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I'm a WP admin but I'm trying to cut back on my hours (I know, I know, I've said this before) so I might not be around all that often.
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Me before Wikipedia (outdoors; not attached to computer at eyeballs)

Elf started working on her Wikipedia addiction in January, 2004. May 7, 2004: Am now 320 on Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits. This is not necessarily a good thing. (July 1: #295. And that's while I'm "trying to cut back". Aug. 8: #288. My ascent is slowing--excellent. Aug 17:#292. Better. Doesn't FEEL like less, but OK. Aug 22: #286; up again! Crud. I blame it on mixed-breed dog getting nominated for featured article.) Sept 21: #271; bad, bad Elf. Sept 22: #265. How is that possible? Give it up--I'm doomed. Oct 10: #252. I've since been self-blocking for long periods. Perhaps this will help. Nov 8: Still #252. Promising. Plus I was gone from 9-14. We shall see... Noooooo... Nov 28 and I'm up to 245! Help me, Mr. Wizarrrrrd...

Useful pages

My tips on creating new entries

  • Include the bolded term as part of the first sentence, not as a separate preceding line.
  • If the text is shorter than a couple of long paragraphs, that usually means there's a lot more info that *could* go there if someone had the info and the time. This is called a "stub"; you can include the text {{stub}} to draw attention to the page and make it easier for searches for stubs to find (usually people with time to work on content).
  • Try to identify terms that already exist in Wikipedia and add links. I've found that it doesn't take much time if I remember:
    • Most noun articles are stored as singular rather than plural, hence e.g. [[shaman]]s finds the correct link to shaman but still leaves the plural in the text.
    • Capitalization is (usually) important, but you can link to something that's a different form in your sentence by "piping"--looks like this: [[Religious conversion|converts]] links to the existing page Religious conversion but leaves the word converts in the text
    • You can use the Show preview button at the bottom of the edit page to get a preview, including your guesses at links, click on the links to see whether they link anywhere, then use your browser Back button to get back to the edit page and adjust them, etc. until you're ready to Save page.

What do I know, anyway, huh?

My contributions so I don't lose track

My laughs for the day

23 Apr 2004

17:45 Haydn and Croatian folk music (cur; hist) (removed the telephone directory link which is largely impertinent)

axiom-thrust particle disproportionators

...that says We are reconfiguring the axiom-thrust particle disproportionators in order to improve flange density followed by 19 pages of argument about why this is right, wrong, or would be better with m-dashes! :) Thanks, --Nevilley 09:17, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Using m-dashes to reconfigure the axiom-thrust particle disproportionators would be the height of stupidity... Duh! Tuf-Kat 14:15, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

Things to do

The anonymous Croatian editor

Track down & copyedit pages for:

Things taken off watchlist

Some things I've done something (mostly minor but not always) but don't feel the need to track at the moment: Acrostic - Albert R. Broccoli - Amber (disambiguation) - American Paint Horse - Anemone - Angus - Apple_Macintosh - Apple Macintosh II - Babe (movie) - Baker Street tube station - Beanie - Black - Black (disambiguation) - Black-tailed Deer - Bleeding heart - Blind - Bobbin lace - Bobcat - Bobcat (disambiguation) - Bolo - Bond Street tube station - Braid - Bucket - Buckingham Palace - Candy - Cape Meares Lighthouse - Capitola, California - Carmel-by-the-Sea, California - Carriage - Cart - Cattle - Cloverleaf interchange - Coca-Cola - Copy editing - Crayon - Crossword - Cupcake - Currant - Cursor - Day - Devon - Diablo, California - Diana, Princess of Wales - Dicentra - District of Columbia (geography) - Domotics - Dried Currant - Dutch Belted - Eggs Benedict - English muffin - Euphonium - Eye (disambiguation) - FileMaker - Fowl - Fresnel lens - Green Park tube station - Guernsey cattle - Harrow - Hazel - Hidalgo (movie) - Hippeastrum - Horse - Hunting (disambiguation) - In joke - Interchange - Interstate system - Irish Guards - James Hinks - Kensington Palace - Lady and the Tramp - Lemon (disambiguation) - Lilyturf - Lot - Margin - Marmot - Meal - Motorboat - Mustang - Mustang (horse) - Name - Pembroke - Zante currant

Too much fun but occupy too much of my reading time on my watchlist or are too distracting when I go there: List of British English words not used in American English - List of words having different meanings in British and American English - User:Tim Starling/Feature poll - User:Topbanana/Reports/Duplicate article title - User:Topbanana/Reports/This article may contain a mis-spelled word - User:Topbanana/Reports/This may be missing a space after a comma - User:Topbanana/Reports/This page contains a link that might be misspelled - Wikipedia:Copyright problems - Wikipedia:Clinic for Wikipediholics - Wikipedia:Checked edits brainstorming - Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies) - Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images - Wikipedia:Requests for page expansion - Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images - Split infinitive - Style guide -Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion

Ignacije Szentmartony, Ivan Mazuranic, Ivan Ranger, Juraj Julije Klovic, Konscak Ferdinand, Lerman Dragutin, Mirko and Stjepan Seljan, Mursko Sredisce

Mysterious Wiki Logout/ Anon users that are really me

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