If you were looking for the sociological term, you want this article: Anomie.
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This user works for the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer in Platform Engineering. Their staff account is BJorsch (WMF). (disclaimer)
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This user thinks Commons is a good idea in theory, but is so full of boneheaded politics (and boneheaded users!) that they is tempted to reupload images they cares about with {{KeepLocal}}.
Although I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, contributions under this account do not necessarily represent the actions or views of the Foundation unless expressly stated otherwise. For example, edits to articles or uploads of other media are done in my individual, personal capacity unless otherwise stated.
My edits in a staff capacity should be made using User:BJorsch (WMF). If you see something where I've made a staff edit with this account or a personal edit with that one, please let me know.
Interests
My Wikipedia-related interests include video game systems from the 16-bit era, protected edit requests (particularly to templates), various other technical workings, and taking care of various tasks with my bot, AnomieBOT. I also submit bugs to MediaWiki's bugzilla and patches to Gerrit, and if I really feel like it I'll occasionally convert an image to SVG. If you need to know something about the SNES or have an interesting bot task, I may be your person.
Someday, if I ever get motivated enough, I would like to rewrite WP:OR, WP:RS, and WP:V. Even though the rewrites would probably stay as essays in my userspace forever.
User scripts
See each script for installation instructions.
User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js – Adds a button to the edit form to preview the current section, with a references section included.
User:Anomie/diffcur – Adds a "Cur →" link next to the "Next edit →" link in diffs.
User:Anomie/revdel-checkboxes – Add checkboxes and a "Del/undel selected" button to the file history table on file pages, and to the list of log entries on Special:Log, to allow for using WP:REVDEL on multiple old file versions or log entries at once.
At various times, people have requested scripts that will censor "offensive" content of some type. These scripts do so, for a broad definition of "offensive".
I watch WP:BOTREQ, or you could make the request on my talk page or the bot's talk page. I don't have a whole lot of time for bot tasks these days, but if you have something particularly interesting please let me know!
History
Many years ago, I decided "anomie" would be a nice name for a computer. A few years later, I had decided to abandon my old 'net handle, and I couldn't come up with a new one I liked; in the interim, I borrowed the name of my computer. I never did come up with a new handle, I'm just "anomie" now.
While the contrast between the definition of "anomie" and the nature of a computer is somewhat amusing, when it comes to me it's just a name.
You deserve another barnstar for AnomieBOT – I'm simply impressed how it manages to rescue orphaned refs! Cyfal (talk) 00:14, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For coding AnomieBOT 8, saving WP Physics and WP Astronomy participants a boatload of time by finding the redirects and disambiguation pages within the pages covered by these two projects (~30,000 pages) and tagging them as such. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 06:59, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
The Template Barnstar
In recognition of your outstanding efforts to keep the uw-series templates both consistent and standardized, I hereby award you this barstar! Keep up the great work! -Kralizec! (talk) 14:57, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
The da Vinci Barnstar
I award you this barnstar for your great work on creating the IFDCloser-module for AnomieBOT which helps us greatly and works just fantastic. Great job! SoWhy 12:19, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
The da Vinci Barnstar
I, Maxim, award you this barnstar for making AnomieBOT, which has been an invaluable aid in my frequent restructuring and copyediting of Tiny Thompson during its still-ongoing FAC. Maxim(talk) 14:32, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
The da Vinci Barnstar
Very elegant bot, much help with keeping sources in order in highly edited articles. Nice work. Professor marginalia (talk) 02:00, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
For your excellent work on helping BRFAs (not just mine :)) reach approval by reading & commenting on people's code. ThaddeusB (talk) 16:08, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
For the coding of AnomieBOT 30, which found, retrieved archived version of, and tagged all the pages ever featured on the On this day... section of the main page. Must not have been a cakewalk to code. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 21:33, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your expertise with running bots and for helping me out by running Task 35! Reywas92Talk 22:16, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
The da Vinci Barnstar
I gave your bot a barnstar, so I figured you deserve one as well! The orphaned reference fixer is a great idea and very well implemented at that. Good job!—Akrabbimtalk 15:25, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
In recognition of your bots' wonderful work on Glee (season 1) digging behind my orphaning edits within the hour to fix up my mistakes. I really have no clue how you programmed that, must have been tough! CycloneGU (talk) 18:55, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I didn't know the bot can rescue refs from other articles! I like to think that my proper edit summary helped the bot find the ref, but I imagine it's much smarter than that. (Hopefully not too smart =)
For your bot cleaning up after me, please accept this as a small token of my appreciation. –xenotalk 02:25, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Bot oversight barnstar
For your BAGger scrutiny at the BRFAs, especially mine. A bug or two might have slipped unnoticed if not for your careful check. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 16:23, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
The da Vinci Barnstar is awarded to editors who have "enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work". For writing a new version of User:MediationBot so promptly and without error, and for continuing to provide your excellent bots to the English Wikipedia, I award Anomie and all the User:AnomieBOTs the da Vinci Barnstar. Thank you! For the Mediation Committee, AGK [•] 14:44, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
The Admin's Barnstar
For sorting out and fixing the use of cascade-protection on Wikipedia, I award you with a barnstar! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:41, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
The da Vinci Barnstar
For making a lot of very nifty scrips that make editing Wikipedia easier. Keep up the good work! The BushrangerOne ping only 02:10, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for creating the "my sandbox" gadget! :) ♫GoP♫TCN 13:39, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Golden Wiki Award
For implementing great ideas. Bgwhite (talk) 05:13, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
The da Vinci Barnstar
I'm awarding you this barnstar as a token of my appreciation for writing the complicated CSS code we needed to get the new {{article issues}} template launched, and for sticking around until it was finally deployed. The end result is fantastic! Thanks a million. :) -- WikHead (talk) 10:18, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
The Admin's Barnstar
For all your hard work and administration in the MediaWiki namespace. Cheers. --Hu12 (talk) 21:16, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar
For your innovative and nifty user scripts; including linkclassifier and useridentifier, both of which I find absolutely indispensable — MusikAnimaltalk 16:13, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
The Progressive Barnstar
I couldn't find a barnstar that would adequately thank those involved in making the template editor user right RFC a reality, so I created this new one. The Progressive Barnstar recognizes those courageous enough to work towards a vision for change at Wikipedia. Anomie, thank you for your insights into the technical feasibility of this proposal. I consider it a success at this point, no matter what the eventual outcome, and I thank you. equazcion(talk) 06:28, 18 Sep 2013 (UTC)
The Minor barnstar
Thanks ever so much for User:AnomieBOT. It's most awesome in its rescuing of orphaned refs! :) — Cirt (talk) 06:22, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
The Einstein Robot Barnstar of Genius
I hereby award this to Anomie, not just for being very clever and for helping me fix Module:Random, but also for the tireless work he does helping people with technical issues around the project, for his outstanding bot work with AnomieBOT and friends, and for his skillful contributions to the MediaWiki software. You are a great benefit to this project - thank you! — Mr. Stradivarius♪ talk ♪ 11:02, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Anomie has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
so I've officially declared October 18, 2010, as Anomie's Day!
For being a great person and awesome Wikipedian,
enjoy being the star of the day, Anomie!
For helping to fix that issue with the BLP edit notice. It really will be a great help in pushing the BLP problem in the right direction. And congratulations on your recent adminship - obviously well deserved. First Light (talk) 15:39, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for catching the licensing issue at {{Infobox mountain}}! I didn't notice that at all. —hike395 (talk) 03:32, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
I award you this cookie for your correction of some fairly substantial errors in the changes i submitted for the Useronline template. Thanks :) CJDrop me a line! • Contribs 19:13, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
I give you this cookie for helping User:Callanecc and fixing my incorrect JavaScript. I copied it in from another location and after I had finished testing it I forgot to change it to work for all users. Thanks again! CJDrop me a line! • Contribs 10:27, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
For your great work with bots and BAG, I award you this custom-made bot-helper's barnstar. – Quadell(talk) 18:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
njoy
