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I consider myself an inclusionist, for the most part. I believe that every ep of every vaguely significant TV show ever produced should have its own page. I think that, Wikipedia should strive to be most things for most people, that if you want to know something, anything, this should be where you start.
I also believe that Wikipedia should have the highest-quality images possible---I look forward to the inclusion of vector-based (SVG) graphics. I'm a huge fan of the autothumbnailing feature; I believe that digital camera pictures should be well-focused, well-composed and well-lit; I'm quite picky about the ones I upload.
I believe that Wikipedia should be print-ready. (Or at least ready for high-quality 300dpi displays, like this (http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/intellistation/t221/) but cheaper.) To this end, all images should be kept at the highest possible resolution. (The digital camera pictures I've taken are all in their native camera resolution.) This doesn't mean that JPEGs should be saved at 100% quality; the returns are terribly diminishing at that point.
I wish wiki2pdf (http://wiki.auf-trag.de/) had images working, automatically fetching high-quality versions to sub in and scale for the autothumbs. That'd be hot.
Interests
I'm from Northeastern Connecticut, at the moment. I'm trying to fix that.
I'm currently working on importing the Library of Congress classification information available here (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html). Also reformatting the episode guide for The Twilight Zone. Also listing a lot of images on WP:IfD---or would be, if the database admins would put down their crackpipes and fix BUG #968603 (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=968603&group_id=34373&atid=411192). (I'm still doing it, but it's a bit slower, because I have to full-text search each of the images to make sure they're not still in an article somewhere.)
Also making a few MetaPost diagrams here and there. Also doing mad work in categorization. Have popularized the word hierarchicalization around here.
Education
My main fields of knowledge is in computer science, though I took some college courses in mathematics (up to third-year calculus and differential equations, plus a signals and systems course I took once upon a time) and physics. (My mechanics is good, but my E&M needs some work.)
For fun-reading, I mostly absorb science fiction. I've read the entire oeuvre of Robert Heinlein (with the current exceptions of Tramp Royale and The Star Beast. Currently working on short story collections by Vernor Vinge and James Tiptree, Jr. Am currently trying to get everyone I know to read Kings of the High Frontier by Victor Koman.
My practical education is wide-ranging but rather shallow. I have a variety of Boy Scout knowhow, several years of experience in the martial arts and consider myself a connoisseur of cheap pens.
Pages I've made significant contributions to
These are some selected pages I've made more than cosmetic changes to. They're chosen mostly on the spur of the moment, when I notice something too bare or too ugly to leave alone.
Anne Geddes (SCARY) -
AMD K5 -
Bok choy -
Boruvka's algorithm -
Canon EOS -
Canon EOS 10D -
Canon EOS 300D -
Catharine MacKinnon -
Cerebus the Aardvark -
CHILL programming language -
Christopher Commission -
Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums -
David E. Hughes -
John Perry -
John Stoltenberg -
Kings of the High Frontier -
Library of Congress Classification and most pages under it -
List of moments of inertia -
List of The Twilight Zone episodes reformatted a few; maybe someone else will take up the slack -
Mauve -
Omega (TeX) -
Space activity suit -
Tan (color) -
Victor Koman -
William Henry Preece -
Willimantic River -
Willimantic, Connecticut -
Windham Textile and History Museum
Category:Digital cameras -
Category:Harry Potter -
Category:Fictional -
Category:Matrix series -
Template:US currency and coinage -
Wikipedia:Categorization
meta:Article validation
The images I've contributed can be seen on my images page.
Projects
Large and/or ongoing work
- Add nice versions of the cm fonts (via Metafont's printing capabilities) to A, B, ...
- Occasionally work on Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links.
- Convert every GIF I can find into a PNG.
- Work more on this project (http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_on_fr_with_no_interwiki_link_to_en).
- Spruce up pages like Preacher, Strangers In Paradise, etc.
- Use this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Template:Regnum) to find taxoboxes to update to use the new syntax.
- List obsolete thumbnails on images for deletion.
- Create modular langbox templates like the current taxobox templates. Put them on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Language Template and ask for review, then start replacing all that table kibble with the templates.
Quick notes to self
- Read In the Beginning Was the Command Line (http://www.spack.org/wiki/InTheBeginningWasTheCommandLine).
- Add ZSNES or SNES9x screenshots to Final Fantasy VI. Also move Final Fantasy 1 to Final Fantasy I, for consistency.
- Take a picture of the mill museum and add it to Windham Textile and History Museum.
- Look into the differences between dvipng and dvi2bitmap in PNG creation for wikitex. (It's in the extensions part of the CVS tree now.)
- Image:Kde3.1-screenshot.jpeg is a JPEG where it should be a PNG. It's also in the wrong place (doesn't make sense where it is), and 260k. Make a replacement.
- Image:Flatbed scanner 240x300.jpg is small, and not very pretty. Make a better one.
- Illustrate pita.
- Get my copy of Structures: Why Things Don't Fall Down back from whoever I lent it to, and use it to update the article on ballistae. (Damn it, ballistae were better than catapults! No weapon until cannon could knock down stone walls after the technology of the ballista was lost in the dark ages!)
- Scan a better version of Image:Oheaviside.jpg.
- Get a larger version of Image:Rabin at peace talks.jpg
- Get a better version of Image:Hard-drive-allsorts-1990s-s.jpg (from [1] (http://www.redhill.net.au/id.html)? Mail and ask...)
- Get permission [2] (http://www.dpreview.com/misc/feedback.asp?to=phil) to illustrate the digital camera models.
- Fix the artifact on Image:Guayule plants.jpg by going to the USDA site and getting another copy of it.
- Illustrate 7400 series.
Last update: grendel|khan 21:25, 2004 Aug 31 (UTC)
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