User:Fr33kman/Wikipedia thoughts

Take this as it is meant, humour, no more, no less. As I come back from an epic 11 year long wikibreak it is occurring to me that I am once again beginning to do certain things and act in certain ways. For instance, I am beginning to, once again, see Wikipedia as mine and am stalking every edit thinking, who's that and what are they doing! This is especially so as I watch simplewiki edits scroll by in the queue in SWViewer. Now, I am fully aware that I do not own simplewiki, WMF does, but when one starts to take vandalism personally one has to be going a little bit WikiNuts. I don't take it personally when I see vandalism on other small wikis, but on simplewiki it just seems more offensive for some reason. For simplewiki I immediately leave SWViewer and open the edit in a fresh page thinking "can I just block this user?" (note the usage of the word user not person, user) when it is most likely some little kid thinking he's (or she's) being clever by putting the word balls into an article and thinking it'll never be noticed or changed back: it will kid, it will.

I am also starting, again, to think of fellow editors by their username and editing habits. This, we are all guilty of. We get an image in our minds about the person (note the more humane usage of the word person not, user) behind the keyboard. It is especially true of those people we don't chat with on Discord or IRC. In those forums we can just ask questions like "Are you really that into buses?" On Wikipedia we get different ideas such as, what is it with that person and categories: I bet their house is really tidy? I think of a certain person as matronly or authoritarian. Another as probably happy go lucky. I also wonder what people think about me (no, I'm never going to run an editor review). I know people probably think of me as polite because a) I've been told so and b) I'm never rude. But, I think, they have n ideas about my belief system because I never post my beliefs online. BTW: I believe everyone has the right to do what ever they want in life as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, but I'm also very religious and think people shouldn't sin. One thing I am happy about is that I never judge anyone. I am nobody to judge another, I don't have that right: nobody does. But I do wonder about you all and what your like in real life: I can't help it, I'm human.

That's it, I've nothing more I want to say. I'm not going to make a link for this essay. People can find it on their own. :-) fr33kman 07:23, 11 September 2023 (UTC)