User:Kelly Martin/old

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Greetings and good morning.

I'm a self-professed grammar fascist and a life member of the Society for the Protection of the Apostrophe, so Wikipedia offers a great treasure trove of things to fix for this former copy editor. I'm also a former open source software developer (I worked for a couple of years on The GIMP) and a former law student. I hold two general studies degrees from Indiana University, and am currently employed as a network administrator in suburban Chicagoland, Illinois, USA.

I've been an editor here since December 27, 2004 although I edited anonymously for a short time before that as well. I have been an administrator since June 15, 2005. I am an Arbitrator Emeritus, having served as a member of the Arbitration Committee from October 11, 2005 until January 12, 2006. I briefly served as the Clerk Chair for the Arbitration Committee from January 25, 2006 until February 1, 2006, but decided that that role was better suited for someone else (although nobody has stepped forward and the position itself seems to have gone by the wayside). I continue to have CheckUser and oversight rights.

While I am not as involved in the management of the site as I used to be, I continue to involve myself in various administrative roles (such as CheckUser), policy discussions, copyright, and other issues which come to my attention from time to time -- along with occasionally doing the random article surf-and-fix routine that I enjoy so much.

I have an abiding fascination with color theory and in that vein have created two little webtoys, both of which are on my website: Colorspace Explorer and Cooperative Color Naming System. The latter actually lets you contribute to a database of color names.

Because I spend so much time lately reading news about Wikipedia, I've started blogging my observations. (There may occasionally be an article about something not related to Wikipedia.)

Other stuff

  • If you haven't seen this article (by Lore Sjöberg, at Wired), you really should.
  • Wikipedia needs better featured articles. To see how you can help, check out this list.
  • I need a better camera; my current camera is too slow, too limited in functionality, and generates images that are barely large enough to be useful (and full of noise). If you want to help me get something more suitable for taking encyclopedic pictures, here's my PayPal information. For a gallery of some of my work to date, see my Commons user page.
  • Wikipedia really should require click-through licensing in order to make the GFDL release binding. Logged in users should be required to affirmatively accept at the time of registration that their contributions are being licensed under the GFDL; anonymous users should be presented with a click-through dialog at their first edit in any session (the acceptance can be stored in a temporary cookie so they don't have to accept with every edit). As I understand copyright law in the US, this would create a binding licensing agreement, whereas our current approach does not. (It also has the side effect of making life more annoying for anons. Too bad.)
  • We should require a confirmed email for all image uploaders.

Special place to write things down

  • Articles containing the phrase "we are" are likely to be spam.
  • The phrase "a.k.a." is not encyclopedic tone; neither is anything that uses a second person pronoun ("you", "your").
  • Contractions are not encyclopedic tone ("it's", "won't", "can't", etc.)
  • Exclamation points are almost always not encyclopedic.

"The wiki is not for everyone." -- James D. Forrester

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