Hobsonlane

Role at Wikipedia

Before I retire ... from life ... permanently:

This user is not a Wikipedia administrator but would like to be one someday.

Hobsonlane (talk) 01:52, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Motivation

Contributing to the common good makes me feel good. Helping improve the clarity and accuracy of Wikipedia articles gives me as much joy as almost anything else I do, except when I let pride and cortisol get in the way of my judgement. On bad days of edit warring here I redirect my fading brain cycles to stackoverflow.com, where the gamification of do-gooding is more thorough.

I learn more from Wikipedia each day than nearly any other single source of information.