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Wikipedia does not yet have a User page called Kayaker. And now it does, ~~2½ 4½ 6~~ 9¼ years (and counting) after I first contributed to Wikipedia in May 2003, when there were about 120,173 articles instead of the 6,938,343 articles we have now.

Kayaker

This user has been on Wikipedia for 21 years, 8 months and 7 days.

This user supports the right of anonymous users to edit Wikipedia.

I rarely log in, except to attempt to contribute images, reply to some issue about an image I contributed (if I notice the problem in time), or rename pages^[1]. Editing without logging in promotes close reading of my contributions, which almost always improves them. As a side effect of not logging in I realize I miss out on the good and the bad of being a cenobitic Wikipedian.

Pet projects include

introducing Wikipedia:Footnotes into articles, and reformating existing references using those conventions^[2]
reducing the mergist's enthusiasm for certain kinds of redirects
- those that don't take into account the context within which a related term is used
- those that redirect somewhat specific terms to generic 50K articles (e.g. feature film no longer redirects to film)
finding homes for parenthetical remarks
shortening run-on sentences
~~incorporating Oxford English Dictionary insights~~ (credited of course; see three-peat and beetle bank for example)
mining newspaper front pages hosted by Newseum for local headlines (learned about The Adventures of Tintin that way)
trying to build the web; trying not to provoke those who wikify sparingly
creating articles on subjects from old books (e.g. list of lumberjack jargon, which was m:Transwikied and is now here)

When bored, I find a random article to clean up; as of ~~2007~~ 2012, I find reasons to improve about 1 out of 3 random articles.

A few more of my creations:

Almost Famous, Beyond the Rocks, Blair Brown, Category:Association of American Universities, Category:Buddy films, John Ciardi, Columbarium, Gastropub, Indian Peace Medal, Ingeo™, Maura Tierney, Million Dollar Bridge, Missouri Wall of Fame, National Trails System Act of 1968, Nickel (U.S. coin), Petard, Portal:Current events, Property tax, Silicon Forest, Slaughterhouse-Five (the film), The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, They Go On, U.S. presidential election debates, 2004, Wyatt Earp (card game)
Shoepeg corn: This was probably one of the most poorly written articles I've ever introduced. The work of others has made it better.
List of changes in Star Wars re-releases: I started it on September 20, 2004 and have ignored it ever since. As of April 2006 the first two sentences are still mine :-) ...
Retrospective (album): "Created" as a disambiguation page after moving the Red House Painters albume of that name to Retrospective (Red House Painters album).

Footnotes

^ The growing list of new restrictions on unregistered users since the John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy has made the list of reasons to log in grow, I'm sorry to say.
^ More information on the format is available here.

[1] The growing list of new restrictions on unregistered users since the John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy has made the list of reasons to log in grow, I'm sorry to say.

[2] More information on the format is available here.

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-<div style="padding-bottom: .8em; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 2em; float: right; font-size: 92%; text-align: center; padding-right: 3px; line-height: 1.5;"><div>[[Image:Other-langs2.png|88x31px|<nowiki></nowiki>]]</div><div>[[#lang|Other languages]]</div><div style="font-size:90%">[[Wikipedia:FAQ|FAQs]] | [[Main Page (simple layout)|Table-free]]</div>
+{{User Wikipedian For|year=2003|month=5|day=4}}{{User pro-anon}}
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+{{Userboxbottom}}[[File:AbigailScottDuniway.jpg|80px|left|alt=Abigail Scott Duniway]]
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-<p>'''''Wikipedia does not yet have a User page called Kayaker.'''''  And now it does, <strike>2&frac12;</strike> 4&frac12; years (and counting) after I first contributed (anonymously) to Wikipedia in May 2003.</p>
+I rarely log in, except to [[Special:Upload|attempt to contribute images]],  [[User talk:Kayaker|reply to some issue]] about an image I contributed (if I notice the problem in time), or [[Wikipedia:How to rename a page|rename pages]]<ref>The growing list of new restrictions on unregistered users since the [[John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy]] has made the list of reasons to log in grow, I'm sorry to say.</ref>. Editing without logging in promotes [[close reading]] of my contributions, which almost always improves them.  As a side effect of not logging in I realize I miss out on the good and the bad of being a [[cenobitic]] Wikipedian.
-<p>Welcome to [[Wikipedia]], demonstrating the power of [[swarm intelligence]] since 2001.  In this English version, we are currently working on <strike>120,173</strike> [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles, with unusually thorough coverage of ''[[:Category:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]'', ''[[:Category:Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]'', and [[:Category:Libertarianism|Libertarianism]].</p>
-</span>
-<div style="margin-left:0.5em; float:right;">{{User pro-anon}}</div>
-I rarely log in, except to [[Special:Upload|contribute images]] or [[Wikipedia:How to rename a page|rename pages]]<ref>The growing list of new restrictions on unregistered users since the [[John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy]] has made the list of reasons to log in grow, I'm sorry to say.</ref>.  Editing without logging in promotes [[close reading]] of my contributions, which almost always improves them.  As a side effect of not logging in I realize I miss out on the good and the bad of being a [[cenobitic]] Wikipedian.
 Pet projects include
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 *finding homes for parenthetical remarks
 *shortening run-on sentences
-*incorporating ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' insights (credited of course; see [[three-peat]] and [[beetle bank]] for example)
+*<strike>incorporating ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' insights</strike> (credited of course; see [[three-peat]] and [[beetle bank]] for example)
 *[[data mining|mining]] newspaper front pages hosted by [[Newseum]] for local headlines (learned about [[The Adventures of Tintin]] that way)
 *trying to [[Wikipedia:Build the web|build the web]]; trying not to provoke those who [[Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context|wikify sparingly]]
-*creating articles on subjects from old books (e.g. [[list of lumberjack jargon]], which was [[m:Transwiki]]ed and is now [[wikt:Appendix:Lumberjack jargon|here]])
+*creating articles on subjects from old books (e.g. [[list of lumberjack jargon]], which was [[m:Transwiki]]ed and is now [[wikt:Appendix:Glossary of lumberjack jargon|here]])
-When bored, I find a [[Special:Random|random article]] to clean up; [[as of 2007]], I find reasons to improve about 1 out of 3 random articles.
+When bored, I find a [[Special:Random|random article]] to clean up; as of <strike>2007</strike> 2012, I find reasons to improve about 1 out of 3 random articles.
 A few more of my creations:
 *''[[Almost Famous]]'', [[Beyond the Rocks]], [[Blair Brown]], [[:Category:Association of American Universities]], [[:Category:Buddy films]], [[John Ciardi]], [[Columbarium]], [[Gastropub]], [[Indian Peace Medal]],  [[Ingeo|Ingeo™]], [[Maura Tierney]], [[Million Dollar Bridge]], [[Missouri Wall of Fame]], [[National Trails System Act of 1968]], [[Nickel (U.S. coin)]], [[Petard]], [[Portal:Current events]], [[Property tax]], [[Silicon Forest]], ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five (film)|Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' (the film), ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'', ''[[They Go On]]'', [[U.S. presidential election debates, 2004]], [[Wyatt Earp (card game)]]
 *[[Shoepeg corn]]: This was probably one of the most poorly written articles I've ever introduced.  The work of others has made it better.
-*[[List of changes in Star Wars re-releases]]: I started it on [[September 20]], [[2004 in film|2004]] and have ignored it ever since.  [[As of 2006|As of April 2006]] the first two sentences are still mine :-) ...
+*[[List of changes in Star Wars re-releases]]: I started it on [[September 20]], [[2004 in film|2004]] and have ignored it ever since.  As of April 2006 the first two sentences are still mine :-) ...
 *[[Retrospective (album)]]: "Created" as a disambiguation page after moving the Red House Painters albume of that name to [[Retrospective (Red House Painters album)|''Retrospective'' (Red House Painters album)]].