User:PetraMagna
A Miraheze volunteer who also happens to be an admin on Meta, a Technology Team member, and write most Miraheze Monthly issues.
Locally, I'm active on Blue Archive Wiki, Strinova Wiki, and Stella Sora Wiki. See my global contributions for more information.
I also control the following accounts:
- Official account used when acting in my capacity as Technology Team member.
- Test account used primarily to check AbuseFilters and other spam-prevention mechanisms.
- Bot account meant to prevent bot edits from flooding contributions of my main account.
Babel: en-4; zh-Hans-n; fr-2; la-1; ja-0.
| My knowledge of the MediaWiki ecosystem (generated with Template:RadarGraph) |
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| Some more info about my pre-Miraheze involvements |
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| I began editing wikis on Moegirlpedia (MGP) in October 2021 and stayed for about 2 years. My main involvements are in Japanese Vocaloid music, eroge, and various technical contributions revolving mainly around automation tools such as bots.
Parallel to my involvement was a series of unfortunate events on the wiki that made Fandom seem like a philanthropy in comparison. The site was sold to a for-profit company (how a US non-profit can be sold is beyond me) and moved hosting from the US to China. Content censorship then came in waves: initially, NSFW content pages were deleted and political comments censored; by the time I left, new edits must be approved either by an AI or a reviewer hired by the company, who checks for legal compliance. The company was a good steward at the start, leaving everything to the community and running the site at a loss. Of course, this sounds too good to be true, so about 3 years after the purchase, the wiki got a new skin infested with ads (I suspect fandom is the inspiration for this move). Purportedly due to legal reasons, all admin/sysops must sign an NDA with the company or else be demoted. Needless to say, these changes upset many editors on the wiki. The number of active users went from a peak of 4k to 1.2k, which has remained stagnant since. In the exodus of editors, some stopped editing altogether and some moved on to other projects. My editing activity gradually declined in early 2023: I only made occasional edits and eventually stopped editing altogether. I made a mirror of Moegirlpedia on moegirl.uk in 2022 mainly as a risk-free place to experiment with templates and bots. It became an ad-free alternative to the original and, as more pages got deleted, an archive for censored pages. Func, an editor much more technically apt than I was, made another mirror with full revision histories. Unfortunately, MGP gated their APIs and page source. Users must log in to see the source code, older page revisions are hidden to all except sysops because they were not reviewed for legal compliance (how is this not a CC-license violation?), and everyone (not just bots) sees a captcha/WAF page once every 3 clicks. The cherry on top is that some APIs are forbidden (e.g. allpages) while others are poisoned with extra text. I stopped syncing the mirror to the original site by the end of 2023 as a result. A fellow MGP editor created a wiki on Strinova in July 2023 and needed some technical support, so I built some templates, auto-generated some wiki content via a bot, and then left a few months later because I was no longer playing the game. I also created a few pages on Wikipedia in 2023 and 2024. The size of the community is too large for me, and creating pages is too much work, so I gradually stopped editing. Still, Wikipedia policies such as w:WP:V and w:WP:NPOV influenced my editing style, and I reference Wikipedia's MOS and other policies when I'm not sure about something. Late in 2023, I started playing w:Blue Archive and thought of getting back to wiki-editing again. Between a wiki on fandom and one on Miraheze, it was obvious which one I should pick given my long rant about MGP. And that concludes my pre-Miraheze involvement and how I got here. I spent way too much time complaining about MGP, though there is method to this madness: had these incidents not occurred at MGP, I would not be on Miraheze today. When I see the WMF mismanaging funds or Miraheze using proprietary software, I would think of MGP, and the problem at hand doesn't seem too bad. |