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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:
== 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://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/4421 MediaWiki bug 4421]). 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) .
== My recent(-ish) electoral system work ==
A couple of new voting systems I worked on in late 2018 as possible alternatives to California's [[W:Jungle primary|jungle primary]]:
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