User:AttemptToCallNil

I started editing certain Gamepedia-original wikis in mid-2012. Currently I'm sometimes around to help people with Lua modules, talk about wiki policy, and edit wikis about games I play or am interested in.

Special roles on wikis

 * Admin on Minecraft Wiki (Russian, Gamepedia-original): since February 2013
 * Bureaucrat on Minecraft Wiki (Russian, Gamepedia-original): since July 2014
 * Admin on Minecraft Wiki (English, Gamepedia-original): May 2018–September 2023 (due to fork)

About me
I am me. I prefer to be identified not by any name or avatar, but instead by the total of my actions. That's why my names and avatars tend to be representations of nonexistence. I especially prefer not to be identified online by my real-life identity.

I edit wikis (sometimes, rarely now). I play single-player PC games. I do various stuff with computer technology that isn't necessarily just playing games.

Opinions
My opinions about Fandom that I think a lot of people would disagree with:
 * Wikis should make their purpose fundamental, and their policies should serve that purpose. In case the policy doesn't help in serving that purpose, it should be ignored per the "ignore all rules" principle.
 * Admins should not be allowed to set their wikis to only be editable by logged-in users without staff involvement and without a specific reason.
 * Wikis should generally allow logged-out editing.
 * Except in specific and unusual circumstances, wikis should not be allowed to carry over bans on any external resource to the wiki, including the wiki's Discord, or for game wikis, the associated game(s).
 * Wiki Discords should not be editor-only, and should provide non-editor channels where non-editors can discuss the wiki with editors. Better yet, they should be generally open and only have a small number of editor-only channels for focused discussions, and admin-only channels for private/sensitive discussions. And they definitely shouldn't have indiscriminate policies telling people not to share any information posted in limited channels outside these channels
 * Bureaucrats should be allowed and should have no more restrictions than: 1) not automatically granted to wiki founders, but available on request on established wikis with 3 or more currently active admins based on a community discussion; 2) only promoting admins or bureaucrats following community discussion.
 * Discussions should offer moderation information publicly like MediaWiki does, and should have comparable API client support.
 * No part of general admin tools, and definitely no part of non-admin editor tools, should require a legally binding NDA. Just about no currently available admin or editor tools should be taken away. (There might be one thing or two that involves private personal information, but that's about it.)
 * Rights holders / developers / publishers / writers / producers / etc. should have minimal to no editorial involvement with wikis, and should not be involved with wikis administratively, due to their conflict of interest.
 * "Vandalism" should mean only "actions specifically intended to harm the content quality of the wiki", and shouldn't be a catch-all term for "policy violation or other non-conventional behavior". "Spam" should only mean the commercial kind of spam, not just "unwanted content". "Disruptive behavior" for anything that's harmful in some specific demonstrable way, but isn't just limited to vandalism or spam, should be the fallback term used in policy.
 * FandomDesktop's full-width option is more generally useful for gaming wikis, or circumstances where large tables become just about the only meaningful presentation format. They aren't made to "appease Gamepedia editors", whose practices are implicitly declared unreasonable by such statements.