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Previously I've used the following account names (it took me awhile to find one I really like):

Go for it!, Go for it, Polar Deluge, Transhumanist, The Tipster, Nexus Seven, and the minor accounts Alpha Beta, Categorically speaking, Good vibrations, True Genius, and Pythagorus One redirect here. Sandbox accounts include Ooga Booga and Nav console, but have been discontinued by request.

See also: account histories

My opinion

Wikipedia rocks!

About me

This user believes in rewarding diligent Wikipedians.	User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/Userbox	This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ⊕).
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This user uses Lupin's navigation popups.

Current favorite subjects:

• Javascript
• Humanism
• Transhumanism
• Sociocracy (what Wikipedia is)
• Lists of lists

My current projects

Virtual classroom

I've been assigned a couple students by Esperanza's Admin coaching program, and have set up a virtual classroom in which we and anybody else who would like to participate can join in and learn from each other. Currently, we are all comparing the user interfaces we use in making use of Wikipedia.

Content pages

The current encyclopedia project I'm working on is overhauling and refining the contents pages of Wikipedia. The main ones are on this navigation header bar:

I've been having a blast working with User:Quiddity and User:Rfrisbie, who have joined in on the fun. We've pretty much redesigned the whole set, but there's still a lot of work left. Our goal is to get these pages worthy of their links being displayed on Wikipedia's sidebar menu, to make them easily accessible from anywhere on Wikipedia. It's a big task, and we could use all the help we can get. The main discussion page for the project is Wikipedia talk:Contents. Drop by and say hi.

Contributions / History

I'm project oriented. The bigger the project, the better. So far, I've racked up over 16,000 edits under various accounts and IPs. I've lost track of how many articles I've worked on, but my passion is projects (not necessarily WikiProjects), and it is on these I've applied most of my effort...

Early edits

I learned about Wikipedia through answers.com in early 2005, but didn't start editing until October of that year, under the anonymous IP 24.18.171.99.

During this time I:

• worked on Meaning of life

• began rewriting Procrastination, and my overhaul was later transwiki'd and converted into the wikibook Overcoming Procrastination

• created the Philosophy navigation footer

• created the Glossary of philosophical isms (still needs some definitions filled in).

After about a thousand edits, on November 11, 2005, I created an account. As Go for it!, I:

• joined the Philosophy Wikiproject and overhauled the entire project page.

• created the Philosophy portal, using the category page as a starting point (it looked a lot like a portal, so I moved it over and overhauled it). Had much help from Infinity0.

• resurrected the Main Page redesign project, which attracted a lot of participants, and resulted in the present Main Page design.

• created the Main Page alternatives department, for those who have special browsing needs, and for those who get tired of looking at the same main page design all the time.

• initiated the overhaul of Wikipedia's Help page, expanding it with an immense quantity of links gathered from everywhere, making it quite unwieldy, and then split it into its current 2-tier structure, turning the main help page into a menu. Of course I had a lot of help. Also, others have refined these pages to their current polished presentation.

• initiated the overhaul of the Community Portal, in the process creating the Community bulletin board (inspired by an idea provided by Renata). My insistence on developing the Community Portal directly without using a draft, landed me in an RfC. Now I use sandboxes extensively (but not exclusively).  :-) I slunk away with my tail between my legs and worked in out-of-the-way corners of Wikipedia for awhile...

• created the Wikipedia department directory

• redesigned the headers & instructions for the Help Desk, and to a lesser extent the Reference Desk's menu (others have made it look even nicer since then).

• resurrected the long dead Tip of the day department, the output of which is displayed daily on the Help page and the Wikipedia:Community portal. I wrote a complete set of departmental instructions, designed a method for the creation and approval of tips, and wrote a fair number of tips from scratch. Others have joined in on the fun, and we now have a collection of hundreds of tips on how to make the most of Wikipedia, and several ways to display them: including a randomizing template which displays a different tip every time you enter or refresh the page upon which it is displayed, courtesy of CBDunkerson.

• created a tip libarary which presents the tips of the day by subject.

• created the Health portal (converting a redirect)

Got tired of the name "Go for it!" (sort of one-dimensional), and tried out various usernames until I settled on my current one.

• created the Thinking portal.

Throughout my time on Wikipedia, I've done extensive work on lists and Wikipedia's main navigation header and its member pages. I'm still working on them.

• resurrected the Lists of basic topics which were gathering dust in the project namespace, and overhauled and moved the entire collection of lists to the article namespace and giving them their new "basic" names. I've added many lists to this collection, and created the standard heading format currently used by them. The template for the heading structure is called {{BLT}}. It's been dubbed the "cheat sheet format" by Quiddity). This list collection is far from complete, and could sure use your help.

• overhauled Wikipedia:Contents from this to this, and then from this to this, providing most of its current information structure. Kudos go to Quiddity and Rfrisbie for refining the page and making it look really sweeeeet.

• overhauled the Psychology index, based on the design of the Mathematics department's index, taking it from this to this

• overhauled List of overviews, expanding it to its present scope.

• overhauled the Categories page, expanding the link selection.

• currently in the process of dismantling List of reference tables, integrating its contents into the overall list system (of which Lists of topics is the top page.

• I've worked on hundreds of other lists, including many list creations and overhauls. Way too many to list here.

Now what?

See you in the wiki!   The Transhumanist  

Awards

Thanks for helping a newbie!

Filmcom 14:36, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

I award this random acts of kindness Barnstar to Go for It! for being very helpful to a newcomer wikipedian, without being asked to.Filmcom 19:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

I just want to thank you for building on my tip and making it a true wikipedia tip of the day. I'm still learning a lot about how to do things around here, so your help was greatly appreciated! Keep up the great work, and keep on Going for it!

RfA

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I declined it. This gesture was one of the nicest gestures I have received in WP. You don't know how much I appreciate it. And here you get a nice little sun to your talk page, hope it will find a place in your archives ;) Renata 00:16, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

This Working Man's Barnstar is awarded to Go for it! for your tireless and diligent work on the reference desk templates! -- Natalya 19:37, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome, you absoutely deserve it! -- Natalya 17:58, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Smashing!

Smashing job on Tip of the day!

You've done a great job getting the Tip of the Day off the ground. As a result, I think you deserve this! smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 17:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar For everyone who worked so hard on the Main Page redesign, we all deserve a barnstar! HereToHelp 01:05, 19 March 2006 (UTC) Seconded :-) +sj + 10:00, 22 March 2006 (UTC) Yep, that was a tedious project. Good job. --Go for it! 03:20, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

For going above and beyond the call of duty at Esperanza/Admin coaching, I award you this Original Barnstar. Good work! --Fang Aili ^talk 18:34, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Congrats. You deserved it.

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Go for it! earned this barnstar for tireless contributions to the Community Portal and Tip of the Day. (^'-')^ Covington 05:19, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Congrats. Don't forget to wind it up every other day. (^'-')^ Covington 05:20, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Award

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Your kindess was not random, because you were kind enough to listen to my requests to fix my userpage. Your major kindness will not be ignored, as this BarnStar is my token of appreciation! Template:Smi Kyo catmeow! 01:59, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Template:Smi Template:Smi Thanks for teaching me how to use smilies! I'll be using these more often! Kyo cat^meow! 01:59, 24 November 2006 (UTC)