User:JMesserly

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  • Interested in how collaboration can be used to increase transparency of government
  • Interested in how government action may be directly influenced through collaborative online software such as the wikimedia engine.

Background:

  • Heavy contributor to Commons, authored some guidelines now being considered as formal policy.
  • Knowlegable on the mediation of POV disputes, wiki procedure on temporary locks on articles during edit wars, identification of sock puppets etc.
  • Knowlegable on the operation of Pywikipedia bots
  • Elected administrator by unanimous vote one of the largest wikis on wikia.com
  • Using my real world name here for reasons of transparency.