User:Quepenamivida
User Profile
[edit]– I am a technically inclined individual with a background in software, digital systems, AI, and structured information. – I have a post-secondary degree with a journalism-related degree. I love research and media. – My interests span a wide range of topics, including other countries and under-documented concepts. – I value precision, traceability, and clarity in documentation. I like finding and building new ideas from scratch like an archaeologist of information.
Wikipedia Activity
[edit]– I was an active editor decades ago, contributing to hundreds of technical and informational pages. – My participation ended due to repeated negative experiences with the community at the time, which led me to step away from editing and even using Wikipedia. I was stalked in real life and harassed. I have changed my username and keep it to myself for personal safety reasons. It was not pleasant. – I have recently returned to editing, prompted by the lack of reliable, centralized information on certain topics — especially as general-purpose AI tools often return unverifiable or fabricated content and I believe it important for humanity.
Current Focus
[edit]– My contributions are generally reactive: when I search for a topic and find little or no useful Wikipedia content, I aim to add missing pieces. – These topics may be obscure, technical, or narrow, but I believe they are still deserving of proper documentation, given that they are clearly widely publicized with a central source of context and hypothetical "truth" (i.e. verifiable and documented breadcrumbs on the intertubes). I find them when I go to look for information on a subject and it doesn't appear. – I am particularly interested in areas where Wikipedia can serve as a durable reference point for topics not well-covered elsewhere, collecting articles from elsewhere and pulling them into one place.
Philosophy
[edit]– I believe Wikipedia is a valuable tool, especially in a time of rapid information synthesis and questionable source attribution. – I approach editing with a factual, source-based mindset. – I prefer to work on content, not discussions. I avoid extended debates unless they are necessary to clarify content accuracy.
Participation
[edit]– I may contribute intermittently, depending on relevance to my ongoing research or reading. – I prefer to work on new ideas, neglected topics, and structural improvements. – I will likely not engage heavily in policy discussions unless directly relevant to content I’m editing. – I have never been inappropriate with my own words or behaviour, but certainly attacked for my own hypothetical religion, sexuality, race, and more (though no one has ever guessed these correctly, just attacked me for no reason), especially as I was trying to learn and help. I therefore choose anonymity, lest it happen again. – If I get treated the way I was many years ago, I'll leave again. – I have never donated to Wikipedia, and have actively spoken against doing do in the past due my experiences with the community. We'll see how my efforts pay off this time around!
TL;DR:
[edit]– I'd much rather just work away in my own corner, have a few really smart people check my work, then go back to doing more good. No need to endlessly debate something stupid. Just change it to something that's right and move on, please.
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Let me know if you have a cool subject you'd like me to write on out of the blue that's up my alley.