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The user with alias Raider000 (ANG MANLULUSOB) (manlulusob is a Tagalog term for raider) is one of the editors of Wikipedia where he became member in February 2016. He is editor and author of several articles on Wikipedia Tagalog and English.

About edit

Short biography edit

 
Have been deployed to raid the library and internet in the search for the unknown thousands of pieces of information hidden within sources in the name of knowledge, facts AND truth. Never worry, we are harmless.
(You'll understand, this image is for illustrative purposes.)
 
Dude, that such thing in your neighborhood isn't what i'm looking for.
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Raider000 (obviously not the user's real name), a Filipino, was born in a city of the island of Luzon, Republic of the Philippines years before the new millennium. He studied at a private elementary school and a public high school. He is currently studying for an engineering course in college at a state university.

Although he is studying an engineering course, articles he created and edited in the encyclopedia is dedicated to Geography, History, and Civics; Mathematics; and even General Information and International Affairs or General Knowledge and Current Events, subjects he have extensive knowledge and are fond of his study and research.

He speaks Tagalog and English languages. He likes to receive and listen news and information through media. He also likes to listen to music and love entertainment, both of whatever type.

Introduction edit

(Address of introducing myself in Tagalog language)

Ako si Raider000, kasalukuyang estudyante sa isang pamantasang pang-estado sa Pilipinas, at taas-noo kong ipinagmamalaki ang aking pagiging isang Pilipinong Wikipedista.

Ako ay bisita noon sa Wikipedia. Noong mga panahon na nag-aaral ako, ginagawa ko bilang pagkukunan ng batayan ang Wikipedia, kunsaan ay kumukuha ako ng mga kasagutan sa mga takdang-aralin. Pero minsang sinabi sa amin ng isang guro sa asignaturang Pananaliksik na, bilang isang mahigpit na bilin, ay huwag kaming kukuha nga anumang bahagi ng detalye sa Wikipedia dahil sa ang mga nilalaman nito ay nagbabago at hindi beripikado ang mga artikulo. Isang araw bumisita ako roon para lamang mapalawak ang aking kaisipan ukol sa Pilipinas, noon ko nalaman na parang may suliranin ang Wikipedia. Napagtanto ko na may mga artikulo nga na mayroong kakulangan hindi lamang sa pagkatunay ng mga detalye, kundi sa mga balarila nito.

Naging bahagi ng Wikipedia. Upang mapunan ko ang pangangailangan ng websayt na ito kaya ko napagpasyahang makiisa bilang kasapi ng grupo ng mga editor at kontribyutor. Noong 2016, lumikha ako ng sariling akawnt, at nagsimula na rin akong makibahagi sa pamayanang ito alinsunod sa mga patakarang itinatakda nito. Nais ko lamang ay maging ligtas ito laban sa mga magtatangkang sirain ang pangalan nito, lalo na ang bandalismo, pangongopya, paninirang-puri at propaganda.

Ang aking layunin. Kaya ako sumapi sa komunidad ng mga Wikipedista ay upang mabigyan ng tamang impormasyon ang mga tao sa mundo. Lalo na sa panahon ngayon na laganap na sa aming bayan ang pagkalat ng pekeng balita. Ang nais ko ay mahadlangan ang pagbibigay ng maling detalye na nakakaapekto hindi lamang sa kaalaman nila kundi sa malalim na kaisipan sa mga bagay-bagay. Gayundin nais ko ring ilahad ang katotohanan at itigil ang pag-iral ng sensura. Dahil mas alam ng tao ay tiyak na magiging mas kapaki-pakinabang ito.

Pakiusap lamang sana sa lahat. Mayroon lamang akong panawagan sa lahat, sa mga tagagamit man o sa mga bumibisita rito. Nais ko pong ipaalam sa lahat ang aking mga paniniwala: Na lahat ng tao sa mundo ay hindi mangmang; Na hindi pambansang balita ang isang maliit na isyu; Na ang kasaysayan ay pinahahalagahan at hindi dinadaya; Na ang mga artikulo sa Wikipedia ay hindi blog o news item; Na ang mga artikulo sa Wikipedia ay hindi ginagaya, lalo na kung hindi naman ito bibigyang-pagkilala bilang sanggunian. Nalilito kasi ang mga tao sa pagka-orihinal ng teksto.

Kailangan ko po ang tulong n'yo. Bagamat higit dalawang taon na ako sa Wikipedia, nais ko pa rin ang tulong niyo, lalo na sa pagsunod sa mga patakaran nito.

Sana po ay nasiyahan kayo sa inyong nabasa. Magtutulungan tayong maging mahusay na Wikipedista ang bawat isa. Nawa'y gabayan ang lahat ng ating PANGINOON. Maraming salamat po!

ANG MANLULUSOB, Pebrero 28, 2018

(English language translation of the text above)

I am Raider000, currently a student in a state university in the Philippines, and I'm proud of being a Filipino Wikipedian.

I was then a visitor to Wikipedia. At times I was studying then, I made Wikipedia as a base source, wherein I get answers for my assignments. However, a teacher in the Research subject had once told us that, as a strict rule, we do not take any part of Wikipedia's details because its contents change and articles are not viable. One day I visited there just to expand my thinking about the Philippines, and then I found out that there was a problem there. I realize that there are articles that not only lacking of proof on details, but also of its grammar.

I became part of Wikipedia. To fill any deficiency in this website, I decided to join as a member of the group of editors and contributors. In 2016, I created my own account, and I started to participate in this community in accordance with the policies set by it. I just want it to be safe against those who attempt to destroy its name, especially vandalism, copying, slandering and propaganda.

My goal. So I joined the Wikipedia community to provide people in the world with the right information. Especially today fake news is rampant in our country. What I want is to prevent the misinformation that affects not only their knowledge but also their deep thoughts on something. Also I would like to reveal the truth and cease the existence of censorship. Because people know these better, it will definitely be more useful.

My plea to everyone. I only have an appeal to everyone, either users or visitors. I want to let everyone know my beliefs: That everybody in the world is not ignorant; A small issue would never be a national news; That history is valued and not deceived; That Wikipedia articles are not blog or news items; That Wikipedia articles are not be imitated, especially if they are not recognized as references. People are confused about the originality of the text.

I need your help. Although I've been in Wikipedia for more than two years, I still want your help, especially in following its policies.

Hope you enjoy reading. We will help each other to become well-known Wikipedians. May we all be guide by our LORD. Thank you very much!

ANG MANLULUSOB, February 28, 2018

Activity edit

 
Any concerns? Don't hesitate, just communicate. Let's talk.
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He is active online, taking time to look in articles, especially in the watchlist. He is willing to contribute, however, because his phone is still blocked for English Wikipedia, he could log in to Tagalog Wikipedia for such task. He would do this for the former by going Internet café by free time. He is available on weekdays, especially between or after class hours within school days, only if he has a limited budget to do this task. Anyway, he is still on practicing his editing skills more often, which is he currently doing, and soon, would manage on creating new articles (if he has new idea of something). If they want, Wikipedians can leave their messages in user's talk page.

Tasks edit

  • Editing pages.
  • Inserting citations (esp. news articles, websites, archives, blogs if necessary. He doesn't like to cite senseless matters).
  • Correcting grammar (though, he isn't very good in English language, both by speaking and by writing).
  • Links pages.
  • Redirecting pages (but did only once in Tagalog Wikipedia).
  • Applying obedience.

Contributions edit

As of January 31, 2017, Raider000 had already edited articles 256 times in English Wikipedia. See user's contributions.

Affected by lockdown (2020–21) edit

Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
Date Event
December 31, 2019 China reports to the World Health Organization (WHO) a "mysterious" respiratory disease, which would be later called the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
January 30, 2020 The WHO declares the state of Public Health Emergency of International Concern due to the outbreak of the disease.
The Department of Health (DoH) announces the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the Philippines as Patient No. 1.
February 1, 2020 The DoH announces the first fatality related to COVID-19 in the country as Patient No. 2 (Patient No. 1’s companion); the first outside China.
March 8, 2020 Pres. Rodrigo Duterte declares a state of a public health emergency (Proclamation No. 922).
March 11, 2020 The WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic.
March 15, 2020 Series of community quarantines and lockdowns are imposed in the Philippines, starting that day.
March 17, 2020 Pres. Duterte declares a nationwide state of calamity for six months (Proclamation No. 929).
April 6, 2020 First COVID-19 case in Butuan City, Caraga region is confirmed; region is the last to be reached by the disease. (PNA, 04-06-2020; CNN Philippines, 04-06-2020)
September 18, 2020 Pres. Duterte extends the state of calamity (Proclamation No. 1021), effective Sept. 13, 2020 to Sept. 12, 2021.
September 28, 2020 First COVID-19 case in Batanes province is confirmed; the last province to be reached by the disease. (PDI, 09-29-2020; Rappler, 09-29-2020; Xinhua, 09-29-2020)
March 1, 2021 The Philippines' vaccination campaign begins.
September 10, 2021 Pres. Duterte extends the state of calamity (Proclamation No. 1218), effective until Sept. 12, 2022. (PNA, 09-10-2021)
September 16 to November 22, 2021 Transition to the new pandemic response policy.
Alert level system is approved in September, with pilot implementation in Metro Manila, Sept. 16. (PCOO, 09-14-2021; CNN Philippines, 09-10-2021; PDI, 01-04-2022)
Policy is fully implemented nationwide on Nov. 22. (PCOO, 11-11-2021; Rappler, 11-11-2021 & 11-20-2021)
With new quarantine measures, localized granular lockdowns would be imposed instead of region-wide ones. (Philstar.com, 09-15-2021; PDI, 01-04-2022)
November 4, 2021 Curfew is lifted in Metro Manila.
September 13, 2022 Pres. Bongbong Marcos extends the state of calamity (Proclamation No. 57), effective from this day to year-end, 2022. (PNA, 09-13-2022; AP, 09-12-2022)
December 31, 2022 Nationwide state of calamity expires. It would be confirmed that Pres. Marcos decides not to extend it, although there is no formal announcement. (Manila Standard, 02-02-2023)
By April 2023 Last reported reclassification of alert level system. (Inquirer.net, 04-24-2023)

Apr. 12–30, 2023:
Alert Level 2: (since June 2022)
(Philstar.com, 04-24-2023)
Luzon: Benguet, Ifugao, Quezon Province, Palawan, Camarines Norte, Masbate.
Visayas: Antique, Negros Occidental, Bohol, Cebu Province, Negros Oriental, Leyte, Western Samar.
Mindanao: Lanao del Norte, Davao De Oro, Davao Del Norte, Davao Del Sur, Davao Occidental, North Cotabato, Sarangani, Sultan Kudarat, Dinagat Islands, Basilan, Maguindanao, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi.
Alert Level 1:
(Recently de-escalated)
(Manila Standard, 11-01-2022)
Visayas: Northern Samar.
Mindanao: Zamboanga Del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay, Surigao del Norte, Lanao Del Sur, Isabela City.
(And the rest of the country.)
May 5, 2023 WHO ends COVID-19 global health emergency status. The end to the crisis in its highest alert level, first declared more than three years ago, was announced upon recommendation in a meeting a day prior; a major step towards ending the pandemic. The virus had killed nearly seven million people; the death rate had reportedly dropped by about 96.5% within 28 months. (BBC News) (Reuters)
July 4, 2023 National COVID-19 emergency status "de facto" lifted. Health Secretary Ted Herbosa, in a Palace press briefing, said that Pres. Marcos already considered the country to be de facto (in practice) not under the state of a public health emergency, with medical professionals now consider COVID-19 "as just one of the respiratory illnesses." (PNA) (The Philippine Star)
July 21, 2023 President Marcos lifts COVID-19 emergency status. As reported only by the Palace the following day, Proclamation No. 297 was issued, concluding nationwide state of public health emergency. All orders, memoranda, and issuances due to the pandemic are effectively revoked. Since the start of the pandemic, over 4.17 million Filipinos have been infected, with over 66,542 deaths. By that time, around 5,278 of them remain as active cases. This will be formalized in a final meeting to be held by the Inter Agency Task Force, as per DoH. (Philstar.com) (GMA News)

Upon lifting the declaration:

  • Special allowance of healthcare workers caring for affected patients will end. (Philstar.com, 07-04-2023)
  • All agencies are enjoined to ensure that policies, rules, and regulations will take into consideration the emergency's lifting; are also instructed to amend existing or promulgate new issuances as may be appropriate. (PNA, 07-22-2023)
  • Food and Drug Administration will no longer be able to issue emergency use authorizations for vaccines; FDA though gave Pfizer a go signal to sell and distribute its bivalent vaccines.(Philstar.com, 07-04-2023) In 2020, former Pres. Duterte issued Executive Order No. 121 authorized the FDA to issue EUAs for COVID-19 vaccines, only valid within the emergency's duration. The validity of the EUA would remain for a year from the issuance of said proclamation for the sole purposes of exhausting the remaining vaccines. Thereafter, the vaccines would be needing a certificate of product registration. (PNA, 07-22-2023)

Vaccination campaign is ongoing. The vaccines are currently given free by the government; while administering bivalent doses has been started recently. (PNA, 07-22-2023)

Imposition of COVID-19 alert levels in the country ends.

Present (2023) Worldwide, pandemic is ongoing.
Sources: SunStar (05-12-2020); INQUIRER.net (01-01-2021) (03-12-2021) (12-26-2021); CNN Philippines (04-08-2020) (03-15-2021) (03-25-2021); Manila Bulletin (11-09-2021); Rappler (02-03-2020); WHO (Apr. 2020)
(Other links from sources to be added)

Due to worldwide COVID-19 pandemic that affected most countries since December 2019, and national and local government restrictions, editing Wikipedia for Raider000 became challenging. It was unable to do so especially since the country imposed community quarantine in early 2020 (one of the world's longest), because its activities are done mostly in the Internet cafés even before. Now it's willing to work more on these as restrictions were lifted and the pandemic is about to end. (Even you hoped for this, which is now happening.) (Updated July 23, 2023, post-midnight PST)

Raider000 is one with other co-editors in the celebration of the online encyclopedia's 20th anniversary last Jan. 15, 2021. Congratulations to everyone, even the readers, on ensuring this website a safe place to visit, to be informed, and to be welcomed. (Refer to these links: Celebrating 20 years of Wikipedia and its Facebook post.)

Today edit

 
It is inevitable that sometimes, creatures like this one feel tired.

When you feel the world is tumblin' down on you,
And you have no one that you can hold on to,
[...]
Lift up your hands to God,
And He'll make you feel all right.

Lift Up Your Hands, B. Valdez, 1980

When you run don't tire,
Keep on reaching higher
Even when the pain and trouble bring you down sometimes
[...]
I will be your father
When I hear you call.

When I Hear You Call, G. Valenciano, 2008

At this moment, this user, while enjoying Wikipedia, is experiencing tiredness. Certain circumstances may happen and certain problems may be encountered. It may be hard to receive news in the community, to work for the truth, to prevent vandalism and to correct mistakes. Furthermore, this user has future plans both in real life and in WP; for now, what is it doing is just balancing them. But still, this user is doing the best as much as can; WP will remain part of life's system. —Feb. 16, 2023, post-midnight (PST)

Related to the earlier statement, this user is concerned regarding unfinished businesses in WP. There are (half-unrecorded) backlogs on unfinished edits as well as future ones. This user will do the best to finish all of these as soonest as possible, as long as there's available time for such. As this, at least, is the difficult thing to do, this user is hoping that all sketchy plans will be carried out, and all targets will be done once and for all. —Mar. 15, 2023, evening (PST)

To be updated soon edit

Userboxes and details to come...

Table of contents (initial plan)
Pages Links
User page User:Raider000
User subpages User:Raider000/sandbox
User:Raider000/Stations
Other planned user subpages Dedicated to:
Messages concerning WP
User's contributions and targets
Non-WP contents/Guides
Non-WP contents/Philippines
Unknown
(Also includes: other helpful pages. See Stations for more detailed list.)