Wikipedia:WikiOgre
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A WikiOgre or WikiOgress is an editor who goes for long stretches making few or no edits, but for short periods of time and in brief spats makes large edits, completes rewrites, or even writes new articles. The WikiOgre may otherwise make minor edits, such as copyediting or vandalism reversion, over the course of everyday perusal. He only goes looking for trouble when his schedule isn’t full and something has ignited the passion to edit.
In other words, every once in a while the WikiOgre goes on a rampage, but most of the time he just sits around in his cave and eats the random passerby.
Some Wikipedians have an expectation that others will always respond to them in a timely manner, leading to frustration and disappointment when dealing with WikiOgres. They are advised to either get over it or to offer to pay the WikiOgre in exchange for agreeing to meet their arbitrary deadlines.[0]
How to identify WikiOgres
To advertise your WikiOgrishness on your userpage, add:
or
Another way for WikiOgres to identify themselves is to display an ogre at the top of the page next to the User's name. The following code should produce a small ogre at the top of the page {{WikiOgre}}.
See also
