User:Peter Ellis

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	Dear User:Peter Ellis, thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia, especially your recent creation of King Baudouin Ice Shelf. Keep up the good work! You are making a difference here! With regards, AnupamTalk 06:46, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Radio 1RPH

Firstly, I am not one of these people with the same name.

First impressions can be so deflating, and then I go and put a photo of myself here just before I self-nominated (a fizzer) to be an Wikipedia:Administrators.

What foolishness! I should have cranked up the

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Nelson Mandela & Ang San Suu Khi signatures

At one time, my image of Nelson Mandela's signature was the signature on that great man's page. This signature by Mandela is in my city, on a wall of signatures (and dated 6 September 2000.) When I returned to view the signature, the day after Mandela's death, I found that Aung San Suu Kyi had also signed, under Mandela's signature, on 29 November 2013.

Green Room

, respectively signed 6 September 2000 and 29 November 2013 (the latter only about 2 weeks before the former's death.) Both are under a protective plastic sheet, on stand-offs of which one is visible at bottom-right. Evidently, the sheet was removed in order for Aung San Suu Kyi to sign near Mandela.

Interests

Auscam

pants, and brown Army boots, exchanges a moustache moment with a fan...

In my professional life I would be described as a "project manager", and my recent academic accomplishments bear this out as does my membership of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM).

I was an officer in the Royal Australian Navy for 34 years: 2 February 1976 - 18 July 2010. I was enriched by the experience, and learned my "trade" - management, particularly project management.

Geek cred

I am interested in places I live and have lived, and things I know about. I admit it: I'm the 'marginal' person, interested in some VERY 'odd' things:

• I am a musician:
  • I play the violin in a community orchestra;
  • I sing in several community choirs;
• I know Linux and I normally run several seperate boxen, typically Ubuntu or Kubuntu or Lubuntu (for the not-Linux crowd, 'boxen' is geek plural of 'box');
  • I have met Andrew Tridgell on various occasions, because:
    • I interviewed him for my community radio network, and
    • I am a subscribed list-watching member of the local
      Linux User Group
      ;
    • I was a paid-up member of my local "PC Users Group";

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• I regularly moderate at Slashdot [2] and read Groklaw [3] daily;
• I have been a
  magnetic ring memory
  !
• I am webmaster for several organisations, in which I 'hand-code':
  • a PHP-based site, and
  • two flat-file HTML based sites;
  • a
    Wordpress
    -based site;
  • plus, I contribute content to several other sites including being an assistant admin of a site with hand-coding some of the content that goes in via a submission-tool;
• I was maintainer for an early, small Unix-based, multi-terminal, server-client network for several years;
• I have hand-coded the content for several parts of my employer's intranet;
• I took delivery of one of the first
  Dick Smith Electronics store, then hand-coded it in Basic
  ;

• >8,500 edits on Wikipedia, as at July 2020.

• I have several blogs, one that I keep updated moderately actively;
• I have conversed with
  Australian Living Treasures, Dick Smith
  , on several occasions (and... have email access to him), and my father flew with him on various occasions;
• I used to have a
  Flight Simulator
  );
• I own several
  GPS
  units, one (often) installed in my car;
• I was for several years a moderator on my local
  Freecycle
  group.
• I have a Facebook page;

... and you're welcome to ask me for the URLs (if you know Wiki well enough);

• I am a welded-on fan of
  The West Wing and anything Star Trek
  ;
• And...
  Amateur Radio was geek
  before the word was invented!
• and I have previously mentioned: the
  choral works with The Llewellyn Choir; play violin in Maruki Community Orchestra; Freemasonry
  because it's 'cool' to have "brothers".
• In my spare time, I regularly write for several
  magazines
  (2011: three major articles so far).
• I organised the Wikipedia 10th (2011) and 20th (2021) Anniversary meetups for Canberra.

YYYY-MM-DD

I do not edit other people's date formats, but (to me, having done some programming, and filing, in my time) there is an in-built sensibility in using the

represented by YYYY-MM-DD.

• This self-organises in a filing system.
• This releases the reader from the ambiguities of other formats.

BOINC

• My
  SETI@Home until it ended, then Einstein@Home
  ) topped:
  • 100,000 on 2006-11-28,
  • 200,000 on 2008-07-10,
  • 300,000 on 2009-06-04,
  • 400,000 on 2009-09-17,
  • 500,000 on 2009-12-22,
  • 600,000 on 2010-03-08,
  • 700,000 on 2010-05-19,
  • 800,000 on 2010-07-23,
  • 900,000 on 2010-09-21,
  • 1,000,000 on about 2011-01-07. (7 January 2011) I'm now a millionaire!!!!
  • 2,000,000 in 2017-10 (Oct 2017)!
  • 4,000,000 of
    Einstein@home
    (alone), in June 2020.
  • 7,000,000 of Einstein, in late October 2020.
  • 10,000,000 total, 2020-12-21.
  • 20,000,000 total, 2022-01-11.
  • 25,000,000 of
    Einstein@home
    , 2022-04-11
  • 30,000,000 of Einsteir@home, 2022-07-29
  • 45,000,000 of Einstein@home, 2023-07-29
  • 50,000,000 of Einstein@home, 2024-01-29

World Record

On 21 August 2015, I was one of the persons who, at the Australian National University, created the World Record for the number (1,869) of stargazers in one place, and across a nation (~10,000).^[1]

And, you guessed it, "Get a life" is an alien concept.

Wikipedia:Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test online version

• 9933 - Peter Ellis - Talk 12:34, 15 June 2011 (UTC) - and, actually conservative, but using a radically changed test from last time.
• 180 Peter Ellis 20:06, 20 January 2006 (UTC) - and probably conservative
• 126 Peter Ellis 01:28, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) - conservative in retrospect!

Kate's tool

As at 29 March 2006 (after just over 2 years of editing) my data from Kate's tool score was:

Total edits: 2328

Image uploads: 111 (109 cur, 2 old)

Distinct pages edited: 937

Edits/page (avg): 2.48

Edits by namespace: Articles 1518

Deleted edits: 53

First edit: 2004-03-17 03:42:12

• >8,500 edits in July 2020.

Academic

Master of Management Studies (MMgtStudies) in Project Management - University of New South Wales through the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, the Capital city of Australia Australian Capital Territory

• Subjects that I particularly enjoyed included: Human Resource Management, System Dynamic Modelling, Microeconomics for Managers, Facility and Property Management, Communicatuions and Information Systems, Fundamentals of Surveillance Technologies, Legal Process and Procedure, Satellite Communications, Strategic Management, Project Management Body of Knowledge

Diploma of Applied Science (DipApSci) - Royal Australian Navy College, Jervis Bay, New South Wales

And, I have the itch to do a PhD on a field of economic / social / government administration (although I've been advised to write a book on a part of the subject first, in order to cure the itch.)

Wiki contributions

Full list of contributions

As of January 2010, my aim is to raise the grading / status of the pages I have written. Template:Grading_scheme

Articles I have written (established) include...

, 20th Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Air Force;

9 April, 2005

.

Written for... (inc. edited...)

My contrinutions include:

of Spain;

Pictures

Lots, really, and this is a small gallery.

• 
  Nearly my "

  mid-life crisis

  " buy.....
• 
  King

  Freemasons

User Committed Identity

Useful text

Wikipedia:Citing sources ^[2]

Making a goose of myself!

In the late 1970s, I did a

South Pacific song, There Is Nothing Like a Dame

.

Just after the opening of the 2006 Commonwealth Games I was talking to a family member who knows their ducks and geese and who swore to me that it was a goose rather than a duck that was used in connection with the Michael Leunig storyline. Accordingly, I inserted, "(A live white goose was substituted, presumably because it would be easier to handle and better visible by cameras.)" That person has since seen footage of the duck in question and has recognised the error of the ways. Accordingly, I too must take responsibility and apologise to the Wikipedia community in general and the Games organisers in particular. Peter Ellis 11:24, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

THIS got reverted in most of Emma Watson, Barack Obama, Fiona Bruce and Jake Gyllenhaal (feel free to re-revert)

In a scientific study published in November 2017, scientists showed that sheep could be taught to recognise the faces of certain people versus objects or random faces. The celebrity faces used were: Emma Watson, Barack Obama, Fiona Bruce and Jake Gyllenhaal.^[3]

"10 random pages" that I'm working with

Note: I do not necessarily touch or 'fix' things that I could!

For the archive, see User:Peter Ellis/10 random pages.

• Current...
  • Sixteenth (18 November 2006):
    Illinois' 6th congressional district
    - politics.

Corrections

Wikipedia got it ever so slightly wrong on 10 February 2021, when it said that HMAS Voyager was struck by HMAS Melbourne (R21) "in" Jervis Bay; it was "near".

Copyrights User:Peter Ellis/Copyrights

I am proud of my substantive contributions to Wikipedia, many listed below, and I appreciate other people's work.

I am referring to Wikipedia from several web sites that I maintain, because I realise the usefulness of the articles and the intellectual rigor achieved by collective work (whatever the doubters and gain-sayers dredge up from time to time.)

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References

1. ABC News Online
   , 21 August 2015
2. ^ "Bruce Chatwin", The Knitting Circle [1] accessed 2006-12-28
3. ^ Sheep recognize familiar and unfamiliar human faces from two-dimensional images, Franziska Knolle, Rita P. Goncalves, A. Jennifer Morton; Royal Society (RSOS) DOI:10.1098/rsos.171228, 2017-11-08