user:Mav

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I have learned so much editing and writing for Wikipedia and had a lot of fun along the way, but I've had increasingly less time for Wikipedia over the last several years. Instead, I've been focusing my free time doing mapping for the Georgia State Defense Force (a volunteer part of the Georgia Department of Defense (GADOD)), and updating OpenStreetMap.org using GPS traces I create during hikes and mountain bike rides, which feeds back into the mapping. If I had time, I would also be editing Wikipedia at least about the parks I'm GPSing in and articles related to the GADOD. I still check my talk page and plan to come back someday, at least in short bursts for specific things. -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav) 17:10, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

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This user page has been vandalized 57 times (including once from WoW) as of 14 January 2010

Hello, I have been a Wikipedian since January 1, 2002 (as an anon) and I created an account named maveric149 (UID 62) the next day. After getting totally hooked on the idea of Wikipedia I became an Administrator and went a bit wikicrazy by racking-up an insane number of edits (most active non-bot-using contributor from early 2002 to early 2004). My focus slowly turned from quantity to quality (26 FAs) and along the way I ran for the first Wikimedia Board (Summer 2004), was appointed the volunteer CFO of the Foundation (July 2004 to August 2006), served as a founding member of the Arbitration Committee (January 2004 to September 2005) and became a Steward (April 2004 to February 2013).

My real name is Daniel Mayer and I was born and raised in California. In December 2001 I graduated with a bachelor's degree in biology and a minor in geology but I'm interested in a great many things. From my last year at university until the end of 2003 I was working for Caltrans part-time on transit planning, specifically transit-oriented development. During that period I was going to night school studying geographic information science (GIS). For most of 2004 I worked for the City of Sacramento, California on a GIS contract. In December 2004 I moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Soon afterward I was hired on another GIS contract but started my career in late 2005 when my client decided to hire me as a full-time employee (which led to a major decrease in my editing here). I tend to shy away from contributing on biology, GIS, or transport articles because that reminds me too much of work.

Taking GIS courses has totally hooked me on geography and helped feed interest in my long-time favorite subject geology by going on field studies (see my images section). I've also always had a fascination with the periodic table and its elements. So those three areas, geography, geology (esp of North America) and chemical elements (co-founded WikiProject Elements) are where I spend most of my FA-writing Wiki time nowadays. Attending Wikimania 2008 at the amazing Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt has reinvigorated my wiki-spirit. I'm now trying to develop a good work-life-wiki balance. I'd like to spend more time on history, especially battles and English monarchs (maybe reestablish some Emsworth FAs). So far, the most I've done in that area is significantly expand about half the day of the year articles and set up the 'On this day...' section on the Main Page.

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Watchlist: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Watchlist&days=1 1 day] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Watchlist&days=0.0416666666667 1 hour]

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