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It is approximately 8:10 AM where this user lives (Ohio). [refresh]
Icon This user has been on Wikipedia for 14 years, 2 months and 17 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
How to win friends and influence 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!
English Wikipedia will reach 7,500,000 articles around 8 March 2027.
It currently has 7,015,774 articles.
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24 June 2025
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
Action Count
Edits 270108
Edits+Deleted 283962
Pages deleted 12574
Revisions deleted 56
Logs/Events deleted 5
Pages restored 3827
Pages protected 103
Pages unprotected 11
Protections modified 21
Users blocked 35
Users reblocked 1
Users unblocked 5
User rights modified 4
Users created 4
Pages merged 4456
This user is a participant in
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 0 855 0 268 785 25034 627 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 2 0 0 0 2195 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.
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)
default sort
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Administrators' newsletter

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

added 0xDeadbeef

CheckUser changes

readded L235

Oversight changes

readded L235

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

Miscellaneous


Bots newsletter

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Latest tech news

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For the archives, see Wikipedia:Tech news.

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Latin Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [1]

Updates for editors

  • Last week, temporary accounts were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow. Share your thoughts about the project. [2]
  • Later this week, the Editing team will release Multi Check to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple Reference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test. The test shows that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%). [3]
  • A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in the task. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.
  • Recurrent item View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected. [4]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with Extension:Chart. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations. Information on how to use transforms is available. [5]
  • The all_links variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work. [6]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

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The current MediaWiki version is 1.45.0-wmf.7 (bb73cc3) (about this version)

Database

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MediaWiki core

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Setup and configuration

Submit a patch Open a Git Bash window, and from there,

  1. mw:Download from Git#Keeping up to date
  2. mw:Gerrit/Tutorial#Submit a patch
  3. Start server: 
    c:\php\mediawiki\core> "c:\php\php" -S localhost:8000
  4. Open webpage: localhost:8000

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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