User:The ed17
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 Hello there! I'm Ed, a graduate student at East Carolina University and an editor on Wikipedia since March 2006. I have held several different hats during my time here:
Aside from these positions, much of my Wikipedia time has been spent writing. My early work focused on the Shannara universe, but I quickly turned and focused on early-twentieth-century warships from Europe, Japan, and both Americas, with a particular interest in the South American dreadnought race that gripped Argentina, Brazil, and Chile from c. 1907 to 1914. In total, I have helped write twenty-six featured articles, a list of which is here. Most have furthered the goals of a long-term collaborative project, Operation Majestic Titan, which will see all battleship and battlecruiser articles rewritten and combined into a single featured topic.
For the Signpost, my personally written favorite articles include the Wiki-PR series, where a public relations company "created, edited, or maintained several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients using a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts"; Wikipedia's developing relationship with NARA; an analysis of Jimmy Wales' proposals at Wikimania 2013; an interview with a Second World War veteran who edits Wikipedia; and an examination of the relationship between the Wikimedia Foundation and an outside research firm. The story I'll carry with me the longest is the life and death of Ihor Kostenko, a Ukrainian Wikipedian who perished in the country's anti-government protests in February 2014.
I am currently working with the Wikimedia Foundation's Communications Department as a editorial intern. My staff account is located at Ed Erhart (WMF). Edits, statements, or other contributions made from this account (The ed17) are mine alone and may not reflect the views of the Foundation. Any accidental cross-pollination between the two will be swiftly corrected.
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