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Oshwah is my username. I began contributing to Wikipedia in 2007. After a few years of
patrolling new pages
, and assisting new editors, I took an extended leave of absence in 2011 to focus on my education (you'll notice a large gap in my contributions - software engineering and applied mathematics isn't easy). After graduating from college and becoming established in my Software Engineering career, I returned to Wikipedia to resume where I left off.
If you're not on IRC, you'll typically run into me through
rollback user right
became unbundled from the admin toolset in 2008, I expanded my involvement after being one of the first editors to have it granted to an account. Many years later, I now direct, manage, recruit, and participate in a significant amount of of areas and projects on Wikipedia.
People often ask me why I spend so much time on Wikipedia. The answer is simple: I enjoy it. Everyone on Wikipedia should be volunteering in places and projects that they enjoy, and volunteering their time and energy on Wikipedia because they enjoy doing so. Otherwise, what's the point? :-)
Geek stuff
I started using a computer when I was 5 years old - a
Information Technology
skills and concepts by the time I entered college.
Quotes that speak for me
"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."
- Thomas Carlyle
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination"
- Albert Einstein
"Raise your words, not your voice. It is the rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
- Rumi
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
-
Salvador Dali
"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
- William James
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
- John Burroughs
"What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today."
- Edgar Allan Poe
"Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough."
- Mark Twain