User:Koweja/About

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[edit] About me

I was born on Long Island, New York but moved around a lot. I now live in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I am currently in the process of becoming a librarian, though I don't yet know where I will be living and working after I get my graduate degree. Despite living in Germany for years I don't speak any German, and what little Spanish I learned in high-school/college I am quickly forgetting.

[edit] Education

I graduated from Gettysburg College in 2005 with a major in Computer science and a minor in Political science. I am planning on attending graduate school in order to get a Master of Library and Information Science. I took a year off for an internship, and hope to will attend Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania starting in April of 2007.

[edit] Work

I currently work at Musselman Library at Gettysburg College, doing a lot of different things. When I'm not working at the reference desk, I am usually doing something related to web programming and/or design. As a result of my work I have taught myself XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP/MySQL.

[edit] Hobbies

When not at work or with other people, I enjoy videogames, SciFi shows, books, reading and posting at Slashdot and GameFAQs, and of course, editing Wikipedia. Thanks to Netflix I have been able to watch years worth of sci-fi in a few months. I am a huge fan of Babylon 5, Crusade, Firefly, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, the new Battlestar Galactica, seaQuest DSV, and Earth 2. I've also recently been watching Space: Above and Beyond, Farscape, the original Battlestar Galactica, V, and Alien Nation. Besides sci-fi I also like animated shows such as South Park, Family Guy, the Simpsons, Futurama, Sealab 2021, and Harvey Birdman. With the exception of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I'm not a huge fan of fantasy televison or books.

I've also been gaming since I got an NES when I was 5 (1983). While an fan of all consoles, my favorites have been the NES, Super NES, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Nintendo DS. I'll be getting a PSP, Xbox 360, and Wii soon, and a PlayStation 3 when it isn't so expensive. My favorite genres are first-person shooters, JRPGs, and shmups.

[edit] Current activities

I am in the process of learning the ColdFusion and JSP server-side scripting languages, and afterwards I will probably teach myself .NET. I should learn Ajax at some point, though I don't really care for it from a user standpoint.

I just got all of the Sonic and Mega Man videogame collections, so I have been playing those a lot recently. That will end as soon as I get Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.

[edit] Wikipedia

Koweja is a Yeoman Editor (across all Wikimedia projects)

My areas of interest (when it comes to Wikipedia, at least) generally reflect my offline interests, specifically modern sci-fi television shows (modern meaning "the ones that were on since I've been alive") and computer and video games. Recently I joined the have joined the computer and videogames WikiProject, and before I was heavily involved in the editing of the Earth 2 and Sex and the City series articles. Really, I just like to browse Wikipedia and fix articles that interest me. I guess that makes me something of a WikiGnome - WikiFairy hybrid.

Other projects that I work on are changing links that point to Disambiguation pages so they go to the actual article, which get listed on the WikiProject index page. I also like to fix dead-end pages and orphaned pages, as well as categorize pages that need them. These pages aren't high on anybody's list, so they tend to get neglected as well.

[edit] 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.

I put everything in the public domain just because I think it is easiest for everyone. If I really cared if someone copied something I publish, I wouldn't put it online in the first place.

• Wikimedia Foundation: MediaWiki (Wiki software) | Bugzilla (MediaWiki development) | Wikia (Wikia)
• Games: StrategyWiki (Game guides) | KolWiki (Kol)
• Sci-Fi TV The Great Machine (Babylon 5) | Memory Alpha (Star Trek) | BattlestarWiki (Battlestar Galactica)