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Philosophies of Wikipedia: Inclusionists, Deletionists but also Gnomes, Fairies and Trouts

Wow, Wikipedia developed over time a set of internal editing philosophies and users can express their agreement to a certain philosophy simply by adding a specific template in their user page.
So I could extract the following pie chart from the Wikipedians by Wikipedia editing philosophy page. (Update: as HaeB says in a commento “categories are not disjoint (…) a pie chart might not be the best visualization”. A bar chart might be better…)

The main ideological dichotomy is between Inclusionists and Deletionists. Inclusionists favor keeping and amending problematic articles over deleting them, Deletionists favor removing articles that are not encyclopedic. Currently there are 1123 self-declared Inclusionists and 261 Deletionists.
As it is typical of Wikipedia, fun enters the stage and a new philosophy emerges AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD, acronym for “Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are in Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn’t Mean They Are Deletionists”. Currently this the 3rd most frequest philosophy with 434 adherents, denoting how Wikipedians likes to have fun ;)
And in fact the 6th most frequent philosophy is WikiGnome (makes useful incremental edits without clamouring for attention, works behind the scenes of a wiki, tying up little loose ends and making things run more smoothly, fixing things like typos, poor grammar, and broken links) but there are also 265 WikiFairies (beautifies Wikipedia by organizing messy articles, improving style, or adding color and graphics).

Myself, I think I’m a Darwikinist or maybe not … ;)

Below the complete table and the same pie but in 3D.
Well, there’s a lot of Philosophy(ies) in Wikipedia! ;)

 Wikipedian WikiGnomes

2543

 Inclusionist Wikipedians

1123

 Wikipedians in the AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD

434

 Wikipedian WikiFairies

265

 Deletionist Wikipedians

261

 Wikipedians open to trout slapping

245

 Wikipedians against notability

228

 Eventualist Wikipedians

222

 Mergist Wikipedians

184

 Exopedianist Wikipedians

111

 Darwikinist Wikipedians

109

 Wikipedia users who oppose Flagged Revisions

94

 Structurist Wikipedians

86

 Incrementalist Wikipedians

85

 Exclusionist Wikipedians

77

 Wikipedian WikiElves

74

 Metapedianist Wikipedians

62

 Immediatist Wikipedians

53

 Wikipedia users who support Flagged Revisions

51

 Precisionist Wikipedians

39

 Delusionist Wikipedians

35

 Eguor Wikipedians

34

 Categorist Wikipedians

31

 Hyphen Luddites

19

 Redlinking Wikipedians

18

 Redirectionist Wikipedians

11

 Wikidemocratism Wikipedians

11

 Separatist Wikipedians

4

 Wikipedians open to whale squishing

3

 Transwikist Wikipedians

2

 Unsourced BLP Rescuers

2

TOTAL

6516

Percentage of pie charts which resembles Pac Man (as a Google pie chart)

The URL for generating the following pie chart on the fly via Google charts, containing all the needed parameters (that’s why it is so long), is
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxt=x,y&cht=p&chco=FAFAFA,FFFF00,FAFAFA&chs=600×300&chtt=Percentage%20of%20Google%20Chart%20Which%20Resembles%20Pac-man%20Chart%20title&chd=t:10,80,10&chl=Does%20not%20resemble%20Pac-man|Resembles%20Pac-man which produces

From mattcutts.