KidzSearch Encyclopedia:Simple News/Kennedy/QandA/User:Microchip08

Welcome to the first ever QandA on the Simple English Signpost. This should be a good idea. Every month, User:Kennedy will interview someone, asking them about themselves and their opinions on Wikipedia. So look out for the monthly interview, featuring some top editors soon.^[source?]

Lets kick off with our first user, User:Microchip08!

So, tell me a little about yourself, where you are from, what do you do?

I'm Microchip08, from Hampshire (same as tholly). I've been actively editing for about six months, but have had an account for about a year. I'm part of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team, so I've now got an account on a ridiculous number of WMF projects. I've got 132 accounts on various Wikimedias, but only about six I edit regularly

Tell us, what is the Small Wiki Monitoring team?

It's a small project run mainly by the Counter Vandalism Unit (countervandalism.net), which reverts vandalism on small wikis of the WMF. You can help revert vandalism by joining #cvn-sw

Thats good. So, what got you into editing on Wikipedia?

My first edit was at 10:20, on 23 Oct 06 here. I started editing ENWP in earnest in April next year. I started editing in order to be different, as no-one else I knew was editing Wikimedia. I soon discovered the Wikimedia Foundation, and branched out onto a few other projects. I don't edit them very often, but I know they're there.

Is there anything you don't like about Wikipedia?

On EN it's the drama, and the fact that there's no place for humour, whereas on SEWP, everyone's very lighhearted. There's also no drama, until this month, but that's all over now. I enjoy the fact that on SEWP you can create articles, on EN you have to write about uber-obscure things. Once I somehow managed to get onto my watchlist was "List of stamps of Japan with birds " or something. I've got into the other Wikimedia projects recently, and only SEWMF ones. I'm not going too close to q:, for obvious reasons, but it's active. wikt: isn't my cup of tea, so I'm now working on Wikibooks.

Is there anything you are proud of doing in Wikipedia? A favourite edit, or something you are glad you got the chance to do?

I'm proud of refactoring the {{QD}} template, although I look at it now and it seems really easy, but I enjoyed it. I'm glad I'm part of SEWP; if I hadn't heard of it, I would have stopped editing Wikipedia ages ago. Anyway, I'm definitely a metapedian.

I don't really know what else, so I think that will do nicely. Unless there is some questions you want to ask yourself?

Not that I can think of. But a plug of b: would be nice ;)

*kennedy wonders if he should take up journalism...

No. Please don't.