Wikipedia:WikiCat

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This page in a nutshell: WikiCats are alternately ambitious and fluffy, lazy, and sharpened. They have been known to have fawning owners and to chase after anyone's tails.

WikiCat Temporal range: Early 2011
A WikiCat looking for pages to pounce upon
A WikiCat, hissing at a vandal
Conservation status
Data Deficient
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	Felinae
Genus:	Felis
Species:	F. wikipediensis
Binomial name
Felis wikipediensis YiFeiBot, 2014
Range shown in white
Synonyms
Felis wikicatus Dinosaur Fan, 2015 Felis wikisilvestris Dinosaur Fan, 2015 Felis wikidomestica Dinosaur Fan, 2015

A WikiCat, or Felis wikipediensis, is an editor who edits for satisfactory needs, not unlike a WikiSloth. Much unlike the WikiSloth, a WikiCat often edits for a personal goal, which could be to recategorize the world, to bury their droppings in the sandbox, or to become one of those bureaucrats who likes to chat.

A WikiCat's editing style will often be frenzied, tangling everything up as much as possible before losing interest, the approximate opposite of

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  WikiCats can be very possessive of an article...
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  ...but can also get carried away with their editing.
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  They may also watch and stalk talk pages.
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  Another WikiCat preparing an "edit"
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  A WikiCat, stalking its prey

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