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Wbm1058

Joined 13 April 2011

It is approximately 2:14 AM where this user lives (Ohio). [refresh]
Icon This user has been on Wikipedia for 15 years, 3 months and 8 days.
This user runs a bot, RMCD bot (contribs). It maintains the Wikipedia:Requested moves process.
This user runs a bot, Merge bot (contribs). It performs tasks that are extremely tedious to do manually.
This user runs a bot, Bot1058 (contribs). It performs tasks that are extremely tedious to do manually.
This user has bicycled in all 50 of the 50 States.50
CCTThis user attended Clarkson University.
University of HoustonThis user attended the UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON
Top 200 editor as of May 5, 2023.
136th most-thanked Wikipedian as of June 18, 2025
Most-thankful Wikipedians (I barely make the cut)
Secret to winning the Race Against the Machine: become an expert bot programmer, and hope that the bots don't learn to program themselves. HAL?
English Wikipedia has reached the 7,000,000 articles milestone!
It will reach 7,500,000 articles around 28 July 2027.
It currently has 7,211,760 articles.
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your remarkable thoroughness in cleaning up other people's technical errors. I don't mean to step on your toes, but I appreciate the few times you've fixed whatever I've broken. One only has to look at your contributions to see you doing the same thing everywhere. :) Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 09:57, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar
Thanks for creating RMCD bot and bringing the requested moves process back on its feet!

Favonian (talk) 15:56, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar
For your contribution over at Requested Moves. Great work! Tiggerjay (talk) 03:32, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
For your tireless (and often-times, tedious) work at Wikipedia:WikiProject Merge and surrounding environs.
It is well appreciated! GenQuest "Talk to Me" 23:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar
For operating Merge bot._

Marvellous Spider-Man 15:23, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

The Working Man's Barnstar
For completing a significant part of the large merger relating to the Timeline of the Syrian Civil War. Your hard work is very much appreciated. Tradediatalk 06:14, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
The Hard Worker's Barnstar
For your work on maintaining and improving RMCD bot, which has made itself indispensable to the Requested Move process. You are highly appreciated for your flexibility and dedication! Aervanath (talk) 23:40, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
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The Rosetta Barnstar
for cracking the code and saving the day. ty amigo. Gregkaye ✍♪ 15:26, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

bot help
Thank you, user who knows the secret to winning the Race Against The Machine, for helpful bots and for cleaning up yourself ("removing WP:OVERLINK to an everyday word"), for redirects and templates such as {{Forms of energy}}, for detailed analysis and offering to serve as arbitrator: "Don't underestimate how far I'm willing to go to read the background", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:06, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar
For your diligence toward getting Template:NRHP Focus working again. Awesome. ―Mandruss ☎ 21:08, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
For your fine contribution to Talk:Self-balancing scooter regarding the article's title and the usage of the word "hoverboard." X4n6 (talk) 22:22, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
A thousand thanks for today's improvement of the RMCD bot notification rule. That will be a big help to the Wikpedia community. —BarrelProof (talk)
The Working Man's Barnstar
Just wnted to ad-gnomish you for doing what you do! Special thanks for relentlessly working on the Merge Project backlog. Well done. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 03:52, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

The current time is

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Did you know

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Important historical events that don't get their due

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Mindboggling facts

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References

  1. ↑ Public Road Length - 2013. Federal Highway Administration.
  2. ↑ "Life in the slow lane". The Economist. April 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ Madland, David (2015). Hollowed Out: Why the Economy Doesn't Work without a Strong Middle Class. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-520-28652-8.

‘We Need an Energy Miracle’

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Bill Gates nails it: Interview by The Atlantic. Something on the order of the Drake Well or Chicago Pile-1. Maybe some computers running genetic programming algorithms will help us find it, before "time runs out". A breakthrough in stellarator or tokamak research could be a game-changer.

Women On $20s

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The non-profit organization "Women On $20s" conducted a poll to choose a woman to put on a newly designed US twenty-dollar bill (to replace Andrew Jackson). The two leading vote-getters were Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Tubman. Others on the ballot were Rosa Parks, Wilma Mankiller, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Rachel Carson, Shirley Chisholm, Alice Paul, Frances Perkins, Barbara Jordan, Patsy Mink and Betty Friedan. As I was not familiar with some of these names, I looked them up and linked to them here. I think Jeannette Rankin should have been included on this ballot.

“I hope we can convince the next treasurer to print an equal number of $20 bills with both Jackson and Tubman.” Sounds like a great idea to me. NPOV and all. The last president to pay off our national debt in 1835.

Wikipedia peaked in 2008?

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A ten-year update of Google Ngram data would help answer that question. By the way, for more on Culturomics and the Google Ngram Viewer, I highly recommend ISBN 978-1-59448-745-3.

UPDATE: Google has updated data to 2019! The answer is NO! Check back in 10 years to see whether Wikipedia peaked in 2019; its growth curve does seem to be flattening.

Issues I've patrolled

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Admin statistics
ActionCount
Edits 291842
Edits+Deleted 306929
Pages deleted 14370
Revisions deleted 56
Logs/Events deleted 5
Pages restored 4069
Pages protected 110
Pages unprotected 11
Protections modified 21
Users blocked 39
Users reblocked 1
Users unblocked 6
User rights modified 5
Users created 4
Pages merged 4844
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WikiProject History Merge.
This editor is a WikiGnome.

Errors

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Redirects

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Cross-namespace redirects [ edit ]
Namespace →
↑		 0
Main		 1
Talk		 2
User		 3
talk		 4
WP		 5
WT		 10
{{ }}		 12
Help		 14
Cat		 100
Portal		 118
Draft
0 (Main) 11 0 0 839 0 234 821 25160 686 0
1 Talk 2742 27
2 User 106031 2285
3 User talk 285 5846
4 Wikipedia 2511 1694 42
5 WT 28604 62
10 Template 860 1243
12 Help 2 0 5 0 348 0 37 1 0 0
100 Portal 32 0 1 0 843 2 89 1 0 0
118 Draft 198473 5 1050
126 MOS 0 0 0 0 2670 2 1 2 0 0 0
Notes:
1 WP:R2 applies to redirects (apart from shortcuts) from the main namespace to any other namespace
   except the Category:, Template:, Wikipedia:, Help: and Portal: namespaces.
   See {{R from move/Cross-namespace}}
2 Talk subpage-to-mainspace redirects only. Talk-to-mainspace redirects, except subpages, are patrolled.

See also: Redirects in Category: namespace

MediaWiki software limits

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Disambiguation

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Miscellaneous

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Short pages

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Magic words

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To list pages that use a particular page property, see Special:PagesWithProp.
Behavior switches usually placed by VisualEditors, in error (archived discussion)
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Administrators' newsletter

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2026).

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Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment has been started that asks whether the criteria for autoconfirmed and extended confirmed should be modified, and includes links to the main discussions over each change being proposed.
    • A request for comment has closed with consensus to change the criteria for extended confirmed so that an account's age is calculated from its first edit rather than its creation.
  • A request for comment has closed with consensus to add an addendum to the Real name section of the Username policy to discourage users from using their real name or other personal information as their username.

Technical news

Arbitration

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Bots newsletter

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Latest tech news

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Database

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MediaWiki core

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Setup and configuration

Submit a patch On Windows, open a Git Bash window. On Ubuntu, there is no separate application called "Git Bash" as found on Windows. Git Bash for Windows is essentially a package that bundles Git with a Bash shell and other common Unix utilities, providing a Unix-like environment on a Windows system. On Ubuntu, the operating system is already based on Linux and uses Bash as its default shell in the terminal. Therefore, if Git is installed, you can use all Git commands directly within your standard Ubuntu terminal.

From there,
  1. mw:Download from Git#Keeping up to date
  2. mw:Gerrit/Tutorial#Submit a patch
  3. Start server:
    • Windows: c:\php\mediawiki\core> "c:\php\php" -S localhost:8000
    • Linux: unnecessary, the server is always running
  4. Open webpage:

Toolforge

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Archive search boxes

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Example: search for "Simpsons" in my talk/archives
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Wikipedia editors are somehow expected to know a lot of stuff about this topic. I find it a bit overwhelming. I checked out ISBN 978-0199941162 from my local library, but confess it's been a struggle to put down my keyboard & mouse long enough to read it. Taking notes and posting links to terms as I come across them.

History

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Editor engagement experiments

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Every now and then I run into something interesting over the course of editing.

Newer experiments

Subpages

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