I award you this barnstar for your tireless work defending Wikipedia against those who would seek to abuse it and for tireless investigation of the Jamie Kane scandalPydos 14:12, 20 October 2005 (UTC)I award you a long-overdue Barnstar for your work on Gregory Lauder-FrostJzG 20:57, 20 June 2006 (UTC)The Spamstar of Glory -- Presented to William Pietri for diligence in fighting spam on Wikipedia.A. B. 18:33, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I first got involved with Wikipedia in 2004, mainly to see how it worked. It turned out to be great fun. I was successfully nominated for admin status in 2007, and did a part-time contract for the Mediawiki foundation in 2009-2010. I remain a big fan, but I unfortunately don't have much time to work on Wikipedia these days. I'm always glad to hear from pals or to discuss my activity on Wikipedia, though, so feel free to send me an email.