Bilorv (he/they) is a British Wikipedia editor. They joined Wikipedia in December 2013 and have been volunteering for around 45% 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:
Seeing Challenges catch on and inspire people to create content.
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.
Creating Taskmaster Wiki to house content on List of Taskmaster episodes that wasn't within Wikipedia's scope.
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.
Writing Queen's graph, an article about maths and chess.
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.
Working on Black Mirror articles, each marginally less worse-written than the last—an enormous undertaking over many years on a highly viewed topic.
The latest thing I've written, before the passion fades and resurfaces in a new topic.
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.
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