Church of emacs

Welcome to my Meta user page! I am Tobias (username Church of emacs), a German Wikimedian from Munich. If you want to leave me a message, you can do so at my talk page. If you would like to learn more about me, read below.

Note: As of 2023, I am no longer active.

My work

I started as a Wikipedian, being mostly active on the German Wikipedia (where I'm a sysop and was oversighter), but now I am a cross-wiki contributor. Beside Wikipedia, I'm an OTRS volunteer and a MediaWiki developer, as well as a sysop on meta and two smaller projects: MediaWiki.org and Wikimania wikis. Currently, I'm involved in facilitating communication between WMF and German Wikipedia's community.

What I do here

Stewards/elections 2010 – I helped create and monitor the template system for the vote, and verify eligibility of candidates
Translations. I translate English->German and sometimes German->English
Participation in all kinds of projects/discussions/polls/etc.
Countervandalism, admin stuff

What I do on Wikimedia projects

(organizing) I organize events, such as the Bavarian Parliament project, done in spring 2012, or the panel on the Image filter (which I also moderated) with Ting Chen, Pavel Richter and User:Carbidfischer in 2011.
(organizing) I'm active in the fundraiser both by writing appeals on my own and encouraging others to participate.

(maintenance) Administrative work on Wikipedia, MediaWiki.org, Meta and various other wikis.

(content) Writing and improving articles for Wikipedia and other projects.
(content) Helping with requests on Foundation wiki feedback and work on foundation wiki.

(technical) Supporting new Wikimedians and answering their questions (especially about technical issues)
(technical) Filing bug reports and feature requests, and then fixing them myself :) (I have a SVN commit access)
(technical) Creating complex templates using ParserFunctions and magic words

How to get in touch with me:

Meta user talk
German WP user talk
nick Church_of_emacs on IRC (freenode, e.g. #wikimedia-tech)
Email (PGP public key)

User language

de-N	Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.

en-3	This user has advanced knowledge of English.

fr-1	Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances de base en français.