User:Samsara

This user has written or significantly contributed to seven Featured articles on Wikipedia.

This editor won the Million Award for bringing Hydrogen to Featured Article status.

This editor won the Million Award for bringing Charles Darwin to Featured Article status.

Paraphrase material from reliable sources in a way that is neutral in tone and does not introduce synthesis. Samsara 1 March 2019

For the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey, I made the following proposals:

The first two are long-known flaws of MediaWiki. Both currently put vandals at a slight advantage and need to be fixed.

The last two are trivially easy to implement, but will make a difference to ease of use.

But the real headliner is ~~would be~~ could have been this one:

Gadgets: Greatly overhaul media viewer (archived, with discussion ensuing)
- Original proposal can be seen here

Another bug of note:

Disabling pending changes removes visual highlighting and labelling of reverts and accepts

Some of what I did for Wikipedia in 2017[edit]

During the course of 2017, I became the top contributor over the last 50,000 edits to Wikipedia:Requests for page protection (RfPP), bringing my total of page protections to almost 2,000, with 500 reprotections and a pending changes log also numbering close to 500 entries. I may be the originator or principal populariser of the idea of enabling long term pending changes on pages that have required semi-protection for a definite period, and I also wrote the original draft of the rough guide to extended confirmed protection. As a side-effect of my activity at RfPP, I was also the tied-second most prolific contributor to Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/2017. 50,000 is almost exactly the number of edits made to RfPP in 2017.