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I am siliconred. My real name is Nathan Drezner. I understand there is some danger to associating my real identity with my wiki identity, so I do ask folks to respect my personal privacy — but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page 😊. Thanks!
You can see my statistics for my work in AfC here.
I manage a Twitter bot that posts the Picture of the Day, and I've written an open-source tool for Python to download edit histories from Wikipedia articles. Go check them out!
I tend to work on articles about musicians, Internet culture, and topics local to Montréal.
The formatting, manual of style, and citation templating from Wikipedia can be very useful to craft non-Wikipedia works. I've written a couple of essays using Wikipedia (not for use on Wikipedia) taking advantage of these handy capabilities. In some ways, I regret not submitting more of my academic papers using Wikipedia markup as my editor of choice. LaTeX markup nerds can eat it! Wikipedia markup is better, for one major reason: It's web native (it also lacks the nightmarish compilation process of LaTeX).