November is Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM), and this year another one has gone by without me having managed to create the minimum number of articles – four – required for receiving a reward in the form of a postcard. But I did participate! WAM is about writing as many articles (of a certain minimum length […]
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Articles By Month
A simple, automatic archive of everything I’ve ever written on this site, month-by-month, going back to January of 2020.