User:Technobliterator

Technobliterator

Hey all! I'm a member of the Fandom Gaming Wiki Manager team. Aside from my role, you can also find me around as an admin on many wikis myself. I'm a member of the unofficial New Wiki Order  team, where I help wikis with the team in a larger capacity on a whim. I'm also a Vanguard, so I'll be able to help a lot with making your wiki portable. Aside from that, I'm an occasional contributor/lurker all around.

Among other things, I can help in particular with pywikibot, Lua ,  CSS ,  JavaScript , and portability , as well as all your MediaWiki needs.

Feel free to give a shout on [ my talk page ] or find me on Discord at Technobliterator#1311 if you need anything!

My Wikis 

I joined Fandom (known then as Wikia) in 2009. As a huge geeky teenager with a Ratchet & Clank obsession, I was looking to build the best information resource on the web, until I found that one already existed: the Ratchet & Clank Wiki. I was very bad when I started there (it wasn't until around sevem years later that I became a bureaucrat and rewrote most of the wiki), until I joined the Jak and Daxter Wiki, where I learned most of the ropes. Later, my love of the Final Fantasy series took me to the Final Fantasy Wiki, which became my biggest job (and challenge) yet. I became an administrator at least a year or two later.

After this, I joined the Community Council, and then the Vanguard  team. Later, the Jak and Daxter Wiki team formed an unofficial group, which we facetiously named New Wiki Order ; as we'd polished and improved almost every aspect possible on the Jak and Daxter Wiki (which had otherwise stagnated due to no new games), we decided to take what we'd learned polishing an old wiki and take it to wikis that hadn't had the chance to apply the same attention to detail as they were a bit preoccupied on covering every new release. This meant taking over templates, Lua modules, CSS, and policies that we'd worked on. One of these wikis was one I founded, the Marvel's Spider-Man (PS4 game) Wiki. I was hugely excited that my favorite videogame developer since childhood were making a game based on my favorite superhero since childhood, so I had to get on that!

Currently, in addition to administrative duties, I am a member of the Wiki Manager team, a role in which I get to yet again take the expertise I've built since 2009 and help out other new and prospective admins along the way.

On most wikis I have a large presence on, I have been responsible for:
 * Major design aspects of the wiki (the theme/skin, the main page, infobox/navbox/template design, etc.)
 * Creating and maintaining the biggest templates, either using Lua or wikitext (or Portable Infoboxes),
 * Large pywikibot jobs to reorganize the wiki, whether it be page names, links, categories, files, or other large overhauls
 * Writing/rewriting pages, often for topics that interest me
 * Performing maintenance of the SpecialPages

The following are just a few of the wikis I have a big presence on beyond a Wiki Manager.

Videogames  Along with gym workouts, music, wiki editing, and web design, playing videogames is possibly my favorite hobby.

My first ever videogame was Crash Bandicoot: Warped, on the first PlayStation, which I honestly loved a little too much. Later, my parents bought me a PlayStation 2, my first ever videogame console. I played a few games, but it was Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando  where I completely fell in love with the hobby. The game is a real blend of genres, so I got to experience bits of everything. Became obsessed with the series, along with Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy  and  Sly 2: Band of Thieves.

Later, my cousin showed me two games from his childhood that I once again completely fell in love with: Final Fantasy VII  and the first  Metal Gear Solid. Needless to say, I went on to play every mainline entry of both series, and still replay the games all the time to this day. Final Fantasy became my favorite series, with Final Fantasy VI  and  Final Fantasy XII  being my two favorites, while  Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater  easily became my favorite game of all time.

My favorite videogame series:

Runners up would be the Kingdom Hearts series, the  Mario series , the  The Legend of Zelda series , and the  God of War series. I basically enjoy platformers, action adventure, RPGs, and strategy games most.

My top five games of all time:

Music  Generally speaking, my favorite genre of music is hip hop, with a focus on West Coast hip hop from the pre-2000s. While I do like other styles of music, hip hop is what I always end up coming back to. Not only do I love the beats, but there's something powerful, authentic, and defiant about it, and the ability of its artists to tell stories is unique.

I can enjoy other artists though, and in particular I love Daft Punk and Bob Marley. Weirdly enough, I'm also a big fan of music theater, and love performing on stage. In the past, I used to produce music too, but it was overtaken quickly by my passion for software/web programming.

My top five favorite music artists:

Movies  I'm not as much of a movie person as I am a gaming or music person, so this'll be a lot shorter!

I grew up with the Sam Raimi Spider-Man  films, along with the  Star Wars  prequels. I've barely had much time to fit movies into my schedule, and I mostly just watched whatever films my friends and I happened to see whenever we ended up meeting up. One of these films was Guardians of the Galaxy. I remember falling in love with the characters, having so much fun throughout, and the film having a huge emotional impact on me. Then Captain America: The Winter Soldier  was the Metal Gear Solid movie I'd always dreamed about, which certified me as a Marvel Studios fan.

My top four favorite films: