user:Happy-melon

My background on Wikimedia is fairly unexciting. I first started editing in February 2006: my [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&dir=prev&target=Happy-melon first edits] from this account essentially mark the start of my editing career: I have rarely deliberately edited as an IP. I became a bot operator in 2007, an admin in 2008, and was an oversighter from 2009 to 2011. Along the way I discovered an interest in template coding and 'backstage' work. Notwithstanding that, I have made occasional substantial article contributions.

Since 2009 I began to take more interest in the MediaWiki software itself, filing a number of bugs and patches to bugzilla. I held SVN commit access, which allowed me to help develop the MediaWiki software directly. I was an administrator at mediawiki.org, the documentation site for MediaWiki, and I [http://toolserver.org/~vvv/sulutil.php?user=Happy-melon&rights=1 have] a few minor rights scattered across a number of projects. I have about 27,000 edits across all projects.

Although I can be a creative person, and I enjoy writing, I do a lot of grunt or fairy work, as I rarely have the perseverance to complete any major projects. That said, I do have a few green and gold shiny things to my name: I notched up a 75-edit streak on The Colour of Magic (TV film), which made [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Colour_of_Magic_%28TV_film%29&diff=204224944&oldid=203828636 Start → GA]. I [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_poker_hands&diff=181431326&oldid=175913011 helped bring] List of poker hands to FL, Wicked (musical) [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wicked_%28musical%29&diff=170854741&oldid=168600337 to] GA, and Emma Watson to FA. I mainly work with templates on Wikipedia: I designed or help design the Requests listing system for the late League of Copyeditors, the complete overhaul of the CSD template system around {{tlx|Db-meta}}, the {{tlx|pp-meta}} and {{tlx|WPBannerMeta}} meta-templates for page protection and WikiProject banners. I regularly patrol Category:Protected edit requests and Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, am active on Templates for deletion, and consider myself an expert template coder. Most importantly for the encyclopedia, however, I can never resist the urge to edit any page I happen to visit which looks like it needs it {{mono|1=:D}}.

I rarely create new articles - we have enough of those already.

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I've created or worked on a couple of templates which are quite widely used. I should be able to answer any questions over the use or structure of these.

• {{tlx|WPBannerMeta}}
• {{tlx|db-meta}} and the {{db-}} series
• {{tlx|pp-meta}}
• {{tlx|LOCE}} and the {{LOCEx}} collection
• {{tlx|mbox}}, {{tlx|tmbox}} and {{tlx|ombox}}, arms of the template standardisation effort.

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Although I tend to work 'backstage', I have made significant contributions to a handful of articles when I develop a special connection to them.

{{classicon|FL}} List of poker hands

{{classicon|FA}} Emma Watson

{{classicon|GA}} Wicked (musical)

{{classicon|GA}} Saxophone

{{classicon|GA}} The Colour of Magic (TV film)

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• 19 December 2007 – Bot [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=makebot&user=&page=User:MelonBot status] granted to MelonBot
• 1 February 2008 – Admin bit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=&page=User%3AHappy-melon given] following a successful RfA
• 29 August 2009 – [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3AHappy-melon%40enwiki&year=2009&month=8&tagfilter= Granted] Oversight after election

By popular demand, the smiley green alien remains...

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