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Session Start: Fri Oct 31 18:19:11 2008
Session Ident: forty-haig
[18:19] Session Ident: forty-haig (freenode, kennedy) (n=thisisac@wikimedia/Microchip08)

�01[18:27] <kennedy> It'll be fun!
�01[18:27] <kennedy> :D
�06[18:27] * forty-haig is happy to
�01[18:27] <kennedy> I don't quite have the questions thought out. So is it okay just to wing it? :P
[18:28] <forty-haig> Sure.
[18:28] <forty-haig> Don't forget to turn logging on;)
�06[18:28] * forty-haig awaits the first question
�01[18:28] '''<kennedy> okay. Basically I thought I would ask some questions based on who you are. So, tell me a little about yourself, where you are from, what do you do?'''
[18:29] <forty-haig> I'm Microchip08, from Hampshire (same as tholly).
[18:29] <forty-haig> I've been actively editing for about six months, but have had an account for about a year.
�01[18:29] <kennedy> btw, any questions you don't want to answer, just pass, no worries.
[18:30] <forty-haig> I'm part of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team, so I've now got an account on a ridiculous number of WMF projects.
�01[18:30] '''<kennedy> Tell us, what is the Small Wiki Monitoring team?'''
[18:31] <forty-haig> It's a small project run mainly by the Counter Vandalism Unit (countervandalism.net), which reverts vandalism on small wikis of the WMF.
[18:33] <forty-haig> BTW, you can help revert vandalism by joining #cvn-sw
[18:33] <forty-haig> Hang on, I'll just get some dates
[18:34] <forty-haig> I've got 132 accounts on various Wikimedias
[18:34] <forty-haig> But only about six I edit regularly
�01[18:35] '''<kennedy> Thats good. So, what got you into editing on Wikipedia?'''
�06[18:35] * forty-haig loosk
[18:36] <forty-haig> My first edit was at 10:20, on 23 Oct 06
[18:36] <forty-haig> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=999_(emergency_telephone_number)&diff=prev&oldid=83180243
[18:36] <forty-haig> And started editing ENWP in earnest in April next year.
[18:37] <forty-haig> I started editing in order to be different, as no-one else I knew was editing Wikimedia.
[18:38] <forty-haig> I soon discovered the Wikimedia Foundation, and branched out onto a few other projects.
[18:38] <forty-haig> I don't edit them very often, but I know they're there.
�01[18:38] '''<kennedy> Is there anything you don't like about Wikipedia?'''
[18:39] <forty-haig> On EN it's the drama, and the fact that there's no place for humour.
[18:39] <forty-haig> On SEWP, everyone's very lighhearted.
[18:39] <forty-haig> There's also no drama, until this month, but that's all over now.
[18:40] <forty-haig> I enjoy the fact that on SEWMF you can create articles, on EN you have to write about ueberobscure things.
[18:41] <forty-haig> One I somehow managed to get onto my watchlist was "List of stamps of Japan with birds "
[18:41] <forty-haig> Or something.
[18:42] <forty-haig> 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.
�01[18:42] '''<kennedy> Is there anything you are proud of doing in Wikipedia? A favourite edit, or something you are glad you got the chance to do?'''
[18:43] <forty-haig> I'm proud of refactoring the {{QD}} template, although I look at it now and it seems really easy, but I enjoyed it.
�06[18:43] * forty-haig looks up stats again
[18:46] <forty-haig> I'm glad I'm part of SEWP; if I hadn't heard of it, I would have stopped editing Wikipedia ages ago.
[18:47] <forty-haig> Anyway, I'm definitely a [[m:Metapedian|metapedian]], which is something that seems to be bad, as per my RfA.
�01[18:48] '''<kennedy> I don't really know what else, so I think that will do nicely. Unless there is some questions you want to ask yourself?'''
[18:48] <forty-haig> Not that I can think of. But a plug of [[b:]] would be nice ;)
�01[18:48] <kennedy> B:  ?
�01[18:48] <kennedy> WikiBooks?
[18:48] <forty-haig> Wikibooks.
�01[18:49] <kennedy> I see. I shall slot that in/
[18:49] <forty-haig> You really need to look up your interwiki links...
�06[18:49] * kennedy wonders if he should take up journalism...
[18:49] <forty-haig> Feel free to /msg me, it's half term, so I'm on IRC until Sunday. Or you can message me on SEWP, but I'm trying to keep my usertalk down.