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I'm Warofdreams, the name taken from the title of a book by Angela Carter.

I was a contributor to Wikipedia from August 2003, an administrator since February 2004, and I went to the first ever Wikimeet, in London. From 2004 until 2024, I was a bureaucrat, but 20 years is more than long enough to hold that post. I was a member of the founding board of Wikimedia UK.

I wrote articles mainly on architecture, politics and history, and just occasionally on popular culture, the natural world and all manner of other topics. I sometimes tinker with templates and get involved in WikiProjects.

Did you know...

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Awarded by User:Howabout1 for services to articles on West Africa.
Africa Award for tireless contributions to African geography articles and African template creation. Presented by Dvyost from the Africa-related regional notice board

Shiny awards

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The Architecture Barnstar
Awarded by User:Mcginnly for all your contributions to architectural topics, the WikiProject Architecture and particularly, populating the Years in architecture categories.
The Society Barnstar
Awarded by User:Timrollpickering with thanks for your numerous contributions.
The Parliamentary Barnstar
I, Sam Blacketer, award you this barnstar for your exceptional contributions to articles on the Parliament of the United Kingdom generally. Sam Blacketer 12:07, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
I, Evilclown93, award you this barnstar for writing this essay, which may eventually repair RfA to boot. I personally believe it is brilliant. Evilclown93(talk) 01:00, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
For categorization work on articles that fall within Category:Years in architecture, especially with articles which I create, consistently forgetting to add said categories. Keep up the good work, the community appreciates it. IvoShandor 08:10, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
The 25 DYK Medal for WarofDreams
Congratulations! Here's a medal for you in appreciation of your hardwork in creating, expanding (and nominating) 25+ articles for DYK. Keep up the good work - sorry it took a while. Well done again, WarofDreams! --Victuallers (talk) 17:28, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
The Invisible Barnstar
For your hard work and great team sprit with the rollout of Template:Infobox UK place I grant you the Invisible Barnstar as I believe people take that work for granted! Many thanks! --Jza84 |  Talk  13:09, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Quotes

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"Finally, we'd like to announce a fun project loosely associated with Nupedia, Wikipedia. Have a look and write a paragraph or two!" Front page of Nupedia, January 2001
"If we create 1000 pages a month, we will be able to hit 100,000 pages in only 8 years." User:Jimbo Wales, February 2001
"Our getting 100,000 articles is definitely not out of the question. Indeed, it's also far from impossible that we could have 1,000,000 articles someday; there are, surely, 1,000,000 topics of discussion in existence." Why Wikipedia is so great, April 2001 [1]
"Wikipedia is growing at a dizzying rate. Wikipedia produces articles at over 1,300 per month." Why Wikipedia is so great, April 2001 [2]
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Licence

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Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0, 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0
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