Wikipedia Editors: Citation Custody Hats

A Wikipedia editor can start with a punctuation fix and find a whole volunteer practice behind it. In a Wikimedia CH interview, Noam Schank describes beginning by correcting punctuation in July 2021. The small fixes have their own affectionate identity, too: Wikipedia's humorous WikiGnome page describes incremental maintenance such as repairing spelling, broken links, formatting and categories. The bigger decisions have their own rules. English Wikipedia's consensus process requires neither unanimity nor a vote, and its reliable-sources guideline favors reliable secondary sources while allowing cautious use of primary sources. MediaWiki's documentation explains that watching a page also watches its talk page; a watchlist does not make the page your property. These Wikipedia editor hats turn that patient work into comic personal responsibility. A comma gets a talk page of its own, a volunteer becomes an unpaid footnote constable, and an edit summary acquires a bibliography. Those are absurd boasts for the wearer, rather than descriptions of how the software works. WIKIPEDIA EDITOR and WIKIPEDIAN supply the direct identity badges; WIKIGNOME gives the quiet fixer a place in the grid. The comma and footnote-constable lines each come in two colorways. Pick a custom embroidered dad hat for an edit-a-thon friend, a careful source checker or your own next tiny correction.