A WikiFairy (plural: WikiFairies) is a wiki editor who dedicatedly works to make articles cleaner, prettier, and easier to read. Rather than engaging in intense policy disputes or writing massive articles from scratch, WikiFairies focus on beautifying pages, organizing layouts, adding images, and polishing formatting.
Overview[edit source]
WikiFairies are constructive and peaceful editors. They share similarities with WikiGnomes, but with a key difference:
- WikiGnomes work quietly behind the scenes fixing small technical errors, typos, and broken wikilinks.
- WikiFairies work on the visual surface—enhancing page styling, organizing infoboxes, adding relevant images, and refining formatting to make articles pleasant to read.
Typical Activities[edit source]
You can often spot a WikiFairy performing tasks such as:
- Improving Article Layouts: Structuring unstructured text with section headers, lists, and clear bullet points.
- Adding & Aligning Images: Finding suitable images and placing them neatly with descriptive captions.
- Standardizing Formatting: Applying consistent typography, italics, bolding, and quote styles per the Manual of Style.
- Cleaning Templates: Organizing messy infoboxes, navigation bars, and maintenance tags.
- Polishing Wikicode: Replacing broken or outdated HTML tags with clean Wikitext equivalents.
How to Identify as a WikiFairy[edit source]
If you enjoy making Bharatpedia look clean and well-structured, you can identify yourself as a WikiFairy by adding this category to your user page:
[[Category:Bharatpedia WikiFairies]]
See Also[edit source]
- Bharatpedia:WikiGnome – Editors who perform quiet, minor fixes across pages.
- Bharatpedia:Simplified Manual of Style – Guidelines for formatting and layout standard.