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 December 2007, an admin in February 2008, and an oversighter in August 2009. Along the way I have discovered my main talent within Wikimedia: I became and remain a committed template coder and backstage 'techie'. Notwithstanding that, I have made occasional substantial article contributions, including the work on enwiki of which I am most proud: my first featured article, Emma Watson.
Since January 2009 I began to take more interest in the MediaWiki software itself, filing a number of bugs and patches to bugzilla. I now have SVN commit access, which allows me to help develop the MediaWiki software directly. I am 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 current version of {{pp-meta}}
, and {{WPBannerMeta}}
, the WikiProject banner meta-template. I am an active participant at The WikiProject Council and WikiProject Musical Theatre. My Bot account, MelonBot, performs several useful tasks for these projects and elsewhere. I have a toolserver account with which I can query the toolserver database and develop more useful bot functions. I regularly patrol Category:Protected edit requests, 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.