User:Morwen

My name is Abigail Brady. I am from London. Crikey, I've been here a long time. I came to the free culture movement from the free software movement, in which I was active during the late 1990s and early 2000s. I joined Wikipedia in 2003, and became an admin later that year. I wrote and stubbed innumerable articles about national leaders and world geography, along with stuff closer to home.

This user thinks, on the basis of available evidence, that the world is round.

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than twenty years.

I used to make lots of maps, but retired from this a long time ago, after other people with actual graphic design skills came along. It was fun to do. I started the article about the 7 July 2005 London bombings. The next day I was interviewed by The World about this and Wikipedia. They used a sentence of me, in which I inadvertently predicted twitter's use in grass-roots news gathering. I also started the article about the rural district of Uxbridge. Nobody has ever interviewed me about that.

I am perhaps to blame for several things, including the use of templates to sidelink articles, image tagging, and the practice of Wikipedians meeting up, and possibly individual articles about episodes of television series.

In the late 2000s I became less active, and therefore have dropped in the high score table from #22 (in late 2006) to #1793 as of 2024. During some of this period I was involved in openstreetmap, mapping Leicester and central London.

I have a professional website.

Barnstar collection

I award you this barnstar for your excellent work in sorting through the many images on Wikipedia so we can figure out which ones are GFDL-legit (and also for uploading so many yourself). Secretlondon deserves one too, but somebody else beat me to that. --Michael Snow 21:46, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I award you this barnstar for starting up the 7 July 2005 London bombings article! I'm an Anglophile, and this is really quite profound. --Merovingian (t) (c) July 7, 2005 11:48 (UTC)

Hi Morwen - Brookie here - please accept this Barnstar for your excellent work on new village articles etc. Keep up the good work

Morwen, I award you this Barnstar in recognition of your Wikipedia contributions in the field of UK Local government Talk Skull 'n' Femurs 15:07, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

For amassing 50000+ edits, with the vast majority of them in the main article space, I hereby present you with the Working (Wo)man's Barnstar. Scobell302 07:48, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

		The Royalty and Nobility Barnstar
		For your work having started the article of the Episcopal Co-Prince of Andorra. I, BolinhasFofas, hereby award you The Barnstar of Royalty and Nobility.

	The Special Barnstar
	Thanks for being a great representative of the Wikipedia community, especially with how you've discussed the editorial process publicly related to the Bradley -> Chelsea Manning move. ragesoss (talk) 19:08, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Other stuff

For being cool, and for starting the bombing article (even though Morovingian has beaten me to it), I Secretlondon hereby award you a BIG thanks (KC)

This editor is an Auspicious Looshpah and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix.

This user is the owner of multiple Wikipedia accounts in a manner permitted by policy.

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