User:lensovet

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For your professional contributions in WIKIPEDIA. And for your accomlishments in real life! GK tramrunner 02:39, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[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 uploading images onto the Commons. All of the work that I upload there is licensed under a custom license of mine, {{lensovet}}.

[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 Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly, 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

[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.

[edit] External links

• LiveJournal
• My DotPhoto Photosite
• My last.fm music listening profile
• My personal webpage (in somewhat bad state) about Chatham, New Jersey
• Some more photos on my own webspace.
• lensowiki – a personal wiki I set up to publish various instructions, research, and school papers, which are not really that well-suited for the LiveJournal
• Calwiki – a wiki organized by me for UC Berkeley students for putting out advising information, survival tips, etc.