Hex's Wikipedia Microblog

This is my microblog about my day-to-day experiences as an editor on the Wikipedia project.

		3 March 2014
	One of my feature suggestions got implemented - being able to filter user contributions to show page creations only. See item in this week's Tech News.
		19 February 2014
	Despite the fact that I spent a long time programming in Perl, which has often come under fire for its appearance, I've come to the conclusion that our template language has the worst syntax in the world. It could only be worse if we had to use a novelty language which is designed to hurt your eyes.
		10 October 2013
	(Hmm, I should update this more often.) Apparently I'm the 4,182nd most active Wikipedia editor! I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing....
		28 June 2013
	Did you know... that there's an automatically-updated visualization of the printed size of Wikipedia? It's done with templates, too. Very clever.
		24 May 2013
	I made a silly thing: {{ClockBlock}}. On the other hand, in the Wikipedia of 2213 it may actually be useful.
		20 April 2013
	Editing with your real name for fun and profit!, by A. N. Editor. Well, maybe not profit. Hi, I'm Hex.
		30 January 2013
	The support comments at Jason Quinn's RfA actually give me hope that the RfA process as it currently works isn't totally broken. Really great to see such a large application of common sense.
		19 December 2012
	You use Wikipedia how?
		13 December 2012
	Every animated GIF on Wikipedia, one at a time. Seriously. Bizarrely fascinating.
		11 November 2012
	Things I did this month: (a) Hit 10,000 edits. (b) Reached ten years of being a Wikipedia editor. It's hard to believe how far we've come since I joined; I'm so proud of what we achieved, and of myself for having been a part of it for this long. And yet, we've only just gotten started. Here's looking forward to my 20th anniversary.
		10 November 2012
	Spotted nominative determinism in the wild on Wikipedia: User:Access Denied.
		29 October 2012
	Just happened across a WikiWorld cartoon for the first time in a very long time. I didn't realize that they stopped being made in 2008. A pity; that was a great little series.
		19 October 2012
	I didn't know what "second cousin once removed" meant, so looked at our article, Cousin. That part was just text, so I added some family trees to illustrate the terms. Better! And now I get it.
		17 October 2012
	Just encountered our list of missing editors. I recognize a lot of names on that list. Sad.
		7 October 2012
	I'm always interested in the early history of WP, both out of nostalgia and research interest. Category:Redirects with old history forms an excellent index into the earliest versions of our articles.
		29 September 2012
	Somebody set up some cute namespace redirect tricks. WP:-), WP:-(
		27 September 2012
	I made a thing. Wikipedia:Ten Year Society.
		27 September 2012
	When you contribute to Wikipedia, you're contributing to COMMUNISM. My favorite out of this year's WikiSym papers.
		24 September 2012
	The Wikipedia Library! Online research libraries are giving out free access to Wikipedia editors. Go apply!
		20 September 2012
	How have I never come across the Editor's index to Wikipedia before? It's intense. I love it.
		20 September 2012
	Some excellent commentary on Philip Roth making an absurd hoo-ha about his article.
		18 September 2012
	In the course of researching the history of Holland House, I encountered its early owners, the Rich family, who didn't have any coverage here. Now they do, including a large and fascinating family tree that required much piecing together.
		30 July 2012
	EVERYTHING: List of How It's Made episodes
		20 Nov 2011
	Common sense failure: "In popular culture" at its very worst.