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RobLa
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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'
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) .
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