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Kudpung, Wikimania, Barbican, London 2014 Photo: JarrahTree Kudpung is a native of Worcestershire, England. A retired university lecturer and published author, he has widely travelled and has lived abroad for over 40 years including stays of well over a decade in Germany, France, and Thailand where he now lives since 2000. His interests are in linguistics, teaching methodology, and wine. He joined Wikipedia in 2006 and was made an administrator in March 2011. His focus is on reform of adminship and new page quality control systems. He creates and provides content mainly for articles on Malvern related settlements and Rhône Valley wines, while coordinating the WikiProject Worcestershire. He also maintains and coordinates the large WikiProject Schools and its associated articles, and occasionally does translations from other Wikipedias to English of important missing articles of all kinds. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Wikipedia newspaper The Signpost. He attended Wikimania, the annual Wikipedia international conference in 2012 (Washington D.C.) and meetups in New York, Wikimania 2013 (Hong Kong), Wikimania 2014 (London), and Wikimania 2016 (Esino Lario, Italy).
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I began in 2005 by just looking stuff up and making occasional very minor corrections as an IP user. In 2006 I registered and and made every newbie booby in the book, but oddly nobody ever complained and I learned fast. We all work in our favourite areas and although I have created many articles and a Wikipedia project, I still do a lot of cleaning up of articles. I also work actively as a coord on projects such as the Schools, improving RfA, and contributing on Wikimedia to the development of new ways to welcome new users, patrol pages, and review articles at AfC.
- Off-Wiki
I attended Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC and related events in New York, Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong, Wikimania 2014 in London, and Wikimania 2016 in Italy. I'm a member of the WMUK Chapter. Here in Thailand I occasionally give talks in schools and colleges about Wikipedia.
- Help
This was my 1,000th edit to the Editor Help Desk - my talk page is also always open to anyone wanting some direct help; I don't know the answers to everything, but I'll do my best. The coloured blobs at the top of the page may say if I'm around (I may forget to change it though), and if I'm not, I'm still fairly quick to respond. I was an OTRS agent for a while until I was kicked off it for lack of activity on it, ironically when I was in the middle of resolving a high profile biographical issue.
- Meta
I vote on WP:RfA and on all other elections. See my voter guide for theArbitration Committee Election 2014. I participate on most of the major discussions about policies and the way Wikipedia is run. I have launched several major RfC and closed many minor ones.
I sometimes work at ANI but it's really kettles and pots yelling at each other like the dead common characters across the cobbled streets of Corrie.
- Wikipedia is not a social network
No, it's not, but Wikipedia is like a large office. There are clear Sociograms that crystallize out of the work here, and for those of us who work voluntarily day-in, day-out on WP, there's something nice about it. Unfortunately there are some regulars who do their best to piss people off - but you get them in every office too!
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KudpungMobile, Kudpung2, Kudpung3, Kudpung.wikimania
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