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.