TheChampionMan1234) 22:22, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Probably they'll be fair use because parodies are protected under it. Disclaimer: IANAL. weeklyd3 (message me | my contributions) 03:27, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

May someone please add "Will you please refrain from vandalizing any Wiki pages?"

Here is the SoundCloud link to that parody / contrafactum of the Pippi Longstocking theme:

https://soundcloud.com/thesonofway/will-you-please-refrain-from?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Would someone please add that to the list of Wiki songs? Thanks. --70.168.124.188 (talk) 20:24, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]