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v11 / Noting that folks can read all about user pages on '''Help:User page''', and can read all about the author of this letter on my user page ("User:RobLa")
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'''To:''' you! whoever you are reading this webpage
'''Date:''' 03:39, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
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'''Subject:''' Welcome! (and a few words of "wisdom" from a stubborn admin who co-created [[Electowiki:History|Electowiki]] in 2005)
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* '''We're watching you....''' - You may have been pointed here because I was watching [[Special:RecentChanges]], and noticed that you made a change to one of the pages. I'm kind of obsessive about doing that, and many other editors here are too. Don't worry about it, it's pretty standard on a [[wiki]] like this one. It's how we make sure that new editors aren't actually vandals coming to trash this wiki. If I sent you a welcome message, I'm ''probably'' not too worried about you. (at least not yet...don't push your luck <code>:-)</code>)
* '''User pages''' - You can read all about
* '''Timestamps''' - I'm writing this in the early evening of 2020-05-26 in the [[Pacific timezone]]. However, you'll see from the date above that it's "03:39, 27 May 2020 (UTC)" in [[UTC]], which is the international standard timezone. Since we have editors in other parts of the world (not just in the [[United States]]), we just use "UTC" rather than the [[Eastern Time Zone]]. See the "[[Help:UTC timestamp]]" article on this wiki to learn more about UTC and why we use it here.
* '''Conflict of interest''' - I have long been cranky about [[conflict of interest]] editing (and as of 2022-07-02, I still am). One fear that I have is that some people are using electowiki's reputation for [[W:Search engine optimization|search engine optimization (SEO)]] of ''their'' website (it's happened before; I won't name names, but I could....). Another fear that I have is that staff members and board members of various electoral reform organizations (like [[FairVote]] and the [[Center for Election Science]]) '''could''' start editing electowiki, and talk about how great ''their'' electoral reform organization is. I don't think that organizations with a multi-million-dollar annual budgets (like the previous two) would risk their reputation by by being ''too overt'' about making changes to wikis like this one or like [[English Wikipedia]] without disclosing their conflicts, since [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States&type=revision&diff=865204220&oldid=865168977&diffmode=source that's ''incredibly'' dodgy]. But it wouldn't surprise me if smaller organizations (and zealous individuals) would be willing to take that risk. I don't mind it when editors pseudo-anonymously make typo fixes or grammar fixes to articles, but I get a little upset when they make large changes all over the wiki, and other trusted reviewers (that at least ''I've'' come to trust) aren't able to keep up with all of the changes they've made.
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* v9 - 08:45, 4 May 2022 (UTC) - adding link to "[[Rob Lanphier]]" (in addition to "[[User:RobLa]]"), and removing deprecated link to "[[C4ES]]"
* v10 - 04:50, 3 July 2022 (UTC) - fixing unclear sentence noted on [[User talk:RobLa/Welcome|the "Talk:" page]], and making all sorts of other changes while I'm at it.
* v11 - 02:38, 14 August 2023 (UTC) - Noting that folks can read all about user pages on '''[[Help:User page]]''', and can read all about the author of this letter on my user page ("[[User:RobLa]]")
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