User:Pi/self-improvement exercise

I am undertaking a self-improvement exercise. I considered an editor review, or being adopted again (Although my original adoptor was very nice, I think she's more or less left Wikipedia), but instead I decided to self-improve, by actively getting involved in more areas of wikipedia.

I would very much appreciate it if anyone would be willing to comment on my progress, I will chronicle it here

Background
I joined Wikipedia in 2006, and in the last 4 1/2 years I have been active in a number of spells. I've got up 3,000 edits at the time I start this

Purpose
I want to be more involved, and get to a stage where I might be able to put in an RfA in the next year. The purpose of this isn't to provide evidence in support of an RfA or anything like that, but partly to get a feel for admin work, and the work of experienced wikipedians in general

Why write it down? If this is successful, others might like to use it as a reference list. Once it's complete we'll see what it's like

Goals
This is a list of things I want to do as part of the Improvement exercise

Anti-Vandalism
I have done quite a bit of this before. I just downloaded Huggle, and although I find it useful, I see problems with being a huggler.
 * Firstly, when using Huggle it can become tempting to ignore articles which are not blatent vandalism. When using the classic Recent Changes list, you had to open up each article property, and then close it. You couldn't just click the spacebar and continue looking for serious abuse. Therefore I find myself tempted to not bother checking for references, checking an external link is a reasonable one etc. So I think I might go back to the Recent Changes list and Twinkle

Proper Creative Work
I want to improve some articles properly. I notice that United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal could do with quite a bit of improvement, and I intend to do this, and then hopefully put it up for a Peer Review and learn from that.

Involvement in WikiProjects
I returned to WikiProject_Politics_of_the_United_Kingdom

I also want to participte in a peer review

AfD Discussions
I have begun to participate in some AfD discussions. I see them as a good way of learning the wikipedia policies.

Reviewing
I got "reviewer" status, which I think should be useful. Especially for gaining biography experience

Images
I must admit, I lack experience in images. I happen to live in Cambridge, a very beautiful and historic city, so I'm going to make a point of taking some photographs and adding them to wiki

If anyone thinks of some more things I should or could participate in, I'd love to hear from you