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* E-mail: eloquence (at) gmail (dot) com
''User pages:'' '''Meta''' &mdash; [[w:en:User:Eloquence|English Wikipedia]] &mdash; [[w:de:Benutzer:Eloquence|German Wikipedia]] &mdash; [[n:en:User:Eloquence|English Wikinews]] &mdash; [[commons:User:Eloquence|Wikimedia Commons]]</div>
* IRC: Eloquence
* Skype: (as needed)
* [http://intelligentdesigns.net/blog/ Personal blog]
* [https://social.coop/@eloquence Mastodon]
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My name is '''Erik Möller'''. I was Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation from December 2007 until April 2015. I joined Wikipedia in 2001 and have been involved in the project in pretty much all different areas. I'm poking around outside the Wikimedia universe these days, but you'll still find me around here from time to time.
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: ''You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.'' -- Richard Dawkins

Dipl.-Inform. (FH) '''Erik Möller'''. Editor of [http://www.infoanarchy.org infoAnarchy]. Webmaster of [http://www.violence.de The Origins of Peace and Violence] and [http://www.humanist.de Der Humanist] (German). Freelance writer, coder, analyst, researcher. [http://www.humanist.de/erik/ Personal Homepage] (German). I am a sysop and a [[MediaWiki]] [[developer]]. I am fairly active on the [[mailing lists]] and try to take a look at most current policy issues.

Stuff I started here on Meta:
*[[Wikinews]] proposal and vote
*[[Wikimedia Commons]] proposal
*[http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l foundation-l] (based on [[m:Foundation-L Proposal]])
* I created the first Wikipedia [[IRC channels|IRC channel]], #wikipedia, as well as #mediawiki and #wikinews.
*[[Requests for permissions]]
*[[Power structure]]
*[[Development policy]]
*[[article count reform]], first Wikimedia-wide vote
*[[international logo contest]]
*[[edit summary prefill poll]]
*[[Extension Syntax|extension syntax vote]]
*merge of intlwiki-l and wikipedia-l (voting page has been deleted for mysterious reasons)
*[[Wikimedia COTW]]


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I contributed to and strongly believe in the [[Wikiversity]] idea.


== What I believe ==
Specs and ideas:
* [[LiquidThreads]]
* [[Wikidata]]
* [[Multilingual MediaWiki]]
* [[Single login specifications]] (team effort)


I am a socially liberal secular humanist and an optimist. I believe that effective collaboration is essential to the growth and survival of our species, and hope to learn and share ideas about collaboration through my work. I have concluded that certain memes (ideas) are destructive to society, including: the idea that strong intellectual monopoly rights are required to develop a rich and expressive culture, the idea that abortion is murder, the idea that physical pleasure and affection is an inherently dangerous or corrupting influence, and virtually any totalitarian/dogmatic belief system. I consider myself highly pragmatic about the present, and highly aspirational about the future.
Code:
* subpages (can be enabled or disabled on a per-namespace basis)
* ability to edit individual sections
* graphical edit toolbar
* section anchors allow linking to individual sections
* table of contents feature
* conceived and implemented first generation of [[commons:Main Page|Wikimedia Commons]]
* double-click editing
* some skin work, mostly on the old Standard skin
* "Watch this article" checkbox and "Watch new and modified articles" user preference
* "Mark all edits minor by default" user preference
* Go button to view articles directly
* Talk pages for anonymous users; more visible Talk page change notification
* [[Wikipedia:Book sources]]
* Improvements to deletion, e.g. pre-fill reason box with content
* "Ancient pages"
* diff-link and history link in user contributions list
* automatically add section titles to the edit summary
* links in edit summaries
* [[Help:External editors|external editor support]]
* Help: namespace, custom extra namespaces, and finally the [[Help:Namespace manager|namespace manager]] and complete namespace redesign
* multiline upload description
* optional email authentication requirement for editing (based on existing auth code)
* [[Help:Inputbox|inputbox extension]]
* TODO:
** voting
** (team) certification
** disambiguation needs to be somehow supported in code (#REDIRECT?)
** improved redirect syntax
** better interlanguage link system
** watch new and/or modified instead of just "watch new and modified", possibly improved auto-watchlist for discussions, improved watchlist (show revisions prior to last edit/last view)
** Recent changes ''really'' needs a redesign. It works if you know how to use it, but if you don't, it's a usability nightmare, esp. the enhanced version. See also [[m:Recent Changes redesign]]
** History search for keywords that shows the first diff where this keyword was added to (removed from?) the article
** [[m:FileReplacement]] instead of / in addition to protected pages


Symbols I identify with include the "happy human" [[File:HumanismSymbol.svg|35px]], an international symbol of secular humanism, and the "Eye of Sauron" [[File:Definition of Free Cultural Works logo notext.svg|35px]], the logo of the [http://freedomdefined.org/ Definition for Free Cultural Works].
Art:
*designed [http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/Mediawiki.png MediaWiki logo] (flower by [[User:Anthere|Anthere]])


[[Category:Former Board of Trustees members]]
'''Declaration of bias:'''
* I am opposed to irrationalism, be it in the form of organized religion, miracle healers or postmodernism.
* I am strongly opposed to all types of "intellectual property".
* I am in favor of personal liberties (speech, abortion, sex, drugs etc.).
* I am in favor of democracy and capitalism.
* I am in favor of a working social system.
* I am not a pacifist.
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Latest revision as of 08:59, 7 August 2020

My name is Erik Möller. I was Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation from December 2007 until April 2015. I joined Wikipedia in 2001 and have been involved in the project in pretty much all different areas. I'm poking around outside the Wikimedia universe these days, but you'll still find me around here from time to time.


What I believe

I am a socially liberal secular humanist and an optimist. I believe that effective collaboration is essential to the growth and survival of our species, and hope to learn and share ideas about collaboration through my work. I have concluded that certain memes (ideas) are destructive to society, including: the idea that strong intellectual monopoly rights are required to develop a rich and expressive culture, the idea that abortion is murder, the idea that physical pleasure and affection is an inherently dangerous or corrupting influence, and virtually any totalitarian/dogmatic belief system. I consider myself highly pragmatic about the present, and highly aspirational about the future.

Symbols I identify with include the "happy human" , an international symbol of secular humanism, and the "Eye of Sauron" , the logo of the Definition for Free Cultural Works.

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