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Greetings! You've reached the user page of Kat Walsh, otherwise known as "mindspillage". I am a copyright/technology attorney, a classical [[bassoon]]ist and [[viola|violist]], free culture and free software advocate, and former chair of the Wikimedia Foundation. I know way too much about the minutia of the Creative Commons licenses. I live with [[User:Gmaxwell|my significant other]] somewhere a bit north of San Francisco.

Most of the stuff on this page has been here for about a decade and I'd probably put different things on it if I were starting over, but I've gotten kind of attached to my old userpage, so it stays.

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*Talk page: [[User talk:Mindspillage|here]]
*E-mail: kat@mindspillage.org
*IRC (Libera, OFTC): mindspillage 
**Frequently in {{IRC|wikimedia}}. Private messages are more likely to get my attention than asking in a channel.
*jabber: katwalsh@jabber.org
*Twitter/Mastodon: @mindspillage
*Facebook: nope. I deleted my account and anyone who claims to be me there isn't. 
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Some of my Wikimedia hats, past and present:
*Editor. 
*I was a member of the [[m:Board of Trustees|Board of Trustees]] from 2006-2013. 
*I am currently on the Advisory Board, where occasionally I even give advice.
*<s>I am an [[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrator]] here; I don't tend to use the tools much, but sometimes they come in handy.</s>
*I am a former member of the [[WP:AC|Arbitration Committee]], from October 2005 until December 2006 (when I resigned after being appointed to the Board).
*I used to [[m:OTRS|handle emails]] that come in to Wikimedia. But not in a long time. You might still get template responses I wrote, though.
*I do the odd bit of [[Track II diplomacy]], on a completely informal basis, as I have time and energy.


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Occasionally I like to blather on about Wikipedia rather than do anything constructive...
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'''[[Wikipedia:Policy trifecta|It's really pretty simple]]:'''<br />
- [[WP:NPOV|mind NPOV]] -<br />
- [[m:Don't be a dick|don't be a dick]] - <br />
- [[WP:IAR|ignore all rules]] -
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*[[User:Mindspillage/sense|Use common sense]]: a meta-rule that goes hand-in-hand with [[meta:Don't be a dick]] and [[Wikipedia:Ignore all rules]], and supersedes all others. It should be in the Wikipedia namespace as policy, but it would just turn into something that made no sense and was overrun with rules.
*[[User:Mindspillage/admin|On the use of admin rights]]: why I am conservative about using them, and you should be too.
*[[User:Mindspillage/mergism|The value of mergism]]: why I am a [[m:Association of Mergist Wikipedians|mergist]], as posted to WikiEN-l.
*[[User:Mindspillage/disputes|Disputes]] are never solved by escalating them: a few paragraphs I thought were nice until I reread [[Wikipedia:Civility]] and saw that [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] had already said most of what I wanted to say already. 
*[[meta:How to win an argument|How to win an argument]], on meta, after long observation. 
*[[meta:Polls are evil|Polls are evil]], after having been egged on by [[User:Kim Bruning|Kim Bruning]] to write something better than the sad stub that was there.
*[[meta:If I Were An Admin|If I Were An Admin]], a bit of musical silliness.

I follow the [[WP:1RR|one-revert rule]] as well as the [[WP:TRI|policy trifecta]] (shown neatly in a little box to the side, as arranged by its originator, [[User:Seth Ilys|Seth Ilys]]). I'm a strong believer in the [[WP:SR|simplified ruleset]] as a guide to almost any sticky situation. And I'm a strong believer in consensus and the supremacy and necessity of good judgment, over all.

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''"The cultivated person's first duty is to always be prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.''"<br />
<span style="font-size: 85%">-- [[Umberto Eco]] (stolen blithely from [[User:Antandrus]])</span><br />
''"To enjoy freedom, [...] we have of course to control ourselves.''"<br />
<span style="font-size: 85%">-- [[Virginia Woolf]]</span><br />
''"You're entitled to your own opinions. You're not entitled to your own facts."''</br />
<span style="font-size: 85%">--[[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]]</span>

[[WP:ENJOY|enjoy yourself]] / [http://freenode.net/catalysts be a catalyst] / [http://freenode.net/changuide reduce temperature] / [[WP:BEANS|don't stuff beans up your nose]] / [[WP:TIGERS|beware of the tigers]], closely related to [[meatball:DefendAgainstPassion|defending against passion]] / [[meatball:FightingIsBoring|fighting is boring]] / [[meatball:ControlYourself|control yourself]] / [[meatball:SoftResponse|prefer the soft response]] / [[WikiWikiWeb:StBenedictsRule|sometimes you have to resort to St. Benedict's Rule]] / [[WikiWikiWeb:CriticsAreYourBestFriends|critics are your best friends]] / [[meatball:FixBrokenWindows|fix broken windows]] / [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006036.html#006036 moderating conversations in virtual space] / [http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html why a group is its own worst enemy] / [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/06/27/knowledge_acces.html knowledge access as a public good] / [http://www.davidbrin.com/parting.htm remember you're part of a civilization]

(and please, feel free to suggest interesting philosophical musings to me on my [[User talk:Mindspillage|talk page]])

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'''Started or rewritten:''' [[Aaron Jay Kernis]] / ''[[Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do]]'' / [[Albert Szirmai]] / [[Alexandre Tansman]] / [[Alvin Etler]] / [[Amanda Borden]] / [[André Jolivet]] / [[Bart Conner]] / [[Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov]] / [[Bassoon sonata]] / ''[[Cat and Girl]]'' / [[Closely related key]] / ''[[Come Out (Reich)|Come Out]]'' / [[Concert band]] / ''[[Concerto in E-flat (Dumbarton Oaks)]]'' / [[Daniel Dorff]] / [[Daniel Read]] / [[David Darling]] / [[David Del Tredici]] / [[De Leon Springs State Park]] / ''[[Doctor Fun]]'' / [[Double reed]] / [[Eugène Bozza]] / [[Extensional definition]] / [[Francisco Mignone]] / [[Frederick Fennell]] / [[Gordon Jacob]] / [[Hugo Wolf]] / [[Intensional definition]] / [[Jan DeGaetani]] / [[Jean Françaix]] / [[John Barnes Chance]] / [[John Crowe Ransom]] / [[Judith LeClair]] / [[Judith Sargent Murray]] / [[Jurriaan Andriessen]] / [[Keiko Abe]] / [[Lexical definition]] / [[Lili Boulanger]] / [[Luigi Dallapiccola]] / [[Madeleine Dring]] / ''[[Metastasis (Xenakis composition)|Metastasis]]'' / [[Michala Petri]] / [[Miller Puckette]] / [[Modulation (music)|Modulation]] / [[Multiphonic]] / [[Ostensive definition]] / [[Paul Redmond Michel]] /  [[Persuasive definition]] / [[Precising definition]] / '''[[Rebecca Helferich Clarke]]''' / [[Ruth Gipps]] / [[Squonk Opera]] / [[Stipulative definition]] / [[Susan Nigro]] / [[Terry Riley]] / [[Theon of Smyrna]] / [[Theoretical definition]] / ''[[The Stone Guest]]'' / [[Vampire number]] / [[Vincent Persichetti]] / [[Vittorio Giannini]] / [[Vocalise]] / [[William Bergsma]] / [[Willson Osborne]] / [[meta:How to win an argument]] / [[meta:Polls are evil]]

'''Other significant contributions: '''[[Bassoon]] / [[Contrabassoon]] / [[Daniel Gorenstein]] / ''[[Gadsby (novel)|Gadsby]]'' / [[Handstand]] / [[Iannis Xenakis]] / [[L. Neil Smith]] / [[List of web comics]] / [[National Institutes of Health]] / "[[Old Folks at Home]]" / [[Quintet]] / [[Robert M. Pirsig]] / [[Stetson University]] / [[Steve Reich]] / ''[[The Mind's I]]'' / ''[[The Rite of Spring]]'' / [[Thomas Hastings (composer)|Thomas Hastings]] / [[Wind quintet]] / [[Zarzuela]]

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You can hear me in these recordings:

{{Listen|filename=Josquin Des Prez-Tu Pauperum Refugium.ogg|title=Tu Pauperum Refugium|description=From ''Magnus es tu, Domine'', by [[Josquin]], as performed by bassoon quartet (or, rather, one bassoon in four tracks).|format=[[Ogg]]|plain=yes}}
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{{Listen|filename=Contra2.ogg|title=A minuet excerpt|description=From [[J. S. Bach]]'s cello suite #1, performed on the [[contrabassoon]].|format=[[Ogg]]|plain=yes}}

Technical examples of [[bassoon]] playing, including [[Media:Bassoon-technical-range.ogg|range]], [[Media:Bassoon-technical-bflatoctaves.ogg|tone across registers]], [[Media:Bassoon-technical-chromatic.ogg|chromatic scale]], [[Media:Bassoon-technical-articulations.ogg|articulations]], [[Media:Bassoon-technical-dynamics.ogg|dynamics]], [[Media:Bassoon-technical-trills.ogg|trills]], [[Media:Bassoon-technical-mouthbend.ogg|pitch bending]], and the [[Media:Bassoon-technical-reed.ogg|reed]] played alone.
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This page is not protected: you can edit it. Particularly if you want to fix typos and links, or if you feel inclined to exercise your mad layout skills, or maybe even give a testimonial. ([[User:Geogre|Geogre]] asked for sonnets, which was a stroke of genius; alas, I am not so brazen as to steal the idea.) I don't own this page. (As it happens, there are pages elsewhere I do own, and I leave them dormant to work on Wikipedia instead.) I will exercise final judgment on which changes I keep, of course... Random acts of poetry encouraged!


:My mind, spillage.
:My mind, wandering.
:Constance, Dale, Fern--
::women I will never know.
:Poetry, the art form I will never be good at.

:[[User:Func|<span style="font-family:monospace, monospace;">func</span>]][[User_talk:Func|<span style="font-family:monospace, monospace;">(talk)</span>]] 19:09, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

:Mindspillage. The spillage of the mind.
:This is the creed of the Wikipedian. 
::May our minds spring forth with our most cherished knowledge
::And may I share the bounty of my wisdom to slake the thirst of curiosity among the people
::Join our community, our world. 
:We are Wikipedians. May the mind of Wikipedia spill forth with bounty.
:Welcome to Wikipedia. May you spring forth and prosper!
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<font color=green>[[User:Szyslak|<font color=green>{{IPA|s&#618;zl&#230;k}}</font>]] [ [[User talk:Szyslak|+t]], [[Special:Contributions/Szyslak|+c]], [[Special:Emailuser/Szyslak|+m]] ]</font> 09:46, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

:A haiku:
:Mindspillage, admin.
:Mindspillage, arbitrator.
:A spill of a mind.
::[[User:Ral315|<span style="color:red;">Ral</span>]][[User talk:Ral315|<span style="color:green;">315</span>]] [[WP:POST|<span style="color:blue;">W<sub>S</sub></span>]] 08:35, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Mindspillage - a [[grand canonical ensemble]] of thoughts. May the [[partition function]]s unite! --[[User:HappyCamper|HappyCamper]] 01:01, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

:There was a young lady Mindspillage,
:Who from Wikip'dia did pillage
:All the things that one can
:This poem don't scan.
:She lives in the [[Special:Listusers|Wikian village]]!
::[[User:Sam Korn|<nowiki>[[Sam Korn]]</nowiki>]] 21:50, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Here's a little poem (Sung, more or less, to the tune of '"The Shadow of Your Smile"), my holiday gift to you.

:The spillage of your mind I find refined
:The hat upon your head is black not red
:The head beneath your hat
:Spills forth the thoughts of Kat
:Never to be maligned
:The spillage of your mind

[[User:Paul August|Paul August]] [[User_talk:Paul August|&#9742;]] 20:28, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Here's a contra-haiku for you:
:One place to hear a
:contrabassoon contribute:
:[[Symphony No. 1 (Brahms)|Brahms' First Symphony]]
::[[User:DavidBrooks|David Brooks]]

Another haiku, poles apart from David's above (at least it's at the opposite end of the ''compass''), and I think "Rite" in this usage counts as a [[kigo]]:
:Aerial, alone,
:opening [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky's]] ''[[The Rite of Spring|Rite]]''
:your instrument soars.
:: [[User:RobertG|Robert]]

::मिस्ट्रेस ऑफ़ देबौचेरी <small>(That's Mindspillage in [[Devanagari]])</small> --[[User:Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington|Nearly Headless Nick]] 10:20, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

::头脑溢出 -- that's Mindspillage in [[China|Chinese]]! <span style="font-family: Verdana">[[User:Anthony_cfc|<span style="color:black;font-weight:bold;">anthony</span>]]<sup><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[User talk:Anthony_cfc|<span style="color:#ff5b00;font-weight:bold;">cfc</span>]]]</sup></span>
::<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Mensfvndens.</span> That's Spillingmind in [[Latin]]! (Hey, it's close!) [[User:CarrotMan|<font color="0066cc">Carrot</font>]][[User talk:CarrotMan|<font color="ff3333">Man</font>]] 08:33, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Ink spilt for a spilled mind... they pondered the possibilities. --[[user:wpktsfs|wpktsfs]] [[user talk:wpktsfs|(talk)]] 04:21, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

:Heya, Mindspillage<br>
:Always knew you played [[Bassoon]]<br>
:But, uh... ''viola?''<br>
::--[[User:Clorox|<font color="black">Clorox</font>]] ([[User talk:Clorox|<font color="black">diskussion</font>]]) 00:59, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
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*[[User:Mindspillage/todo|To-do list]], which just serves to remind me of stuff I meant to get to some day...
*[[User:Mindspillage/sandbox|Sandbox]], for odds, ends, and protospillage

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