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GK tramrunner 02:39, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
- The correct title of this article is User:lensovet. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
[edit] General
Hello,
My name is Paul, I work on a number of open-source projects. I specialize in web design and localization.
My goals for Wikipedia are to correct errors or unclear phrasing, and to make more articles available/bring existing articles up-to-date into Russian. The Russian-related goals have taken a total back seat at this point, so I'm mostly rewording passages. Every so often I actually write my own material from scratch.
[edit] User History
Many years ago, at some point in the late 1990s, I had come across the Wikipedia website and stumbled upon a sort of "spirit of Wikipedia" webpage, which discussed the whole concept of what is an encyclopedia that everyone can edit and the problems/benefits arising out of the concept. At the time, I found the concept great in theory, and even looked at a few articles on things that I knew at the time. After the incident, Wikipedia retreated into the faraway regions of my memory
A couple of years after this initial interaction, I came across the site again, recalling the concepts that I had read about a couple of years earlier. At this point, however, I had a sudden urge to join in the fun. I started making some minor edits, mostly on grammar. Then, while doing various research projects during my senior year of high school, I decided that I wanted to get all the credit that I can get for my work, and signed up for an account. I have been making edits ever since.
In recent months, I have ramped up the amount of time I spend on the site, though I'm not sure if that's a positive thing. The one thing I do really want to do and have started doing is upload images onto the commons. My only gripe with it is that the only license usable is cc-by-sa, and not cc-by-nc-sa, and I really cannot understand why the noncommercial license is considered a non-valid license. As for now, I have some breakfast to eat.
[edit] Meaning of username
The name is a actually a word in Russian – Ленсовет. The Russian word is a portmanteau of two words, Leningrad and Sovet. The first, obviously, is the name of the city of Leningrad, while the second is a regular Russian word meaning council. The Lensovet was the city council of Leningrad during the Soviet era. Its modern-day successor is the Legislative assembly of St. Petersburg, Законодательное собрание Санкт-Петербурга.
My dad had originally chosen the name back in 1998 when he signed me up for my original America Online screenname. While at first I wasn't crazy about the name, it eventually grew on me and is now my first choice of username whenever I sign up on websites, because it's rarely taken.
[edit] Some milestones
| Month |
No. of edits |
Cumulative edits |
useless |
| 2005/1 |
8 |
8 |
1st edit; 2nd edit |
| 2005/2 |
4 |
12 |
| 2005/3 |
0 |
12 |
| 2005/4 |
0 |
12 |
| 2005/5 |
2 |
14 |
| 2005/6 |
23 |
37 |
| 2005/7 |
1 |
38 |
| 2005/8 |
6 |
44 |
| 2005/9 |
0 |
44 |
| 2005/10 |
12 |
56 |
| 2005/11 |
10 |
66 |
| 2005/12 |
20 |
86 |
| 2006/1 |
3 |
89 |
| 2006/2 |
112 |
201 |
| 2006/3 |
12 |
213 |
| 2006/4 |
58 |
271 |
| 2006/5 |
75 |
346 |
| 2006/6 |
463 |
809 |
500th edit |
| 2006/7 |
845 |
1654 |
1000th edit; 1500th edit |
| 2006/8 |
125 |
1779 |
| 2006/9 |
195 |
1974 |
| 2006/10 |
232 |
2206 |
2000th edit |
| 2006/11 |
263 |
2469 |
| 2006/12 |
345 |
2814 |
2500th edit |
| 2007/1 |
83 |
| 2007/2 |
17 |
[edit] Personal biography
I was born in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (present-day St. Petersburg, Russia), where I lived until 1996. At the end of that year, I moved to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York, where I spent roughly a year and a half before moving to Chatham Township, New Jersey. I graduated from CHS in 2005, and embarked on a cross-country road trip with my dad in the summer of that year. Currently, I live in Granada Hills, California when I'm not in college, and I attend the University of California, Berkeley during the academic year.
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