Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the [[wikipedia:Village pump|Village pump]]. BTW, I see you placed your name next to an external link in secure computing. Are you the main author of the linked work? Cheers! --maveric149
Yes. I've contributed some, but I won't contribute more until the database dump is working. -- Dwheeler
Per your comment on my talk page: OK cool -- There is no reason not to have your name next to the link since you are the author. Also, newer database tarballs can be found at [[Wikipedia:Database download]]. I'm not sure if they are updated daily yet but that is the plan. I do know that there was one made at least a few days ago for sure since one developer accidently deleted the Main Page and had to recover it from a database tarball.... mav
I just want to thank you for creating Law of Demeter article. I was the one who requested that article since I had little knowledge about it. The article now seems great!. -- Taku 01:30 26 May 2003 (UTC)
Congratulations, you have just been made a sysop! You have volunteered for boring housekeeping activities which normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops basically can't do anything: They cannot delete pages arbitarily (only obvious junk like "jklasdfl,öasdf JOSH IS GAY"), they cannot protect pages in an edit war they are involved in, they cannot ban signed in users. What they can do is delete junk as it appears, ban anonymous vandals, remove pages that have been listed on Votes for deletion for more than a week, protect pages when asked to by other members, and help keep the few protected pages there are, among them the precious Main Page, up to date.
Note that almost everything you can do can be undone, so don't be too worried about making mistakes. You will find more information at Wikipedia:Administrators, please take a look before experimenting with your new powers. Drop me a message if there are any questions or if you want to stop being a sysop (could it be?). Have fun! --Eloquence 21:16 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)