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I'm an embedded systems computer engineer currently living in Kongsberg (but hailing from Kristiansund), Norway. My wikilife began a little after 2 AM on 18 August 2003, when I started contributing to WKP
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(and soon thereafter contracted a mild to intermediate (?) form of wikipediholism, which, a year and a half later, resulted in my promotion to adminship).
Being of an exceedingly leptosomatic physical build, and having had far too many hobbies and interests during my childhood and youth to care much for doing sports myself (as opposed to watching them), I have really excelled in only one sport: dodgeball. :) However, I immensely enjoy recreational back-country skiing, in particular the combination of cross-country and "powder snow skiing" (slightly downhillish, off-piste). And mountain hiking.
Contents:Wikipedical interestsTo-do listInterwikiEdit summary codes#ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZLink subdirectoryMy sandbox
Wikipedical interests
My encyclopaedic editing interests revolves mainly around the following:
- the history of computing and space exploration (and more broadly the history of technology)
- retrocomputing: 1970s/80s home computers and peripherals, centering on CBM's 8-bit products
- my darker side(?) is taken care of by a bent towards military history and advanced weapon systems, particularly missile systems and submarines/U-boats
- favourite (science-)fictional characters, brilliantly played: Phlox, Capt. Picard, Cdr. Data, and Ripley
- a more ungeekly, and very Nordic/Germanic, fascination: the winter sport biathlon
- last, but not least, I do a bit of editing on Norwegian matters, including Norwegian-Americans
Routine work
Besides writing/editing articles, much of my effort on Wikipedia has tended to go into maintenance:
Interwiki
My user accounts on other Wikimedia sites (besides other language editions of Wikipedia, for which see the left margin):
Edit summary codes
I use a number of abbreviations in my edit summaries. Many of the abbrevs are the standard ones, to be found in official Edit summary legend, while others are my own more or less self-devised ones (some infrequently used std abbrevs might also be listed below). Why do this? 1) for the obvious reason: it's quicker, hence no reason to drop the summary; and 2) contributors in doubt of the meanings will most probably come here to find out.
Affixes
(i.e. prefixes and suffixes, marked in this table with a hyphen behind or before, respectively)
- -d -- indicating simple past tense
- de- -- ind'n reversion
- -ed -- similar to "-d"
- -fn -- "-(i)fication" (cf. the code "fn")
- -'ly -- ind'n adverbfn
- -n -- "-sion"/"-tion" (notice the absence of an apostrophe, cf. "-'n")
- -'n -- "-ing" (i.e., ind'n progressive tense) (notice the apostr)
- non- -- set membership negation
- re- -- ind'n repetition (cf. codes "re:" and "#re-")
- -s -- ind'n plural form
- sub- -- ind'n hierarchy level -= 1; cascadable
- un- -- negation/reversion, dep on ctxt
Codes
(used more or less consistently by me today, and eventually, hopefully, by more wikipedians)
# (symbols)
- § -- paragraph (same as pgph)
- ¶ -- paragraph (same as pgph)
- #re -- #redirect
- \n -- newline
A
- ab -- about
- adn -- addition
- apostr -- apostrophe
- artl -- article
B
- bp#re -- bypass #redirect (same as de#re)
- btm -- bottom (of artl, page, etc)
- byp#red -- same as bp#re
C
- c12n -- capitalization (of first letter in words; cf. "ucase")
- cat -- category/ize
- char -- character
- chg -- change
- chrono- -- chronological (of reo or sorting)
- clfn -- clarification
- clfy -- clarify
- clmn -- column
- cm -- comment
- cmb -- combine
- corr -- correct(ion)
- cpn -- caption (of imgs)
- ctxt -- context
- cyc -- cyclical
D
- dab -- disambiguate
- delim -- delimiter
- dep -- depending/depends
- dup -- duplicate
E
- elab -- elaborate (verb or noun, dep on ctxt)
- estb -- establish(ed)
F
- func -- function
- fn -- same as "func", used where unambiguous
G
H
- hdg -- heading
- hrz -- horizontal
I
- idx -- index
- indt(n) -- indent(ation)
J
K
L
- lcase -- lowercaseify all letters of a word (cf. "ucase")
- ln -- line
M
- mdl -- middle ("in the mdl of sth...")
- mnr -- minor
- mv -- move
N
O
P
- prcn -- preciseification
- plcmt -- placement (of imgs etc)
- pgph -- paragraph (same as §)
Q
R
- rdun -- redundant
- re: -- regarding
- #re, #red -- #redirect (but cf. the prefix "re-")
- refac -- refactor(ization) (splitting and/or cmb'n pgrphs)
- reo -- reorganiz(e/ation) (e.g., changing the plcmt of lns/items)
- resp. -- respectively
- rm -- remove
- rvsn -- reversion
S
- sec -- section
- sep -- separate (verb or noun, dep on ctxt)
- spc -- space
- src -- wkp article source text
- sth -- "something"
T
U
- ucase -- uppercaseify all letters of a word (cf. "c12n")
- upd -- update (of lks after mvs, for example)
V
W
- wfn -- wikification
- wfy -- wikify, i.e. fix fmt, lks, secs, etc
- wkp -- wikipedia[1]
- w -- with
- w/o -- without
X
Y
Z