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Every animated GIF on Wikipedia

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I was idly flicking through, took quite a while before I looked at the title whilst waiting for this one http://www.wikigifs.org/#Ajax-loader.gif

Interesting way to spark curiosity and learn new things! I wish there was a link to the Wikipedia article/section under each GIF.

    > Interesting way to spark curiosity and learn new things!

Thanks! That's exactly why I designed this page. I've learned so much from just looking at GIFs.

    > I wish there was a link to the Wikipedia article/section under each GIF.

If the image is used in an "en" language Wikipedia article, a link to that article appears beneath the image.

For example, this image is used in the "Screen Printing" article: http://www.wikigifs.org/#PrintLayers500px.gif

You can also click on the title of the image to get the file information for any image, scroll down to the "file usage" area for a full list.

ah, didn't see that. thanks joel!

Warning: Some GIFs are NSFW! I just hit space to see some penis GIF.

Dang, sorry about that. Do you happen to remember the title of the image you saw?

I've been playing wack-a-mole with the NSFW GIFs and I appreciate people reporting images that I've missed. (https://github.com/jpf/wikigifs/commits/master/animated-gifs)

Sorry, I don't remember it. I quickly closed it. No harm was done.

Dereccion.gif is one.

you could set up an alternative 'naughtypedia' site for these!

This would be a lot more impressive if it didn't just come from a dump prepped by Wikipedia. MediaWiki has an API, you know.

I know about the MediaWiki API and use it to find the articles associated with an image.

However, I wasn't able to figure out how to use the MediaWiki API to get a list of all animated GIFs with >=2 frames. Did I miss something?