Gebroeker:Wonderfool~liwiki/About

Wonderfool is the name associated with a number of users, all of whom are assumed to be controlled by the same person. Here's a rundown of the main ones

w:User:Wonderfool aka Newnoise, Expurgator, Foumidable and many others - Estimated number of articles added- 330

Here, I enjoyed. In reality, I didn't hardly ever bring any new material into the whole meta project. Its mainly just about linking up the various projects - pedia to wiktionary, French to English. I do some interlanguage links (see w:li:User:Wonderfool for all the accounts across the board that I use) across all kinds of pages. I mostly concentrated on France (especially Brittany) pages, football, competitive eating and anything Simpsons, which I find myself editting often enough. I tried being a sysop in May 2005, but failed. Tried again under different names in 2006 and 2007. I spent a fair amount of time at w:WP:TIE which helped me keep up my French level, when real life let me down. I got blocked plenty of time cos editting got stressful, and thought I had curbed my time on wikis. Blocked again in late November 2005 due to the admittance of creating bogus articles, and after a long think-tank collaboration of the policy-makers, wannabe policy-makers and mop n bucketeers, I was told that I'd have to apologize, own up to what the bogus articles were, and promise never to create similar pages ever again. Which I did for a while, and then slipped back into the old mould. Sadly, all known nihilartikels had been expurgated, as of May 2008.

Wonderfool was forced into clandestine Wikipedia editting for a while as far back as January 2006, but was tracked down eventually. Sockpuppet acounts can be found here

- w:fr:User:Wonderfool - Estimated number of articles added - 100

I translate some English pages here, especially ones that are related to British things. Its just a case of taking stuff from :en and making them French. The grammar aint perfect, but ppl come along eventually to clean it up - when I wrote it, they didn't have an article on Michael Owen even! Have been blocked once for "foutage de gueule" i.e. taking the piss, but am allowed to edit there.

- wiktionary:User:Wonderfool - The ground on which I'm best known. Estimated number of articles added - 5000? I was a sysop here once. But got that privilge removed on 17 Sep 2005 after blatant deletion of main page and various other prominent pages. I reckon this site suits me more than pedia, even when I didn't really have any specialist knowledge. But, as a linguist, I can feel at home here. I've garnered outside influences which aid me in helping out the project. Starting off as a feeder of cats. Getting initially blocked from here was harder than I had imagined. But block was infinite eventually. Thanks to a user named Polyglot. Since that first rampage, I've spent many hours there gaining the community's trust and eventually losing it, contributing to almost every part (translation, archive, defining, prettifying, bot creation, policy writing, categorising, patrolling, project co-ordination, pronunciation, templating, etymology, citations and others). Judged on edit count alone, I'm among the top 8 Wiktionary contributors. Including my bot, I reckon I'm at number 5 in the all-time edit rating, pushing the project forward immensely.

- Wiktionary:User:Newnoise - is also Wonderfool, albeit a sockpuppeted version. There are hundreds out there, useless to name them all. Especially well-known pseudonyms are Anonymous editors, Dangherous (also adminned and de-adminned), and Keene (adminned, de-adminned, given bot status as Keenebot2). Caused masses of mistrust across the site, the negative may have soon outweighed the positive.

- wiktionary:fr:User:Foumidable - Estimated number of articles added - 1000

Adding quirky and technical English words that don't have a simple meaning in French here, like "clockwise" and "thrice" and "hand brake". Nothing too deep, categorising and interwiki links towards the English Wiktionary.

- wikisource::User:Wonderfool - Estimated number of articles added - 1

I take more than I give here - it served me well for some uni and school projects. Good source of Middle English, Old English, and rare English words.

- wikibooks::User:Wonderfool - Estimated number of articles added - 2

I'd like to help write the learning French book, but I aint got the knack. Definitely a place I could branch out into in the future, when I won't be able to be traced.... of course, tracing is always possible. But the Wikibooks folk don't care too much about WF (for now).

- wikiquote::User:Wonderfool - Estimated number of articles added - 2

There's some cool proverbs here. Unlikely to have a future here

- Wikinews:User:Wonderfool - Estimated number of articles added - 0

never visit this really. Cos other news sources are very much so better, and this site hasn't improved much since it started. Plus, I've not got a very journalistic style of writing.

- Wikicommons:User:Wonderfool - Estd number of files brought in - 18 I added some logos in my early days, most have since been deleted. A few sound files can be found if you dig a bit.

- Non-Jimbo-Wales-owned sites - Too many to list (for now).