User:K6ka



"It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of it, but making it what it originally was, a free marketplace of ideas, and there are still aspects of the Internet that are that. Wikipedia, essentially, is still the bastion of the original ideals of the Internet."

- Todd Rundgren

Hello! I go by the username k6ka on Wikipedia and on many other websites. While this is my original online alias, in recent years I've increasingly begun using the alias Czar Hey in other places, although I still regularly use my old alias. I am a Wikipedia administrator, and although I primarily work on cleaning up vandalism, my field of work on the project has expanded over the years to include renaming users and "gnoming".

My philosophy on editing Wikipedia is fairly simple—we are all volunteer editors, so let's make this place fun to be on! Editing Wikipedia should be a hobby, not a job, and the Wikipedia of today was built by people who treated it as a hobby. If you find yourself treating this place a little too seriously, maybe it's time to loosen up a little.

Although I spend a fair amount of time on Wikipedia, I am also active on other wikis as well. (A wiki, by the way, refers to a website that anyone can edit. It's an improper noun, so please don't abbreviate Wikipedia as "wiki"! It is like calling the Eiffel Tower "tower".) I am a global renamer on Meta Wiki, and I also help clean up vandalism on other Wikimedia projects as a global rollbacker.

Outside of Wikipedia, I have a bachelor's degree in history and philosophy, and by profession I'm a technical writer with a graduate certificate in technical communication. I am also an avid photographer with an active presence on Flickr and Instagram, having dabbled in everything from wildlife to sports to street, though I don't consider myself to have a field of focus or specialty. I have my own portfolio website at https://www.enochleungphotography.com/.

I don't work for Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation.

Reaching out to me
The best way to contact me for any wiki-related affairs is on my public talk page. For private wiki-related matters, you can email me.

I am also on the Libera IRC network in the channels and, usually under the nickname. I am also active on the unofficial Wikipedia Discord server, also under this nickname.

I do use social media and various other sites, but I generally won't discuss wiki-related matters on there.

Administrator actions
I do not work for Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation. Administrators on Wikipedia are not paid employees and should not be treated as such. Administrators are regular users like everybody else that have simply been trusted with additional tools needed to keep the website in check.

Administrators are selected by the community through a process called Requests for adminship, or "RfA". My own RfA can be found here.

I am one of the few administrators that have voluntarily opened themselves up to recall. What this means is that, should the community believe that I have violated the accountability expected of me when I was appointed the position, I will voluntarily resign the position. My criteria for recall is listed here.

Photographs that I've taken
The photos above are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

See more images I've taken on Flickr, DeviantArt, and on Commons.

Stuff
"Big oof"

- Joe Sutherland

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Template stolen from Bluefist, who stole it from Chzz, who stole it from Jennavecia. Yes, I'm a filthy no-good very bad thief.

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Links shamelessly stolen from Hazard-SJ.

My recent changes filters
 * Vandal fighting (uses ORES to calculate vandalism probability; likely vandalism highlighted in orange and red)

Articles I've worked on substantially
 * Tribu (film)

Admin stats

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The first and last edits made to Wikipedia on New Years
In what seems to be a recurring tradition, I like to find the last edit made on New Years Eve, and the first edit made on New Years Day, according to UTC time. Sometimes a bot wins, but oftentimes it's just a regular editor who had no idea they got lucky!

Oftentimes, the last edit of a year will have a revision ID that is higher than the first edit of the next year. This is due to database lag, and is perfectly normal.

2015-2016
Last edit of 2015: Special:Diff/697661396

First edit of 2016: Special:Diff/697661397

2016-2017
Last edit of 2016: Special:Diff/757662577

First edit of 2017: Special:Diff/757662578

2017-2018
Last edit of 2017: Special:Diff/818010127

First edit of 2018: Special:Diff/818010128

2018-2019
Last edit of 2018: Special:Diff/876227288

First edit of 2019: Special:Diff/876227289

2019-2020
Last edit of 2019: Special:Diff/933439944

First edit of 2020: Special:Diff/933439945

2020-2021
Last edit of 2020: Special:Diff/997529718

First edit of 2021: Special:Diff/997529717

2021-2022
Last edit of 2021: Special:Diff/1063058807

First edit of 2022: Special:Diff/1063058808

2022-2023
Last edit of 2022: Special:Diff/1130787316

First edit of 2023: Special:Diff/1130787315

2023-2024
Last edit of 2023: Special:Diff/1192900438

First edit of 2024: Special:Diff/1192900433

Other sites I'm on

 * Flickr is where I primarily post my photography on. Link
 * Instagram is also a popular photography platform. Link
 * DeviantArt, also for my photos. Link
 * Wikia, the evil, for-profit sibling of Wikimedia. I'm currently an administrator and bureaucrat on both The Last Stand Wiki and The Sims Wiki. However, I no longer really edit there as I've gotten sick and fed up with the corporate culture there.
 * Miraheze, the non-evil, non-profit cousin of Wikimedia. Apparently I have my own sparsely populated wiki there.
 * Discord, where I have my own personal server.
 * YouTube, where I have my own YouTube channel.

Please note that I will not accept friend requests from people I do not know. Additionally, unless you are unable to use my on-wiki talk page, please do not try to contact me through other venues.

Other accounts that I own
The following accounts belong to me:


 * K6kaBOT, a doppelgänger account that is not currently used for editing (but reserved for the highly unlikely future if I so choose to run a bot here).
 * K6ka (alt), an account used when I need to log in from insecure WiFi networks, or if I edit from my mobile phone.
 * Enoch Leung, an account registered to prevent impersonation.
 * K6ka's Rename Account Test962, a test account used for the rename function. Won't be used for actual editing.
 * K888ka, a joke account created at Epicgenius's "suggestion," because 888 is a lucky number.
 * Czar Hey, an account registered to prevent impersonation.

This information is being disclosed as suggested by the sock puppetry policy.

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