User:Zaurus

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 21 years and 24 days.

?met?This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans and Brits have such a hard time with them.

This user comes from Canada.

sibs-1This user has 1 older brother.

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əThis user has an intermediate understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

This user contributes using Ubuntu.

…in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.

This user is a Japanophile.

This user lives in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

 SOBER This user is alcohol free.

MW2This user enjoys playing Modern Warfare 2.

This user is an Afrikaner.

This user is British by ethnicity

This user considers themselves self-educated.

SQL-2This user is an intermediate SQL programmer.

This user plays Tetris.

b-182This user fell in love with a girl at the rock show.

This user sometimes uses AI tools like ChatGPT carefully, including to research & edit Wikipedia articles.

ClaudeThis user edits with the help of Claude Code — and reviews every edit before saving.

This user has made over
527 edits on Wikipedia.

I am a longtime but low-key Wikipedian. I've created two articles that have (so far) avoided deletion — Shelly Chartier and Glen de Vries — and I contribute regularly to others.

Originally I thought:

Wikipedia... is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information.

— Michael Scott

I imagined it could be a place to ideate and crowdsource ideas, but I came to realize that is not what an encyclopedia is.

I have made extensive use of MediaWiki, having set up giant wikis inside corporate intranets. In my edit history you will see I take an interest in enterprise collaborative software and search software, though much of this field may fall below the threshold of notability, so I may need to collaborate on that topic elsewhere.

I was thinking about creating an article on Tiny Mobile Phone Company, but I now suspect it wouldn't pass the notability guideline for companies.