User:Neurophyre

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Hi. I'm the administrator of UMassWiki, a wiki for the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I also run another wiki for two DOC BBSes, and I use wikis daily in my personal, academic and professional life.

Contents 1 MediaWiki contributions 1.1 Articles 1.2 Code 2 Wikipedia pages I've created 2.1 Astronomy and the Universe 2.2 Drugs and Medical 2.3 Miscellaneous Science and Natural Phenomena 3 Pages to which I've made significant edits 3.1 Astronomy and the Universe 3.2 Miscellaneous Science and Natural Phenomena 4 Pages to which I've made minor nontrivial changes

[edit] MediaWiki contributions

In running a well-publicized wiki, I've made some contributions to the MediaWiki universe.

[edit] Articles

• Blocking Spam in MediaWiki
• Installing CheckUser

[edit] Code

• Bad Behavior 2 Extended

[edit] Wikipedia pages I've created

[edit] Astronomy and the Universe

• Barred spiral galaxy, a type of spiral galaxy. Our own Milky Way may be a barred spiral galaxy. This article was linked to from the front page of Slashdot on August 17, 2005, leading to a number of great improvements over my original.
• Omega Centauri, the Milky Way's most massive globular cluster
• Mu Arae, a star similar to the Sun with three orbiting planets, one of which may be rocky

[edit] Drugs and Medical

• Athlete's foot, a fungal infection of the skin
• Miconazole, a topical antifungal drug used to treat Athlete's foot

[edit] Miscellaneous Science and Natural Phenomena

• Sun Pillar, my first ever edit, now a redirect to Halo (optical phenomenon)

[edit] Pages to which I've made significant edits

[edit] Astronomy and the Universe

• Canis Major (dwarf galaxy), a page into which I merged a misnamed page and added significant information.
• Hoag's object, an unusual specimen of ring galaxy. I added signficant information from a paper on its structure and evolution.
• M104, aka the Sombrero Galaxy. I replaced a nonfree image with a free one and added information. Later users subsequently uploaded better versions of the free image I had uploaded, and on January 1, 2005 it was Wikipedia:Picture of the day.

[edit] Miscellaneous Science and Natural Phenomena

• Halo (optical phenomenon). I contributed three public domain images to pages that were eventually all folded into this one. The image shown is now a featured picture. It has been Wikipedia:Picture of the day on 15 October 2004 and 28 January 2005.

[edit] Pages to which I've made minor nontrivial changes

• Spiral arm, the "arm" of a spiral galaxy
• Sun dog, a type of halo (optical phenomenon)
• All your base are belong to us, to add information about bricks-and-mortar graffiti