Hi. Call me Maggie. Please don’t call me Angela (my legal name) unless you’re my mother.
A happy reader of Wikipedia, I edited as an IP a few times before deciding finally to register an account
Moonriddengirl
in April 2007. Not entirely sure how to help out, I pressed "random article" in the toolbar until something came up that looked like it needed fixing.
This
was the article I found. I didn't exactly know what I was doing (
obviously
), but I left it better than I found it. The next day I found
w:en:Wikipedia:Cleanup
and things progressed from there.
From the beginning, I loved Wikipedia. I love that a diverse group of people from all over the world can come together to build something so incredibly useful. While not without challenges, it is an ambitious and admirable goal, and I have tried to do my bit towards advancing it since 2007. My enthusiasm for our work only increased as I discovered the diversity of our projects. While I have put most of my volunteer time into Wikipedia, I have tried my hand at some of the other projects as well, contributing content to Wikimedia Commons, Wikiversity, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikisource, and Wikidata.
I am based on the east coast of the United States with my family. I have previously worked in education, publishing and law (as a paralegal).