User:Satori

Satori was born on

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Vocations and Avocations

• Computer Programmer
  • C++ and C#
  • PHP
  • Clipper
  • FoxPro
• Gothic Rock and Industrial music
• Musician, especially synthesizers
• Political activist in progressive electoral politics

Interests

• Music
  • Gothic
  • Progressive Rock
  • Baroque and Early music
  • World Music
• Wine
• History
• Political science
• Open Source
  • Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • MySQL
• Agile software development
• Astronomy
• Games
  • Chess
  • Poker

Contributions

I tend to be a bit of a

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I have made some significant edits as well, including contributions to

adult contemporary

songs that I hated when I was a radio DJ in that format :).

I also enjoy contributing to the WP project through

.

I also contributed the Celestial bodies capitalization section to Wikipedia:Manual of Style, and there was a flurry of minor edits in late 2004 as I began to standardize articles accordingly.

Wikipedia philosophy

I consider myself a pragmatic inclusionist.

, I try to follow those guidelines.

I also love the ability of the Wikipedia community to write articles about subjects that would never be found in a paper encyclopedia.

was probably the article most responsible for my interest in this project.

In general, to the question "what's more important, the product or the process" (i.e., quality articles vs. consensus and the WP community), my answer is "Yes!". But maybe that's because I'm a Gemini.

New pages patrol: a pleasant distraction

As editing Wikipedia requires being at a computer, and I rarely am at a computer when I don't have something else I should be doing (programming, writing a paper, etc.), I often use the

, go back to New Pages and click on the next link. Repeat this process until you find an article that needs an edit, then return to working until your mind again gets restless. What a nice way to break up long tasks at the computer, while making small improvements to the newest additions to the Wiki.