siliconred
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I am siliconred. My real name is Nathan Drezner. I understand there is some danger to associating my real identity with my wiki identity, so I do ask folks to respect my personal privacy — but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page 😊. Thanks!

You can see my statistics for my work in AfC here.

I manage a Twitter bot that posts the Picture of the Day, and I've written an open-source tool for Python to download edit histories from Wikipedia articles. Go check them out!

Pages I have created

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I tend to work on articles about musicians, Internet culture, and topics local to Montréal.

  1. Template:Montreal Metro route diagram - 17 Jan 2023
  2. Ça va bien aller - 7 Jun 2022
  3. Either/Or - 1 Jun 2022
  4. Kidsticks - 31 May 2022
  5. Snow removal in Montreal - 24 Apr 2022
  6. Fuji GS645 - 22 Feb 2022
  7. Sherelle - 18 Feb 2022
  8. Anz (musician) - 15 Feb 2022
  9. D. Tiffany - 15 Feb 2022
  10. Ciel (musician) - 18 Jan 2022
  11. Ivor Arbiter - 10 Nov 2018
  12. Black Velvet - 5 Nov 2018
  13. Serpentwithfeet - 5 Jul 2018
  14. Lush - 8 Jun 2018
  15. Jon Drezner - 14 Mar 2018

In Progress

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Using Wikipedia for non-Wikipedia things

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The formatting, manual of style, and citation templating from Wikipedia can be very useful to craft non-Wikipedia works. I've written a couple of essays using Wikipedia (not for use on Wikipedia) taking advantage of these handy capabilities. In some ways, I regret not submitting more of my academic papers using Wikipedia markup as my editor of choice. LaTeX markup nerds can eat it! Wikipedia markup is better, for one major reason: It's web native (it also lacks the nightmarish compilation process of LaTeX).

Notes

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  • Take a look at my presentation on Wikipedia for McGill's Poetry Matters! I had a lot of fun putting this together, and I hope some of my content in the slides is illuminating.
  • I have one sockpuppet account, User:Nathan Drezner, which I use for business not associated with my Wikipedia identity. The account is largely inactive.
  •   This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that he has been paid by Bookmark Content for his contributions to Wikipedia. I wrote the article Bookmark Content and Communications. I have no other paid edits.