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'''From:''' Rob Lanphier ([[User:RobLa]])
I am [[Rob Lanphier]] (a.k.a. "RobLa"). See https://robla.net for more general-purpose information about me. Now for the Electowiki-specific stuff:
'''Date:''' 06:24, 27 January 2005
'''Updated:''' 12:27, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
'''Subject''': One of 10,000 homepages for robla
 
This wiki page was created by Rob Lanphier back in 2005. You can see the history of this page to see it all.<ref>https://electowiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:RobLa&action=history</ref> I'm going to start writing about myself in the first person now....
== Starting Electowiki ==▼
:''main: [[Electowiki:About]]''▼
I founded [https://electorama.com electorama.com] in 2003, and started [https://wiki.electorama.com wiki.electorama.com] with [[User:DanKeshet]] in 2005 (I paid the hosting bills; DanKeshet actually set it up, calling it "Electowiki"). Then DanKeshet left it in my hands late in 2005, and I did a lot of MediaWiki contracting work, culminating in a day job as Director of Open Source for [[W:Linden Lab|Linden Lab]]. Part of my day job at Linden Lab was maintaining a MediaWiki-based wiki at [https://wiki.secondlife.com wiki.secondlife.com], so maintaining [https://wiki.electorama.com wiki.electorama.com] didn't seem too hard. Plus I had lots of volunteer help. Then I left my day job at Linden Lab in 2009, and did a lot of MediaWiki plugin development (and spent way too much time trying to fix [https://static-bugzilla.wikimedia.org/bug4421.html Mediawiki bug 4421], which was migrated from Bugzilla to Phabricator by my team at Wikimedia Foundation, but is still open as [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6421 Phab task T6421]). Then I tried to keep [https://wiki.electorama.com wiki.electorama.com] up and running while I worked at [[W:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] trying to keep Wikipedia up and running. Between 2006 and 2018, [[W:Spambots|spambots]] made it almost impossible to have an open wiki, so I kept restricting access to Electowiki, and wasn't able to figure out how to make my clever web-of-trust plugins for MediaWiki work.▼
 
I am [[Rob Lanphier]] (a.k.a. "RobLa"). I'm a co-founder of [[electowiki]] (in 2005), the founder of "[[Electowiki:Electorama!|Electorama!]]" (in 2003) and the founder of the [[election-methods mailing list]] (in 1996). I also have a thing or two to do with a couple of other wikis (e.g. see my user pages at other wikis like [[w:User:RobLa]] and [[meta:User:RobLa]] and '''[[RobLaWiki]]''') If you're new to this wiki, please see '''[[User:RobLa/Welcome]]''', which will hopefully give you some good advice about working with me. I keep a blog, of sorts at '''[[User:RobLa/Journal]]''', but I also have a blog at '''https://robla.blog'''. As of 2020-05-30, I keep User:RobLa/Journal more up-to-date.
[[User:Psephomancy]] bugged me for a year, starting in 2017, which ultimately culminated in them snarfing the content off of [https://wiki.electorama.com wiki.electorama.com] and hosting it at [https://electowiki.miraheze.org electowiki.miraheze.org]. I saw the ported site, and said to myself "ooo...nice work!". I put the porting work of Electowiki on hold during my 2019 dayjob, but I've done a lot more work since then (especially in 2020). I've joined [[Meta:Board|the Miraheze board]], and [[Meta:User:RobLa/Fundraising|I try to help out every so often]]. And I'm a [[Special:Contributions/RobLa|frequent contributor to Electowiki]].▼
 
==Journal==
More information about me can be found [https://robla.net on my homepage (robla.net)] or over on [[m:User:RobLa]] (the main user page for me on miraheze.org) .▼
*:''main: [[User:RobLa/runoffJournal]]''▼
 
My journal about my editing of electowiki can be found at '''[[User:RobLa/Journal]]'''[[User:RobLa/Journal|.]] Because this is a wiki, I reserve the right to edit ''any journal entry'' you see on that page. But I'll try not to muck with the page history.
== My work ==▼
 
This section contains some significant Electowiki-related work by me
A brief summary from the highlights of that journal:
 
=== 2023 ===
 
See [[User:RobLa/Journal#2023]]
 
=== 2022 ===
 
See [[User:RobLa/Journal#2022]]
 
=== 2021 ===
 
See [[User:RobLa/Journal#2021]]
 
=== 2020 ===
In 2020, I've had a few things that I'd like to do with Electowiki. My main role so far has been:
 
* [[User:RobLa/Journal#2020-05-27|May 2020]] - this is when I really started getting into the habit of journaling my electowiki-editing thoughts. It really picked up steam around [[User:RobLa/Journal#2020-05-19|May 19]], when I started to figure out how I could make a sustainable habit out if it.
# Primary liaison with Miraheze. The site doesn't host itself, and the Miraheze SRE team does an amazing job ensuring the site stays usable. See more about my Miraheze work over at [[meta:User:RobLa/TODO]].
* [[User:RobLa/Journal#2020-04-22|April 2020]] - April 22 was my only journal entry in April. That makes me sad.
# Continuing my role as [[Electowiki:Bureaucrats|bureaucrat]] and [[Electowiki:Administrators|administrator]] for Electowiki.
 
Since 2020 isn't over yet (as I write on May 27), this isn't yet a good summary of 2020.
See '''[[User:RobLa/TODO]]''' if you're interested in my Electowiki TODO list.
 
=== 2019 ===
I summarize that year pretty well in my journal. See '''[[User:RobLa/Journal#2019]]''' to read more.
During most of 2019, I was focused on my role as Director of Core Infrastructure at [[Wikipedia:Internet Archive|Internet Archive]] (IA). When I left IA in November, I wrote my "[https://robla.blog/2019/11/05/end-of-a-chapter/ End of a Chapter]" blog post on November 5.
 
In November and December, [[Special:Contributions/RobLa|my activity here]] on Electowiki really picked up. Additionally, I started speaking with the folks at Miraheze, and by the end of the year, it became clear that I was joining the Miraheze board. See my blog post about the history of Electowiki and my involvement with Miraheze (titled "[https://robla.blog/2019/12/23/why-donate-to-a-non-profit-with-a-hard-to-pronounce-name/ Why donate to a non-profit with a hard-to-pronounce name?]") for a detailed history of why I got into electoral reform and found myself working with [[Electowiki:Miraheze|Miraheze]].
 
=== 2018 ===
I summarized 2018 in the [[User:RobLa/Journal]] as well.
2018 was the year that [[User:Psephomancy]] did 90% of the work migrating Electowiki over to Miraheze, and I puttered around for the next year or so doing the last 10%. When it was mostly moved over, I started using Miraheze as a place for drafting up my ideas for MAF and MATT.
 
==== MAFIdentity and MATT ====
{{Wikipedia|Online identity}}
A couple of new voting systems I worked on in late 2018 as possible alternatives to California's [[W:Jungle primary|jungle primary]]:
:''main page: [[User:RobLa/identity]]''
 
As of this writing in May 2020, there's not a set of [[User:RobLa#norms|norms]] here on [[electowiki]] for associating one's online identity here on [[Miraheze]] with online identities elsewhere (e.g. on [[reddit]], or on the [[C4ES Discord server]], or on [[Wikipedia).
 
Also as of this writing in May 2020, I'm trying to lead by example. You can find more about my online identity by visiting '''[[User:RobLa/identity]]'''.
 
▲== My workNorms ==
{{Wikipedia|Norms}}
:''see also: [[User:RobLa/norms]]''
As of this writing (in May 2020), we have a few norms at [[electowiki]]. Some of them we inherited from electoramawiki (see [[User:RobLa/ElectoramaWiki]]), and others we've developed since our 2018 migration to [[Miraheze]]. I have many more thoughts on this subject that I hope to elaborate on at [[User:RobLa/norms]]
 
==Welcome==
 
:''main page: [[User:RobLa/Welcome]]''
 
If you're a new editor: welcome! Please read '''[[User:RobLa/Welcome]]'''! I wrote that letter to '''you'''!
 
▲== StartingAbout Electowiki ==
 
▲:''main: [[Electowiki:About]]''
 
▲I founded [https://electorama.com electorama.com] in 2003, and started [https://wiki.electorama.com wiki.electorama.com] with [[User:DanKeshet]] in 2005 (I paid the hosting bills; DanKeshet actually set it up, calling it "Electowiki"). Then DanKeshet left it in my hands late in 2005, and I did a lot of MediaWiki contracting work, culminating in a day job as Director of Open Source for [[W:Linden Lab|Linden Lab]]. Part of my day job at Linden Lab was maintaining a MediaWiki-based wiki at [https://wiki.secondlife.com wiki.secondlife.com], so maintaining [https://wiki.electorama.com wiki.electorama.com] didn't seem too hard. Plus I had lots of volunteer help. Then I left my day job at Linden Lab in 2009, and did a lot of MediaWiki plugin development (and spent way too much time trying to fix [https://static-bugzilla.wikimedia.org/bug4421.html Mediawiki bug 4421], which was migrated from Bugzilla to Phabricator by my team at Wikimedia Foundation, but is still open as [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6421 Phab task T6421]). Then I tried to keep [https://wiki.electorama.com wiki.electorama.com] up and running while I worked at [[W:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] trying to keep Wikipedia up and running. Between 2006 and 2018, [[W:Spambots|spambots]] made it almost impossible to have an open wiki, so I kept restricting access to Electowiki, and wasn't able to figure out how to make my clever web-of-trust plugins for MediaWiki work.
 
▲[[User:Psephomancy]] bugged me for a year, starting in 2017, which ultimately culminated in them snarfing the content off of [https://wiki.electorama.com wiki.electorama.com] and hosting it at [https://electowiki.miraheze.org electowiki.miraheze.org]. I saw the ported site, and said to myself "ooo...nice work!". I put the porting work of Electowiki on hold during my 2019 dayjob, but I've done a lot more work since then (especially in 2020). I've joined [[Meta:Board|the Miraheze board]], and [[Meta:User:RobLa/Fundraising|I try to help out every so often]]. And I'm a [[Special:Contributions/RobLa|frequent contributor to Electowiki]].
 
▲More information about me can be found [https://robla.net on my homepage (robla.net)] or over on [[m:User:RobLa]] (the main user page for me on miraheze.org) .
 
== Conclusion ==
* [[Majority approval filter]] ([[MAF]])
In conclusion, you should edit [[Electowiki|'''electowiki''']]! So please, go forth and edit.
* [[Maximum approval top-two]] ([[MATT]])
 
== Categories ==
...and a draft thing:
* [[:Category:Living people]]
* [[:Category:Election methods activists]]
* [[:Category:Computer programmer]]
 
== Footnotes ==
▲* [[User:RobLa/runoff]]
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