User:K6ka

This page was last edited or modified by K6ka (talk, contribs) on Sunday 23:35:00 January 18, 2026 (UTC).

I think I got scammed because I didn't even get a crappy T-shirt.

This editor is a Grand High Togneme Laureate and is entitled to display the Book of All Knowledge: 3rd Edition with a library barcode.

It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of it, but making it what it originally was, a free marketplace of ideas, and there are still aspects of the Internet that are that. Wikipedia, essentially, is still the bastion of the original ideals of the Internet.

— Todd Rundgren

Hello! I go by the username k6ka (/ˈkeɪˈsɪksˈkeɪˈeɪ/ ^ⓘ) on Wikipedia and on many other websites. While this is my original online alias, in recent years I've increasingly begun using the alias Czar Hey in other places, although I still regularly use my old alias. I am a Wikipedia administrator, and although I primarily work on cleaning up vandalism, my field of work on the project has expanded over the years to include renaming users and "gnoming".

My philosophy on editing Wikipedia is fairly simple—we are all volunteer editors, so let's make this place fun to be on! Editing Wikipedia should be a hobby, not a job, and the Wikipedia of today was built by people who treated it as a hobby. If you find yourself treating this place a little too seriously, maybe it's time to loosen up a little.

Although I spend a fair amount of time on Wikipedia, I am also active on other wikis as well. (A wiki, by the way, refers to a website that anyone can edit. It's an improper noun, so please don't abbreviate Wikipedia as "wiki"! It is like calling the Eiffel Tower "tower".) I am a global renamer on Meta Wiki, and I also help clean up vandalism on other Wikimedia projects as a global rollbacker.

Outside of Wikipedia, I have a bachelor's degree in history and philosophy, and by profession I'm a technical writer with a graduate certificate in technical communication. I am also an avid photographer with an active presence on Flickr and Instagram, having dabbled in everything from wildlife to sports to street, though I don't consider myself to have a field of focus or specialty. I have my own portfolio website at https://www.enochleungphotography.com/.

I don't work for Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation.

Reaching out to me

The best way to contact me for any wiki-related affairs is on my public talk page. For private wiki-related matters, you can email me.

I am active on the unofficial Wikipedia Discord server, and I am also on the Libera IRC network in the channels ##k6ka ^connect and #wikipedia-en ^connect.^{[n 1]} Please don't send me a friend request; just ping my name and I'll respond when I get a chance to.

I do use social media and various other sites, but I generally won't discuss wiki-related matters on there.

Administrator actions

I do not work for Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation. Administrators on Wikipedia are not paid employees and should not be treated as such. Administrators are regular users like everybody else that have simply been trusted with additional tools needed to keep the website in check.

Administrators are selected by the community through a process called Requests for adminship, or "RfA". My own RfA can be found here.

I am one of the few administrators that have voluntarily opened themselves up to recall. What this means is that, should the community believe that I have violated the accountability expected of me when I was appointed the position, I will voluntarily resign the position in accordance with my adminship recall criteria.

Photographs that I've taken

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  Dirt In Your Face
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  Cooling Off
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  Watching...
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  Batting Against Black
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  Sunrise of Life
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  Oh, so Toronto
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  Sparkle in His Eyes
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  Solitary Scoot
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  Bike Too Close
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  Don Valley...
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  The Bird On Our Loonie
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  Aryan
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  Mountains of Clouds
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  A Boat in Fog
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  Awe
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  Dramatic Angle
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  In The Spotlight
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  Snowy Headless
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  Night Lake
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  Reflections of Autumn
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  One Cold Rock
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  After the Pine Cones
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  Nest of Light

The photos above are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence.

See more images I've taken on Flickr and on Commons.

Photographs of me at in-person Wikimedia events

After 15 years of editing behind a screen, I decided to finally meet some likeminded Wikimedians in-person. I actually was never really open about my Wikipedia editing to other people—most people who know me personally don't know I edit Wikipedia. Maybe that will change? It's quite surreal when you are able to talk openly about this website for nerds with other nerds!

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  At the Toronto WikiClub's 2025 photo walk on the Toronto Islands. Guess where I am! (And did you know we ran into Olivia Chow on the ferry back?!)
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  At the Toronto WikiClub's 25th Wikipedia Day celebrations in 2026. Guess where I am!

Userboxes

Userboxes

en This user is a native speaker of the English language. This user lives in Toronto. This user is Canadian, eh? This user is male. 27 This Wikipedian is 27 years, 8 months, and 21 days old. 57% This user has been a Wikipedian for 57.4% of his life. This user's birthday is on May 2. God This user believes in God. This user is a photographer. # This user chats on IRC under the nickname k6ka. Come chat with us on the Wikimedia Community Discord server! This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) 33% This user has been an administrator for 32.6% of his life. This user is a global renamer. (verify) 15Y This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on February 27, 2010 (15 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 6 days ago). This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know. This user fights vandalism. >:( Vandals dislike this user. This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. This user maintains Wikipedia with the help of Twinkle! This user uses Huggle to combat vandalism. RW This user uses RedWarn to fight vandalism. This user watches over Wikipedia with the help of Navigation popups! ~~~~ K6ka signs his posts and thinks you should too! This user feels physical pain when hearing others refer to Wikipedia as "Wiki". This editor is a WikiGnome. This user is a WikiJanitor. 100,000+ This user has made more than 100,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

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4	WikiDefcon 4 Low to moderate level of vandalism
3.68 RPM according to DeadbeefBot —18:52, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

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Candidates for speedy deletion as attack pages	0
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Requests for unblock	71
Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests	7
Wikipedia protected edit requests	0
Wikipedia conflict of interest edit requests	323
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Template stolen from Bluefist, who stole it from Chzz, who stole it from Jennavecia. Yes, I'm a filthy no-good very bad thief.

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Links shamelessly stolen from Hazard-SJ.

My recent changes filters

• Vandal fighting (uses ORES to calculate vandalism probability; likely vandalism highlighted in orange and red)

Admin stats

Stats were last updated January 23, 2026, @ 04:41:34 (UTC)

Crat statistics

Action	Count
Edits	125103
Edits+Deleted	129330
Pages deleted	1267
Revisions deleted	1885
Logs/Events deleted	93
Pages restored	19
Pages protected	275
Pages unprotected	4
Protections modified	27
Users blocked	4085
Users reblocked	204
Users unblocked	34
User rights modified	13
Users created	7
Abuse filters modified	2
Users renamed	2669

Articles I've worked on

• Tribu (film)
• Adobe Lightroom

Essays

• Wikipedia is not for sale
• Just report the vandal and move on
• But actually...

The first and last edits made to Wikipedia on New Years

In what seems to be a recurring tradition, I like to find the last edit made on New Years Eve, and the first edit made on New Years Day, according to UTC time. Sometimes a bot wins, but oftentimes it's just a regular editor who had no idea they got lucky!

Oftentimes, the last edit of a year will have a revision ID that is higher than the first edit of the next year. This is due to database lag, and is perfectly normal.

2015-2016

Last edit of 2015: Special:Diff/697661396

First edit of 2016: Special:Diff/697661397

2016-2017

Last edit of 2016: Special:Diff/757662577

First edit of 2017: Special:Diff/757662578

2017-2018

Last edit of 2017: Special:Diff/818010127

First edit of 2018: Special:Diff/818010128

2018-2019

Last edit of 2018: Special:Diff/876227288

First edit of 2019: Special:Diff/876227289

2019-2020

Last edit of 2019: Special:Diff/933439944

First edit of 2020: Special:Diff/933439945

2020-2021

Last edit of 2020: Special:Diff/997529718

First edit of 2021: Special:Diff/997529717

2021-2022

Last edit of 2021: Special:Diff/1063058807

First edit of 2022: Special:Diff/1063058808

2022-2023

Last edit of 2022: Special:Diff/1130787316

First edit of 2023: Special:Diff/1130787315

2023-2024

Last edit of 2023: Special:Diff/1192900438

First edit of 2024: Special:Diff/1192900433

2024-2025

Last edit of 2024: Special:Diff/1266506805

First edit of 2025: Special:Diff/1266506804

2025-2026

Last edit of 2025: Special:Diff/1330528992 (guy was so close to getting the First Edit of 2026 award, and ended up winning the Last Edit of 2025 award instead!)

First edit of 2026: Special:Diff/1330528993 (this deserves a special trophy because it was also the very first article created in 2026! Mason Howell, a golfer from Georgia, U.S.A., may never realize his Wikipedia article was the first of everything in 2026)

In the media

I was mentioned briefly in an article titled Wikipedia editors, the internet’s nerdy unsung heroes, keep the website one of the last best places online from The Globe and Mail.^{[n 2]}

Other sites I'm on

• Flickr is where I primarily post my photography on. Link
• Instagram is also a popular photography platform. Link
• Wikia, the evil, for-profit sibling of Wikimedia. I'm currently an administrator and bureaucrat on both The Last Stand Wiki and The Sims Wiki. However, I no longer really edit there as I've gotten sick and fed up with the corporate culture there.
• Miraheze, the non-evil, non-profit cousin of Wikimedia. Apparently I have my own sparsely populated wiki there.
• Discord, where I have my own personal server.
• YouTube, where I have my own YouTube channel.

Please note that I will not accept friend requests from people I do not know. Additionally, please don't try to contact me regarding wiki-related matters on other websites or platforms.

Other accounts that I own

The following accounts belong to me:

• K6kaBOT, a doppelgänger account that is not currently used for editing (but reserved for the highly unlikely future if I so choose to run a bot here).
• K6ka (alt), an account used when I need to log in from insecure WiFi networks, or if I edit from my mobile phone.
• Enoch Leung, an account registered to prevent impersonation.
• K6ka's Rename Account Test962, a test account used for the rename function. Won't be used for actual editing.
• K888ka, a joke account created at Epicgenius's "suggestion," because 888 is a lucky number.
• Czar Hey, an account registered to prevent impersonation.

This information is being disclosed as suggested by the sock puppetry policy.

Notes

1. Please note that, as of June 12, 2021, I am no longer on freenode, and have dropped my accounts and channel registrations there. If you see anyone with the name "k6ka" after this date, and you don't see me mention it here, it is not me.

2. That sense of community is also what keeps Enoch Leung, 27, volunteering with Wikipedia. He started editing when he was 12, and over the next couple years, began working on some of the maintenance aspects of Wikipedia, such as monitoring new edits for vandalism. He’s attended meetups with other Toronto-based editors, including recently visiting the Toronto Islands to take photos for Wikimedia Commons.

   “In a world where the internet feels increasingly dystopian as algorithms dictate what we see and think … it’s refreshing to be part of a website that isn’t any of that – and perhaps a little intimidating too,” says Mr. Leung.

Signature

—⁠k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions)

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