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EchidnaLives

— Wikipedian ♂ —
Name	echidnaLives
Name in real life	Sam
Pronouns	He/Him
Nationality	Australian
Current location	Melbourne, Australia
Languages	Australian English
Time zone	AEST/AEDT
Hobbies, favourites and beliefs
Hobbies	Playing Nintendo Games, Refereeing Football (soccer), going down the Wiki rabbit hole
Music	Amy Shark, Billie Eilish, Gorillaz, In Love with a Ghost, Lena Raine, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lovejoy, Tame Impala, Toby Fox
Interests
Urban Design, Transport, Sports, International Relations, Australia
Account statistics
Permissions	Rollbacker, Extended Confirmed, Pending Changes Reviewer, New page reviewer
Userboxes
This user has an alternative account named EchidnaLivesAlt. This user previously used another account: Xtrapolis 100. This user has rollback and pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has new page reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has extended confirmed rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user is a participant in WikiProject Articles for creation. You can help! Other userboxes This user assists at the dispute resolution noticeboard. This user is a recent changes patroller. This user uses Huggle to deal with vandalism. This user lives in Australia. This user is a native of Australia. This user lives in Australia. This user is a native of the Australian state of Victoria. This user lives in Melbourne. This user acknowledges the Wurundjeri people as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which they contribute, and pays their respects to Elders past, present, and emerging. This user is of British ancestry. This user is a fan of Australian Football L.F.C. This user supports Liverpool Football Club This user is a supporter of the Western Bulldogs The team of the mighty West! 🗻This user plays Celeste. 💙 24 - 🍓 202 - 💀 ~23500 This user referees the sport of association football. ZThis user is a fan of The Legend of Zelda. This user supports public transit. This user is addicted to Splatoon 3. This user would like the Stony Point Line to be upgraded. This user plays Undertale. This user is interested in urban planning. en-auThis user is a native speaker of Australian English. This user supports a flag depicting a Kangaroo and Southern Cross as Australia's new flag. This user opposes the United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit). This user supports the creation of CANZUK. This user believes in the creation of the Pacific Union. This user wants the UN to move to Geneva. This user supports the UN and calls for reform by removing the veto and adding the G4 to the UNSC. This experienced editor is seeking to adopt new users. (Users requesting adoption)

Hello, I'm Sam! I've been reading Wikipedia for ages, then a friend recommended editing it. Born in Melbourne, Australia and a big fan of Australian football, Football (or for some people, "soccer") and some other sports occasionally, including Rugby League and Ice Hockey. Interested in Urban Planning/Design, Public Transport, Nintendo games, Football Refereeing (which I recently started doing myself.) and editing Wikipedia. The main thing I do here is reverting Vandalism and monitoring Recent Changes, using Huggle and Rollback. Check out my talk page if you need to get in contact! echidnaLives - talk - edits 08:16, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

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Updates for technical contributors

• XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [3]

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• Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
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