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[[Image:Kwalsh_5929_small.jpg|175px|left|Close-up in shiny red shirt]]
'''"Mindspillage"''' is the usual online handle of '''Kat Walsh''', a Wikimedian from [[en:Herndon, Virginia|Herndon, Virginia]] (just outside [[w:Washington, DC|Washington, DC]]), and a former chair of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees.

I have a [[en:Juris Doctor|J.D.]] from [[en:George Mason University School of Law|George Mason University School of Law]], where I studied technology and internet law, copyright, patents, and economics. I'm most interested in the issues surrounding [[en:free content|free content]], [[en:free software|free software]], [[en:free speech|free speech]], technology policy, law and economics, law and social norms, and how advancing technology can enable the free exchange of knowledge; I'm most knowledgeable about [[en:copyright|copyright]], [[en:trademarks|trademarks]], and [[en:patent|patents]] (and have passed the [[en:Patent Bar|Patent Bar]]).

My [[en:User:Mindspillage|user page on the English Wikipedia]], which I consider my "home project", has more information on my involvement in that project (as well as a bit more silliness and trivia!). If you're looking for something Wikipedia-specific, please check there.

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*Member of the Board of Trustees, appointed in December 2006 to serve through mid-2007. Re-elected to serve until mid-2009 and again to serve until 2011.
*I handle emails that come in to Wikimedia via the [[OTRS]] system. I am also on the OTRS subcommittee of the [[m:Communications Committee|Communications Committee]]. I am an OTRS admin and am a contact for the English-language queues. If you have any issues or would like to offer to help, please read the page and contact one of the appropriate people.
*I am a press contact for Wikimedia, valiantly attempting to keep misleading statements out of the news, with varying degrees of success. You may contact me directly at kat@wikimedia.org; however, for general requests, please use the press@wikimedia.org address which is answered by our full press team.

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To get in touch with me:

*Email: [[Special:Emailuser/Mindspillage|mindspillage@gmail.com]]
*IRC: mindspillage (present) / mind|wandering (away)
**usually in #wikimedia, #wikipedia, #wikinews, and several other channels
*Local project talk pages: [[User talk:Mindspillage|Meta]], [[w:User talk:Mindspillage|Wikipedia]], [[n:User talk:Mindspillage|Wikinews]], and [[commons:User talk:Mindspillage|Commons]].
*Phone: available by emailed request or from the press team
*(G)AIM:LucidWaking, Mindspillage
*In-person/postal: available by request.

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[[w:WP:ENJOY|enjoy yourself]] / [http://freenode.net/catalysts be a catalyst] / [http://freenode.net/changuide reduce temperature] / [[w:WP:BEANS|don't stuff beans up your nose]] / [[meatball:DefendAgainstPassion|defend against passion]] / [[meatball:FightingIsBoring|fighting is boring]] / [[meatball:ControlYourself|control yourself]] / [[meatball:SoftResponse|prefer the soft response]] / [[c2:StBenedictsRule|sometimes you have to resort to St. Benedict's Rule]] / [[c2:CriticsAreYourBestFriends|critics are your best friends]] / [[meatball:FixBrokenWindows|fix broken windows]] / [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006036.html#006036 moderating conversations in virtual space]

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"''To enjoy freedom, [...] we have of course to control ourselves.''"<br />
<span style="font-size: 85%">-- [[w:Virginia Woolf|Virginia Woolf]]

(and please, feel free to suggest interesting philosophical musings to me on my [[User talk:Mindspillage|talk page]])

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I am largely responsible for both [[Polls are evil]] and [[How to win an argument]] here, as well as the parody "[[If I Were An Admin]]". You decide how serious each one is. Most of my work here on meta deals with maintaining the [[OTRS]] pages as well as some of the [[Communications committee]]-related sections. For local involvement, you can view my user contributions on [[Special:Contributions/Mindspillage|Wikipedia]], [[n:Special:Contributions/Mindspillage|Wikinews]], and [[commons:Special:Contributions/Mindspillage|Commons]].

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I agree to [[w:Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions as described below:
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| colspan="3" |I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GFDL] and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/ version 1.0] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ version 2.0]. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the [[m:Guide to the CC dual-license|CC dual-license]] and [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|Multi-licensing]] guides.
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*[[User:Mindspillage/content issues|Content issues]], the raw beginnings of a project to collect discussions about censorship and "offensive content", mostly abandoned.
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Revision as of 01:12, 7 October 2016

This page had a bunch of old info on it. My enwiki user page also has a bunch of old stuff on it but is not quite so woefully outdated!