Timwi

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I am Timwi. Find out more about me on this page. POV: I don't tend to have politics. I am largely uninvolved with political matters; I don't vote, and I don't tend to think good or bad about any particular political party, politician, country, etc. This may or may not be the reason why I don't tend to get involved in Wikipedia:Edit war. Copyright: All ''textual'' contributions of mine are multi-licensed. I accept both the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/ 1.0] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ 2.0]. All ''images'' I upload, provided they are not screenshots or other fair-use material, are public domain. Where this is not possible, I licence them to anyone without restriction under a licence that reads, ''"Permission is granted to use the licenced work for any purpose without restriction, including declaring it 'public domain'."''. Interests: In real life, my main interests are computing, programming, music (piano and guitar) and languages. On Wikipedia, however, the spectrum of articles that I have ever edited is wide; this is largely due to the fact that most of my contributions are spelling corrections and minor things like that. The few major contributions of mine are listed in the following section. == Pages I've worked on (a little) == Mostly, I make only slight corrections (spelling, grammar) and insert a few extra points of information here and there, or engage in purely organisational or maintenance tasks. The only pages to which I have majorly contributed so far are (in chronological order of my contribution): * Stationary point (June 8, 2003) — Originally at Extremum, I wrote a little stub about this. I then made the newbie's no-no of copying & pasting the page to its new home instead of using the ''move'' function. By now, I have found a way of merging the histories. * Vulcan (Star Trek) (June 14, 2003) — Rewrote this article. * List of fictional birds (June 18, 2003) — Started this article from scratch. * Example Scrabble tournament game (June 23, 2003) and Scrabble scoring examples (July 14, 2003) — These articles contained HTML tables to represent Scrabble board positions. Needless to say, they were huge. I wrote a Perl script that converted the HTML tables to a Delphi program which in turn generated images from it. * Graham scan (December 8, 2003) — I wrote this article from scratch. * 47 (number) (originally Forty-seven) (December 9, 2003) — I wrote this article from scratch, although it was based on 40 (number) (then Forty). * List of Disney characters (December 11, 2003) — I spent a whole day researching what character was from what film and remade the entire page using a Perl script that you can find on the Talk page. * List of computer-animated films (December 12, 2003) — Created this list from scratch. * LiveJournal (December 13, 2003) — I spent a whole day creating the "timeline" section from scratch, rummaging through old entries in official LiveJournal communities to find links to add. * S2 programming language (January 23/January 29, 2004) — I wrote this article from scratch. * Wikipedia:Navigational templates (originally Wikipedia:MediaWiki custom elements) (February 28, 2004) — I created this when Wikipedia:MediaWiki custom messages (now Wikipedia:Template messages) was obviously getting too big and clunky. * Scottish Qualifications Authority, Standard Grade, Higher Grade, Advanced Higher Grade (March 1, 2004) — It took me a pretty long time to notice these were missing and I had to start them... * Time hierarchy theorem (March 3, 2004) — I contributed the proof for the deterministic time hierarchy theorem. * Alley Cat, PC speaker (March 6, 2004) — Some old-time PC games nostalgy. * List of grammatical cases (March 14, 2004) — Not really done by me (but rather by my friend User:N-true), but I fixed it up into Wikipedia format. And yes, he gave me permission to licence it as GFDL. * List of sets of unrelated songs with identical titles (March 21, 2004) — Well, I only started this page with a few entries, but seeing as it has grown considerably since then, it seems that someone to start the page was badly needed... * In the Hands of the Prophets (April 23, 2004) — An episode of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' which didn't have an article yet, and which I felt had such an obvious relation to a real-world controversy that it really should have an article. I originally thought the episode's title was "Blasphemy" because it is called "Blasphemie" in German. * Zurab Tsereteli (June 12, 2004) — This is my first attempt at starting a whole new article about something that has no intersection with my knowledge or even interest. * King of the Zoo (August 2, 2004) — My favourite GameBoy game, but no-one else's. * Diploma in Computer Science (August 11, 2004) — One of the two courses I took at the University of Cambridge. (The other was the Mathematics Tripos.) I wrote this article from scratch. * Seamless branching (February 13, 2004) — Started this article from scratch. Although it was more than a stub, it was not very informative. * Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia (April 12, 2005) — I ripped this idea off the German Wikipedia. * Vuk (May 23, 2005) — Couldn't believe the best Hungarian animated film didn't have an article. So I made it. == Files I have uploaded == * Pictures taken by myself: ** :Image:Trinity College, Cambridge - Great Gate.jpg and :Image:Trinity College, Cambridge - Great Court.jpg (February 18, 2004) ** :Image:Pembroke College, Cambridge.jpg (June 6, 2004) ** :Image:Peterhouse College, Cambridge.jpg (June 6, 2004) ** ''':Image:St. Catherine's College, Cambridge.jpg''' (June 6, 2004) *** (Yes, I know I've spelt the name of the college wrong in the filename.) *** (It was annoyingly hard to find a place to take a picture that wouldn't be entirely obstructed by the trees and cars.) ** ''':Image:St. John's College, Cambridge.jpg (June 6, 2004) ** :Image:Newnham College, Cambridge (1).jpg (November 13, 2004) ** :Image:Newnham College, Cambridge (2).jpg (November 13, 2004) ** :Image:Selwyn College, Cambridge.jpg (November 13, 2004) ** :Image:Wolfson College, Cambridge (2).jpg (November 13, 2004) * Pictures taken by others: ** :Image:Kings College, Cambridge.jpg and :Image:Kings College, Cambridge, Chapel.jpg (May 28, 2004) (taken by Roman, a friend of mine) ** :Image:Emmanuel College, Cambridge.jpg (June 6, 2004) (taken by User:Spottedowl) ** :Image:Faculty of Law, Cambridge.jpg (November 13, 2004) (taken by Gordon, another student) ** :Image:Mathematical Bridge, Cambridge, large.jpg (November 13, 2004) (also taken by Gordon) ** :Image:Wolfson College, Cambridge (1).jpg (November 13, 2004) (also taken by Gordon) * Non-picture files: ** :Media:Milgram experiment.ogg (April 15, 2005) — my recording of Milgram experiment ** :Media:Split infinitive.ogg (April 16, 2005) — my recording of Split infinitive ** :Media:Berliner (pastry).ogg (April 18, 2005) — my not-quite-serious recording of Berliner (pastry) ** :Media:Peer review.ogg''' (April 19, 2005) — my recording of Peer review == Other stuff I've done == * On February 14, 2004, I started the Navigational Elements Craze (using what was the MediaWiki namespace then and is the Template namespace now) [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Timwi&diff=next&oldid=2390337] before the Categories system came into being. Now I'm advocating the idea of replacing the navigational elements with categories, but apparently some people want to keep my original idea... * On March 15, 2004, I have fixed about three to four thousand double-redirects. I wish people were more conscious of the fact that moving a page creates double-redirects that they should go and fix. Even better yet, the software should do it automatically, but with the current database schema, this is infeasible. For some time thereafter, I've been downloading the database dump almost every week and fixed all double-redirects I found in it. I think about half of my contributions were double-redirect fixes at the time. * On April 21/April 22, 2004, I added the German-language sound files to common phrases in different languages as well as German alphabet. I also persuaded a Russian speaker to add the Russian recordings to the former. * On June 3, 2004, I added a recording of the German numbers to numbers in various languages. ==Modifications I've made to the software== I've also contributed by making modifications to MediaWiki, the software that powers Wikipedia: * On July 11, 2003, I made a major modification to the way apostrophes are converted into bold and italics. Previously it was done using just two simple regular expressions. As a result, two pentuple-apostrophes (''''') in a line would cause invalid HTML to be generated (<strong><em>Text</strong></em>). I corrected this by replacing the regular expressions with a Tail recursion function (somewhat akin to a finite state machine). Later, the software was developed further and used a tokenizer, but this turned out to be inefficient, and so my function was reinstated. * On February 8, 2004, I made it so that self-links (links that point to the page they're on) are removed and the link text instead displayed in bold. The motivation were those navigational elements mentioned in the previous section, so they clearly show what page you're currently on. It seems that this feature was pretty well-received in the Wikipedia community. * Typing three tildes inserts your username, four tildes inserts your username and the current time in UTC, and due to me since March 21, 2004, five tildes insert just the current time. It seems, however, that not enough people need this feature for it to become known. * On August 6, 2004, I completely remade the apostrophe handling mentioned above. The problem was that in some languages (especially French), you often get things like l'''homme'', which you probably want to produce "l'''homme''" instead of interpreting the triple-apostrophe as "open bold". It is no longer a tail-recursive function, but simply a for loop. * I have not updated this list recently. Since I finished my Diploma Dissertation, I had had time to fix many more bugs and create many more features. My most notable contribution that is currently in CVS (but not on the live site yet) is the Recent Changes Patrol, and I am currently working on a lex/yacc parser to replace the current PHP not-really-a-parser. I have also rewritten Special:Allpages at some point because its database queries were just too inefficient. ==Miscellaneous== * I recruited from Trinity College, Cambridge: User:Caesium, User:Mywyb2 and User:Legorol * I recruited from LiveJournal: User:Applejade, User:Beginning, User:Csogilvie, User:Dottey, User:Kitambi, User:Mendel, User:Nyxie, User:Rho, User:Rydel and User:Spottedowl * I know from LiveJournal: User:Brian Kendig, User:Freso, User:Pne, and User:Ralesk * I was recruited by User:Chuck SMITH. * User:TheCustomOfLife used my User info box (the one in the top right corner). I'm honoured! hi:सदस्य:Timwi la:Usor:Timwi ms:Pengguna:Timwi vo:User:Timwi

Timwi

User talk:Timwi/Archive == The Latin language revival == You deleted my paragraph below on the grounds that it was an 'incoherent POV rant'. I don't know what POV is, but I don't think what I wrote was incoherent, and to call it a rant is quite an undeserved insult. The fact is that there is a Latin language revival movement that has even created a Latin wikipedia, so I think it's only fair to speak about it on that page. Now, how would you suggest turning my paragraph into a coherent, non ranting one so that you won't decide to delete it? Or can any of what I said be denied, and in particular that the Latin language revival has not so far received the same attention from authorities, either cultural or political, that other language revivals are receiving? I'm hardly ranting, I just ask you to find a wording that won't make you delete my work. Thanks in advance. On the other end of the spectrum, the most emblematic language of European education throughout the centuries, which gave a cultural cohesion to the continent across all of her universities until the aforementioned period, continues to be neglected by all authorities, either cultural or political, and despite a precariously growing number of Living_Latin. : It is incoherent because the reader is left to guess what the "most emblematic language of European education" is. It is POV (see Wikipedia:NPOV about this) because different people may have different opinions on its "emblematicness", about whether it "gave a cultural cohesion to the continent", and your claim that it "continues to be neglected" implicitly attributes some level of importance to it which is also POV. I flagged it as a "rant" because the paragraph seems to aim less at conveying information, and more at criticising those who don't acknowledge your perceived importance of Latin or don't give it what you perceive as adequate attention. — P.S. please create a user account and sign your messages. Thank you. — User:Timwi 22:41, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC) :: I grant that 'the reader is left to guess what the "most emblematic language of European education" is', and that can easily be rectified. I also agree that 'different people may have different opinions on its "emblematicness"', so I'll change that; but I don't see how it can be denied that it "gave a cultural cohesion to the continent" at least at an academic level, as it was the official language of university for centuries. Maybe I should just add that 'academy' precision. I have still to check the link about POV, but I'm a bit confused about your claim that my words "continues to be neglected" implicitly attribute some level of importance to it. On a merely human basis, I think we all attribute 'some level of importance to our languages', so I confess I do so about mine; I just think it's an acknowledged human and linguistic right to do it. But, as I said, I'll read the POV info to check what's so wrong with this. :: It's fair enough to say that the paragraph may seem to 'aim less at conveying information, and more at criticising those who don't acknowledge your perceived importance of Latin or don't give it what you perceive as adequate attention.' It did aim at conveying information, but also, at the same time, I admit it, at pointing out a situation of abandonment. Again, can this fact not be stated without being accused of ranting? How can one describe poverty, violence, abuse, abandonment, famine, etc. without seeming to criticise someone or something? :: Also, can you tell me how to create a user account to sign my messages? Thank you. ::: I'm not sure if arguing with me is going to be particularly helpful; I'm not much of an expert neither on the topic of language revival, nor on Wikipedia:NPOV. But I think you should take a look around Wikipedia, especially the :Category:Wikipedia guidelines (no, you don't have to read all of it before editing). Also have a look at the Wikipedia:Introduction, the guideline to Wikipedia:sign your posts on talk pages, and... you create an account by clicking "create an account" (top right corner). See also Wikipedia:Why create an account. — User:Timwi 13:21, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC) :::: Who should I argue with, as it was you who considered yourself with the authority to delete a paragraph I had considered useful? Now you say you are no expert on the topic of language revival, or on Wikipedia:NPOV? In any case, I hope the new paragraph passes your criteria. I'll try to become more conversant with editing policies. Thanks also for the tip on creating an account. I should have seen it myself, sorry. Avitus. ::::: Your new version is much better. :-) Thanks for fixing it. — By the way, just because I deleted it doesn't necessarily mean that I have the "authority" to decide what goes in an article and what doesn't. I am editor just like you; I make judgements in good faith, but I make mistakes. I don't really consider this a mistake, though, because clearly it helped you improve that paragraph significantly. :-) Maybe my edit summary, which you took as offensive, was a mistake though. So I apologise. — P.S. have a look at Wikipedia:sign your posts on talk pages and use the quadruple-tilde to sign your messages. — User:Timwi 20:25, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC) :::::: Thank you for your very constructive approach. I agree the paragraph is much more objective now. It's just that deletions make one feel so powerless. Discussion is always better, although it's probably only my fault for not having a wikipedia account yet. Regarding signature, etc. please bear with me, I have a lot to learn yet about wikipedia. Cheers for now though. Avitus User:62.137.150.24 == S2 link == Look at Talk:Singapore Changi Airport passenger traffic by airline. There is a discussion between me and the article's creator about the code links in the article that that is the talk page for. No one but me and the article's creator appears to have been in the discussion up to this moment. Who, between me and the article's creator, do you think is being more logical (please explain with your own opinions.) User:Georgia guy 14:43, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC) : Although I am not entirely sure why you contacted me about this (just because I edited S2?), I am happy that you did because I also hate it when people insert links like those. :-) — User:Timwi 15:41, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Double redirects == Hi Timwi, I wrote my own software to detect double redirects; I was validating its output when I noticed you had already fixed a vast majority of the articles that my software identified. Nice job I must say. I have a question: Are you checking the following: * redirects that exist at a name that is canonically identical to the name they point at * redirects that redirect to disambiguation pages I only ask because I wanted to explore these but I don't want to duplicate work with you. Thanks and keep up the good work. User:Triddle 09:31, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC) : The answer to both is no, I'm afraid :) — My script is fully automatic. Both of the cases you mention require manual intervention (for the first one, I would check if an appropriate article exists elsewhere, if not delete the redirect; in the second case, you would need to find out which of the links in the disambiguation page it would be most sensible to redirect to). — The only reason I wrote the script is because I realised that many people are leaving double-redirects behind when they move pages. Because of that, I search for double-redirects by scanning Recent Changes. — User:Timwi 22:48, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC) == MediaZilla skin == I see the one you uploaded to http://download.wikimedia.org/bugzilla/, but it doesn't seem to be complete: it puts the side bar under the page. Is there any way you can put the current one there? : I didn't upload it there; User:Brion VIBBER must have put it there. And no, I don't have it anymore. Please contact Brion as he has access to the actual MediaZilla server. But my guess would be that the file there is complete and you've made a mistake or done something wrong. Since I'm not an expert at this, and I did it a long time ago, and I've lost interest in it, I'm afraid I can't help you. — User:Timwi 22:52, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC) == TNG pages == STOP! Read the project's naming conventions: Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek. Please understand before you revert next time. User:Cburnett 21:48, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC) : I have read those so-called "naming conventions" and I strongly disagree that they should have a right to override the global naming conventions of Wikipedia as a whole. If a page "XYZ" redirects to "XYZ (something)" then the latter should be moved to the former rather than adding those useless parentheses to every single link to it. The parentheses are for disambiguation, but there is nothing to disambiguate here. — User:Timwi 21:54, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC) :: There are at some articles such as Coming of Age or Emissary. ST episode lists have been "plagued" by false linking and using the dab technique on all pages ensures there's no false linking. User:Cburnett 22:02, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC) ::: Oh, so instead you ensure that everything not only violates Wikipedia style guidelines, but everything links to loads of redirects too. — Sorry, but I'm not happy with that. — User:Timwi 22:14, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC) :::: You speak with big words when they don't apply. From WP:MOS: :::::''The following rules don't claim to be the last word. One way is often as good as another.'' :::: From WP:RULES: :::::''Those who edit in good faith, show civility, seek consensus, and work towards the goal of creating an impartial encyclopedia, should find a welcoming environment.'' :::: ...all of which are being followed. :::: Maybe when all the articles exist and the episode lists aren't riddled with red links then the convention can be dropped. But right now, this one small facet of WP's style guide is more of a hinderance than a benefit. User:Cburnett 22:22, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

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