12/21/2023 0 Comments Binding of isaac cerebrum dispersioI've always felt the pull of editing in the summer, like a good book on the chaise longue, rich in intrigue and the trembling of anticipation. I'm running about a 75-85% accuracy in deletion discussions.īelieve it or not, in 20 years of editing, 2022 is my most active year in terms of raw edit count! On really less than half of that, 3-4 high months. I am currently Wikipedian number 4107 by edit count (finally cracked the top 5k woo!). Also, I forgot about this, but check this out: Burma or Myanmar? I've created over 4000 pages across namespaces on Wikipedia, somehow, and at least 50 real mainspace articles, with over 25,000 live edits, and deleted over 700 pages as an admin. Because I've been around for a while and was a known quantity, I was even once used as a baseline for a successful sockpuppet investigation. 221(!) (which is 5.5 centijimbos) people are watching this page. My page was also vandalized somewhat often, which was a kind of badge of honor or a rite of passage back then. Because MEDCOM was prominently advertised and my name was alphabetically high up, I would often get pinged by strange random new or anonymous editors with weird disputes. I've also nominated 4 admins though they are long since inactive now, and blocked almost 100 people. ![]() I closed one bureaucrat discussion and participated in several. As a bureaucrat, I renamed over 1000 people and promoted over 20 administrators. I later became a mediator, a bureaucrat in 2007, IRC op, meta-admin, sometime writer of thoughts that have later become those shorthand policy shortcuts: WP:RIG, WP:DAQ. One of the cool things was making a user page layout or a signature CSS tag and seeing new users copy my "work." I was also very interested in Gentoo Linux, writing QBASIC, primitive JavaScript, HTML, and TI-BASIC at the time. I was nominated by node_ue and passed unopposed with 20 supports, wow, it's been a while huh? I had 1800 edits at the time. I was active on IRC and joined the conversation on freenode, learning how to revert vandalism. I started editing Wikipedia after reading an article about wikis in a computer magazine obtained from Barnes & Noble. My pronouns are he/him, but I don't care if you want to use neutral pronouns or words. In retrospect, why didn't I have an acuté accént? I knew how to make one for Pokémon. I was known as and signed as just "Andre" for many years. See the donation page or Wikipedia:Community portal. You should consider donating your time and/or money because it can be very rewarding. It is a great nonprofit educational resource. It helps Google provide good search results. Reliability of Wikipedia: Wikipedia is the best encyclopedia and general reference work. As of 2022, Fox News is considered not generally reliable and may not generally be used for contentious claims in politics or science. So no propaganda sources allowed for use on political articles. We do base all of our content on verifiable, reliable 3rd party material. Wikipedia is not a democracy, but you can use your voice of reason to help discuss when disputes arise. Wikipedia is an experiment in decentralized decision-making by WP:CONSENSUS and it doesn't work perfectly, but it's better than all the other options that we know of. Red wikilinks are welcome! I'm not precious or particular, and I'm here to learn and listen. Well, unless you actually make this page better by adding insightful information, wikilinks, references, or fixing mistakes. I'm giving you permission to be WP:BOLD and edit my user page right now, but I will probably revert you if I don't agree with your changes. ![]() On Wikipedia, vandalism isn't allowed and will be quickly reverted, though particularly funny vandalism may have some form of immortality, see WP:BJAODN. If you do, please make it useful, or funny, or both. Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy although it does have increasingly inaccurately named functionaries that I was once one of. What hasn't changed is the radical ad hoc simplicity of the wiki model and culture of getting shit done without red tape, or obstacles to quick change. The community is an evolving place, and a lot has changed since then. Be bold! I was a kid myself when I started editing the encylopedia, and gaining community trust through advanced permissions, and I learned a lot through the years I spent with the system and process. On Wikipedia anyone, even a kid, or a random person on the street, or in a library, can help write the corpus of human knowledge. No special expertise or education required. Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia that anyone can editYes, even you.
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