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About Me
My background on Wikimedia is fairly unexciting. I first started editing in February 2006: my first edits from this account essentially mark the start of my editing career: I have rarely deliberately edited as an IP. I became a bot operator in 2007, an admin in 2008, and was an oversighter from 2009 to 2011. Along the way I discovered an interest in template coding and 'backstage' work. Notwithstanding that, I have made occasional substantial article contributions.
Since 2009 I began to take more interest in the MediaWiki software itself, filing a number of bugs and patches to bugzilla. I held SVN commit access, which allowed me to help develop the MediaWiki software directly. I was an administrator at mediawiki.org, the documentation site for MediaWiki, and I have a few minor rights scattered across a number of projects. I have about 27,000 edits across all projects.
What I do
Although I can be a creative person, and I enjoy writing, I do a lot of grunt or fairy work, as I rarely have the perseverance to complete any major projects. That said, I do have a few green and gold shiny things to my name: I notched up a 75-edit streak on The Colour of Magic (TV film), which made Start → GA. I helped bring List of poker hands to FL, Wicked (musical) to GA, and Emma Watson to FA. I mainly work with templates on Wikipedia: I designed or help design the Requests listing system for the late League of Copyeditors, the complete overhaul of the CSD template system around {{Db-meta}}, the {{pp-meta}} and {{WPBannerMeta}} meta-templates for page protection and WikiProject banners. I regularly patrol Category:Protected edit requests and Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, am active on Templates for deletion, and consider myself an expert template coder. Most importantly for the encyclopedia, however, I can never resist the urge to edit any page I happen to visit which looks like it needs it :D.
New articles
I rarely create new articles - we have enough of those already.
TemplatesI've created or worked on a couple of templates which are quite widely used. I should be able to answer any questions over the use or structure of these.
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ArticlesAlthough I tend to work 'backstage', I have made significant contributions to a handful of articles when I develop a special connection to them. |
Shiny things
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The Barnstar of Good HumorFor this (which I liked so much I plagiarized it on my main userpage) and this edit summary, which I'm still laughing about. J.delanoygabsadds 02:05, 15 May 2008 (UTC) |
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The Special BarnstarThis is to thank you (Happy Melon, in specific, not any other random reader) for clearing the final obstacle towards finally standardising the documentation for succession boxes. I took my time, it is true, but I never forget those who have helped me. Should you need anything, anything at all, the members of SBS will be happy to help you. Waltham, The Duke of 09:02, 22 May 2008 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor BarnstarThankyou for your efforts and quality contributions on creating the code for the bot for the conversion of the Template:Infobox rugby league biography. It was much appreciated by me and all users in the WikiProject Rugby league. Thankyou very much. The Windler talk 22:48, 23 August 2008 (UTC) •Florrie•leave a note• 01:33, 24 August 2008 (UTC) |
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The Original BarnstarThis was a piece of sheer genius. Many thanks! ➨ ❝ЯEDVERS❞ takes life at five times the average speed 10:59, 19 December 2008 (UTC) |
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The Whole BarnFor shepherding the discussion that got rid of that awful "Create a Book". That's worth the whole barn. - Dank (push to talk) 12:52, 14 May 2009 (UTC) |
