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| full name    = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Luchesar Iliev</span> <span style="font-size: 50%"><samp><span style="font-family: 'DejaVu Sans', Calibri, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Times New Roman', Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted;">[[:w:en:Help:IPA/Bulgarian|[<span title="/ˌ/ secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'l' in 'all'">ɫ</span><span title="'u' in 'plus' (General American, Scotland)">ɤ</span><span title="'ch' in 'cheese'">tʃ</span><span title="'e' in 'edge'">ɛ</span><span title="'z' in 'zoo'">z</span><span title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'a' in 'father'">a</span><span title="trilled 'r', like in Spanish">r</span> <span title="'i' in 'police'">i</span><span title="'l' in 'leap'">l</span><span title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'i' in 'police'">i</span><span title="'e' in 'edge'">ɛ</span><span title="'v' in 'view'">v</span>]]]</span></samp></span>
| job title    = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Troublemaker-in-Residence</span>
| image name   = User-iliev.jpg
| organization = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Bulgarian Wikipedia</span>
| short quote  = “As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.”<br>—[[:w:Benjamin Franklin|Benjamin Franklin]], ''Autobiography'', 1793


| about me     = When not busy pissing people off on Wikipedia,<ref name="pissing-people-off"/> you may find me earning my living as a DevOps & InfoSec Officer—a fancy way of saying “I have no idea what I'm doing”—in a <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.ideaconsult.net/ small private company]</span> doing R&D in the fields of chem- and nanoinformatics, toxicology, data mining, AI (you knew I'd mention it), and other similar and not that similar stuff.

I enjoy my work very much. It ain't all roses, <span class="plainlinks">[https://ananke.wikimedia.bg/memes/what-my-friends-think-I-do-what-I-actually-do-sith-lord.jpg don't get me wrong]</span>, but it manages to satisfy pretty well my almost pathological desire to learn new things, especially about who we are as living things and human beings: how our bodies function, how our brains think, and—most importantly—how can we, hopefully, make ourselves and our lives better.

Unexpectedly, I've studied economics—not computer science, engineering, or chemistry, as many people tend to assume. My master's degree is, in fact, in Corporate finance. Yes, I did once plan to become obscenely rich: speedy cars, luxurious yachts, gorgeous girls—you know, <span class="plainlinks">[https://ananke.wikimedia.bg/memes/executives-and-other-criminals.jpg all that]</span> ''GTA V'' stuff. But then I <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.inc.com/quora/money-wont-make-you-happy-heres-what-will-accordin.html saw the light]</span>. That's all you need to know.

When I say “sorry, I have plans”, <span class="plainlinks">[https://ananke.wikimedia.bg/memes/sorry-i-have-plans.mp4 it likely means]</span> that I'm either reading, listening to music, travelling to places I've never seen before, running in the park, climbing some hill with a great view, doing home repairs, enjoying my bike, or just sitting on my couch, watching as clouds and planes fly by. Or sleeping. Or, well, pissing people off on Wikipedia.

Apart from Wikipedia, I also try to help some other volunteer projects, mainly with a <span class="plainlinks">[https://cart.uni-plovdiv.net/ bunch of enthusiastic people]</span> from the University of Plovdiv, with whom I share the belief that good education is the solution to many of the problems that the world faces today.


| about my work = I'm an admin on the Bulgarian Wikipedia—by far the largest, if not ''the only'' Bulgarian wikicommunity (almost all activity on the sister projects comes from wikipedians). I've been serving the community in this role since 2012, and while I had started editing actively in 2009—and I still do intermittently—administrative work remains my major contribution.

As a sysop, my key interests are community wellbeing, fending off vandalism, identifying and combating disinformation and propaganda, and—more recently—the application of automation and artificial intelligence in those processes and in editing in general.

I'm also trying to serve as a [[:m:Tech/Ambassadors|tech ambassador]], in hopes of alleviating the gap between the tech people and the volunteer contributors, which could potentially harm the projects.

Besides Wikipedia, I serve as a bureaucrat and sysop on other Bulgarian projects, notably Wiktionary and Wikiquote. I also maintain the ''wikimedia.bg''<ref name="wikimediabg"></ref> and ''wik.pe''<ref name="wikpe"></ref><ref name="wikpe2"></ref><ref name="wikpe3"></ref> domains, as well as the services there, like <span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.bg/ the community blog]</span> and the <span class="plainlinks">[https://lists.wikimedia.bg/ mailing lists]</span>.

I operate four [[:m:Bot|bots]]: the general-purpose [[:m:User:Kerberizer|''Kerberizer'']], the experimental AI editor [[:m:User:Eliza Beth|''Eliza Beth'']], the anti-vandalism AI sysop [[:m:User:PSS 9|''PSS 9'']], and the interface admin [[:m:User:JSS 9|''JSS 9'']].<ref name="jss9"></ref>

Since I sign my posts on talk pages with my first name, there's a [[:w:en:Wikipedia:Doppelganger account|doppelgänger]] account ''[[:m:User:Luchesar|Luchesar]]'' to prevent impersonation. It is practically never used for editing.


| contact me = <div id="max-content-01" style="max-width: fit-content;">
* '''luchesar.iliev{{@}}gmail.com'''
* <samp>Discord '''kerberizer'''</samp>
* <samp>Libera.Chat⋮OFTC '''kerberizer'''</samp>

<small>PLEASE '''READ THIS''' BEFORE CONTACTING ME
# I'm a volunteer: I have a day job, a family, and other responsibilities that come first. Please use these contacts '''only''' for '''pressing''' or '''sensitive''' matters that need my '''personal''' attention. For everything else, please use [[:bg:User talk:Iliev|my public talk page]] or the community discussion pages.
# The contact methods above will '''not''' get priority attention '''unless''' the matter is really urgent. My email inbox, in particular, is very busy, so general Wikipedia-related emails may not get a reply from me for days—or, indeed, at all. I am really sorry, but—again—I'm only a volunteer.
# '''Don't''' ask of me things that go against the rules. There is also '''no promise of confidentiality''': don't send me anything you wouldn't post publicly. This, of course, does not apply to sensitive information related to e.g. vandalism or other administrative matters, sent in good faith.
# Threats will be taken extremely seriously and reported to law enforcement.
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[https://github.com/kerberizer GitHub]
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[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/kerberizer Phabricator]
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[https://www.linkedin.com/in/luchesar LinkedIn]

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| disclaimer = Any edits, statements, or other contributions, including any expressed opinions, are solely my own and are not shared, supported, or endorsed in any manner by my employers. 
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=== Notes ===
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<ref name="pissing-people-off">
Just to be clear: pissing people off is '''not''' my intent, but rather the often unavoidable consequence of being an administrator and having to remind everyone in the most heated moments that we all need to abide by certain rules.
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<ref name="wikimediabg">
''wikimedia.bg'' was once intended for the Wikimedia chapter in Bulgaria, which, however, never materialized. The domain is now [[:bg:Уикипедия:Wikimedia.bg|governed by the local community]].
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<ref name="wikpe">
<span class="plainlinks">
Use <samp>[https://wik.pe/u/your_user_name wik.pe/u/your_user_name]</samp> to link [[:m:Special:MyPage|your Meta user page]]. Jimbo is special: <samp>[https://wik.pe/jimbo wik.pe/jimbo]</samp>. Links to the main pages, like <samp>[https://wik.pe/en wik.pe/en]</samp>, also work.
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<ref name="wikpe2">
<span class="plainlinks">
Need a special link for a project or initiative, like <samp>[http://wik.pe/wlm17bg wik.pe/wlm17bg]</samp> or <samp>[http://wik.pe/wle2016md wik.pe/wle2016md]</samp>? Drop me a note!
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<ref name="wikpe3">
'''If you have some clever ideas for ''wik.pe'' that would expand its use, please do let me know.'''
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<ref name="jss9">
''JSS 9'' commits changes from <span class="plainlinks">[https://github.com/wikimedia-bg GitHub]</span> to the JS and CSS pages.
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