I Wikipedians, you know, people are strange. Curious by definition, inveterate explorers of the digital streets, it was inevitable that sooner or later landed in mass also on [[Facebook]], cross and delight of the network in recent years.
However, no Internet like everyone else. If the web is a stormy sea, Wikipedians through the spherical bearing in our hearts a compass-shaped puzzle.
Contained in four brackets.
This can lead them to take specific attitudes, which may confuse the average user of Facebook, usually pretty fast culture of Internet users.
For the benefit of the latter, however, there are some simple measures by which to recognize the Wikipedia posting. Let's see in detail:
Wikipedians on Facebook ...
- when they write, occasionally let slip a few words with [[brackets]]. And then if you are angry do not turn blue if they are not
- brackets, braces are {{}} (and in this case seems to expect to appear somewhere what)
- in front of a post rather than on a few friends (maybe in the field of politics, football, etc..) commented by saying "sorry, but your post does not seem very neutral, perhaps you'd better rephrase ..."
- variation: a post in front of a friend recently shared with a cryptic comment {{cn}} (the infamous "citation needed" note)
- when they encounter a group with some misspellings in the title ( virtually all), automatically seek button "edit" to correct
- call the home page of facebook "recent changes"
- when they look at the home page, next to the post of list of friends looking for a mysterious key "diff"
- before posting anything, try to check an imaginary box "this is a minor edit"
- conclude all their comments with --~~ (perhaps a cabalistic symbol)
- try to put your friends' profiles (and, more importantly, some friends) among the "watchlist"
- in the chat on facebook, you can hear them say things like "this chat sucks, let us feel on IRC"
- show a strange and unjustified obsession with the lemurs
- between contacts have strange people who speak in code. And they understand them!
- seem to know everything. Why an encyclopedia of people and spends half a million of voices available, and they know where to look
- are often critical of Wikipedia, but as soon as someone mentions the evil they are ready to challenge him to a duel
- talking to them if you let slip that Wikipedia lacks a specific item, within half an hour you find yourself writing
- you never understand well if they love or hate Wikipedia, but apparently did not know how to do without!
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