About me
editI've been an editor on Wikipedia for a long time (coming up on nineteen years as of 2021). For the majority of those years now I've also been an administrator. I'm mostly interested in anything having to do with science, including but not limited to, evolution, encryption, astronomy, science fiction, SETI, and computer programming. Professionally, I'm a software engineer. I'm also interested in politics, mostly because of the negative influence on science it's been having lately. I am an unabashed naturalist. I also contribute on Meta and Commons.
Wikipedia programs
editI've written some programs to perform useful tasks on Wikipedia. All of them are released under the GNU General Public License.
- References converter. This converts articles that use the old {{ref}} and {{note}} system into the new <references /> system.
- Wiki Userbox Generator (formerly WikiFools). This program generates a slew of random userboxes. Some configuration options are available.
- Featured pictures generator. This looks at the contents of Wikipedia:Featured pictures and returns it in a nice gallery format (see here). I made this before I realized that Featured pictures visible exists. Whoops.
Bots
editI run one bot, although he handles a multitude of tasks:
My PGP public key ID is 0xFFA60567, expand for key:
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