LAMurakami

LAMurakami (talk)

February 2020

Last year I got away with a huge improvement of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) page. The 09:45, 25 May 2019 version of the page had multiple issues and had been updated mostly by ARSC or other University of Alaska employees after it was no longer really a "Supercomputer" center. Since ARSC had not existed in over three years interest in the page by University of Alaska employees had greatly diminished. I added dozens of references to make the page a lot about it's history of having some of the 500 most powerful commercially available computer systems known for more than a decade. I was also able to update the High Performance Computing Modernization Program page where all references to ARSC had been erased.

December 2019

I donated $2.75 to Wikipedia in spite of my disappointment for more than 10 years with editing on Wikipedia. This is my first donation and I will donate again becasue Wikipedia, even with my disappointments about editing on Wikipedia, is better than no Wikipedia at all. I would donate more and would have donated before if I was happy about how easy it is to add to publicly available knowledge by editing on Wikipedia.

A note about the Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2019 was added to this page possibly because of my wining on this page about the editing process. I did not actually vote on anything or even do much research on the process. I do not want to be a full time editor on Wikipedia. I do like Wikipedia as a reference and want to fix things if wrong, incomplete or missing. I want to make Wikipedia better and wish that it was easier for the casual user. After more than 10 years since my first edit attempts I understand a lot more about the "culture" of Wikipedia editors and can better avoid negative experiences while editing. This year I have made a number of successful edits mostly related to the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center where I used to work up until the day it ceased to exist. I did delete the ArbCom 2019 election voter message that was added by User:Cyberpower678@enwiki and since this is Wikipedia it is still in the history.

November 2016

When I originally got a wikipedia account and started posting I did not realize how difficult it would be to improve and add to wikipedia content. It is likely I have not contributed money to wikipedia because of my experiences trying to edit wikipedia pages. I really wanted to know I could contribute content and the site would continue to get better and stay around. The site is getting better and I believe it will stay around but I have resigned myself to living with the fact that I just have to move past errors and omissions I see in wikipedia because of time constraints.

February 2014

I renamed the Environment Modules (software) page with comments after briefly reviewing the Wikipedia:Moving a page and Wikipedia:Article titles. I had already added a couple of links and continued with adding a Software Infobox, Installing, making one of the existing external link an inline citation in the introduction and adding an additional citation. I then removed the stub template from the article but left all the branding on Talk:Environment Modules (software) when I added a comment there.

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Environment Modules (software) may have broken the syntax by modifying 6 "<>"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 01:56, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

• The above bot posted on my talk page but did not directly change my edits. This is more friendly than other bots I have experienced in the past. The section of mention is a code section and maybe doesn't need to be in the wikipedia page. I have made a lot more changes since the bot spoke and have definitely improved the page. LAMurakami (talk) 04:19, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

June 2013

In 2013 I created a private mediawiki instance which is also an element that releives me from some of the discomfort of wrong, incomplete or missing data on Wikipedia because I can easily document what I see. This has become part of my private Web 2.0 site that has existed since the beginning of this century and since 2017 is cloned to an AWs private cloud daily. There is still many times I see articles on Wikipedia I would update if it didn't take so much time.

December 2011

I significantly updated the Palimpsest Disk Utility article and added a link to it to the List of disk partitioning software article. When done I decided the article was now notable and removed the notability warning. Not knowing if somebody would decide I am not qualified to say an article is notable, I made a note in the discussion page before doing this. All this was because I noticed Disk Utility could not re-size a logical volume on a machine I had freshly installed CentOS on and eventually found this documented at places other than Wikipedia. During the process I noticed the stub header on the Palimpsest Disk Utility article and the lack of a link to it on the List of disk partitioning software article. I haven't updated many Wikipedia articles since my experience with the Wikipedia community last year. I am still gun-shy about what I am allowed to do on Wikipedia. O.K. maybe that's an exaggeration but I don't have the time to fight those that are sure that they are helping Wikipedia to get the content I am sure should be there to stick. LAMurakami (talk) 23:14, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

June 2010

I added

• Brain Fuck Scheduler

This is the name of a new scheduler that is considered better for small systems by many. The article does exist on wikipedia with that name. BFS is the default scheduler for PCLinuxOS 2010.

I added this link to the Scheduling (computing) and Completely Fair Scheduler pages in the See also section which resulted in ClueBot automatically reverting the changes and labeled the changes as unconstructive and vandalism based on a minor change with obscenities.

I logged the changes false positives and will try them again.

I tried a second time on the Scheduling (computing) page and this time Susfele reverted the change. It was done so fast that I am quite certain that the comments I made on this page and when logging the changes as false positives were not read.

I give up.

Because of the name of the scheduler the wikipedia community will not allow it to be linked to and thus wikipedia loses value because of clueless censorship.

• Clueless yes, on my part. I did erroneously revert your edits. I have tried to restore them and to remove the warning messages I left. Don't give up!! Susfele (talk) 23:04, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Legitimate edits

I have removed the two warnings that I posted to your page. I apologize for reverting your edits and for posting warnings to your page. I have restored your edit to Scheduling (computer). Susfele (talk) 22:58, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

And the same goes for me, sorry I didn't realise there was such a thing. Though why you automatically went to a final warning I've no idea! --5 albert square (talk) 23:16, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

O.K. I gave up a bit two fast and Susfele restored one edit. It sometimes takes a lot of work to get information into wikipedia but with persistence a legitimate change can be made even when it contains a banned word.

When I made the second again now another user 5 albert square is protecting wikipedia. Again this user is reverting a change first without bothering to look at my page even when they are posting warnings to my page.

This time I really have to give up because I don't have the time right now.

One day I might try to add this scheduler to other scheduler pages such as O(1) Scheduler when I have the time to do it multiple times. I had kinda started on a RedHat magazine article titled: Choosing an I/O Scheduler for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and the 2.6 Kernel.

• 5 albert square also reverted his edit. The word "fuck" isn't banned in this context; it's just that it's a word that often occurs in an unconstructive edit. When you add this scheduler to other articles it might help you out to put something on the article's talk page that contains a link to a reliable source discussing the BFS. Then use the edit summary to say something like "The BFS does exist; please see article talk." There aren't any guarantees that your edit won't be reverted as vandalism, but it probably will improve your odds. Best regards, Susfele (talk) 23:44, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the constructive comment on my talk page Susfele after reverting your edit. I have noted that although my favorite Linux distro now uses this scheduler it is rarely refferred to using the full name. An example is this article: Spotlight on Linux: PCLinuxOS 2010 | Linux Journal LAMurakami (talk) 00:26, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Using the initials is a good idea. Using the initials won't trigger Cluebot or those of us who see the word and assume vandalism. You are linking to the Wikipedia article about the BFS which spells out the name, so the full name becomes available for those who need to know. The only down side I see is that the names of other schedulers are spelled out in full (at least in Scheduling (computing)), so using only initials would introduce an inconsistency in the article. For what it's worth, the University of New Mexico has a PDF online comparing the performance of the BFS with the CFS. It's here. Susfele (talk) 14:59, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Of course, the obvious flaw in my thinking is that to link to the BFS article you have to incorporate the whole phrase in your edit. I looked to see if a redirect could be made from BFS to the article page, but since BFS is already a disambiguation page I don't see any way to do that. Wish I could be more help. Susfele (talk) 16:12, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Walter Görlitz

Yep, he has a big problem with making Wikipedia more accessible to as many people as possible. I gave up too. Usually the one more willing to edit war wins, so I just gave up too.--JOJ ^Hutton 23:03, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Not really. I have a problem with using Wikipedia to advertise products. It's an encyclopedia first and foremost. Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:31, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Walter Görlitz also removed my comment from his talk page. I created a citation only for the Android MintRedmine application on the Redmine which is directly related. I do like Wikipedia but just can't fight those that have the time and heavy handedness to stop me from contributing. LAMurakami (talk) 04:56, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Here is the comment heavy handed Walter removed from his talk page:

I will quit trying to improve Wikipedia for now.

I added a reference to the Google app already in the Redmine article in an attempt to improve the section cited as needing inprovment and you deleted the whole section including the needs improvement. I don't have time for this now so I guess you win by making sure the article has less content including one less reference. I again don't understand how this improves Wikipedia. LAMurakami (talk) 22:44, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

2008

I created this talk page in 2008 with the following three statements:

• I have been a wiki lurker for years and increasingly an advocate.
• I believe the main ways to contribute to wiki is financial support and content creation.
• I intend to be a public contributor in both ways but will start with just a toe in the waters.

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