User:Crazycomputers

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I've launched a Jabber bot that does realtime notification of watched pages on the English Wikipedia.

10:44, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
My school newspaper published an article on Wikipedia, and used me as a source. (VandalSniper was even given a mention!) See the article on my blog.

06:53, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I will probably be very inactive on Wikipedia for a while. The semester is getting tougher (as usual) and on top of that I have met a beautiful young woman -- sorry Wikipedia, but you can guess where I would rather be spending my time.  :)

In light of the above, I am looking for users willing to moderate the VandalSniper user list. Feel free to email me or leave a note on my talk page. There are no specific criteria, but in general people who have been around Wikipedia for longer and have done more RC patrol stand a better chance.

18:57, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
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WikiDefcon 4

Low to normal levels of vandalism from shared IPs and experimenting users.
Back to normal after April Fools. AIV is a bit quiet. — V60 干什么？ · VDemolitions 03:22, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
This user supports the German userbox solution.

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[edit] About me

My PGP public key ID is 0x9C3D5BB9, expand for key:
en This user is a native speaker of English.
INTP This user's MBTI type is INTP.
A, B, and C This user prefers the serial comma.
its & it's This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.
This user does not appreciate tobacco smoke.
This user is not interested in drugs.
... This user may get around to being a professional procrastinator. Someday. Maybe.
dlph-1 Eeek ack sque'ek ook kkkk'k squeek.
This user is a Protestant Christian.
This user is a university student.

My name is Chris Howie. I am a sophomore computer science student at Anderson University. Some consider me a Linux evangelist; I consider myself informed. Some people call me a geek; they are absolutely correct.

Born 1986, I lived in upstate New York from birth to 2000, when I moved to Indiana after my parents joined Keynote, a division of Campus Crusade for Christ.

I overuse userboxes. Woe to you who don't use 1280x1024!

I used to play chess quite a bit, but not so much recently. FICS is my preferred community when I do play. Sometimes I rollerblade too.

[edit] Computer stuff

c-3 This user is an advanced C programmer.
c#-3 This user is an advanced C# programmer.
java-3 This user is an advanced Java programmer.
Perl-4 This user is an expert Perl programmer.
php-3 This user is an advanced PHP programmer.
vb-0 This person does not understand Visual Basic (or understands it with considerable difficulties, or does not want to program in it).
This user contributes using Debian.
This user contributes with
KDE.
game
dev		 This user is interested in computer and video game development.
This user contributes using Vim.
dA This user is a deviantART deviant at crazycomputers
Left monitorRight monitor This user has a dual monitor configuration.
LFG This user spends entirely too much time playing Guild Wars.
NWN
 This user plays Neverwinter Nights.

Just your typical free software developer. I got into Linux after seeing it on a friend's laptop. (I met this friend while touring with Keynote, actually.) I started off with Red Hat Linux 7.2, which I used for maybe three years, then moved on to Debian and have been very happy with it. Windows XP is still lying around, because Guild Wars doesn't work very well with Cedega.

I started programming around maybe seven or eight with Visual Basic 1. After learning the basics of that, I managed to maintain several Visual Basic, QBasic, and Commodore 64 BASIC programs at the same time. Later my dad got me Visual Basic 5 for my birthday, and Visual Basic 6 came several years later from another friend I met on a Keynote tour.

After installing Linux I began learning Perl and since have abandoned Visual Basic as a maintainable programming language. After Perl came C, then PHP, and then Java. I received formal C# training at Anderson University, although Google probably could have done just as good a job. I'm actively coding in C# now, primarily on VandalSniper.

YICS is one of my free software projects, and probably the most popular seeing as it's the only one that I've made an effort to maintain.

Recently I have begun considering networking as a career instead of programming, although I still enjoy programming.

In August 2006 I started learning Dvorak. While I haven't tested my WPM, it feels like I can type the same speed with Dvorak and QWERTY, and I get faster at Dvorak every day. I absolutely love the layout.

[edit] Wikipedia

Image:WikiGnome.png This user is a WikiGnome.
vn-58 This userpage has been vandalized 58 times.
This user is a newpage patroller.
This user reserves the right to completely screw up his or her edits.


del This user is a Wikipedia deletionist.
This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let him or her know.
This user assumes good faith.
This user is a member of the
Counter-Vandalism Unit.


Quality, not quantity. This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.
This user [1] an administrator on the English Wikipedia.
The Vandal Sniper Warning to Vandals: This user is armed with VandalSniper.
This user scored 1261.44 on the Wikipediholic test (revision 71348831).

Most of my time is spent patrolling the recent changes for vandalism, and tagging new pages (stubs, un-wikified articles, speedy deletion candidates, and so on). As a college student, most of my writing effort goes into papers, so by the time I get to Wikipedia all my creative energy is used up. I figure I might as well help out by tagging articles and reverting vandalism.

Note that if I tag one of your articles as a speedy deletion candidate, it's usually after a quick Google search about the subject with few, if any, hits. I mean no personal insult to you as an editor, and when people get unnecessarily angry and vandalize my user page it does not help the situation at all. If you feel that my delete tag is inappropriate, do not remove it (most of the speedy templates say not to), but discuss on the article's talk page and refrain from petty revenge.

If the article is clearly an attempt to add nonsense to Wikipedia I will try to assume good faith, but please take my warning non-personally and consider contributing material valuable to the project. If your goal is to upset people, you will rarely succeed; we will delete or revert and move on. If your goal is to help and contribute to articles, your help will be much appreciated by the whole community, something you will get much more satisfaction from than the three minutes your vandalism or attack articles exist for.

If you would like to contact me right away regarding a tag I left on an article, you may do so (see contact information below). My talk page is, of course, always available for this, but with realtime services you can catch me when I might not be actively browsing Wikipedia.

[edit] Contact information

This user's AOL Instant Messenger screenname is SerajewelKS.
YIM This user's Yahoo! Messenger screename is crazycomputers.
This user's IRC nick is SerajewelKS on the server irc.freenode.net.
This user uses Jabber as cdhowie@jabber.org.
Gaim This user uses Gaim to chat on AIM, IRC, and other networks.

If you should need to contact me to discuss an article, any of the following real-time methods are acceptable:

[edit] Subpages

I keep the following subpages, mostly for my benefit but feel free to use their contents. I would request that you refrain from editing them. If something seems obviously incorrect, I may be in the process of editing them or I may want them that way for a particular reason. But please feel free to leave comments on their talk pages.

[edit] Other accounts

I have other accounts here, primarily for testing VandalSniper. This does not violate WP:SOCK, as I am not using these accounts "to create the illusion of greater support for an issue, to mislead others, or to circumvent a block." Activities by these accounts should be limited to edits within my user-space. These edits are authorized by me, and any warnings against these accounts by me are from testing, and should not be taken seriously.

I also hold User:SerajewelKS, as this is my Freenode IRC handle.

[edit] Barnstars

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Where hereby awards you the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your great work on VandalSniper thus far. -- Where 11:29, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Hey Crazycomputers! I have seen you around numerous times on Wikipedia and have taken notice of the great work you are doing. I award you this barnstar to let you know that your hard work is appreciated. Keep up the great work! Wikipediarules2221 23:27, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For fighting off a vandal of my talk page. James086Talk | Contribs 12:15, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
This is for making VS. Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio 02:02, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

I have an open, self-nom RfA. If you feel inclined to vote, please do. (Even if you oppose!)

This is the only shameless plugging I will do. Period.

The RfA passed! I have written a response to everyone at Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Crazycomputers. Thanks everyone for participating!

[edit] External links

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