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I am Rob Lanphier (a.k.a. "RobLa"). I'm a co-founder of electowiki, and a founder of Electorama. 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 among many others) 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 2020-05-27, I keep User:RobLa/Journal more up-to-date.

Identity

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Online identity

main page: User:RobLa/identity

As of this writing in May 2020, there's not a set of 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.

Norms

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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!

About Electowiki

main: Electowiki:About

I founded electorama.com in 2003, and started 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 Linden Lab. Part of my day job at Linden Lab was maintaining a MediaWiki-based wiki at wiki.secondlife.com, so maintaining 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 Mediawiki bug 4421, which was migrated from Bugzilla to Phabricator by my team at Wikimedia Foundation, but is still open as Phab task T6421). Then I tried to keep wiki.electorama.com up and running while I worked at Wikimedia Foundation trying to keep Wikipedia up and running. Between 2006 and 2018, 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 wiki.electorama.com and hosting it at 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 the Miraheze board, and I try to help out every so often. And I'm a frequent contributor to Electowiki.

More information about me can be found on my homepage (robla.net) or over on m:User:RobLa (the main user page for me on miraheze.org) .

Journal

main: User:RobLa/Journal

My journal about my editing of electowiki can be found at 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.

A brief summary from the highlights of that journal:

2020

May 2020 - this is when I really started getting into the habit of journaling my electowiki-editing thoughts. It really picked up steam around May 19, when I started to figure out how I could make a sustainable habit out if it.
April 2020 - April 22 was my only journal entry in April. That makes me sad.

Since 2020 isn't over yet (as I write on May 27), this isn't yet a good summary of 2020.

2019

I summarize that year pretty well in my journal. See User:RobLa/Journal#2019 to read more.

2018

I summarized 2018 in the User:RobLa/Journal as well.

Conclusion

In conclusion, you should edit electowiki! So please, go forth and edit.

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-I am [[Rob Lanphier]] (a.k.a. "RobLa"). I'm a co-founder of electowiki, and a founder of Electorama.  I'd like to use this page to draft my boilerplate "Welcome!" message for new editors, give some history of "electowiki" (and "Electorama"), and share my day-to-day journal of my work on electowiki.
+I am [[Rob Lanphier]] (a.k.a. "RobLa"). I'm a co-founder of electowiki, and a founder of Electorama.  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]] among many others)  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 2020-05-27, I keep User:RobLa/Journal more up-to-date.
+== Identity ==
-See https://robla.net for more general-purpose information about me.  To see my daily(-ish) journal about Electowiki related matters, either scroll down on htis page, or visit '''[[User:RobLa/Journal]]'''.
+{{Wikipedia|Online identity}}
+:''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).
-== Welcome ==
-:''main page: [[User:RobLa/Welcome]]''
+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]]'''.
-{{JournalUpdate|03:41, 27 May 2020 (UTC)}}
+== Norms ==
+{{Wikipedia|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'''!
-== Starting Electowiki ==
+==About 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.
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 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) .
-== Journal ==
+==Journal==
-:''The "Journal" section is  transcluded from [[User:RobLa/Journal]]''
-{{User:RobLa/Journal}}
+:''main: [[User:RobLa/Journal]]''
+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.
+A brief summary from the highlights of that journal:
+=== 2020 ===
+* [[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.
+* [[User:RobLa/Journal#2020-04-22|April 2020]] - April 22 was my only journal entry in April.  That makes me sad.
+Since 2020 isn't over yet (as I write on May 27), this isn't yet a good summary of 2020.
+=== 2019 ===
+I summarize that year pretty well in my journal.  See '''[[User:RobLa/Journal#2019]]''' to read more.
+=== 2018 ===
+I summarized 2018 in the [[User:RobLa/Journal]] as well.
+== Conclusion ==
+In conclusion, you should edit [[Electowiki|'''electowiki''']]!  So please, go forth and edit.