Wiki Encounters

A WikiFauna (or UserFauna) is a characterization editors may use to further convey something about themselves that other editors may find helpful to understand in regards to their editing style as a troper and as a wiki editor in general. Akin to animism, where non-human entities embody some kind of life-principle, the WikiFauna characterization usually is attached to a fictional or real animal. WikiFauna relates to the culture of and its users and this page WikiFauna serves as a resource to help coordinate, organize, and otherwise manage the writing and editing of WikiFauna pages.

Inclusion guidelines
This a Just for Fun page. It is not intended as attack or criticism of other tropers or their editing styles, it is merely a fun page for whimsically explaining general editing styles of various members of the wiki editing community.


 * A WikiFauna should:
 * provide some educational and reflective merit closely related to the goals of ATT.
 * be helpful or useful in building the wiki.
 * be a sincere and genuine effort to improve the wiki.
 * express an attitude designed to encourage a cooperative spirit among tropers.


 * A WikiFauna should not:
 * be too obscure to be useful in building the wiki.
 * treat serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor.
 * lack genuineness towards improving the wiki.
 * be mean or too aggressive. Pointing a fellow editor to a WikiFauna essay to identify him/her as that WikiFauna should not serve to inflame a situation, belittle the editor, or dismiss/discredit the editor for maintaining an opposing/different opinion.
 * serve to foster negative attitudes in others towards an editor identified with the WikiFauna.

WikiElf
A WikiElf is described as having desirable traits of an editor working behind the scenes to improve. Subspecies are: WikiElf; CreatorElf; PeopleElf; DeleteElf; ExpandElf; ProtectElf.

WikiFairy
A WikiFairy is described as having desirable traits of an editor who beautifies.

WikiGnome
A WikiGnome is described as having desirable traits of an editor who quietly attends to details of the encyclopedia.

WikiHobbit
A WikiHobbit is described as having desirable traits of an editor developing expertise niches and evading heavy arguments unless forced to make a valiant stand, often against heavily armored adversaries. Sadly, they are not immune to the temptations of Power.

WikiOgre
A WikiOgre is described as having traits of an editor who can sometimes be inactive for periods of anything from days, weeks, or months, but often engage in a rampage of activity, editing wildly.

WikiTroll
A WikiTroll is described as having undesirable traits of an editor who bait others into repetitive methods of disruption. This usage of Troll dates from the 1980s, and is not particular to. + Basic WikiFauna + Expanded WikiFauna
 * WikiElf
 * CreatorElf
 * PeopleElf
 * DeleteElf
 * ExpandElf
 * ProtectElf
 * WikiFairy
 * WikiGnome
 * WikiHobbit
 * WikiOgre
 * WikiTroll
 * WikiAngel
 * WikiBear
 * WikiCat
 * WikiChef
 * WikiClaus
 * WikiCyclops
 * WikiDodo
 * WikiDragon
 * WikiFallen
 * WikiGiant
 * WikiGoon
 * WikiGremlin
 * WikiGryphon
 * WikiHunter
 * WikiHybrid
 * WikiImp
 * WikiJaguar
 * WikiKing
 * WikiKitten
 * WikiKnight
 * WikiKraken
 * WikiMercenary
 * WikiMule
 * WikiOtter
 * WikiPeacock
 * WikiPlatypus
 * WikiPolice
 * WikiPrincess
 * WikiPuma
 * WikiPuppy
 * WikiRabbit
 * WikiReaper
 * WikiSloth
 * WikiVampire
 * WikiWeasel
 * WikiWitch
 * WikiWizard
 * WikiWolfcub
 * WikiZombie

Expanded WikiFauna
These WikiFauna generally can apply to a smaller group of editors.

WikiAngel
A WikiAngel is described as having desirable traits of an experienced troper of significantly reduced activity, but who continues to follow the project and to act altruistically in cases of need. WikiAngel is modeled on "Guardian angel".

WikiBear
A WikiBear is an omnivorous browser. It can fight fiercely, but would rather be munching berries.

WikiCat
A WikiCat is described as having desirable editing traits such as being goal-oriented. They are also described as ambitious editors with the neutral quality of being less social.

WikiChef
A WikiChef likes to cook up templates, userboxes, and other delicious goodies for his or her fellow tropers.

WikiClaus
WikiClaus gives awards to good deserving editors when even fellow editors failed to do so.

WikiCyclops
A WikiCyclops is described as having mildly desirable traits of an editor who work at depth with a narrow focus.

WikiDodo
WikiDodos are editors who are good-natured but don't understand the rules and make frequent mistakes.

WikiDragon
A WikiDragon is described as having desirable traits of an editor who is sporadically highly active and, when sporadically highly active, are boldly and grand, but exhibits less desirable traits of being clumsy or overconfident.

WikiFallen
A WikiFallen is described as having undesirable traits of an troper who was once a productive troper who have been banned or otherwise exiled from the project.

WikiGiant
A WikiGiant is described as having desirable traits of an administrator who responds to vandalism, but with the undesirable trait of responding overly powerfully and clumsily in opposing vandalism.

WikiGoon
A WikiGoon is like semi-stealth WikiPolice that try to bounce trouble makers speedily. They have connections and loyalties to other, more senior and powerful users that they might favor over official policy.

WikiGremlin
A WikiGremlin is a microscopic creature that runs the website.

WikiGryphon
A WikiGryphon is a diligent, versatile and flexible user. They have the pride of a lion and the fierceness of an eagle when it comes to vandals.

WikiHunter
A WikiHunter is a troper that likes hunting down spam or other articles not worth keeping and occasionally likes to display trophies of their "kills".

WikiHybrid
A WikiHybrid is a kind of troper that possesses qualities of 2 other species.

WikiImp
A WikiImp is a user who, while not directly harming, leaves the editing to others.

WikiJaguar
A WikiJaguar is an editor prone to stalking other users' talk pages, occasionally leaving either constructive or negative comments. While often friendly, they are at great risk of Wikiholism.

WikiKing
A WikiKing takes dramatic ownership of articles, contrary to policy. The description is negative, though intended non-offensively, as a description of a not-yet-encultured over-enthusiastic contribution to a particular subject.

WikiKitten
WikiKitten is generally a newcomer, similar to WikiPuppies, but usually have more edits to mainspace articles. They might need help doing things and becoming new editors, but most of the time make it on their own.

WikiKnight
WikiKnights are there to protect the simple WikiVillagers; to defend Wikipedia and uphold the eternal pillars of truth. The term is intended as an honour for a particular style of contributing.

WikiKraken
WikiKraken are a hypothetical type of user that creates hoax material.

WikiMercenary
The WikiMercenary neither has their own Wiki-ing principles or projects, they just look for projects where assistance is needed perhaps to take part in the after-glory of, for instance, having contributed to an article being raised to feature status.

WikiMule
A WikiMule is a relatively quiet user who assumes good faith and keeps modestly to their work.

WikiOtter
The WikiOtter is very friendly toward new Users. Another aspect of the WikiOtter persona is a tendency toward harmless mischief, which is always done in good faith.

WikiPeacock
A WikiPeacock is either highly boastful of themselves or of some other particular subject. Views tend to be grandiose and go extremes.

WikiPlatypus
The WikiPlatypus is a user who has traits of many WikiFauna, and may spend some of its time acting, for example, like a WikiDragon, other times like a WikiKnight, a WikiSloth, WikiGnome, etc.

WikiPolice
WikiPolice is a term for editors who have studied policy actively and act to have policy enforced.

WikiPrincess
A WikiPrincess is a user who glories in ATT's collection of data but is too lazy to contribute.

WikiPuma
WikiPuma refers to a user who edits a lot, but edits carefully. This user will often make grandiose edits, but hates bad grammar and will fix it wherever found. They are prone to lashing out at times, but are scared of fire and avoid flame wars. In addition, they can experience overworking and persecution, potential dangers.

WikiPuppy
WikiPuppy generally refers to an anxious user, most likely one who is new to. This user will make edits on the subjects they like even though they aren't yet very familiar with things like Wiki formatting and citation. They would be wise to avoid the impatient WikiVampire or coming across as a WikiTroll.

WikiRabbit
A WikiRabbit is an inexperienced troper that is still doing their best to learn, but occasionally chews on articles that need removal by WikiHunters.

WikiReaper
A WikiReaper is a user who is almost never supportive of others, and tries to drive other souls away from using its scythe, which they call opposition.

WikiSloth
A WikiSloth is a user who makes contributions based solely on hedonistic intellectual enjoyment. Their contributions are valuable because they rarely get involved in protracted disputes or edit wars.

WikiVampire
A WikiVampire is a user who loves to bite the life out of newcomers.

WikiWeasel
A WikiWeasel is a troper that uses a lot of Weasel Words. Not all do this out of malice and in some cases it may be appropriate to do so.

WikiWitch
The WikiWitch, a capricious creature whose devotion to arcane lore overshadows their every act. Can be mistaken for all sorts of WikiFauna.

WikiWizard
A WikiWizard edits in order to keep the universe in order, by fixing small errors, helping with dispute resolutions, and occasionally helping fight vandalism and trolls.

WikiWolfcub
The WikiWolfcub is a user who, although displaying the friendliness of a WikiPuppy, has the hunter-killer mentality of the wolf and is prepared to make bold edits and significant changes, as well as hunting down small prey such as typos.

WikiZombie
The WikiZombie (or consensus zombie, or "tea drinker") is a user who stands in the way of building consensus.