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I am a regular, if erratic editor at the Wikipedia Signpost, where I find work writing the "News and notes" section (shorthand N&N). My principal levels of activity in this regard fall between August-October 2010 and October 2011-present. The section seems to suffer when I'm not available to underwrite it weekly (the Signpost is chronically understaffed), and my principal levels of activity have now been forced onto the weekends anyway, making the post likely my most important contribution to Wikipedia for the foreseeable future. Contrary to some peoples' expectations, "regular editor" does not mean sole author; most of the time, my contributions are added onto by others, sometimes I am merely a secondary contributor, and, on occasion, I am completely absent. A list of my work, searchable like so, follows:

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1. 23 August 2010 News and notes - "Pending changes poll, Public policy classes, Payment schemes debate, and more"
2. 30 August 2010 News and notes - "Most linked websites on Wikipedia, New York Wiki-Conference, and more"
3. 30 August 2010 Features and admins - This at the time was a special feature I was writing on the 3,000th Featured article, but was squelched into Featured and admins while I was offline and published so, something that caused me great pain at the time
4. 6 September 2010 Dispatches "Tools for content contributors p.1" - originally my first contribution, it went through weeks of pitted ideological arguments before being finally being published; of note, readers immediately thought it useful, irregardless of the conflicts which had racked it
5. 6 September 2010 News and notes - "Pending changes analyzed, Foundation report, Main page bias, brief news"
6. 13 September 2010 News and notes - "Page-edit stats, French National Library partnership, Mass page blanking, Jimbo on Pending changes"
7. 20 September 2010 Dispatches "Tools for content contributors p.2"
8. 27 September 2010 News and notes - "French million, controversial content, Citizendium charter, Pending changes, and more"
9. 4 October 2010 News and notes - "German chapter remodeled to meet Foundation requirements, and more"
10. 4 October 2010 WikiProject report - I had suggested and appears in this interview of WikiProject Volcanoes alongside my peers at the project, Avenue, Ceranthor, and Volcanoguy
11. 11 October 2010 News and notes - "Board resolutions, fundraiser challenge, traffic report, ten thousand good articles, and more"
12. 11 October 2010 Dispatches "Tools for content contributors p.3" - Thus concluding the triage
13. 11 October 2010 Technology report - "Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News" - originally a bit for N&N stolen for the slow Tech week ;)
14. 18 October 2010 News and notes - "Wikipedia fundraiser event, Frankfurt book fair, news in brief"
15. 25 October 2010 News and notes - "Mike Godwin leaves the Foundation, ArbCom election announced"
16. 15 November 2010 News and notes - "Fundraisers start for Wikipedia and Citizendium; controversial content and leadership"
17. 22 November 2010 News and notes - "No further Bundesarchiv image donations; Dutch and German awards; anniversary preparations"
18. 27 December 2010 News and notes - "Director of Technical Operations hired; South Korean mayor sues; brief news"
19. 3 January 2011 Year in review - Don't remember which sections I wrote, but it was definitely a team effort
20. 7 February 2011 News and notes - "New General Counsel hired; reuse of Google Art Project debated; GLAM newsletter started; news in brief"
21. 31 October 2011 News and notes - "German Wikipedia continues image filter protest" - and so begins my current run with the post
22. 31 October 2011 Featured content - Tony1 was on strike over some ideological nonsense, so I filled in with Crisco 1492
23. 7 November 2011 News and notes - "Wikimedia Norway awarded, Halloween on the Main Page, Wikimedia UK recognised"
24. 7 November 2011 Featured content - "Slow week for Featured content" - Still on strike
25. 14 November 2011 News and notes - "ArbCom nominations open, participation grants finalized, survey results on perceptions on Wikipedia released"
26. 28 November 2011 News and notes - "Arb's resignation sparks lightning RfC, Fundraiser 2011 off to a strong start, GLAM in Qatar"
27. 5 December 2011 News and notes - "Amsterdam gets the GLAM treatment, fundraising marches on, and a flourish of new admins"
28. 12 December 2011 News and notes - "Research project banner ads run afoul of community"
29. 19 December 2011 News and notes - "Anti-piracy act has Wikimedians on the defensive, WMF annual report released, and Indic language dynamics"
30. 26 December 2011 News and notes - "Fundraiser passes 2010 watermark, brief news"
31. 26 December 2011 Opinion essay - "Openness versus quality: why we're doing it wrong, and how to fix it" - The Signpost, bringing you cynical news on the apocalypse since 2011.
32. 2 January 2012 News and notes - "Things bubbling along as Wikimedians enjoy their holidays"
33. 9 January 2012 News and notes - "Fundraiser 2011 ends with a bang"
34. 16 January 2012 News and notes - "SOPA blackout looms, Wikipedia turns 11, and Commons passes 12 million files"
35. 30 January 2012 News and notes - "Update on Global Development, Wikipedia Day NYC is a success, JFK audio on Commons"
36. 6 February 2012 News and notes - "The Foundation visits Tunisia, analyzes donors"
37. 6 February 2012 Discussion report - "Discussion swarms around Templates for deletion and returning editors of colourful pasts"
38. 13 February 2012 News and notes - "Foundation launches Legal and Community Advocacy department"
39. 20 February 2012 News and notes - "Fundraiser row continues, new director of engineering"
40. 20 February 2012 Special report - "Plight of the new page patrollers" - didn't even know it was a problem until I had read the literature. The things you learn, eh?