User:Elonka

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Categorization Commons Disambig Magic Missouri to-do WP:AE Soaps Cite fixing

Hello! I'm Elonka Dunin. I am a writer, game developer, cryptologist, webmistress, public speaker, world-traveller, and appreciator of all kinds of different subcultures.  :)

I've had a Wikipedia account since September 16, 2005, made my 1000th edit on January 19, 2006, and was approved as an administrator in December 2007. As of December 2008 I have created or put major work into about 365 Wikipedia articles, and have made around 55,000 edits,[6] which I guess puts me somewhere in the top 200 of active Wikipedians.

Much of my time is spent either writing/improving articles, or working on some of the above WikiProjects. I also occasionally help out at some of the other language Wikis (see my list at left), but mostly I spend time in the English Wikipedia. Before becoming an admin, I especially enjoyed helping out with categorization, trying to ensure that every single article either has a category, or is at least flagged as needing one. Since I became an administrator, I have been helping out in other areas, such as reviewing the Wikipedia dispute resolution process, and helping out at Arbitration Enforcement. I was also one of the people chosen by the Arbitration Committee for the 2008 Working group on ethnic and cultural edit wars, and have experimented with some different techniques on addressing this chronic problem.

Of the articles that I've worked on, the ones that I am most proud of include: Featured article Knights Templar, Featured article Pauline Fowler, Good article Dirty Dancing, Good article Fustat, Rabban Bar Sauma, Good article The White Bird, Franco-Mongol alliance, Hajj, Isra and Mi'raj, Shawar, and Sempad the Constable.

For my day job, I'm a professional game developer working in St. Charles, Missouri, and a published author. My book The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms was published internationally in 2006. As a hobby, I maintain some popular websites on the subject of cryptography, especially famous unsolved codes and the CIA's Kryptos sculpture, and I show up on TV or in the news every so often. I'm also a public speaker, usually giving talks on the subjects of games, Wikipedia, or cryptography.

Wikipedia is currently my #1 hobby, and I can't seem to get enough of writing articles and helping behind-the-scenes. :) I think Wikipedia is an amazing concept that is going to continue to grow quite rapidly. I often scan through the new articles that are flowing in at a rate of thousands per day, and I am humbled by the sheer quantity of information that's accumulating in this massive project. I am very proud to be a part of it.


This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia (verify).



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  • Feedback requested: Wikipedia Committees, a draft proposal for long-term, scalable governance of English Wikipedia.
  • RfC about the "Advisory Council on Project Development" instituted by the Arbitration Committee.
  • Poll: Should <ref>/<references> be modified to allow changes in where reference content is defined?
  • RFC: How do you appeal a DRV?
  • RfC: Editors are invited to propose articles that would not be delinked by the date unlinking bot.
  • Review: Review of English Wikipedia governance
  • Review: Provisional draft #2 of the new arbitration policy.
  • Proposal: Proposal to create user-space redirects.
  • Poll: Should WP:NOT#PLOT be reworded, moved, removed, or kept the same?
  • RFC: Is there community support to change the constitutional relationship between ArbCom and Jimmy Wales?
  • Poll: How does the community feel regarding how the civility policy is applied and enforced on Wikipedia?
  • Discussion: Should notability criteria for pornographic actors be rolled back?
  • Preliminary (userspace) discussion on Wikipedia governance issues.
  • RFC: Should Wikipedia prevent Google and other search engines from searching User pages?
  • RFC. Outside opinions are solicited on self electing groups.
  • RFC: What is the community's opinion on using {{Italictitle}} to italicise certain articles' titles?
  • RFC: What is the community's view of paid editing?

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