About me
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My first logged-in edit to Wikipedia was on 6 April, 2004. I was made a Wikipedia administrator on 4 September, 2005. I use admin tools somewhat rarely, mostly just deleting unneeded pages or fixing pages most people can't edit.
My current Wikipedia programming project is Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss, which aims to spell-check, grammar-check, and style-check all of the English Wikipedia. Previously I worked on Pearle Wisebot, which has been offline for a few years. I'm also using JWB to do a cleanup for WP:INFONAT. (These projects are why I have made hundreds of thousands of edits; actually sitting down and writing or re-writing content takes a lot more time per edit, but is often more interesting.)
I have some training and experience in journalism, science, engineering, software, public policy, STS, and photography. With moss and RETF, I fix typos and find certain types of bad content systematically; I'm also in the habit of fact-checking or tagging problematic content as come across it. It's a nice day when I can add something new and informative to the project, which happens on a lot of random topics I probably heard about on NPR or came up in a book. I occasionally upload a photo or edit an existing image.
I'm a bit concerned about the growing backlog of work for editors, as well as editor retention, civility, and diversity, and productivity. Sometimes I can use software to solve problems in these areas, but sometimes they just need to be tackled one at a time as they are encountered.
I occasionally close discussions, mostly to reduce the lag time for pending decisions so editors can resume working in the disputed area as quickly as possible. Determining consensus involves counting votes, because of course it's voting.
Subpages
edit- User:Beland/Tools - includes links to backlogs and fixup projects you can help with
- User talk:Beland/Praise
- User:Beland/Pages to remember
- User:Beland/Todo
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