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Nice to meet you! I'm Ben. I've been editing Wikipedia for about 16 years, and I'm an administrator (RfA · recall) and bot approver (RfBAG).

Much of my work these days is technical in nature. I run EarwigBot, handle bot approvals, maintain a few tools on Toolforge (including a copyright violation detector), and develop user scripts. There is some Wikipedia-related code on my GitHub, including a Python parser for wikicode called mwparserfromhell that has gotten a bit of attention. As an admin, I help out in a variety of general maintenance areas, like speedy deletion.

My content interests mostly center around biology, particularly entomology (hence the insect username). This is purely a layman interest; in real life, I am a software engineer.

Helping new users feel comfortable here is one of the most important things we can do as experienced contributors. This is a guiding philosophy of mine, as a longtime participant of WikiProject Articles for creation and #wikipedia-en-help.

My talk page is always open. For private matters, you can contact me by email (wikipedia.earwiggmail.com) or on IRC (nickname Earwig, hostname wikipedia/The-Earwig).

— Given the level of dysfunction that has come to prevail on Wikipedia, the most appropriate course is for all editors to work together to fix it. ^† —

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-Nice to meet you! I'm Ben. I've been here for a while ({{plainlink|1=//en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&action=view&limit=1&username=The_Earwig|2={{age in years and months|2008|7|3}}}} at last count), and I'm an [[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrator]] ([[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/The Earwig|RfA]]&nbsp;&middot; [[User:The Earwig/Recall|recall]]), [[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group|bot approver]] ([[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/The Earwig|RfBAG]]), and [[Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team|OTRS]] volunteer.
+Nice to meet you! I'm Ben. I've been editing Wikipedia for about {{plainlink|1=//en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&action=view&limit=1&username=The_Earwig|2={{age|2008|7|3}} years}}, and I'm an [[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrator]] ([[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/The Earwig|RfA]]&nbsp;&middot; [[User:The Earwig/Recall|recall]]) and [[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group|bot approver]] ([[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/The Earwig|RfBAG]]).
-Much of my work these days is technical in nature. I run [[User:EarwigBot|EarwigBot]], handle [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval|bot approvals]], maintain a few tools on [[mw:Wikimedia Labs|Wikimedia Labs]] (including a [[toollabs:copyvios|copyright violation detector]]), and develop some [[User:The Earwig/Scripts|user scripts]]. There's a bit of Wikipedia-related code on my {{plainlink|https://github.com/earwig|GitHub}}, including a [[Python (programming language)|Python]] parser for wikicode called {{plainlink|https://github.com/earwig/mwparserfromhell|mwparserfromhell}} that has gotten a bit of attention. As an admin, I dabble in a lot of general maintenance areas, like [[:Category:Candidates for speedy deletion|speedy deletion]].
+Much of my work these days is technical in nature. I run [[User:EarwigBot|EarwigBot]], handle [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval|bot approvals]], maintain a few tools on [[wikitech:Portal:Toolforge|Toolforge]] (including a [[toollabs:copyvios|copyright violation detector]]), and develop [[User:The Earwig/Scripts|user scripts]]. There is some Wikipedia-related code on my {{plainlink|https://github.com/earwig|GitHub}}, including a [[Python (programming language)|Python]] parser for wikicode called {{plainlink|https://github.com/earwig/mwparserfromhell|mwparserfromhell}} that has gotten a bit of attention. As an admin, I help out in a variety of general maintenance areas, like [[:Category:Candidates for speedy deletion|speedy deletion]].
-My content interests mostly center around biology, particularly [[entomology]] (hence the insect username) and a bit of [[microbiology]] and [[taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]]. I helped make [[Earwig]] a [[Wikipedia:Good article|good article]], and I have two [[Wikipedia:Did you know|''Did you know?'']] credits. This is purely a layman interest; I am a software developer by profession.
+My content interests mostly center around biology, particularly [[entomology]] (hence the insect username). This is purely a layman interest; in real life, I am a software engineer.
 Helping new users feel comfortable here is one of the most important things we can do as experienced contributors. This is a guiding philosophy of mine, as a longtime participant of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation|WikiProject Articles for creation]] and [[Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help|<tt>#wikipedia-en-help</tt>]].
-My [[User talk:The Earwig|talk page]] is always open. For more personal matters, you can contact me [[Special:EmailUser/The Earwig|by email]] (<tt>wikipedia.earwig{{@}}gmail.com</tt>) or on [[Wikipedia:IRC|IRC]] (nickname <tt>Earwig</tt>, hostname <tt>wikipedia/The-Earwig</tt>).
+My [[User talk:The Earwig|talk page]] is always open. For private matters, you can contact me [[Special:EmailUser/The Earwig|by email]] (<tt>wikipedia.earwig{{@}}gmail.com</tt>) or on [[Wikipedia:IRC|IRC]] (nickname <tt>Earwig</tt>, hostname <tt>wikipedia/The-Earwig</tt>).
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