User:Leucosticte

Hello, I am Leucosticte. I began editing Wikipedia on 15 November 2004. Then I stopped. For various reasons, I tend to hang out on Quora more these days. I will still appeal to the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee every year for an unban, unless and until I am unbanned.

Since 22 May 2014, I've been about 99% retired from the wikisphere, having almost completely given up on my primary mission, viz. attract an Inclupedia co-entrepreneur and collaborate to establish a hyper-inclusionist general-purpose collaborative resource that is a combination mirror and supplement of Wikipedia; and my secondary mission, viz. influence the world in a libertarian direction by other means. From now on, I am mostly resigned to working menial retail jobs, doing a few household chores, and possibly helping my wife raise a family. A couple Mises quotes come to mind: Scarcely one person in a million succeeds in fulfilling his life's ambition. The upshot of one's labors, even if one is favored by fortune, remains far inferior to what the wistful daydreams of youth allowed one to hope for. Plans and desires are shattered on a thousand obstacles, and one's powers prove too weak to achieve the goals on which one has set one's heart. The failure of his hopes, the frustration of his schemes, his own inadequacy in the face of the tasks that he has set himself-these constitute every man's most deeply painful experience, They are, indeed, the common lot of man.

Not everybody, of course, is favored by good luck. Very few become millionaires. But everybody knows that strenuous effort and nothing less than strenuous effort pays. All roads are open to the smart youngster. He is optimistic in the awareness of his own strength. He has self-confidence and is full of hope. And as he grows older and realizes that many of his plans have been frustrated, he has no cause for despair. His children will start the race again and he does not see any reason why they should not succeed where he himself failed. Life is worth living because it is full of promise.

Commit name
My commit name is tisane.

Essays

 * Centralism and decentralism
 * Hack MediaWiki core
 * Relative advantages of bots and server-side tools
 * Schools of thought concerning integration of extensions into the core
 * Similarities and differences between the Bugzilla way and the wiki way (not tagged as an essay, but sorta essay-ish)
 * The dofollow FAQ

Extensions

 * Extension:BedellPenDragon
 * Extension:BlockBatch
 * Extension:Blurb
 * Extension:CategoryGallery
 * Extension:EmailAllChanges
 * Extension:EmailDeletedPages — In need of a rewrite
 * Extension:ExtensionCheck
 * Extension:GoToShell
 * Extension:InterwikiIntegration — In need of a rewrite
 * Extension:InterwikiMap
 * Extension:MirrorTools — In need of a rewrite
 * Extension:MisesQuote
 * Extension:NamespaceReadRestrict
 * Extension:OneColumnAllPages
 * Extension:OneColumnAllUsers
 * Extension:PerPageLicense
 * Extension:PureWikiDeletion — In need of a rewrite
 * Extension:Recent Pages
 * Extension:ROT13
 * Extension:RPED — In need of a rewrite
 * Extension:SacredText
 * Extension:UndeleteBatch
 * Extension:ViewFiles
 * Extension:ViewWikitext