User talk:GustavGans~enwikibooks

Some personal background information: I was born in 1957. Professional background in programming (when I was still active).

Why am I here? Because I noticed that I was becoming increasingly, seriously irritated with mankind, which to a large degree is driven by greed, stupidity, and ignorance.

Being permanently irritated is not a productive attitude, It isn't much fun either. So I asked myself, what are values that I appreciate and which entities promote them. Those values are reason and knowledge.

A major force for the impovement of mankind is applied reason in the form of science. But the reality is I'm not in any situation to actively participate in science. But one form where it is possible to participate even for people like me is the open-source movement in all its forms. I especially like the ideas behind the Wikipedia and Wikibooks projects.

I don't expect to be able to make truly major contributions. But an army of ants where each ant carries a tiny item can still create a respectable hill. So even if I never go beyond ant status, I can still contribute to things I value, and maybe make me feel a little better about our frakked-up species. Or at least about myself. *g*

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called GustavGans. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name GustavGans~enwikibooks that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:15, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:01, 19 April 2015 (UTC)