User:Mathwiz2020
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"If it's a small world, then it's definitely a small 'pedia." --M@thwiz2020 02:04, 21 February 2006 (UTC) "I used to have a life, a life full of trivial matters such as memorizing 150 digits of pi, solving Rubik's cubes in less than two minutes, and so on. Then I discovered Wikipedia. As I said, I used to have a life." --M@thwiz2020 22:07, 22 February 2006 (UTC) "Due to a heavy workload in the world that most people would call 'real' but which relativity states is only an observer-created reality, I will be on a quasi-wikibreak for the next negative thirty days or so. If you really need to contact me, just travel through your spacetime at the speed of light until you drop by mine before I arrive and leave me a message." --M@thwiz2020 17:34, 2 April 2006 (UTC) [edit] Introduction
Hi, I'm Mathwiz2020. I don't like to divulge personal information, but if you try really hard, I'll tell you that my name is not Bob. As you can see in my userboxes, I speak many languages - English, English, and English. I also speak some French and Pig Latin, but no 1337. (In fact, 1337 is the only word I know how to spell in 1337.) I would like to learn more languages though - with like being the key word, because I'm probably not going to learn any more languages, unless, of course, you count programming languages. :) I live on the planet Earth near Sol in the Milky Way Galaxy. I happen to reside in multiple parallel universes, but I don't know how many - I just know that I live in this one. In another universe, I probably have never heard of Wikipedia, and, in another, it probably doesn't even exist, so I'm glad that the this me lives in this universe, whatever it may be called. [edit] Interests
As I said above, I'm always willing to learn new programming languages. I picked up C# when I volunteered to take over the AWB, and I took up HTML, javascript, and CSS years ago (although only the second of the three is really a programming language). I consider myself extremely adept at both trumpet and piano but... well, opinions differ from person to person. If there's one thing I hate, that would be video games. On the opposite side of the spectrum is pi. I love all flavors of pie - apple, blueberry, cherry, uhh, what begins with "d"? No, really, I've memorized 300 digits of the number pi! Yeah, pretty useless, isn't it? I'm skilled in acquiring more skills, too, but most of my new skills are, as I said before, useless in most people's opinions. I'm not even sure if most would even be considered skills. As you can probably tell from my user name, I like cheese. And math. (And, with math comes science, so I like that too.) I scribble random proofs on Post-it notes all day long for fun, and it actually does help to pass the time. [edit] More about me
I believe in evolution, not Bush. (You can probably infer from that that I am a Democrat in the US political party system.) I am a supporter of string theory and I hope that it will lead one day to the grand unified theory, or the theory of everything. I think that 42 is the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything... or at least, it was until we discovered the Ultimate Question. Then, the Ultimate Question became "What is a hrung?" but someone figured out the Ultimate Answer to that, so the Universe became something completely different yet again. Now, I have no idea what the Ultimate Question and Answer are because, if I knew them, they wouldn't be ultimate anymore. The Ultimate Question now might be "What is the theory of everything?" and, once scientists figure that out, it will change again. I also think that Dilbert is the best comic strip ever - well, it's the only comic strip I've ever read, so how should I know? On Wikipedia, I believe that all articles should be included - except for the useless ones, the empty ones, those that advertise or attack, vanity articles, and... Okay, let me reword that: I believe that all good articles should be included. And, yes, schools articles are "good" articles assuming there is something notable about them. [edit] Even more things you didn't want to know
I love Google and I hate Microsoft - why I use XP then, no one knows (not even me). I'm waiting for the purported Google OS to come out, at which time I'll switch. It was supposed to come out last Christmas season but, well, you know the technology industry. I use Gmail, but not often, just for Wikipedia, actually. For everything else I use something else. And, since I hate Microsoft, I use, obviously, Firefox for everything, including editing Wikipedia. By now, you're probably getting really bored reading about me. If you've actually gotten this far, congratulations, I hereby award you this imaginary barnstar! Now on to some slighty more boring, I mean interesting, information. [edit] Wikipedia
I started editing Wikipedia on 21 February 2005 and became an admin on 12 January 2006. And, while I kept meaning to join Esperanza every day, I didn't actually join until 17 February 2006. I'm now considering leaving, though, due to a recent debate with Esperanza about the Council elections just a week after I "joined." So's life, I mean, wiki-life. (Real life is quite different.) At around New Year 2006, I discovered the AutoWikiBrowser, which I enjoyed since it expedited many Wikipedia editing processes. When Martin left on an indefinite Wikibreak, I volunteered to take over the code. Luckily, Martin's back, but I'm still helping code the AWB every now and then. ![Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar awarded by Jared Preston "for supplying [him] with an editcount in a real, bleak, Saturday-night time-of-need." – 01:10, 16 April 2006 (UTC) [1]](../../../../images/shared/1/19/Random_Acts_of_Kindness_Barnstar.png)
 I'm also part of the Welcoming Committee, and I use this special code to greet new users. Nifty, eh? I'm a member of the counter-vandalism unit and also the stub sorting project. I also participate in some missing article projects, schoolwatch, and the schools project every now and then, too. I try to do as much at Wikipedia as possible. I even got a barnstar once! [edit] More on Wikipedia
I, as I said earlier, help program the AutoWikiBrowser. Which means, you guessed it, I use it! I also monitor RC using CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter, and occasionally use popups, although the rollback feature has replaced those in most situations. I still use popups to preview pages, though - I love that feature! I, of course, still take time for quality edits, i.e., those improving and expanding articles, and I also vote on RfA and AfD quasi-regularly. [edit] Contributions
I am a Wikipediholic. I took the test soon after it was condensed and got a really low score so, now that it's been expanded, I'll take it soon and post my score here. I have too many edits and don't know what to do with them. In fact, I am an administrator on Wikipedia. I was nominated in order to edit the AWB's protected page of allowed users, but, in fact, I was more qualified than I had previously expected. I am glad of the new rollback feature since it greatly expedites RC patrol and reverting vandalism, and this is one reason why I am a supporter of requests for rollback privileges. I also look through candidates for speedy deletion and clean up Wikipedia of useless nonsense as appropriate. On a final note, my user page has been vandalized twenty times. Ouch! |
