Next up for the QandA interview is Majorly, with guest interviewer Meetare Shappy Cunkelfratz!. Lets see how he gets on...
I'm a university student from near Manchester, UK, training to be a primary school teacher
The fact there's always something to do. You can never get bored with it.
I knew about Wikipedia for ages, but had no idea you could actually edit it. Then in April 2006, a friend of mine showed me a page they created on Uncyclopedia. And I thought to myself - I can make a better page! So I did, and was rather sad that I didn't create an account beforehand, so I could be credited with it. The page has long since been deleted.
Moving on, I joined Wikipedia in June 2006 - remembering Uncyclopedia, I noticed there were some people missing from the list of left-handed people page. So I created my account, and using my Schott's Miscellany, I added three people. Using the minor edit button, and perfect wiki-markup! But I did not cite my source and I had not mastered the edit summary yet. What really sucked me in was editing Big Brother articles - these introduced me to talk pages, wikiprojects, admins, AFD, RFA... pretty much everything I know about Wikipedia stems from those early days on the Big Brother articles. Ah, the memories. I joined Simple English Wikipedia a few months later, when I began to explore English Wikipedia's sister projects. I also joined Meta-wiki around that time too.
Quite long, yes.
There isn't a lot of difference, except on smaller projects, admins have a lot more control as the proportion of admins to regular editors is higher. It's all the same though really.
I would have to say the people who spoil it: vandals, POV pushers, and anti-social people.
I'd like all editors to have an account, and not edit through an IP. There are many more things I'd like to change too, but if I had just one, I'd pick that
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Well thanks for that Majorly! Look out for more QandA interviews in future editions!