User:Back ache
— Wikipedian ♂ — | |
Born | August 14, 1972 |
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Marital status | Living in sin |
Children | 2 |
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Employer | I used to work for a large tech-firm (Oracle) and a small startup, I now work doing tech for a media firm |
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Religion | None |
Politics | cyclist and vegetarian and have an interest in green technology and in how technology can subtly improve society |
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Have been writing Wikipedia type articles for over a decade I am interested in lighting automation, Stand-up comedy, Audiovisual technology, and theatre | |
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I first worked with hypertext in 1992 and have been writing wiki type stuff for twenty-one years, originally on h2g2 and now in the wikipedia universe.
I see Wikipedia as a garden and myself a gardener, finding interesting articles to plant, tending others and getting the satisfaction of watching them grow and bloom.
The most poisonous thing in the Wikipedia garden is a small minority of the admins that are quick to kill an imperfect article or edit rather than help it along. It's the same thing that halted the momentum of
I saw that (at the end of 2020) in total across all the wikipedia products so far I have made over 25,000 edits, all of the manually (I really should learn to program tools/bots!)
I have seen now (June 2022) I have made 9,000 edits in the English Wikipedia and 61,807 across all the projects! I am by nature a "butterfly mind" so don't try to rhyme or reason in what peaked my interest in a particular week!
Latest project
I would like to record the audio for some Wikipedia pages, its not that obvious end-to-end how to do it
I had an aim is to help with wikis English bias by initiating translation of good articals into English, but ran into deletionists
I would also like to learn to program wikibots
I have learnt regex to enable to do more with wikidata
Interesting things to link up
20 of the Best Science Fiction Books of All Time
Random thoughts
I can feel the heartbeat of the world gently drumming on my soul.
The past can be a weapon and whilst you treat it that way, to a happy future, never will we stray.
See it, do it, done it. [1]
Twit's
- [User:PDelahanty]
- [User:Dairygirl224] - Holly Walsh?
- User:Barnsiebear
List podcasts without an episode count
%7C%7CQ109650493%7CP856%7Chttps://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/
- ^ "What is Dual Mono Versus Stereo? - inSync". inSync. 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2018-01-03.