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Heather has learned more about wiki markup than she ever imagined possible (but still only knows a fraction). She makes stuff, reviews new pages and new articles, and helps new editors on IRC. She designs at the WIkimedia Foundation.
I live in the Bay Area and love bees and owls and the awesome collection of illustrations on Commons.
Riley Huntley lives in Canada and loves helping new and experienced users, creating articles and fighting vandalism. He can also be seen responding to feedback, helping students at the Counter Vandalism Unit Academy and helping the SWMT.
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth. ― William Watson Purkey
Keilana is a student of biology and physics at a university in Chicago. Her passion is astronomy, as anyone who stalks her contributions would know. She's an administrator and mediator with a love for helping new editors, because she was treated so well when she joined the project. She's fluent in French, though her grammar deteriorates markedly after midnight.
"Wikipedia is the best outlet for me to share my passion for astronomy with the world!"
Osarius has been involved with the Wikipedia project since 2008, and has mainly focused on new page patrolling and anti-vandalism. He has also worked closely with some of the Wikimedia Foundation staff testing and developing new or improved features for Wikipedia, including the New Page Triage, and the Feedback Tool. Osarius lives in the United Kingdom, and usually is online between 10am GMT/BST and 12pm GMT/BST.
Floating Boat (or Float or Boat) is active in vandal-fighting, but is always ready to help newcomers in forums like the Help Desk. It hasn't been too long since she was new herself.
Wikipedia has been really fun in my time editing here and now I want to help others have as much fun as I do!
Theopolisme, a Wikipedian since 2011, mainly contributes to Wikipedia by showing new users the ropes, reverting vandalism, and copyediting, tagging, and categorizing new articles. He is also the co-coordinator of the Counter Vandalism Unit Academy, where he and other counter-vandals show new users how to carry on the tradition of keeping Wikipedia free of spam.
I love making things work - but even more than that, I love the process of making them work.
Ryan Vesey is a student studying at the University of Pennsylvania. He began editing Wikipedia in early 2011 and chooses to do so for a chance to share his knowledge and for the opportunity to contribute to something great. Wikipedia is one of the most important projects of the 21st century. He is active at the help desk and IRC help channel as well. Ryan enjoys assisting new user's and runs an adoption program.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift — Steve Prefontaine.
Rosie has been active on Wikipedia since 2007, and two years later, she became a content admin. She's created thousands of new articles, has welcomed hundreds of new users, and has served as an online Ambassador. A cultural anthropologist at heart, one of her passions is translating appropriately referenced articles from foreign language wikipedias into the English language one.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -William James
The point is that I am now a perfectly safe penguin, and my colleague here is rapidly running out of limbs! —– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Nthep is a bit of a WikiGnome with an interest in history. Most of his best Wikipedia work is done with feline assistance (see photo). He also prefers coffee or beer to tea.
He who never makes mistakes never makes anything - so apt for Wikipedia. No-one should be afraid to try and edit, as anything can be repaired if it's not right.
Brambleberry has been an editor since Christmas 2007. She's a WikiPuma whose main topics of expertise are YA fantasy novels, mythology, and animals. So if you have a YA fantasy novel about a mythological animal, she's your girl. She is currently working on writing the article Animal aggression and expanding Cŵn Annwn and Cat Sìth, but she always has time for your questons.
I will always be on your side. I'm your medicine cat. You can trust me with anything. —~Brambleberry to Crookedstar, Kate Cary, Crookedstar's Promise
Being an editor on Wikipedia is a great exercise in conflict resolution when communication is sometimes challenging. There's a lot of value in that challenge; it's important that you face it head on. Also, don't believe for a second that "ignore all rules" is somehow fake or a pretend policy. It's real, but only if you take it seriously and you take the time to understand what it means. If you think you can improve Wikipedia and a rule is getting in the way, do your duty and run past it. Always doing what you are told doesn't mean you'll succeed in life, and that can be true on Wikipedia, too. —I, Jethrobotdrop me a line (note: not a bot!)
Etienne (Ebe123) came to Wikipedia in 2010 and edits on medicine and pharmacology-related articles. He is also on other wikis, such as the Wikimedia Incubator, where people can make new language versions of Wikipedia. He likes to help all the time. He multilingual and is also an administrator on the Wikimedia Incubator.
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? —Ronald Reagan
Charles has been editing Wikipedia since January 2007 and 21,000 manual edits later is still learning about policies and editing. He has written a number of new aticles and expanded others. He works mostly on settlements when not guarding against vandalism and material without reliable sources.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step glasshopper.
I've been knocking around Wikpedia, and been knocked around Wikipedia for years. My Wikipedia motto is "get things done" - I have worked on content, templates and robots - and on helping other users. I like solving those tricky little technical problems, or helping editors to work together.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. —Henry David Thoreau
Ebikeguy has been editing Wikipedia since the world was flat. He is interest in bicycles, electric bicycles, electric cars and all things green. As a member of WikiProject Environment and the Green Vehicle Task Force, he has done quite a bit of work on environmental articles, mostly Wikignoming. However, he is interested in helping editors improve all areas of Wikipedia, so please feel free to ask a question on any subject.
You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles. —– Miracle Max
Rcsprinter has been registered on Wikipedia since June 2010, and became active quite soon after. He does various gnomish edits, and helps a lot of new users though various venues. Even though his main interest is buses, he is also quite active in other areas including Articles for creation, and runs a bot, RscprinterBot.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. —Jimmy Wales
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