User:Jay
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Jay is a contributor on Wikipedia since Jul 5, 2003 and a sysop since Mar 12, 2004.
He's a Capricornian and shares his birthdate with Benjamin Franklin, Anton Chekhov, Muhammad Ali, Jim Carrey and Javed Akhtar.
His interests lie mainly in computers, etymology and people.
Five years from now if Wikipedia stands apart from other storehouses of knowledge, it would be because it is neutral, uniform and extensive.
"The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him. -- Gandhi"
Some of Jay's contributions include :
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[edit] Initiated/Original
- Computers : Oracle database - Rhino project - list of software companies - Jakarta Slide - directory service - JDBC drivers: type 1, type 2 - computer-term etymologies - Business Performance Management - Spyglass - Bindows
- Etymological : lists of etymologies - company names - computer terms
- Eponymous : list of eponyms - inventions - units - constants - companies - laws - phenomena - elements - human anatomy - cartoon characters - astronomical objects - prizes
- People : Leander Paes - Dilip Kumar - Suraiya - Kelucharan Mohapatra - Soundarya - E.K. Nayanar - Dom Moraes - Joseph Barbera - Nafisa Joseph - Raja Ramanna - Nirupa Roy - Gulshan Rai - Steve Oedekerk - Tanushree Dutta - R.D. Pradhan
- Lists : sportsmen - pairs - skin diseases - eye diseases
- Other : African Penguin - Hobson's choice - Morton's Fork - National Centre for Software Technology - Pathanamthitta - Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum - The God of Small Things - Xerces Blue - entertainers - Dadasaheb Phalke Award - Miss India - Blepharitis - Archies Limited - Agriculture in India
[edit] Significant edits
- Computers : DOM - ODBC - Apache Software Foundation - Jakarta Tomcat - JDBC drivers: type 3, type 4
- Other : Arundhati Roy - list of Indians - IITs - Lion Capital of Asoka - C. V. Raman - K.R. Narayanan - Edward O'Hare - Nigel Tranter
[edit] Moderate
- Ashoka - JDBC - Landmark Education - Osho - Catch-22 - Titanic - Dilbert - extract, transform, load
[edit] Images
JDBC Type 1 driver - JDBC Type 2 driver - JDBC Type 3 driver - JDBC Type 4 driver - Xerces Blue butterfly - Tabla - Guillotine - Cartoonist at work - Tears - Bowling alley - Mahabalipuram temple - Computer keyboard
- Tennis stars
Jana Novotna - Martina Navratilova - Martina Hingis - Monica Seles - Lindsay Davenport - Kim Clijsters - Andy Roddick - Mark Philippoussis - Thomas Muster - Stefan Edberg - Michael Chang - Andre Agassi
[edit] Trivia
Jay's Wiki score is 105.
