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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'''. |
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Hello, I am '''William Beutler''', a writer and entrepreneur in ], where I have lived since ]. I was born in ] in ] and grew up there before attending and graduating from the ] in ] in ]. From ] through ] I was a writer with ]'s '']''. From ] through ] I was a social media strategist and client manager with ] (NMS) in ]. In ] I decided to hang out my own shingle, and in ] we decided to call ourselves . |
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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 ], the ], ], and ]. 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. |
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In 2009 I began writing about Wikimedia-related topics for a blog, . My annual round-up, "</nowiki>]" 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. |
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From 2010 to the present, I have owned and operated , 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, ''']'''. Prior to establishing Beutler Ink, I undertook similar work for clients of my former employer using the account ''']'''. |
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In ], I co-created , which I wrote until leaving for NMS. From ] of that year until my most recent post, I have written about politics and blogging plus traditional and social media at Other blogging activity has focused on national media and politics at (2003-05) and goings-on around the District at (2004-09). You can also find me on Twitter at . As an undergraduate at Oregon, I served for two years as editor-in-chief of a student-funded magazine, the '']'' (est. ]). |
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In 2014 I convened a roundtable discussion of Misplaced Pages editors and digital PR execs to discuss issues related to ] and later published an ] 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 ], 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. |
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As of ], I write a blog about Misplaced Pages, , intended for readers of the English Misplaced Pages (i.e. Internet users) who have never understood the project well enough to get involved. In conjunction with this site, I maintain a Twitter account called , featuring hand-tweeted highlights of Misplaced Pages news, commentary and announcements of new blog posts. |
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Both The Wikipedian and Beutler Ink have given me the opportunity to publicly discuss my views on Misplaced Pages in the media and at conferences. Examples of the former include '''', '''', and an interview with Brian Lamb on C-SPAN's '''', and the latter at , , and . In 2020 I contributed an essay to the book '''', published by MIT Press. |
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I first started editing Misplaced Pages as a reader who finally decided to try my hand at editing the articles I read. Beyond that I continued with simple spelling, grammar and formatting corrections, which led to more substantial contributions to existing articles and, eventually, creating new ones. |
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Prior to establishing Beutler Ink, I was a strategist at ], writer for ''National Journal'''s '']'' and, in college, editor of a student magazine, the '']''. |
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Eventually, I started working in ad hoc collaboration with uninvolved (i.e. neutral) Misplaced Pages editors to develop by consensus best practices for following ] where organizational or financial interests are involved. ] from another editor, in ] and ] I created the existing Misplaced Pages article about NMS. As my investigations along these lines progressed, by ] I had decided to cease editing the NMS article from this account and, following ] at the Village Pump, I created the secondary account ''']''' to discuss issues of interest to NMS and its clients. Upon leaving NMS in August 2010, this account has been retired, and I have continued to work on client articles (now only via discussion on Talk pages) from a separate disclosed account, ''']'''. Surprisingly enough to me, these days the majority of my Misplaced Pages activity is conducted through that account. However, I continue to edit for fun from this account, and expect I always will. |
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I currently reside in ] with my family. Prior to that I lived in ] for nearly twenty years working in journalism and digital media; ] attending the ]; ] for a short stretch of my childhood, as well as ], where I was born and principally raised. |
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<!--I have written about and been quoted on Misplaced Pages's role in U.S. electoral politics several times. In ] I was quoted by '']'' about the concerning the addition of details about ]' extramarital affair to his Misplaced Pages profile. In ] I wrote an article for Campaigns & Elections' '']'' about appropriate campaign engagement of Misplaced Pages, and in ] I was quoted by '']'' about ] by Rep. ]'s office staff. |
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The first comprehensive rewrite of this user page occurred at the end of 2023; the last version prior to this revision can be found {{oldid|User:WWB|920286025|here}}. |
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I have also been sought out as a Misplaced Pages expert in other media. In ] I appeared on ]'s '']'' defending Misplaced Pages against Internet critic ]. In ] I was invited to the WikiWars conference, organized by the ] in ], ] to deliver a presentation on how and why editors leave Misplaced Pages. In January 2011, I worked with the creative agency ] to create an animated short called "", narrated by none other than ] and released to coincide with Misplaced Pages's tenth anniversary. On January 1, 2012, ]'s '']'' program featured an interview with yours truly, conducted by ], about how Misplaced Pages works. --> |
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==Articles created== |
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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 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.
The first comprehensive rewrite of this user page occurred at the end of 2023; the last version prior to this revision can be found here.
