I'm a long-time contributor called Oldak Quill. I made my first edit in March 2004 and have edited, with few gaps, since. My work on Wikipedia (and, more generally, within Wikimedia) lacks focus: I edit articles, perform grunt work, use my admin powers, and initiate projects.
In real life, I'm a postgraduate student of neuroscience at the University of Oxford. I tend to edit a very broad range of articles, rather than focussing on particular areas. My areas of interest include the sciences (particularly biology), classical music and film, various modern subcultures (I've edited a lot of articles about piercings, for some reason), philosophy and linguistics.
I often find myself doing tedious grunt work (example: compiling lists) probably because it is easy.
I participate in the project because I enjoy the work and am committed to the ideals of free/libre content (since joining Wikimedia I have also become committed to FLOSS).
