User:Kku

Wikipedia editor

Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I'm feeling just great, guys, and I know I'm just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me!

About me

This user is interested in the natural sciences.

This user is interested in environmentalism.

This user is interested in linguistics.

This user contributes to OpenStreetMap.

C-5

This user is a professional C programmer.

C++

This user can program in C++.

UML-3

This user has an advanced understanding of UML.

C#-3

This user is an advanced C# programmer.

Java-3
ꦏ

This user has an advanced understanding of the Javanese script.

Perl-3

This user is an advanced Perl programmer.

py-4

This user is an expert Python programmer.

mysql-4

This user is an expert MySQL programmer.

bash-4

This user is an expert Bash programmer.

SQL-5

This user is a professional SQL user.

awk-3

This user is an advanced AWK programmer.

sed-3

This user is an advanced sed programmer.

prog-4

This user is an expert programmer.

PhD

This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

This user lives in the German state of Hesse.

This user enjoys jazz music.

My work

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than twenty years.

Kku is an inclusionist.

incr

This editor is an incrementalist.

AAAS

This user has access to AAAS resources through The Wikipedia Library

This user contributes using Vim.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 21 years, 11 months and 13 days.

This user is ranked 2480 on the list of Wikipedians by articles created.

81,297+

This user has made over 81,297 contributions to Wikipedia

anonymous contributions

This editor is a Senior Editor and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star.

Contact

Special:EmailUser/Kku

Greetinx

Wikipedia:Babel

de

Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.

en-4

This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.

fr-2

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

es-1

Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.

ru-1

Этот участник владеет русским языком на начальном уровне.

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I have been 'in' for more than 20 years now, going from excited fanatism to frustration and back again. I still tend to agree with the enthusiastic comments provided during the donation campaigns run previously.

Although I used to be more active in my native tongue, I drop by here more frequently, trying to push hyperlinking, internationalization, and contributing to things I feel fairly certain about (Jazz, biology, cybernetical issues, self-organization, others (see:user contributions)). I do hope the worst examples of germish / denglisch get cleaned up by somebody else after me...

Tools

Wikipedia:Tools

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Toolforge_tools

User contributions	New Reflinks	CopyPatrol		tab2wiki csv-wiki html2mediawiki mediawiki tables
Petscanprev. Catscan, searches categories (article count per... etc.)	Person search	My cite templates		citer convert isbn, doi, url to citation
Range contributions	X's tools: automated edits, more	My template collection		pageviews stats.grok.se (down) wikishark compare google trends
Range block calculator IPv6 range block	wikiblame find the authors of good, questionable, or copyrighted passages of an article	Intersect contribs		find_link interwiki linking helper, e.g. Find links for biodiversity loss
Autoblock finder	Wikichecker user activity	Σ's Editor Interact Tool
Page history statistics	Buttons and gizmos	external links search
All pages with prefix	Special:ComparePages	Wiki ViewStats	link count e.g. https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=wiki.riteme.site&page=Right%20to%20repair&namespaces=

Templates

Wikipedia:Template_index/Cleanup#Verifiability_and_sources

Overview

Bots

Wikipedia:Bots
- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/524751/the-shadowy-world-of-wikipedias-editing-bots/

Visualization

https://tools.wmflabs.org/seealsology/ http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/seealsology/
http://wiki.polyfra.me/ - 3D!!
~~http://en.inforapid.org/~~ gone offline, unfortunately
http://www.wikimindmap.org/ - requires Adobe Flash and Javascript
http://xefer.com/WIKIPEDIA all roads lead to philosophy
http://wiki.polyfra.me/#^[1]
User:Kku/categorytree

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https://listverse.com/2020/03/13/top-10-serious-problems-with-wikipedia/

Subpages

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My Wikisophy

Why WP keeps me fascinated and excited? Because it allows you to (learn how to) learn through teaching. I cannot think of a better way to structure my own thoughts than by writing them down and hyperlinking them. Usually, my understanding of a topic becomes rounded off only after going through a few cycles of reading, writing, linking - even if my starting information happens to be incomplete or faulty! Can there be a more satisfying moment than realizing that the relevant bits and pieces have fallen into place and you can see a lemma in its full context? For me, Wikipedia really is, not least, one gigantic mindmap (side remark: when will we see the "visual wiki" [1]?). I guess I would be hard pressed to name all the insights that WP has provided me with but they certainly amount to the number of my original contributions (whatever you might think about those). WP distinguishing feature - above all other knowledge repositories I know of - is its network structure. Simply no concept is left in murky solitude. And traditional paper browsing is replaced by one simple mouse click. What the WWW did for making information cross (political, geographical,...) boundaries, WP does for knowledge. -- Kku 12:34, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia: Wikid stuff. Pardon my wikicism. :-D

Misconceptions

https://xkcd.com/843/

Interesting and mostly timeless questions

relationship between hyped MapReduce and Divide and conquer algorithm, some insights may come from here [2]
relationship between strange loops, self-reference, recursion and metacognition.

Blots on the landscape

A striking effect of the WP-philosophy "be bold" is remarkably the dilution of knowledge. Aspects of lemmata get scattered all across several articles and the essential keywords and definitions get hidden underneath lots of (correct but) redundant, sometimes annoyingly wordy contributions. There is no obvious justification for the plethora of distracting info-bits that dilute many articles apart from the fact that people obviously like writing better than tidying up behind them. On the other extreme rarely anybody seems to care about cleaning up lots of redundant stubs that usually owe their existence to a sloppy "one-click" attitude. I admit nourishing a strong feeling of dislike towards this aspect of WP. That was one of my motivations for the following suggestion:

Countering dilution

Could we slowly stabilize WP using simulated annealing? Quite a while ago, I suggested that a "cooling" process could be initiated by slowly raising the minimum amount of reference information for matured articles with software aids like combo-boxes for reference type, etc. on top or instead of the underused comment line. (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/25805) That should cool down at least vandals or scatterbrains... ;).

Male cow's excrements

WP appears to be infested with marketing and management zombies. One of the better (or rather: worst) examples of their murky subversion would be an article like this. Too ugly for words. And certainly not encyclopedic.

I don't care much for bingo in any form. Truly horrific inspirations for the latter might be found in almost anything containing this

Spot them

This is good: http://www.trinitonian.com/2014/01/24/learn-your-crap-detection-skills-now/

Proliferation of pop

https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=en&project=wikipedia&depth=3&categories=mathematics&ns%5B0%5D=1&interface_language=en&active_tab=&doit=

compare with

https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=en&project=wikipedia&depth=3&categories=popular%20music&ns%5B0%5D=1&interface_language=en&active_tab=&doit=

Fictional worlds

Regarding the extraordinary number of fandom -related content, these have proven to be enormously useful: {{Overly detailed|date=March 2014}} {{Multiple issues|original research =March 2014|fansite=March 2014|examplefarm=March 2014}}

Sturgeon's law notwithstanding.

Old longing

Sometimes, just to mention it in passing, sometimes, there was a time when I wished I had admin rights... just like back home in the old times. As I now failed to make it through a second round, mostly on the grounds that I was contributing "too little":

It's not the number of edits, I think, that counts. (...long, hollow echoing, faint sound of lukewarm wind from nowhere...)

You can consequently do the ugly cleansing yourself, after all. Have fun, admins and beaurocrats of the world.

...updated

"Undo" does most of what I longed for. I still positively hate to see pages go without the slightest chance for the humble non-admin to resurrect any of the deleted contents, though.

UsabiliWHAT?

Insightful. At least if you lean back and squint a little. http://daggle.com/closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853

^ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/15/15-years-data-visualization/

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