Bilorv (he/they) is a British Wikipedia editor. They joined Wikipedia in December 2013 and have been volunteering for around 44% of Wikipedia's existence. They have made around 35,000 edits (stats). Many of their edits relate to television, comedy, non-fiction books and other media.

Ten-year reflections

I have a lot of thoughts about Wikipedia, some of which I wrote down here. Ten things I am proud of from my first ten years:

  1. Seeing Challenges catch on and inspire people to create content.
  2. Giving low-stakes reviews at Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Assessment, including to volunteers who are now more prolific and skilled than me in many areas.
  3. Taking part in the 2020 WikiCup during an extremely disciplined, productive and surprisingly happy period of my life in which I used newfound COVID-19 lockdown time to do things that mattered to me, including all this.
  4. Creating Taskmaster Wiki to house content on List of Taskmaster episodes that wasn't within Wikipedia's scope.
  5. Approving and improving What Were You Wearing? through Articles for Creation, a newcomer contribution that just needed a once-over by someone experienced in the style guide of Wikipedia.
  6. Reviewing the article We Are Here (collective) for Good Article status.
  7. Writing Queen's graph, an article about maths and chess.
  8. Creating "The 1975" when I first heard the song, as I listened to it over and over for hours with a surge of melancholy, outrage and optimism running through me.
  9. Working on Black Mirror articles, each marginally less worse-written than the last—an enormous undertaking over many years on a highly viewed topic.
  10. The latest thing I've written, before the passion fades and resurfaces in a new topic.

Content contributions

See also: English Wikipedia edits; Global contributions


Notes
  1. ^ "The National Anthem" (Black Mirror), "Fifteen Million Merits", "The Entire History of You", "Be Right Back", "The Waldo Moment", "White Christmas" (Black Mirror), "Nosedive" (Black Mirror), "Playtest" (Black Mirror), "Shut Up and Dance" (Black Mirror), "Men Against Fire", "Hated in the Nation", "USS Callister", "Arkangel" (Black Mirror)), "Crocodile" (Black Mirror), "Hang the DJ", "Metalhead" (Black Mirror), "Black Museum" (Black Mirror), "Striking Vipers", "Smithereens" (Black Mirror), "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too", "Joan Is Awful", "Beyond the Sea" (Black Mirror), "Mazey Day" (Black Mirror)
  2. ^ "The Wiggly Finger Catalyst", "The Skank Reflex Analysis", "The Hawking Excitation", "The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification", "The Jiminy Conjecture", "The Convention Conundrum", "The Toast Derivation", "The Hot Troll Deviation", "The Infestation Hypothesis", "The Russian Rocket Reaction", "The Rhinitis Revelation", "The Good Guy Fluctuation", "The Isolation Permutation", "The Shiny Trinket Maneuver", "The Werewolf Transformation", "The Countdown Reflection"
  3. ^ "Paranormal Parentage", "Alternative History of the German Invasion", "Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations", "Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care", "Basic Crisis Room Decorum", "Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing", "Laws of Robotics and Party Rights", "Grifting 101"
  4. ^ Series 1 episodes 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8
  5. ^ a b c d e f created from split
  6. ^ a b created in hidden comment
  7. ^ recreated after earlier page deletion

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Disclosures

I edited briefly prior to registering an account and have made occasional uncontroversial edits while logged out. I have never edited for pay or for a financial conflict of interest. Starting in April 2022, I endeavour to construe "conflict of interest" as widely as possible and use the edit summary "this is a conflict of interest edit" wherever I could be seen to have a (non-financial) conflict of interest. I have registered the accounts User:Bilrov and User:BiIorv as doppelgänger accounts to avoid impersonation.

Committed identity: f8c28b1c63fffce47dfd70beea5dc3f9fb69858390dbd8d2d14a5f824bf2f00e0e35bb2d776d88b95c9c1fe0c7f3b316e564d14fa41a7288ed18b45419201bc1 is a SHA512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

(Created committed identity: — Bilorv (talk) 21:51, 22 February 2021 (UTC))


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