Infiniti4

Currently, I am afflicted with the following projects:

This user participates in
WikiProject Chess.

This user participates in
WikiProject Singapore.

I am on a mission to revitalize the computer chess articles on wikipedia. As of now, I have "completely rewritten" the following articles:
Houdini (chess)
HIARCS
Komodo (chess)
Naum (chess)
Critter (chess)
Zappa (chess)

I have also created the following new articles:
Thoresen Chess Engines Competition

Look forward for more contributions shortly. ∞4 (talk) 06:13, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not my full-time job, its just a hobby I do on the side. I am currently a student at university, and studying takes up most of my time.

A Rant

I am also fairly new to Wikipedia (30 days ago I had less than 30 edits, mostly minor... and now, I have crossed 150!), which means, its been a learning process for me. The greatest hurdle has been formatting (and mind you, syntax is relatively friendly to me, being a programmer myself), and in spite of the newly released Visual Editor suite, its still quite a pain. Half the things you want to do, the Visual Editor either lacks the function, or screws it up altogether. Wiki-markup is nice once you know it, but the learning-curve is so high, especially if you have never seen or "tasted" a markup language before, that I have absolutely no idea, how on earth wikipedians convince themselves that it is OK??? As a new user, I can say very bluntly--Wikipedia is not user-friendly, and not even close! ... despite all you folks out there who seem to think it is.

Younger people who come from the "texting/social-media" generation are going to find it dreadfully hard, if not impossible, to understand why editing Wikipedia still deals with "code", as if its the 90s! Well, if your argument is--

"If those texting/social-networking folks can't write long sentences, we might as well not have them, as their contributions would only create more problems. It would "amateurize" Wikipedia and turn it into a (god-forbid!) social network! We don't want them."

Now hear me... I can say this because for many years, I have been wanting to contribute, but at every turn, on every attempt, had been turned off because of its complex markup language and very long, long introductory articles about "Getting Started". I decided to give it a go once more after I heard about the Visual Editor tool. Though, it did help me get started, and my recent knowledge (and familiarity) with programming languages and computer code sure helped ease my transition into wiki-markup. Now, would you call my contributions as amateurish or insignificant? Sure, there aren't many yet, as I have just got started, but would you say that Wikipedia is just fine without me (a texting/social-media generation person)? I think not. Wikipedia, especially at this juncture, needs to attract as many new editors as it can. I am sure there are many, many talented people out there who have simply shied away from Wikipedia due to its complexities. I wonder how great Wikipedia could be if only that ease-of-entry, that learning curve could be tamed down. As of today, I believe Wikipedia is far from achieving that goal and I fear for the future of Wikipedia. ∞4 (talk) 06:13, 26 October 2013 (UTC)