User:Whispering/Wiki
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[edit] You know you have been on Wikipedia way too much when:
- You meet any of these criteria.
- You start adding ~~~~ to company emails.
- You meet a rude person and tell them they should read WP:CIVIL.
- You see something online you think can be improved, and look for the edit tab.
- You see "Sheila gives good head" graffittied on a wall, take out a marker pen and add [citation needed].
- You constantly use words ending in "cruft."
- While watching TV late at night (if indeed you do such a thing nowadays), you wish WP:NOTABILITY applied to those people who are allowed to appear night after night and are falsely labeled as "celebrities."
- You look at your credit card bill and wish there was an AfD section.
- You spend more time editing Wikipedia than you do with your family.
- Your girlfriend leaves you for paying more attention to this site instead of her.
- You start alphabetizing the links on your user page.
- You think that Rome was sacked by Willy on Wheels.
- You get fed continuously through a tube and sit forever on the toilet to not waste time editing Wikipedia.
- You find yourself editing this list.
- You attempt to edit live people.
- You use Wikipedia to look at porn. (?!)
- You use Alt+F to get to every search bar.
- The [ and ] keys have gone from "least used" to "worn out," and nobody but you knows where to find them now.
- You try to revert vandalism � on a toilet wall.
- You find yourself having discussions in the real world like this:
Person: I hear Mavis has run off with the milkman.
You: I'm sorry, can't comment unless I verify it.
Person: Yeah, but she is the sort of person...
You: I'm sorry, I would rather you speak with more of a neutral point of view.
Person: Yeah, but if you went round there and asked her...
You: I'm sorry, no original research.
Person: Oh forget it, you...
You: Uh-oh, is that going to be a personal attack? - You set Wikipedia.org as your homepage.
- You tell your children to become wikibots.
- You create an article on your ex-girlfriend and stare at it all day to make sure it doesn't get deleted.
- You find this list.
- You read this list.
- You copy and paste this list onto an e-mail and send it to all your friends (if any) as a chain letter.
- You introduce yourself to people using your username.
- You get annoyed when there are no popups to preview links on other sites.
- You use the phrase instruction creep in normal conversation.
- You create articles about yourself.
- When you have a new idea, you write it down, followed with {{stub}}
- In math class, you make sure to write <nowiki> around your brackets and braces.
- You don'''t''' use apostrophes in a normal way anymore.
- You find yourself dreaming of editing Wikipedia
- While you are doing homework or other projects you use wikimark up.
- You have modified your signature from the standard to how you are feeling that day.
- You look in the mail box and see a orange-yellow bar saying "You have a new message" if you have any mail.
- You come home from work and tell the wife about the day you had on Wikipedia, not the day you were supposed to have at work
- You look for the Random article link when you're bored in class or at work.
- You give your kids Barnstars for being good all day... and take them to ArbCom if they are not
- Your edit count is higher than the number of minutes you have lived.
- You need glasses now, despite the fact that you used to have excellent eyesight.
- You have edited a Wikipedia article in a language you don't even know.
- You sneak out of the house to edit Wikipedia.
- You make more edits in a month than you earn dollars.
- You edit Wikipedia on your laptop - in the bathroom.
- You can name every article you have started, but don't remember your neighbor's last name.
- You record the number of edits you make each day on your calendar.
- You add an edit summary when you edit this list.
- You try to find the edit button on Encyclopædia Britannica.
- You replace:
- Undo with revert
- Damaging or graffiting with vandalising
- Enemy List with Watchlist
- Leader with Sysop/Admin
- God with Jimbo
- You think that Wales is Wiki-heaven.
- You have to explain your meaning of "sockpuppet" and "vandalism" to everyone you know when you use them in conversation.
- You add something to this page.
- You try to edit a book that contains errors.
- You think everything you write are copyleft/right under some kind of terms.
- Your elementary kids start editing Wikipedia.
- You read Wiki to waste time, with no reason.
- You somehow traverse from one article, to other, and other, and other, passing all articles in Wikipedia, then back to the starting one, without repeating any of them.
- You manage to edit every page you ever come across.
- You track down vandals' addresses, and murder them.
- You try to create your own web site and end up installing MediaWiki because HTML is such a hassle compared to writing in wikicode.
- You no longer have any opinions on anything not related to Wikipedia. If anyone asks you what you think about something, say, the existence of God, you give them a terse summary of the major viewpoints without endorsing any of them.
- Your grandparents who don't use the internet know what Wikipedia is just because of you.
- Your partner is sick and tired of you wispering words with "wiki" in them in your sleep.
- Your family and friends wonder why everything you type is in brackets.
- Your pet fish is named Disambig.
- You wear a Wikipedia shirt almost every day.
- On Christmas, you will sing the Wikipedia song instead of Christmas songs.
- You stare at the Wikipedia logo and tried to kiss it but instead you kiss the monitor.
- Everything needs a number 70.
- You wake up on January 15th and have this awful feeling you've forgotten to buy a present.
- When you are stopped by the police for speeding, your excuse is, "Ignore All Rules! Ignore All Rules! Ignore All Rules!".
- If you say something and want to take it back, you say "db-author".
- Strangers know you better than your own wife thanks to userboxes.
- You consider WikiAdmins your best friends.
- You have attended, or regularly attend, Wikimania.
- You constantly reach for the discussion tag every time you disagree with a website.
- When you start wondering why all internet pages seem to have the same background... and the same logo, the same font, the same links and the same address.
- You meet the RfA Candidates Song's description.
- You live in a Wikipedia server.
- You only curse on Wikipedia because it isn't censored.
- You dropped out of school to contribute 24/7.
- You think metaphysics is the study of Wiki-policy.
- Wiki-you wiki-can't wiki-stop wiki-adding wiki-these wiki-prefixes wiki-to wiki-every wiki-word wiki-you wiki-say.
- You don't pay taxes because you donated so much money to Wikimedia.
- You vote neutral on a presidential election.
- You bookmarked every single Wikipedia page.
- You married a Wikipedian, but divorced because of differing views on notability.
- You have nothing else to do other than contribute to this list.
- You created a single-purpose account just to edit this list.
- Uncle Jimbo is on your Wikipedian recruitment poster.
- You list Wikipedia as your religion in response to Jedi census phenomenon.
- Whenever you write a title to anything, you draw in the Wikipedia globe on the left of it.
- When you monitor pages, the game you play is "War-cruft."
- You tell your sister she'll get a ban if she sits in the bathroom too long.
- You never play with sock puppets.
- You revert faster manually than with Vandal Sniper or popups.
- You set up a Wikipedian evangelization channel on TV.
- You wrote the 100th item on this list.
- Your first stops when you first check Wikipedia in the morning are to WP:DRV, WP:MFD and WP:ANI just to see what happened over night.
- When your house was robbed you reported it on WP:AIV instead of going to the Police.
- You are a librarian and still have more Userboxes than books.
- The last time someone told you that they hate Wikipedia, the only reason you were not charged with murder is that no one could find the body.
- The review on your last editor review was Oh dear God help us all.
- There are 12 Bots watching your contributions in case you go rouge.
- You have so many pages on your watchlist that your browser crashes whenever you try to access it.
- You learned new languages just to be able to edit foreign language Wikipedias.
- Encyclopædia Britannica? What's that?
- You are going to endlessly bang your head on the wall for pressing the enter button without giving an edit summary (see history).
- You have more Barnstars than your age.
- You always type with bold font.
- Your edit count has gone up to infinity.
- Even Chuck Norris can't pull off your edit count.
- You go to Wikipedia to drown your sorrows instead of drink alcohol.
- You now type at 900 wpm thanks to Wikipedia.
- If the only two things left on Earth were Wikipedia and a sexually inviting female, you'd choose Wikipedia.
- The only reason why you have such a low sperm count is because you keep editing Wikipedia with a laptop on your lap.
- You think that objects are not made of atoms, but actually made of Wikipedia logos.
- You think that Willy on Wheels stole those puzzle pieces from the Wikipedia logo.
- You don't care the President gave you his autograph; Jimbo still hasn't signed your page.
- You wrote the 123rd item on this list.
- You've gone through 8 computer mice in one month.
- You've thrown a party just because you reached the Wikipedia article by clicking Random article.
- Your dog is named Jimbo Wales.
- You use the <nowiki> </nowiki> tabs more than you use your DVD player.
- You want to know why you can't find Wikifruits at the market, but you can find kiwifruits.
- You've actually had a Wikifruit.
- You've had your kids dress up as Wikipedia globes for Halloween.
- You're still reading this!
- You haven't left this computer for one week, and you stink!
- All the downloaded music in your computer is from the Commons.
- You bought your own auxiliary power generator for emergency Wikipedia editing.
- The only drug you take is WP:ACID.
- When you used to be bored, you used to read a book. Now you stare at your watchlist hitting refresh every five seconds.
- Your friends are resigned to not understanding half of what you say.
- You plan to set up user accounts for your children the moment they can type.
- The only gambling you do is on Wikipedia Roulette.
- You gave up going to movie theaters because they refused to show Wikipedia the Movie.
- When somebody says you're obnoxious, you reply, "OH NO! I forgot to put that on my userpage!".
- You use Wikipedia's Contact us button more than you use your phone.
- When you realize someone's been messing with your hoomework, you frantically start searching for the history button.
Feel free to add more.
People who have added to this list:
- Whispering(talk/c) 00:53, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
- Lurker talk 09:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
- Bubba hotep 16:18, 29 September 2006 (UTC) and 14:53, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- --Acebrock 06:57, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sasuke-kun27 22:42, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- bibliomaniac15 00:19, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- Atomic-Super-SuitWhat Have I Done?! 04:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- Imoeng 14:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Swiftoak 22:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- umm, yeah, okay, uhh, etc Monkey13! 00:58, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- -- Editor at Large(speak)
- 130.218.71.175 19:14, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Randfan 18:04, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
- DJLarZ 20:17, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- Go Futurama! Sp3000 11:51, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- This User 25th november 2006
- Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 21:31, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- [Pitke] from Finnish Wiki 28 November 2006
- Black Falcon 06:34, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- — $PЯINGrαgђ Always loyal! 05:01, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thaimodz 16:25, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- — Matt Crypto 12:37, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- VonShroom 03:25, 19 December 2006 (UTC) Hee hee I love these kinds of lists.
- Yuser31415 22:37, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
- Rohan 05:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
- Lightwhip 13:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC) This is just stupid... but I like it.
- 01kkk 18:05, 20 January 2007 (UTC) I have this problem. Too much Wikipedia. And I can't stop!
- Ouro 17:30, 21 January 2007 (UTC) I actually did this... too much Wikipedia. Have a nice day everyone!
- --St.daniel 13:38, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
- Djf2014 14:28, 20 February 2007 (UTC) WIKIPEDIAWIKIPEDIAWIKIPEDIAWIKIPEDIA!!!!!!!
- The Updater 02:46, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- ~~Eugene2x Sign here ☺ ~~ 23:00, 4 March 2007 (UTC) Weird list... but funny.
- A•N•N•Afoxlover hello!
- Emprovision 19:32, 28 March 2007 (UTC)