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In both contrast and mutual support with my fondness for many things fiction, art and game, I quite like learning about reality and the world. Topics historical, mundane, small, neat and collectable, human, pragmatic and practical, scientific, avocational and so much more. To this end, I watch youtube videos and do simple reseach – most often by browsing Wikipedia, or just going wherever google takes me.

In the (near) future, I'm also hoping to at least try getting into other, more involved sources of knowledge... both leisurely (documentaries, general appeal books) and serious (purely factual books and similar). Funny how, despite having a decently good grasp on how human/personal knowledge and experiences get acquired, worked into and shared through art, I'm pretty much in the dark when it comes to these aspects of scientific/empirical knowledge. Guess that's what you get when your educational system doesn't teach researching, sourcing and working with knowledge, and you fail uni on top of that. Still.. to think there's a whole another world of knowledge I've never properly seen into... exciting!

Finally, when it comes to my Wikipedia crawls, I also enjoy improving whatever obvious small errors, imperfections and poor translations from my language I stumble upon. Sometimes I get the urge to become more involved with editing and help develop my favorite pages, but that has always seemed so impenetrable. I don't really edit other wikis1, but I salute those who do o7.


And since I like these, here are the digital ribbons these casual Wikipedia contributions have earned me: :)

A horizontal rectangle ribbon similar to those issued in the military. It is colored and shaded to appear purely silver. A horizontal rectangle ribbon similar to those issued in the military. It is colored and shaded to appear silver, with four purple tilde symbols covering the background. A horizontal rectangle ribbon similar to those issued in the military. It is colored and shaded to appear brown, adorned with the Wikipedia logo – an unfinished globe composed of puzzle pieces bearing symbols of the world's various writing systems – covered with an orange checkmark.

From the left to the right, these are:

Novice Editor – for 200 edits and 1 month of service

Registered Editor – for 1 edit and 1 day of service

Autoconfirmed User – for being autoconfirmed, and the user rights that come with it

(unchanged awards by user:Jkudlick (x2) and user:Personhumanperson on Wikimedia Commons)




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Other interesting wiki and wiki-like sites I've found include:

Tv Tropes, obviously

Liquipedia, for esports (go go Trackmania!)

wiki.gg and anything hosted on there (compared to Fandom, it's a godsend)

The Fitness Wiki isn't really a wiki, but I've been using it for fitness info

The SCP Foundation and The Wanderers' Library, both hosted on Wikidot

The Lost Media Wiki

AARoads Wiki, if you're really, really into roads (nothing wrong with that)

Aesthetics Wiki



And since you've made it all the way here, let me show you to a special place..