User:Michael2

You might be a Wikipedian if...
On 17 November 2007, I Googled "You might be a Wikipedian if...". It came up with nothing, so I decided to start my own list:


 * 1) You visit other websites and wonder why their articles don't have any [citation needed] tags
 * 2) You've heard of the acronyms GNU, FDL, and NPOV
 * 3) You understand the concept of a 'disambiguation page'
 * 4) You've got no interest in learning other markup languages (like HTML) but you learnt the bare minimum of Wikipedia markup just so you could edit an article.
 * 5) You've donated to their fundraising efforts
 * 6) You hope that the non-English Wikipedias will eventually catch up to the number of articles in the English Wikipedia
 * 7) You're in a group conversation, when someone says something and you think to yourself "those are weasel words"
 * 8) You know there are other Wikis besides Wikipedia
 * 9) You're curious to know whether an article (in another language) is exactly the same as the English version, so you click on one, even if you don't know the language.
 * 10) You secretly smiled when you learnt about Wikiscanner
 * 11) You know who Jimmy Wales is
 * 12) You open an article, then clicked a link in it to another article, then clicked a link in that article, and so on...
 * 13) You've clicked a link which should probably have its own disambiguation page. If you're really keen, you'll set one up.
 * 14) You've pondered the implications of the OGG format for sound and video—if you use Windows, you wonder why Windows Media Player won't open OGG files.
 * 15) You sign up for account, make edits, look regularly at your "my contributions" page and feel proud of yourself
 * 16) While cringing, you make a slightly controversial edit and wonder if it will remain or get deleted by another user
 * 17) You look down on edits made by users without an account (i.e. IP addresses)
 * 18) You visit a page hoping to learn more about a topic, and then realise the page is just a stub, so you'll have to search somewhere else on the Internet to find out more
 * 19) You've clicked the 'random article' link hoping it will come up with something interesting—but it usually returns something you're not the slightest bit interested in
 * 20) You've said to your friends "I read on Wikipedia that..."
 * 21) You've taken a grainy photo of something with your consumer-grade digital camera and uploaded it just so it would show up in an article.