8 June 2024
News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023 Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024 Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth Featured content: We didn't start the wiki Essay: No queerphobia Special report: RetractionBot is back to life! Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer Comix: The Wikipediholic Family Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox Concept: Palimpsestuous
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Greeting

Hello. I had lots of pretty userboxes but my HTML coding failed me, so regrettably I had to delete them all. I think some nasty bots came through and changed them into something else. The userboxes said a lot about me, but the Categories at the bottom still say the rest.

My edits

I am learning my way in editing Wikipedia. My areas of interest at present include Australian places of interest and people groups, football (including Adelaide United FC and the Socceroos (the Australian national team)) and matters gaining national or international media attention.

Feel free to use my talk page to give tips or query any edits I have done.

For my edit count, click here (hat tip to user Dibo).

My plans

I am enjoying editing areas of Wikipedia as I come across them, or learn more about them in IRL and desire to expand their Wiki definitions. I have no plans to join or create a Wikiproject.

I recently usurped "Wanderer" which has always been my preferred name, rather than "War-hammer". I would not like to be considered an Odinist with the revival of that pagan religion, but in any event I have known the name Wanderer more often than War-hammer.

Usurpation: Wanderer

I now feel complete, having foregone my warlike ways of the past. For they called me War-hammer for making war against those who would speak against truth and justice. Now however I choose the life of the Wanderer, usurping the title of he who had abandoned it. I am available to those who call upon me, but my choice to join or leave whatever cause is my own. I have chosen the way of the nomad, to enjoy and savour for as long as I like those things upon which I might encounter.

To those who think that changing my password will somehow strengthen your case to usurp my username, you're wrong. Catch the next train, bucko, this one's full.

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