This page in a nutshell: A WikiOgre is a Wikipedia editor who tends to make only minor edits to Wikipedia but occasionally makes substantial and protracted contributions. Most are not at all cruel, monstrous, or hideous; but they have been put down by anti-Ogre propaganda.
A WikiOgre (
feminineWikiOgress) is a species of
WikiFauna, typically — yet not always accurately — depicted as large, hideous and
manlike. It usually goes for long stretches making few or no edits, but for short periods of time and in brief spurts makes large edits, complete rewrites, or even creates new articles. A WikiOgre may otherwise make minor edits, such as copyediting or
vandalism reversion, over the course of everyday perusal. The reason for this lifestyle is often a busy offline life.
In other words: Every once in a while the WikiOgre goes on a rampage, but most of the time they are content to sit around in a cave and eat the random passerby.
There is some overlap with
WikiDragons, in that to the casual observer, both appear to be making a massive amount of bold edits. They are driven, passionate, and goal-oriented, with little niceties such as dotting i's and crossing t's being given a secondary priority to getting "actual work" done. The difference is that WikiDragons do not have the long absences of WikiOgres; WikiDragons are like WikiOgres that are just "turned on" all the time, with no periods of relative inactivity. Also, WikiOgres are occasionally driven to go on a burst of squashing swarms of minor irritations such as poor reference citations or spelling mistakes, doing the work of a dozen
WikiGnomes in the space of a day. WikiDragons usually ignore such menial tasks unless there's absolutely nothing else left to do.
In the other world ogres are quite similar to trolls; on Wikipedia this is not the case.
Gallery
The WikiOgre banner: an ogre reaches out from its cave to snack on a passing Wikipedia article.
A WikiOgre in his lair, sitting contentedly after his previous binge-editing. Note the
WP:WikiCat on lower left.
This WikiOgre has had that article in his pocket for a very long time; one of these days he'll get around to improving eating it.
While WikiOgres do appreciate a good joke, vandals tend to find their humorous stylings do not go over well with them.
This page in a nutshell: A WikiOgre is a Wikipedia editor who tends to make only minor edits to Wikipedia but occasionally makes substantial and protracted contributions. Most are not at all cruel, monstrous, or hideous; but they have been put down by anti-Ogre propaganda.
A WikiOgre (
feminineWikiOgress) is a species of
WikiFauna, typically — yet not always accurately — depicted as large, hideous and
manlike. It usually goes for long stretches making few or no edits, but for short periods of time and in brief spurts makes large edits, complete rewrites, or even creates new articles. A WikiOgre may otherwise make minor edits, such as copyediting or
vandalism reversion, over the course of everyday perusal. The reason for this lifestyle is often a busy offline life.
In other words: Every once in a while the WikiOgre goes on a rampage, but most of the time they are content to sit around in a cave and eat the random passerby.
There is some overlap with
WikiDragons, in that to the casual observer, both appear to be making a massive amount of bold edits. They are driven, passionate, and goal-oriented, with little niceties such as dotting i's and crossing t's being given a secondary priority to getting "actual work" done. The difference is that WikiDragons do not have the long absences of WikiOgres; WikiDragons are like WikiOgres that are just "turned on" all the time, with no periods of relative inactivity. Also, WikiOgres are occasionally driven to go on a burst of squashing swarms of minor irritations such as poor reference citations or spelling mistakes, doing the work of a dozen
WikiGnomes in the space of a day. WikiDragons usually ignore such menial tasks unless there's absolutely nothing else left to do.
In the other world ogres are quite similar to trolls; on Wikipedia this is not the case.
Gallery
The WikiOgre banner: an ogre reaches out from its cave to snack on a passing Wikipedia article.
A WikiOgre in his lair, sitting contentedly after his previous binge-editing. Note the
WP:WikiCat on lower left.
This WikiOgre has had that article in his pocket for a very long time; one of these days he'll get around to improving eating it.
While WikiOgres do appreciate a good joke, vandals tend to find their humorous stylings do not go over well with them.