Blog:From your Pure Knight Zangler

Today's a super-special day, because 365 days ago, on March 16, 2021 I joined Miraheze through Qualitipedia, which makes this day...



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My real name is Max, I am 16 years old, was born in Argentina and love video games, animation and friendship.

I was first introduced to Qualitipedia by Terrible Shows Wiki, specifically due to the latter wiki involving a (now deleted) page for a certain show I undoubtedly portrayed as underrated to an unbelievable degree, Space Chickens in Space. I created my Miraheze account with the username Angler01 (later changed to Zangler in February 2022) and gradually enhanced the page with my knowledge of the product.

Contribution after contribution, approximately two months after I joined, my request of moving the product to Best Shows Wiki was successful. We could consider this was the moment I "clicked" with the Reception Wikis. Even with it being a featured article (and recently becoming the longest page in its respective wiki), this achievement felt like nothing once I discovered a greater quest...

Back then, I was mostly a contributor to the Shows Wikis and very rarely put any attention to the bigger subsidiaries of Qualitipedia, only having had made a couple of edits, left comments and to a lesser degree, written one page.

As a consequence of my scarce focus on the center of the community, the Games Wikis and Qualitipedia Meta, I was pretty much misinformed about what was really happening inside the community. I ended up missing all the news about last year's dramatic events and wasn't aware of the true state of the wikis until very recently...

During my summer vacation of January 2022, I had less time to be on the wikis. This opened up chances of participating in Qualitipedia's Discord server and partake in more direct interactions with other users. The results were more than favorable to say the least; in the server I learned great information about the history of Qualitipedia, met plenty of interesting people and for the very first time I felt truly included in a community...

Thank You! ZangyThankshr.png
To all the admirable users I met, for cooperating, making me laugh, supporting me, letting me support you and, above all, shaping this irreplaceable experience in my not-so Hollow world.

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The closest users to me, the most important I have, and the ones I trust the most. You guys are my favorite  users  people.

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For being the sweetest and most beautiful person I met, an incredibly talented writer, possessor of an honest voice and a loyal companion.

For becoming the first person I could call a friend with every letter, later my best friend, and unexpectedly, love interest.

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For being the funniest and most uplifting person I met, an imaginative coworker, courageous seeker & gifter of emotional support and an exceptional friend.

Roll the dice fella!

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The elites of Qualitipedia, those who persist up there, those who are still with us and those who have departed even before my arrival. The administrators that conjure staggering dedication to their job and work hard to keep users happy and the wikis civil.

Grust, DarkMatterMan4500, Blazikeye535, Katsumi, PlantyB0i, HawkeyeSolo, ThePCGamer, Dready, SuperStreetKombat, Kringe, Luigiman050-5 and all others, I admire you all!

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For being a featured bureaucrat, constructive critic and wise cooperator that keeps supporting this community like no other.

I learned a lot from you and can't wait to see what amazing ideas you have to surprise us and keep enhancing Qualitipedia in the future.

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For being an inspiring writer, strict but fair lawmaker and determined watcher. For always besting yourself, taking the decisions that make the Games Wikis advance one step forward each day.

You Rock!

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The stinky kind who never fail to remind me that making mistakes is OK, and whenever you feel like an idiot, there's always a bigger idiot that you simply haven't heard of yet.

For being the most hyper-based users in this community by far. And that's a good thing.

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The Quadpedia community in general, for being yourselves, collaborating in some of the highest-quality articles, requesting comments to improve the workplace, writing the most absurd blogs and having fun together.

Special mention to Yonydesk, Marxo Grouch, Dragonite, RaymesisEvil and Gilimaster69.

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I've been taught a lot in these wikis. I may have learned a few things myself, but for the most part, teaching from other users was necessary. Right below is the list of things I learned, and some positive outcome that I achieved from my experience here:


 * 1) Being confident and honest is the best way to talk to other people.
 * 2) Feeling down or not trusting your self-esteem can be solved with the help of people you love and trust.
 * 3) With the help of writing articles, I also learned lots of English. I could say my writing level increases with each new article I create.
 * 4) Criticizing others in respectful ways and knowing how to handle criticism may be hard, but is worth the effort.
 * 5) Built a more delicate definition of 'friendship'. It's not about sharing similar tastes, it's about respect and being there for your friends.
 * 6) Working together can be quite fun when you're around people who listen to your suggestions.
 * 7) Attempting to be more impartial rather than venting out my strong opinions when reviewing products.
 * 8) Of course, knowledge of how to write articles in Reception Wiki-style. Could say I also learned how to review reviews: Reviewing the content of Reception Wiki-style articles.
 * 9) Some MediaWiki code. I think it is very fun. :)
 * 10) Don't be a Bluba.

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I have achieved a lot of things for this first year inside Qualitipedia, but there's more to come. Who knows what might happen next? Maybe I'll...


 * 1) Write a successful Request for Comment.
 * 2) Get more of my articles the 'Featured' or 'Good' badge.
 * 3) Guide new users to the right path.
 * 4) Become an administrator in the wikis or a moderator in the Discord server.
 * 5) Make a revolutionary change in Qualitipedia.

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Feel that cosmic love brother and see you soon!