Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Reading lounge
Welcome to the Reading Lounge—kick off your shoes, have your favourite beverage, and relax! Please enjoy some of the following links: perhaps it will inspire you to write a good or featured article!
Library
The Wikipedia Library has many links to freely-available information, including:
History
What interesting events happened on this day, your birthday, or any other day? See Wikipedia's list of historical anniversaries.
Visit Wikipedia's list of timelines to learn about the notable events of different subject areas, such as arts, science, technology, entertainment, and geographical regions.
Diversions
Enjoy a laugh at a webcomic!
Read some freely-available literature, such as:
- modern fiction, including works by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Jack London, and Herbert George Wells
- drama, including works by William Shakespeare, and George Bernard Shaw
- poetry
- children's literature, including The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, and works by Hans Christian Andersen, Lyman Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Robert Louis Stevenson