User:Triddle

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I am a member of the Free State Project.
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I am a member of the Free State Project.
Contact information (in order of response time): AIM: The Masta Spice; Yahoo Messenger: triddle_1999; email; talk page

Hi. I am Tyler Riddle, I live in Camas, WA, and I began contributing Feb 2005. I initially started out correcting simple grammar errors but quickly began creating content. I feel that the Wikipedia computer help desk, the welding power supply article, and my contributed photographs are my best work.

Currently I am a student at Clark College where I am pursuing an A.A.S. in Welding Technology. While I am currently studying welding I am also an accomplished hacker (not in the criminal form of the word). My hobbies include beer, electronics, motorcycles, Unix, and now Wikipedia. School and work are keeping me very busy and my time to contribute is limited. I think Wikipedia is here to stay for a long time and I look forward to being able to spend more time contributing and donating to this incredible resource.

 This biographical article is a stub. For more information see my (infrequently updated) website.

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[edit] Goals

TI-85 graphing calculator
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TI-85 graphing calculator

I believe that Wikipedia has potential to wind up in print in the future so I'm trying to make as many photographs as possible ready to be printed in high quality. To me this means it should be 300 dots per inch and around 4 inches (1200 pixels) minimum either measurement or at least big enough that if printed it would be easy to make out the features. You can see this philosophy in the photographs I've taken and the images I've uploaded. For instance, if the TI-85 article ever goes to print as well as the associated photograph anyone will be able to read clearly the buttons that existed on that calculator. I believe this is a huge benefit to Wikipedia and I hope other people will follow in my footsteps.

I also hold a special place in my heart for Edwards Air Force Base and have tried to contribute as best I can to articles about it or about projects the base made possible. This also carries over into fascination about space, flight, thrust, conflagrations, extreme releases of energy, computers, and photography. As I spend a large amount of time reading articles on these subjects I also try to fix things I see as broken or fill in the gaps with information I know.

[edit] Contributions

[edit] Parse::MediaWikiDump

Parse::MediaWikiDump is a Perl module giving an easy to use object-oriented parser for MediaWiki dump files.

[edit] Computer help desk

The computer help desk is a place where seasoned computer veterans and people who need their help can come together. The idea is to assist with either existing automated tools or help create automated tools that people need.

[edit] Photographs

Self photograph.
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Self photograph.

An image gallery is also available for viewing.

[edit] Created

This photograph from the Controlled Impact Demonstration is a featured picture.
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This photograph from the Controlled Impact Demonstration is a featured picture.

[edit] Major contribution

[edit] Personal Favorites

[edit] Computers

[edit] Engineering

The Explosively pumped flux compression generator is fascinating because of its operation, power, and simplicity.
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The Explosively pumped flux compression generator is fascinating because of its operation, power, and simplicity.

[edit] History

[edit] Other

[edit] Wikipedia

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[edit] Ideas

[edit] Picture-of-the-day bot

I propose a bot that will implement a picture-of-the-day feature for any article with an image gallery to select from. My design consumes a minimum of resources requiring only two page requests and one page save each time the photograph is updated. The script is intended to run daily from a cron and has the following features:

  • The specified image gallery is used as a source of images. This way any picture added to the gallery is automatically made available as a source.
  • Safe operation by using strict text parsing and fail-safe design. The bot looks for a specific html comment and will only operate on that line. The line is verified to only contain information we contributed so we can guarantee no work will be lost. If the comment is gone a warning will be generated and nothing on Wikipedia will be modified.
  • Show everything first technology. I'm not sure what the proper term is for this but it is a nice feature. It guarantees that all available pictures will be shown before a picture is repeated. This is done by maintaining a list of pictures we have shown. Each time we need to pick a picture we select randomly from the set of pictures we have not shown. Once we have shown all the pictures the set is reset so no pictures have been shown.

[edit] Friends

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[edit] Personal links

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