User:J'raxis
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J’raxis 270145 (IPA: /ʤɨʔ·ˈɹæk·ˌsɪs/, Latin: Iraxius, Greek: Ιράξιος, Arabic: جِرَاكْسِزْ ) is a web application developer and web designer from Massachusetts.
J’raxis is the creator and primary maintainer of the website J’raxis·Com. The website first went online in 2000, but has existed in various manifestations at less concise URLs since September 13, 1996—for over nine years. It was taken offline for several months when its hosting server was compromised in mid-2003, and from August 11, 2003 until September 12, 2004, it sat mostly empty, with nothing but an index page claiming the site would be back online Real Soon Now™. On September 13, 2004, J’raxis finally began reposting the old site content, after completing the back-end templating system and having converted much of the old content to the new format. As of November 2005, most content has returned to the site, along with much new content.
J’raxis·Com currently uses an XSLT-based templating system to convert a custom-designed XML markup language (based on the XHTML 2.0 spec, with a number of custom additions) into XHTML 1.0 Strict. The back-end is entirely coded in PHP, using libxslt to apply the XSLT template. The site also employs CSS and light JavaScript, in order to be as standards-compliant and cross-platform as possible.
Besides maintaining J’raxis·Com, J’raxis spends most of his time idling on the DALnet IRC network in the # channel, usually using one of the nicks J^raxis, Iraxius, or jraxis. He is the founder of #, #Libertarian, #H, #J, and a few other channels; he is also an op in #Moqawama, #Chechnya, #Gentoo, and many others.
J’raxis posts often on Slashdot, Kuro5hin, and less frequently on other web discussion boards and weblogs.
J’raxis uses the GNU/Linux operating system and free software nearly exclusively. Originally using only Apple and Macintosh computers, J’raxis switched to Linux after working on Unix-based systems at his job and university. In late 2002, he began to use Linux From Scratch on a Toshiba laptop, Iraxia; in 2005, he began experimenting with Gentoo Linux, and currently runs Gentoo on an AMD64 desktop machine, Iraxia64.
Software that J’raxis has authored, including the code to J’raxis·Com, is released under the GPL. The J’raxis·Com content itself is mostly released under a Creative Commons license where possible.
J’raxis is a member of the Free State Project and the American Civil Liberties Union. J’raxis intermittently runs a 20 GiB Freenet node.
J’raxis is not the WIPO Troll.
[edit] Activity on Wikipedia
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J’raxis tends to disappear when the Wikipedia server becomes so overloaded that loading pages takes several minutes, logging in takes three times as long, and he gets randomly logged out between previewing an edit and submitting it. J’raxis should not be listed as a missing Wikipedian unless something has been posted here announcing a permanent departure. |
J’raxis mostly performs article cleanup and improvement when he comes across articles that need it. He usually adds links to articles whose cross-linking is scant, adds or corrects categories (in particular, the birth- and death-year categories), fixes typographical and formatting mistakes, and replaces general stub notices with more specific ones.
[edit] Contributions
J’raxis created the langWithName template after discovering the numerous similar lang-xx templates.
Additionally, his contributions include articles about:
- Murad Wilfried Hofmann,
- The Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization, and
- Arabic transliteration.
He has also written smaller stub articles about:
- Bina Nusantara University, a.k.a. Binus,
- David G. Mugar and the Mugar disambiguation page,
- Bristol County Savings Bank, and
- The Xiao disambiguation page.
[edit] Typography
J’raxis always uses correct typography on Wikipedia, including en dashes, em dashes, “curly” quotation marks, and ellipses. In his opinion, there is no excuse for ugly “ASCII kludges” in 2005, when computers in general have supported these extended characters for decades and nearly all major browsers can finally handle Unicode and UTF-8 properly.
J’raxis corrects incorrect dashes whenever he comes across them (esp. improper use of hyphens as en dashes and en dashes used for open ranges), but—since usage of typographically correct quotation marks is still contentious and there is no official policy to use “straight” quotes anymore—he only alters quotation marks in an article if he is already editing it for other reasons.
With the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.5, and the resultant conversion of the Wikipedia content to UTF-8, J’raxis prefers to enter Unicode characters directly as UTF-8–encoded octets, although he still uses HTML entities when using a computer where non-ASCII entry is cumbersome or impossible. J’raxis uses only decimal entity values or, less frequently, ISO 8879 entity names for characters whose names are widely supported; he never uses hexadecimal entities.
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