User:Rate My Praxis
| — Wikipedian — | |
 Green sea turtle's face sticking out of water. | |
| Name | Sim |
|---|---|
| Born | Miami |
| Name in real life | Sam Hafferty |
| Pronouns | They |
| Country |  United States |
| Languages | English (native), Spanish (intermediate) |
| Time zone | Eastern Time Zone |
| Current time | New York: Current time for UTC-4 is 14:24 |
| Handedness | Right |
| Education and employment | |
| Occupation | Tech Policy Researcher |
| Employer | Princeton University |
| High school | Miami Beach Senior High School |
| University | New York University |
| Hobbies, favourites and beliefs | |
| Hobbies | Net art, bicycling, performance art |
| Interests | |
Privacy rights, decentralization, broadband equity, experimental electronic music, thinkpads | |
| Contact info | |
| Website | 2nd |
| Account statistics | |
| First edit | 9 June 2023 |
| Signature | Rate My Praxis (talk) 13:59, 20 July 2024 (UTC) |
Hi there! I'm Sim, a creative technologist, tech policy researcher and budding Wikipedian based in New Jersey. Data privacy, surveillance and decentralization have been at the core of my work thus far though lately I have begun exploring cyber-security, broadband and governance.
First Edits
I nervously made my first contribution in Summer of 2023, adding mention of the Plank Road Public Shoreline to the Newtown Creek page. I was compelled to do this after visiting the shoreline and enjoying the bizarre placement of it between a Department of Sanitation waste plant and the Western Beef headquarters parking lot; I wanted people to learn about the project and perhaps be compelled to come see it for themselves! That was my lone contribution for over a year until I joined a Wikimedia NYC event on 19 July 2024 at Civic Hall called Wikicurious: Editing Wikipedia for Beginners. It is at this event where I learned more about the principles of Wikipedia, editing standards and even made some edits of my own! Under mentorship of local chapter members I started a history and controversy section to the Citizenship Test page and linked some sources. Going forward I hope to make edits naturally as I encounter them, join edit-a-thons and perhaps add some photographs from my personal archive (mostly those taken around NYC) to Wikimedia Commons!