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==About me==
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* I joined Wikipedia in March [[2004]].
* I'm an administrator, both here and on the [[:sw:Mwanzo|Swahili Wikipedia]] (although I don't spend a great deal of time on admin tasks).
* While I like to read all sorts of articles on Wikipedia, when editing I tend to do a lot of work on [[cryptography]] articles.
* I'd like to edit more on Africa topics. 
* I'm a participant in '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptography|WikiProject Cryptography]]'''; see also the '''[[Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Cryptography|Crypto WikiPortal]]'''.
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* I write a [http://cipher-text.blogspot.com/ blog on cryptography].
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* I'm a big fan of the [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks|No personal attacks]] and [[Wikipedia:Civility|Civility]] policies. I subscribe to the editing style of the [[Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club|Harmonious editing club]]. I'm a member of the [[Meta:Association of Apathetic Wikipedians|Association of Apathetic Wikipedians]]. Update: I'm experiencing mergist leanings of late.
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* I've been either the primary author of, or one of the primary authors of, five [[WP:FA|Featured Articles]]: [[Caesar cipher]], [[Data Encryption Standard]], [[Enigma (machine)]], [[Marian Rejewski]] and [[ROT13]]; I've also contributed to a sixth, [[Cryptography]].
* So that I can keep track of them, here's the list of non-crypto articles that I've started (mostly stubs, I'm afraid): <small>[[Africa Inland Mission]], [[Bagwere]], [[Beau Peep]], [[Biffy Dunderdale]], [[Bouncy castle]], [[Boxmoor]], [[British Tabulating Machine Company]], [[Bumfights]], [[Chief Mkwawa]], [[The Chronicles of Narnia (TV miniseries)]], [[Creed & Company]], [[Domestic discipline (lifestyle)]], [[Courtney Pine]], [[Georg Hamel]], [[G20]], [[Hehe]], [[Iringa]], [[James Macrae Aitken]], [[Kirkham Priory]], [[Lumajangdong Co]], [[Maralal]],  [[Matt Redman]], [[Mwanza]], [[Narok]], [[Ndorobo]], [[Nicholas Biwott]], [[Norwich Union]], [[Para Red]], [[Party political broadcast]], [[Post-it note]], [[Powers-Samas]], [[Press up]], [[Qian Zhijun]], [[Ruiru]], [[The Matthew's Range]], [[U-33]], [[UCCF]], [[Uchumi]], [[War Medal 1939-1945]], [[Whitecross]], [[World Wide Message Tribe]], [[Worship leader]] </small>
* I'm an occasional maintainer of [[:Category:Fictional chickens|Category:Fictional chickens]].
* I once doubted the greatness of His Excellency Professor Doctor Sir Rex Curry, but he sure put me in my place: [[/Rebuke]]
* Revert warring is bad. Except in the [[Wikipedia:Revert-only sandbox]].

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==Todo==
===Tit for tat===
I'm ''extremely'' overdue:
See [[Wikipedia:Reward board#African countries and cities]] or [[Wikipedia:Reward board#Africa culture article]].

Pending:
* [[Culture of Kenya]] or [[Culture of Tanzania]] (with [[User:Xed]])
* [[Monrovia]] (or perhaps [[Dodoma]]) (with [[User:FrancisTyers]])

===Crypto===
* [[Alan Turing]]
* [[Colossus computer]]
* [[GCHQ]]
* [[Typex]]
* [[Bletchley Park]]
* [[Bombe]]

==Diagrams and photographs==
My illustrations (and a couple of photos) can be found here:
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===List of words to slip into casual conversation===
* [[wikt:inculcate|Inculcate]]
* [[wikt:recidivist|Recidivist]]
* [[wikt:sesquipedalian|Sesquipedalian]]

==Copyrights==
I want others to be able to use my contributions with as few restrictions as possible. Hence, all my edits to Wikipedia (to which I have the copyright) are released into the [[public domain]]. I've been told that in some jurisdictions the concept of the public domain does not exist; if this is the case, then my contributions are available under the GFDL (of course), and any Creative Commons license.
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