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This Misplaced Pages user page belongs to William Beutler, a writer, consultant, intermittent creative person, and Misplaced Pages editor going by the handle WWB.
I have been part of the Wikimedia community since 2006, when I first registered this account. Much of my editing activity has centered on topics related to Oregon, the District of Columbia, offbeat phenomena, and assorted media figures. As an editor at enwiki I am active sporadically at best; a significant majority of my contributions to the Wikimedia movement have been through other channels.
In 2009 I began writing about Wikimedia-related topics for a blog, The Wikipedian. My annual round-up, "The Top 10 Misplaced Pages Stories of " is something many Wikimedians look forward to annually (or so I have been told). At the end of 2020—an exhausting year, you may recall—I put the site on pause for a while, then revived it as a Substack newsletter in late 2023.
From 2010 to the present, I have owned and operated Beutler Ink, a PR consultancy focused on "white hat" Misplaced Pages engagement for brands, e.g. seeking to improve Misplaced Pages around topics of interest to our clients. All activities related to Beutler Ink clients are carried out via my alternate account, User:WWB Too. Prior to establishing Beutler Ink, I undertook similar work for clients of my former employer using the account User:NMS Bill.
In 2014 I convened a roundtable discussion of Misplaced Pages editors and digital PR execs to discuss issues related to COI on Misplaced Pages and later published an open letter to Misplaced Pages on behalf of 8 of the top ten global PR firms. While not connected to the Wikimedia Foundation's establishment of a new paid-contribution disclosure requirement, I believe these events, which occurred within weeks of each other, taken together have helped to create a more equitable and conducive environment for managing COI situations on Misplaced Pages.
