User:Hex
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Hello, I'm Hex, pronouns she/her, from and in London. I've been editing for 22 years (user #5413), and I've been an admin for 17. My use of the tools is largely limited to page moves, undeletion (eg. moving expired drafts to user space on request), archiving, history maintenance, and revision deletion when required.
- /Contributions that I've made to Wikipedia
- /Notes about the project
- /Scripts to improve your editing experience (just one so far)
- /Utilities like useful links and formatting cheatsheets
These days I often edit without bothering to log in, just like I did all the way back at the beginning. Try it, it's liberating. If you're not in one of the giant chunks of IP address space banned from participating.... After being here so long, my other piece of advice is to take everything that this project likes to say about itself with a huge grain of salt. It's not a paragon of universal knowledge, or even close to being one. There's a lot of good to be had here, but never let it slip from your mind that this is a game, and everyone's trying to win somehow. Plus, consider the organization which runs the project. When the WMF has a quarter of a billion dollars in the bank, what does the strident annual fundraising campaign imply? How is it interpreted by the non-editing general public and what are the consequences?
I'm on our Discord so do say hi if you are as well. For links to me on various social networks, stop by my home page.
Some good hexes:
11th of November 2022: I registered on Wikipedia twenty years ago today. This wasn't my first wiki - I'd been editing at the original WikiWikiWeb and MeatballWiki for two years already at that point. I've been involved with wikis for half of my life, and I expect that to continue for many years to come.