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.

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 (although sometimes I wonder whether it's a good idea to bring children into a world where there is so little liberty; statism makes it hard to live a very useful or enjoyable life; plus there's the fact that we might eventually become pretty indigent, judging by the way things are going). I will still appeal to the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee every year for an unban, unless and until I am unbanned.

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

Maintenance scripts

 * Manual:findAnomalies.php

Pastebins

 * User:Leucosticte/Sandbox
 * User:Leucosticte/Junkyard
 * User:Leucosticte/Stuff to always import from Wikipedia

Screenshot

 * File:ProjectDefaultNamespace.png