User:Ilmari Karonen

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Current Wikistress level

(talk • contribs • uploads • blocks • autoblocks • protects • deletions • moves)


Quote of the day:

"For the next few years, we are going to continue to apply band-aids around the problem of data leakage, and continue to play whack-a-mole with the phishers without solving the actual problem at hand. In order to make any significant progress, we must come up with a brand new system that does away with depending on static identifiers. We will know we've accomplished this when we will be able to publish our credit reports publicly without fearing for our identities."   — Nitesh Dhanjani in an interview on net-security.org

About myself

I am, as of this writing, an undergraduate mathematics student living in Helsinki, Finland. I am currently working on my MSc thesis on the cluster approximations of cellular automaton models in mathematical biology. I have been an active poster on Usenet since 1996, and (occasionally) maintain a personal web site (see below). My past and current interests include, in no particular order:

I have contributed to a number of articles as IP 85.76.76.123 prior to registering this account.

Contributions

Articles I've started

This is a list of new articles I've added to Wikipedia. Feel free to improve them!

Second order cellular automaton, Block cellular automaton
My first new articles. They started off as additions to cellular automaton, but that article is already so long that I decided to split them off.
Darwin (programming game)
A predecessor of Core War. Earlier versions incorrectly identified the two games. I corrected the claim, and created a separate article for the original game.
Base 36
Someone decided to name this numeral system after himself and create a vanity article about it. I caught it on Special:Newpages, nominated it for deletion and, since no proper article existed on the subject, decided to start one.
Dental drill
I wanted to link to this article from the reference desk but discovered that it didn't exist. I decided it was easier to start it myself than to request that someone else do it.
Electronic Frontier Finland
Finnish on-line civil rights organization. I'm a member, I figured the least I could do was start a stub for them.
van der Corput sequence
A low-discrepancy sequence over the unit interval.
Eurasian Least Shrew
The second-smallest mammal in the world after the Etruscan Pygmy Shrew.
Wolfram code
A brief explanation of this rather opaque way of numbering cellular automaton rules.
Wikipedia:Advice to AOL users
So you're an AOL user and you've just found yourself blocked from editing. What to do?
Fisher-Yates shuffle
A popular and efficient shuffling algorithm that dates back to 1938.

Articles I've worked on

Core War
Rewrote about half of the article. Still need to complete the job. Also recently started work on Redcode.
False morel
This article was a mess after multiple editors had added contradictory claims seemingly at random positions. I rewrote it and gyromitrin almost completely, trying to put the important part (don't eat them raw!) first.
Siberian Flying Squirrel
Translated from Finnish. Could use more references.

Article rescue

These are some articles I've spotted during new pages patrol or found on CAT:CSD and cleaned up and/or wikified. The diffs include my original improvements; often others have since picked up from where I left.

Images

See User:Ilmari Karonen/Image gallery.

Templates

Template:Familytree
A template for creating simple HTML/CSS family trees using an ASCII art -like syntax.
Template:Stars
A twisted little template for displaying star ratings in album infoboxes.

User scripts

Google link [local copy]
A script to add "Google search" and "Yahoo! search" links to the toolbox.
Fix diff width [local copy]
A script to make wide diffs (such as [1]) scroll horizontally. Worked around bug 1229, now obsolete.
Multi-NS search [local copy]
A script to add a drop-down menu to the search box to choose the namespace to search in.
RBL check [local copy]
A script to add a "RBL check" link to the toolbox on IP user and talk pages. Useful for detecting open proxies.
Sigdash [local copy]
A small script to make the "Your signature with timestamp" edit button use a real em dash.
Unwatch [local copy]
A script to add "unwatch" links to each item in your watchlist.
Watchfilter [local copy]
A script to filter your watchlist by namespace. (Now mostly obsolete, as a similar feature has been added to MediaWiki.)
Watchlist since [local copy]
A script that adds a "Changes since last loaded" link to your watchlist, for keeping up with new changes.

Scripts I've worked on

These are user scripts which I didn't originally write, but which I use and have contributed to:

Add edit section 0 [local copy]
Adds a "0" tab next to the edit tab for editing the lead section of a page.
Add purge to tabs [local copy]
Adds a link to the tab bar to purge the server cache of a page.
Replace [local copy]
Adds a regexp search-and-replace feature to the edit form.

MediaWiki patches

Resolved (not necessarily using my patch in its original form):

Pending:

To do

This is my personal shopping list of articles that are either missing or in need of improvement. By listing them here, I hopefully won't forget them so easily.

Missing photos (from Wikipedia:Requested pictures and Category:Wikipedia requested images):

Missing diagrams:

MediaWiki improvements:

Licensing

Released into public domain
I agree to release my text and image contributions, unless otherwise stated, into the public domain. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under public domain terms, please check the multi-licensing guide.


All rights released to all contributions
I agree to release all rights, unless otherwise stated, to all my contributions (both text and images) to the English Wikipedia, enabling anyone to use them for any purpose. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under free use terms, please check the Multi-licensing guide.

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