Category talk:WikiFauna

The Shoe Just Doesn't Fit

I've looked through all of the Wikipedia Fauna over and over again, and I don't really seem to fit into any of the categories. The way my personality is, sometimes I'm going to be a Dragon, then other times I'm a Gnome, other times an Elf, and perhaps even a Fairy.

I was wondering if perhaps (with much consideration, naturally) a new fauna could be added, one that describes itself as "maintaining many of the qualities of the Wikipedia fauna at once, or regularly fluctuating between the different qualities" (I was thinking Griffin simply because it embodies different animals, thus showing different kinds of fauna combined).

If I am not mistaken, in a nutshell: Dragons are bold and make large contributions, Fairies make things nicer to look at, Elfs make new articles and work behind the scenes, Slothes make contributions because they enjoy it, and Gnomes work behind the scenes on grammar and spelling, etc.

Once again, my reason for proposing this is simply because I know that I will almost constantly change fauna qualities, and I doubt I am the only one.

If this is not necessary because of an existing solution, please point this out to me (I am new and while I've looked around the articles, I may have missed something), and I'll quiet down.

Just a proposal. - ApostleJoe

I think that's a wiki platypus, a combo of many wikifauna. Solar flute (talk) 17:14, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

In answer to Apostle Joe, it is inevitable that some Wikipedians may feel that sometimes there editing philosophy leans to one side, sometimes to another, just how there is dispute in personality psychology about whether our personality is more a function of our internal traits or our situation (an analogy - some Wikipedians identify themselves as separatists, some as mergist, some say (myself included) that they are neither mergists nor separatists, they simply go by the particular article(s) under consideration.

However, I think that some new animals could be offered here:

The Wikipedia Jackdaw - the jackdaw will peck at anything, even a piece of ice, to make a nest, as will the magpie - and a Wikipedian who adopts this approach probably skims through a large range of different articles, taking a little piece here and a little piece there, but does not make any concerted effort to focus on a family of articles in particular.

The Wikipedia Beaver - this is a Wikipedian who works extremely hard at building a good, secure encyclopaedia, just how the beaver is a hard-working animal and an excellent nest maker.

The Wikipedia cuckoo - just how a cuckoo lays its eggs in other birds' nests, this Wikipedian treats articles started by other uses as if s/he owns them, forgetting them that no one actually owns the Wikipedia articles - it is a free domain website;

The Wikipedia Spider Monkey - this is a Wikipedian who views editing Wikipedia as a game, swinging through its page;

The Wikipedia cat - this is the Wikipedian who often edits Wikipedia late at night and adopts a rather solitary approach to Wikipedia edits, paying little attention to talk pages and just focussing on the edits that s/he has made to an article;

The Wikipedia termite - this is a Wikipedian who seems determined to damage Wikipedia through mindless acts of violence;

The Wikipedia dolphin - this is a Wikipedian who swims through the pages of Wikipedia and finds this activity highly therapeutic. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 22:43, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

order! order! reorder!

Maybe Wikipedia:WikiOgre ought to be alphabetized under O? —Tamfang (talk) 18:13, 30 November 2019 (UTC)