Borrowing from , m:Questions for Wikipedians, and more.
Personal data
edit- When did you discover Wikipedia?
- ... and how?
- When did you make your first edit?
- What kind of edit was it? (Correcting typos, adding data etc.)
- How long after your first edit did you register a username?
- Why did you register?
- How long time after your first edit did you first contribute a new article?
- About how many edits have you made? (You can include edits from other accounts, or edits as an anonymous user)
- What proportion of them have been minor?
- Do you use multiple accounts on the Wikipedias where you are most?
- What do you use different accounts for? (Different kinds of work, controversial editing, home/workplace)
- What is the largest # of accounts you have created on a given Wikipedia?
- What is[are] your user name[s] on Wikipedia?
- Do you have your own blog[s] or website[s]?
- Do you discuss Wikipedia-related topics there frequently?
Reading
edit- How often do you visit Wikipedia in a typical month?
- Do you read policy pages and community pages?
- Do you regularly read Wikipedia without editing?
- For which purpose? (Examples: For information, for curiosity, for killing time etc.)
- Which article have you found most impressive?
- Have you ever believed an error that you read on Wikipedia (which you later found out was wrong)?
- Which Wikipedia project do you enjoy reading the most?
Editing
edit- How many edits do you make in a typical month?
- How many new articles?
- How many uploaded images?
- Between which hours do you do most editing (including all day)
- Do you do Wikipedia maintenance frequently?
- Do you use article talk pages frequently?
- Do you use user talk pages frequently?
- Have you created a watchlist?
- Do you categorize articles?
- Do you add stub tags, if you find a stub?
- What do you do if you encounter a substub?
- Do you make interlanguage links and/or interwiki links?
- How do you do this/find the right links?
- Have you translated articles from other language Wikipedias?
- Which languages?
- What do you think is the best article you have written/contributed to?
- Have you written any featured articles?
- Have you uploaded any featured images?
Subject areas
edit- In what subject areas do you contribute content?
- What makes you have an special interest in those subjects, and to what degree do you know them?
- Is there a portal for any of these subjects?
- To which subject do you contribute most often?
- Are there any other active contributors in that subject?
- Are the articles in that subject generally high quality?
- What improvement would you like to make to that subject's content?
- Do you think it is good for Wikipedia to have articles on your subject?
Administration and maintenance
edit- What kind of administrative work or maintenance do you engage in?
- Do you know about administrators?
- Would you like to be an admin on your Wikipedia? (no, yes, already am)
- Are there specific sysop privileges you use or would like to use?
- Have you been recommended as an admin candidate?
- If you were rejected, why?
- Do you think administration is a heavy burden?
- Why or why not?
- Do you have a MediaZilla account?
- Would you like to be a developer?
- What do you think is the most important aspect of development?
- Which of the mailing lists have you joined?
Confessions
edit- Do stubs drive you crazy?
- How about substubs?
- What is a [sub]stub in your definition?
- How many bytes do you set your stub limit for?
- Do you consider yourself a "stub creator"?
- Have any of your contributions been listed on Wikipedia:Clean-up or similar pages?
- Have any of your contributions been deleted?
- Speed[il]y deleted?
- Are you still annoyed about it?
- What kind of vision do you have for Wikipedia's future, optimistic or pessimistic?
- When Wikipedia is slow, what do you do?
- Have you ever personally contributed to its slowness?
- Have you donated money to the Wikimedia Foundation?
- Have you bought any materials (books, magazine, movie etc.) for contribution to Wikipedia?
- Which is bigger, your reading-list or your editing-list?
- Are you a Wikiholic? (no, yes, or score)
- Have you ever searched for how frequently something you wrote was quoted in the media / on the web?
Other communities
edit- Have you joined Wikimedia projects other than Wikipedia, like Wiktionary or Wikibooks?
- Have you ever joined an online community related to Wikipedia, like IRC, related bulletin boards, LiveJournal or Orkut interest groups?
- What is your most frequently visiting online community (outside of Wikimedia projects)?
- Have you ever attended a physical Wiki-meetup?
- Are you thinking about attending m:Wikimania 2005? (no, yes, definitely)
- Have you joined multiple Wikipedia languages, not only your native one?
Miscellaneous
edit- Do you think you understand GFDL perfectly?
- If so, what is your phone number?
- Are you using CSS?
- Other comments or suggestions about Wikipedia
- Other comments or suggestions about Wikimedia and the Foundation
- If you could add one question to this list, what would it be?