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"A People's History of Life, the Universe, And Everything, Including But Not Limited to Whatever"
- — Village Voice, February 9-February 15, 2005, on Wikipedia
[edit] Vanitas Vanitatum
Hello, I'm Michalis (or if you prefer, Μιχάλης), an Electrical & Computer Engineering student, National Technical University of Athens. I've been around since 1 July 2005. My first post was a proposal to write an article about the Regime of the Colonels. An hour later I was starting the article. Actually, it was me that gave it the ugly name it has now. Since then I've been doing lots of stuff on Wikipedia. I spend more time reading it than editing it though...
My interests in editing and/or creating articles in wikipedia have been determined by my immediate surroundings, that is: Greece, her history, and her geography, and greek-related current events. As a Wikipedian I contribute information on topics I am most familiar with and I strongly dislike it when people forget good faith (although I've done so myself). I also think that edit wars are lame.
The contribution I enjoyed most doing was at the Greeklish article. Trying to explain how Greeks see greeklish text, I just added in "αγγλληνικά" the phrase δις ιζ χαρντ του ριντ!! Nice, eh?
[edit] External links
I'm an admin at the FOSS NTUA Community (Κοινότητα Ελεύθερου Λογισμικού ΕΜΠ) forum and wiki.
You can visit my homepage here.
And if you speak Greek, you could also take a look at my blog.
[edit] ToDo list
- My notes.
This list tends to get rather outdated...
Rewrite the events section in Athens Polytechnic uprising.
Add new section in Greek military junta of 1967-1974 or create new article on anti-junta movement. Added. Now work on it!!
Create the following articles: Order of Honour (Greek medal), Order of Beneficence (Greek medal).
Work on Romaniotes, Jews in Greece. Also on Jewish Holocaust of Thessaloniki and maybe create Holocaust in Greece?
Add more stuff in Archbishop Damaskinos on how he helped Jews.
Write a decent article out of the List of national parks of Greece article. Move the page to something like National Parks in Greece. National parks in Greece now exists.
Copyedit from Operation Gladio to Regime of the Colonels.
- Create article: Thanasis Triaridis.
Add to the Velos Mutiny, create an article on the Attempted coup by the Greek Navy (1973). See My notes.
Expand Photios Kontoglou.
- Wikify and add info on the Mall scandal: The Mall Athens
- Create article: Nikos Paleokostas ([1])
[edit] Links & Tools
[edit] General
- Proposal for a Greek and Turkish wikipedians board of cooperation.
- Memorable quotes I have seen in Wikipedia.
- The Wikipedia Creed.
- Wikipedia Founding Fathers and Mothers!!!!
- Jordanhill railway station: The 1.000.000th article of Wikipedia! Rock on, brothers...
- Irish bouzouki: Dear Marko, would you even imagine this?
- Template:Magic-spoiler...
[edit] Counter-Vandalism
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR
- Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
- Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
- Wikipedia:Personal attack intervention noticeboard
[edit] Personal
- My contributions.
- My edit counter and My other edit counter
- My sandbox
- My doppelganger accounts: User:Michalis famelis, User:MichalisFamelis, User:Michalisfamelis, User:Inaro
[edit] Gallery
A beautiful picture of the Bourtzi of Skiathos at dawn, taken by my good friend, Eleni Sagia, which now features in the Skiathos article.
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Simonopetra in Mount Athos. From the (top) first floor one can see the birds flying under them. One floor closer to Heaven. Photo by my friend Thodoris Lakiotis.
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Stavronikita monastery, the elegant athonite castle-monastery, a prime example of what the marvels of modern engineering can do to preserve cultural heritage. Photo by my friend Thodoris Lakiotis.
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The ancient Iviron monastery is home to some of the coolest monks on the land. As an eighty year old monk put it: "Carry on!". And yes, he said that in english... Photo by my friend Thodoris Lakiotis.
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Michalis Famelis is awarded this Barnstar for all his particularly fine contributions to Wikipedia. Latinus 00:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
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Hello! Thankyou for your kind words on my user talk page, I know my response is very late, but I just want to say how grateful I am for what you have said. If only everyone on Wikipedia could be as considerate as you! Therefore, for your kindness, I present this RAK barnstar to you! Bigdaddy1204 14:18, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
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The spider spins his web in the Palace of the Caesars,
An owl hoots in the towers of Afrasiyab
~Firdawsi
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure.
~Edsger Dijkstra
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Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, and nothing else |
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I license my contributions only under the GFDL. |