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This user is aware of how silly this huge table looks on their user page, but acknowledges that its real purpose is twofold: statistics and standardization.
I dance, a variety of different forms. I've made minor edits to the article on Argentine Tango, have created the Irish stepdance article by splitting it off from the Irish dance article, and have made edits to both. I've worked a little on articles about Reel (dance), Slip jig, and created the article on Active couple.
I'm interested in quirky bits of history, and have started a reorgnaization of the List of extinct states, and made minor edits to a few articles I read while researching history for the list. I've been involved with the article on Republic of Ragusa, trying to keep it from being totally rewritten in bad English by Italian and Croatian ultra-nationalists, but have since given up on that article. I added a little bit to the article on Monongalia County, West Virginia, for reasons I don't entirely remember. I've added a little to articles on Delaware and Hundred (division) about Delaware's Hundreds.
I user to think that Misplaced Pages was great, and would recommend it to folks who needed a way to absorb excess free time. I can't do that anymore.
Nowadays, I can't do that without a lot of hesitancy. Anyone who has useful knowledege and wants to edit Misplaced Pages needs to have a fairly thick skin, avoid anything but article editing, and whenever challenged by an administrator, bend over and take it like a man. The flame wars on political and other controversial articles are ridiculous, and anything that supports the left-wing shibboleth of the week or that some obscure nationalist or group has taken an interest in will be filled with aggressively defended crap. Administrators in general feel they are better, and more right, than users, and some significant number are rather hostile when asked about their actions, and will actively punish users who dare to question them.
Anyone who wants to edit needs to learn a large number of poorly-organized and not-always-clear policies and procedures in order to keep from getting jargon-filled and nasty warnings sent to them by admins who will condescend to them. This isn't what's supposed to be happening, but it is. I'm willing to deal with it, for now, but I'm not going to suggest that others do so.
update: I've started editing at Citizendium. So far, it's been a much more rewarding effort, and I've scaled back my involvement here.
There is still too much political crap going on here, and some of it is structural to Misplaced Pages. I don't know that Misplaced Pages needs to be as extreme as Citizendium in requiring real names, but eliminating IP editing would be of enormous benefit to Misplaced Pages. The administrator problem continues, and will only be resolvable if it becomes significantly easier to remove administrators, or if they must stand for reconfirmation on a regular schedule, so that bad admins can actually be weeded out. Until the structural problems with Misplaced Pages are fixed, I'm limiting myself to mostly article maintenance, and cutting back on that.
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