100 Questions for Wikipedians
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[edit] Personal data
- When did you discover Wikipedia?
- How?
- When did you make your first edit?
- What kind of edit was it? (correct typos, add data etc.)
- How long after your first edit was your first contribution of a new article?
- How many edits did you do until now? (You can include edits from another accounts or edits as an anonymous user)
- Do you use multiple accounts on the Wikipedia you use the most?
- How many accounts do you have on that Wikipedia?
- What is your user name on Wikipedia?
- When did you first log onto Wikipedia?
- What made you register a username?
- What is merit of being a register user?
- What is demerit of being a register user?
- Have you used features only for registered users (except Watchlist)?
- Do you have your own blog or your website?
- Do you write Wikipedia-related topics there frequently?
[edit] Edit
- How many edits do you make in a month?
- How many new articles do you create in a month?
- How many images do you upload in a month?
- Under which license and to which project (Wikipedia or Commons) do you upload?
- During which hours do you do most of your editing?
- Do you do Wikipedia maintenance frequently?
- Do you use talk pages frequently?
- Do you keep a watchlist?
- Do you add interlang links and/or interwiki links? And how?
- Do you categorize articles?
- Do you add stub tags, if you find a stub?
- What do you do if you encounter a substub?
- Have you translated articles from other language projects?
- Which languages?
- Has any of your contributions disappeared because of browser problems?
- Have you donated to Wikimedia Foundation?
- Have you bought any materials (books, magazine, movie etc.) as research prior to contributions to Wikipedia?
- Do you spend more time reading articles or authoring them?
[edit] Your field
- Tell us your best article work among your contributions.
- Is there any featured article(s) in your contributions?
- Is there any featured image(s) in your uploaded images (including on Commons)?
- In which fields are you active?
- Are there any active contributors in that field?
- To what degree do you know that field?
- What makes you have a special interest in that field?
- Have articles in that field a good quality?
- Is there a portal for that field?
- What improvement would you like to do in that field?
- Do you think it is good for Wikipedia to have articles on your field?
- Have you searched how frequently your articles were quoted?
- Do you think your edits improve Wikipedia?
[edit] Wikipedia from the view of a reader
- Do you read Wikipedia without editing?
- For which purpose? (Examples: For information, for curiosity, for killing time etc.)
- Which article has been the most impressive among articles you have read?
- Have you believed an error that you read on Wikipedia?
- On which Wikipedia project do you have the biggest interest now?
- Does Wikipedia help you?
[edit] Administration and maintenance
- Do you know about administrators?
- Would you like to be an admin on your Wikipedia? Or you are already an admin?
- Is there any sysop priveleges you would like to use?
- If yes, what is it? Or for admins, which feature do you use most frequently?
- Have you been recommended to be an admin candidate?
- If you were rejected, why?
- Would you like to be a bureaucrat? Or you are already so?
- Do you think administration is a heavy burden?
- Why?
- What kind of administrative works or maintenance do you engage?
- Would you like to be a developer?
- Do you use Bugzilla, Wikitech-l, Wikipedia-l or similar mailinglist for Wikipedia administration?
[edit] Confessions
- Can you refrain from editing a stub?
- What is a stub in your definition?
- How many bytes is your stub limit?
- Can you refrain from editing a substub?
- According to you, what is a substub?
- Do you consider yourself a stub creator?
- If you create an article and put no stub tab, and another editor comes along and tags it, with {{stub}}, does this annoy you?
- Has one of your articles been listed on Wikipedia:Clean-up or a similar page?
- Have your contributions been speedily deleted?
- Can you refrain from editing an unwikified article?
- Can you refrain from editing an article that doesn't attest its notability?
- Can you refrain from editing an article that lacks interlang links?
- Are you, in fact, a Wikiholic?
[edit] Communities
- Do you love Wikipedia?
- What kind of vision do you have on Wikipedia? Is it optimistic or pessimistic?
- Do you join other Wikimedia project than Wikipedia, such as Wiktionary?
- Do you join any online community related to Wikipedia, like IRC or a bulletine board?
- What are your most frequently visiting online community?
- Have you ever attended Wiki-meetups?
- Will you attend the next Wikimania?
- Do you expect Wikimania will be held in your country?
- Do you join multiple Wikipedias besides the one in your mother tongue?
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Do you think you understand the GFDL perfectly?
- Do you use CSS?