User:NerdyNSK

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NerdyNSK

Who I am:

It is possible this User is human. Please approach with extreme caution.

Nerd

This user is a nerd.

Name

This user's name is Nikolaos S. Karastathis.

Web	This user has a website.

Wiki	This user has a wiki.

Wiki	This user has a wiki.

Wiki	This user has a wiki.

This user maintains a blog at his own Web server.

PostNom

This user's postnominal letters are BSc(Hons), MIET, SCMI, MIEEE, MACM, MACS(Prov).

What I do:

OSrc

This user contributes to Open Source projects.

Academia:

This user is a graduate student in Management.

BSc

This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.

My job:

This user is a software engineer.

Affiliations:

IEEE

This user is a member of the IEEE.

IET

This user is a member of the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology).

ACM

This user is a member of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).

ACS

This user is a member of the ACS (Australian Computer Society)

EATCS

This user is a member of the EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science)

Get in touch:

@	This user can be reached by email at nsk@karastathis.org.

This user's IRC nick is nsk on the server irc.freenode.org.

G
talk

This user's Google Talk screenname is FreeNSK.

UTC+2

This user's time zone is UTC+2.

This user thinks time zones are evil.

Languages:

en-4

This user speaks English at a near-native level.

en-gb-3

This user has an advanced understanding of British English.

el	Αυτός ο χρήστης μιλά ως μητρική γλώσσα την ελληνική.

fr-0

Cet utilisateur ne comprend pas le français, ou seulement avec des difficultés notables.

de-0

Dieser Benutzer hat keine Deutschkenntnisse.

...

This user would like to be able to speak many more languages.

Wiki memberships:

CS	This user is a member of WikiProject Computer science.

This user is a member of WikiProject Linux

This user is a member of the Astronomical Object WikiProject.

f(x)

This user is a member of WikiProject Mathematics.

This user is a member of the Business and Economics WikiProject.

This user is a member of the Heraldry and vexillology WikiProject.

Comp

This user is a member of WikiProject Computing.

This user is a member of the
WikiProject Biography.

PL	This user is a member of WikiProject Programming languages.

This user is a member of the WikiProject Beauty Pageants.

This user is a member of WikiProject Free Software

This user is a member of the Logic task force

This user is a participant in WikiProject Chemistry.

This user is a member of Wikipedians against censorship.

This user is a member of WikiProject Volcanoes.

This user is a member of WikiProject Geology.

Writing:

MAGAZINE

This user has had his/her work published in a magazine.

UK	This user uses British English.

they

This user considers singular they standard English usage.

~~mankind~~

This user supports the use of gender-neutral language.

A, B, and C

This user prefers the serial comma.

"…"

This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones.

Coding:

prog-3

This user is an advanced programmer.

This user is a code monkey.

java-3

This user is an advanced Java programmer.

php-3

This user is an advanced PHP programmer.

xml-2

This user is an intermediate XML coder.

Perl-2

This user is an intermediate Perl programmer.

sql-2

This user is an intermediate SQL programmer.

C-2

This user is an intermediate C user.

js-1

This user is a beginning JavaScript programmer.

mysql

This user writes programs that access MySQL.

This user is a professional webmaster.

css-3

This user is an advanced Cascading Style Sheets user.

xhtml-3

This user is an advanced XHTML user.

HTML-3

This user is an advanced HTML user.

Communities:

This user keeps del.icio.us weblinks as nsk.

/.	This user has a Slashdot account.

Internet:

OWN

This user uses an email account with his/her own domain name.

This user contributes using Konqueror.

This user contributes using SeaMonkey.

This user contributes using Opera.

This user contributes using Safari.

lynx	This user contributes using Lynx.

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

BB	This user contributes using a broadband connection.

Hardware:

dvrk

This user contributes using a Dvorak keyboard.

EZ	This user contributes using a TypeMatrix EZ Reach keyboard.

plum

This user contributes using a Plum keyboard.

This user contributes using a phone.

This user contributes using a PDA.

64	This user uses an x86-64 processor.

This user contributes using a laptop.

This user still uses
a Commodore 64.

Free software:

This user contributes using GNU/Linux.

This user contributes with SUSE Linux.

This user contributes using Debian GNU/Linux.

This user contributes with GNOME.

This user contributes with
KDE.

This user hacks happily with Emacs.

This user contributes using Kate.

This user contributes using Nano.

pico_

This user contributes using Pico.

This user contributes using Vim.

vi_	This user contributes using vi.

This user writes with the OpenOffice.org suite.

This user contributes using The GIMP.

Computers:

This user runs Mac OS X.

Mac

This user is contributing using a Macintosh computer.

This user has a dual boot configuration.

This user contributes using a wireless connection.

This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

DELL

This user's got a Dell, dude.

~~IBM~~

This user thinks they made the right choice by buying from ~~IBM~~Lenovo.

HP	This user owns a Hewlett-Packard machine.

A	This user thinks different and owns an Apple.

Food:

This user eats Garlic.

This user loves fruit.

This user eats cheese.

This user loves oranges.

This user eats salad.

This user drinks orange juice.

H₂O

This user drinks water regularly.

S-0

This user does not drink carbonated beverages.

This user is an omnivore.

This user eats green beans.

This user eats eggplant.

This user eats spinach.

This user eats potatoes.

This user eats carrots.

This user eats apples.

This user eats bananas.

This user eats cucumbers.

This user eats tomatoes.

This user eats watermelon.

This user eats Granny Smith apples.

This user eats strawberries.

This user eats fish.

This user loves pasta.

This user drinks milk.

This user drinks soy milk.

Interests:

This user is a bibliophile.

This user enjoys sailing and boating.

This user is interested in flags and emblems.

This user is interested in geopolitics.

This user enjoys writing.

This user enjoys backpacking.

This user is interested in military aircraft and their history.

This user is interested in World War II

This user is interested in the British Empire.

This user enjoys playing chess.

This user enjoys reading non-fiction.

This user enjoys reading anything.

This user enjoys geofiction.

This user enjoys reading short stories.

This user is interested in law.

This user enjoys philosophy.

This user is interested in architecture.

This user is interested in the British and Irish Isles.

This user is interested in the
stock market

This user is interested in political science.

This user is interested in numismatics.

This user is interested in maps and mapmaking.

This user is interested in coin collecting.

This user is interested in architecture.

This user enjoys painting.

This user enjoys photography.

This user enjoys writing.

This user enjoys Geocaching.

This user is a railfan.

This user enjoys sailing and boating.

This user enjoys skygazing and astronomy.

This user does not smoke.

This user supports Renewable Energy.

This user supports Citizen Media.

This user is addicted to traveling.

Science:

This user is a mad scientist.

a²+b²=c²

This user is an intermediate mathematician.

This user is a statistician.

98	This user is supportive of the new definition of planet.

This user is interested in space exploration.

SI	This user prefers the metric system of measurement.

This user is interested in astronomy.

This user is interested in Geology.

This user is interested in Linguistics.

This user is crunching numbers using MPrime.

This user's favourite subject is Computing.

This user's favourite subject is Economics.

This user's favourite subject is Geography.

ICT

This user's favourite subject is Information Communication Technology.

$\sum_{k=1}^\sqrt{n} k^2$

This user's favorite subject is Mathematics.

PHL

This user's favourite subject is Philosophy.

This user's favorite subject is Physics.

PSY

This user's favourite subject is Psychology.

~(p&~p)

This user studies the concept of Logic

This user believes that the Universe began with a bang.

This user understands biological evolution.

This user believes in a solid oblate spheroid Earth, not a flat or hollow one.

This user is probably going to Hell.

Politics:

This user is not and has never been Napoleon.

?	This user follows his/her own political ideals.

This user is opposed to online censorship.

This user believes in the separation of church and state.

This user supports the use of wind power, solar power, and electric vehicles.

This user supports the use of green energy.

This user supports the use of nuclear power.

This user supports immigration and the right to travel freely upon the planet we share.

This user doesn't believe in the ownership of culture and knowledge.

This user is Child Free by Choice.

This user sees nothing wrong with the human form and doesn't view it as something that needs to be hidden.

User:CutUncut/Userboxes/NoCut

BM	This user is repulsed by most forms of body modification.

This user supports the continuation of a federal University of Wales.

This user believes that the death penalty should never be used.*

This user has been touched by His Noodly Appendage.

This user supports the United Nations.

This user supports the European Union.

In Memoriam: 9/11
Lest we forget…

Gentlemen, to the Queen!

This user believes that The Red Dragon should be included in the Union Jack.

This user respects the beliefs and religions of others.

This user is drug-free.

Smart:

This user believes in logic.

TV-0

This user has no television set.

This user couldn't care less about football.

This user is self-educated to an advanced college level.

This user is an
Open University student.

Family:

Parent home

This user lives in the parental home, and does not intend to leave.

This user grew up in the suburbs.

This user is of Greek ancestry.

This user is of multiple ancestries.

~~Sibs~~

This user is an only child.

YA	This user is a young adult.

Health:

This user suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome.

This user is nearsighted.

This user does not smoke.

This user obsessively drinks lots of Water and can be considered Aquaholic.

This user is mixed-handed.

Travel:

4	This user has set foot in 4 countries of the world.

This user has never left the Northern Hemisphere.

1	This user has set foot in 1 continents of the world.

This user has travelled to the UK.

This user has travelled to France.

This user has travelled to Italy.

This user has travelled to Greece.

This user has visited the United Kingdom.

This user has visited France.

This user has visited Italy.

This user has visited Greece.

This user would like to visit USA.

This user would like to visit Canada.

This user would like to visit Australia.

This user would like to visit New Zealand.

This user would like to visit Germany.

This user would like to visit Denmark.

This user would like to visit Norway.

This user would like to visit Sweden.

This user would like to visit Switzerland.

This user would like to visit Ireland.

This user would like to visit Iceland.

This user would like to visit Belgium.

This user would like to visit South Africa.

This user would like to visit Ukraine.

This user would like to visit India.

This user would like to visit Argentina.

This user would like to visit Brazil.

This user would like to visit Costa Rica.

Culture:

This user is an Anglophile

This user is a citizen of the European Union.

This user comes from Greece.

This user is a child at heart. They may have grown older but they'll never grow up.

This user has been tested and is a Certified Nerd

Wikipedia:

300+

This user has made over 300 contributions to Wikipedia.

This user is the subject of a wikibio.

EW0

This user has not experienced any edit wars and does not wish to be involved in any.

This user is not a Wikipedia administrator, but would like to be one someday.

This user is bold, but not reckless, in updating pages.

This user respects copyright, but sometimes it can be a major pain.

This user encourages the peaceful correction of vandals.

incl

This editor is an inclusionist.

This user believes that articles are useless without images.

This user spends far too much time editing his/her user page.

_	This_user_dislikes_seeing underscores_in_Wikilinks

This user loves userboxes.

This user provides information using userboxes to contact other Wikipedians with similar interests.

This user has a page on Wikimedia Commons.

This user believes that process is important on Wikipedia and is opposed to its circumvention.

Info
Box

This user believes that all articles should have an infobox.

This user removes fair use images from user pages. Such images can only be used in the main namespace.

This user believes that articles are useless without images.

<ref>

This user recognizes the importance of citing sources.

<ref>

This user would like to see everyone using inline citations. Please...

AfD-1

This user has had 1 pages put up for deletion. Most of the time, they were deleted.

This user clicks on Random article way too often.

DGAF

This user does not give a fuck.

Insomnia:

This user doesn't sleep.

This user loathes, but is forced to observe, Daylight Saving Time.

Games:

fan-3

This user thinks that FreeCiv is the best computer or video game ever made.

CIV	This user plays one or more versions of Civilization.

Personal:

This user cannot drive.

This user does not want to drive.

ego

This user is a deluded egomaniac.

BBC

This user puts news first by watching BBC World.

25	This user is 25 years old.

This user is male.

This user does not believe in romantic relationship.

This user took different MBTI tests and discovered that they had multiple personalities, so they're a bit confused.

This user is interested in the belief that the Meaning of life is to Improve Oneself.

END

This user has no more userboxes.

Welcome to the Wikipedia userpage of Nikolaos S. Karastathis (NSK)!

If this user ever gets a Wikipedia article, it will likely be Nikolaos S. Karastathis, Nikolaos Karastathis, or NSK (nsk).

1 Mission statement
2 Research statement
3 Wiki interests
4 Wiki memberships
5 Writing style and languages
6 Contributions
7 Edit count
8 Other Wikimedia projects
9 Config

[edit] Mission statement

On Sunday, 15 October 2006 at 1400 UTC, I decided to join Wikipedia and help in the creation of high-quality encyclopedic articles.

[edit] Research statement

During the last few years I undertake research on Wikipedia using a variety of methods, including virtual ethnography, flow analysis, opt-in questionnaires, and rarely breaching experiments (which are always good-hearted and do not cause disruption). The research is not expected to have any negative consequences on the subjects under investigation. Some results of the research are likely to be published after a few years at http://cosmoswiki.org/

Because the research involves only information which Wikipedians make public by their own choice on the Internet, it is concluded that there is no need to ask for permission. nevertheless on certain occasions permission or consultation with specific parties will be sought.

You can opt-out of this research at any time before the publications of the results by sending me an e-mail or a message on my talk page and asking me not to consider your article contributions and talk pages for my research. I will only need to know your Wikipedia user name or any other way of identifying your contributions on Wikipedia, so that I can filter them out.

The research takes the reputations of Wikipedians into account and will avoid popularising sensitive facts whenever this is possible.

The aims of my research are many:

Collecting evidence on machtpolitik on Wikipedia
Collecting evidence on governments's perceptions and relations with Wikipedia
Analysing the tensegrital structure and the spirit of synergetics on Wikipedia
Studying Wikipedia's orgmind
Understanding Wikipedia's collective intelligence and searching for traces of swarm intelligence
Observing Dunbar's number on Wikipedia
Analysing the Wikipedia community as a complex adaptive system exhibiting emergence using the knowledge and rhetoric of the new science of plectics
Trying to derive a Paretian optimal solution for specific Wikipedia problems
Trying to derive and apply the Feigenbaum numbers (see Feigenbaum constants) on Wikipedia
Finding instances of digital stigmergy (see also stigmergy)
Simulating Wikipedia using appropriate computer models and algorithms
Deriving mathematical models of Wikipedians's social behaviour
Identifying how machtpolitik affects Wikipedia's intangible structure, orgmind, and collective intelligence
Deriving prediction models for predicting the outcome of certain processes and interactions in Wikipedia (for example: "does the probability of deleting an article which contains ungrammatical sentences approaches 1 after a week from the moment of the article's creation")
Deriving appropriate adaptation modules for tuning up the prediction methods
Identifying the causes that make Wikipedians leave the community
Building methodologies for making Wikipedians return to the community or for preventing their departure from Wikipedia
Identifying the causes that make people vandalise Wikipedia
Building methodologies for the prevention of further vandalism
Identifying differences of Wikipedia usage and contributions among ethnic groups

The above is for my personal research, which is not supported by any third party.

The publication of the above does not necessarily exclude any other parallel research project, personal or academic, from being run on Wikipedia, with the same or different aims.

[edit] Wiki interests

Apart from fixing typos and wikifying new articles, I seek to improve our coverage on science and especially computer science. Furthermore, I care about the quality of our articles on mathematics, free/libre open-source software, and political geography.

I am also interested in helping out newcomers.

[edit] Wiki memberships

Member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Science and academia work group

[edit] Writing style and languages

I can contribute in English and Modern Greek. I also have a grasp of French and German, but not much.

My style is based upon the modern UK style guides (eg BBC), but with some modifications of my own. My style is as follows:

Mostly using British English
always using the Oxford comma
enjoying singular they
I do not put full stops in abbreviations (I write 'et al' instead of 'et al.' , 'eg' instead of 'e.g.' , 'BSc' instead of 'B.Sc.' , 'US' instead of 'U.S.' , as well as 'Prof' instead of 'Prof.' ) - See Guardian style guide
I use small letters with a first capital word for pronouncable acronyms, but all-capitals for unpronouncable acronyms, eg I write Nasa instead of NASA, but I write USPTO because the latter cannot be pronounced as a word. See Economist Style Guide
I usually prefer inverted commas in quotations, but sometimes I also use double quotes.
I use SI units
I italicise quotations

[edit] Contributions

[edit] Donations

I have donated 100 EUR to the Wikimedia Foundation.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Almanac

Improved: November 23 (added date of the Convention on Cybercrime), November 2001 (added date of the Convention on Cybercrime)

[edit] Artificial Intelligence

Improved: Swarm intelligence (external links, reference, names of coiners of the term)

[edit] Languages and Linguistics

Improved: Business English (provided reference)

[edit] Computer engineering

I created the articles Sun Niagara

I improved the articles microATX (added information on uATX), WTX (added comparison with eATX), ExpressCard (added paragraph on laptops with dual interfaces), FITALY (added external links), FrogPad (general enhancements, [1])

[edit] Computer hardware

I improved the articles Comparison of subnotebooks (added more Flybook details)

[edit] Economics and Economy

I improved the article Economy of the United States (updated unemployed statistics for May 2008)

[edit] Mobile telephony

Created: Huawei E220

[edit] Internet

Created: IMAP IDLE

I improved the articles Mobile Internet access worldwide (added Greece, USA, and UK sections), Slashdot (added info on meme poll), Internet access (added info on Greek constitution)

[edit] Chemistry

I created the articles Potassium trioxochlorochromate, Structure determination

I improved the articles X-ray crystallography (external links)

[edit] Computer science

I created the articles Douglas E. Comer, Cannon's algorithm.

I improved the articles Graph (data structure), Douglas Comer.

[edit] Space science

I improved the articles MetOp, Space adaptation syndrome, Sun (added list and reference of trace elements, added new Solar Chemistry section with subsections on Element Diffussion and Mass Fractionation), Formation and evolution of the Solar System (added 1970s supernova origin theory by Manuel et al)

[edit] Management and business

I created the articles Australian Journal of Management.

[edit] Mathematics

I created the articles Supnick matrix, Antidiagonal.

I improved the articles Monge matrix, Monge array.

[edit] Biographies of mathematicians

I improved the articles Christos Papakyriakopoulos ([2], added new reference, added info on his politics, death, social life, place of residence, music preferences).

[edit] Geometry

Improved: Hyperbolic 3-manifold (provided external links)

[edit] Free open-source software

I created the articles The Debian System, Tor Lillqvist, Entropy (GNU/Linux)

Major improvements: Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X (corrected the name, provided references and links, added much new information, [3])

I improved the articles KDE, Mark Shuttleworth, Ian Murdock, Gwenview, Exim (new section on version numbering)

[edit] Transport

I created the articles Ano Patissia station, Nerantziotissa station, Piraeus station, Victoria station.

I improved the articles ISAP, Athens Metro (added special fares info for Pallini-Peania-Koropi stations).

[edit] Vexillology, heraldry, national and royal symbols

I created the articles Coat of arms of Madagascar, Coat of arms of Kenya, Coat of arms of Tunisia.

[edit] Organisations and companies

I created the articles American Telecommuting Association, Canadian Telework Association, Optech Incorporated, Pouliadis Associates Corporation, Irvine Central Hospital

Improved: Eurobank EFG (added link to parent company, number of employees, and reference)

[edit] Biographies of entrepreneurs and businesspersons

I created the articles Thanasis Pouliadis

[edit] Biographies of free software and open source developers

Created: Hansjörg Malthaner

[edit] Biographies of scientists

I created the articles Ian Wilson (biologist), George Coulouris (computer scientist), Eugène-Melchior Péligot, Gerardo Beni, Susan Hackwood,

I improved the articles Allan Carswell (wikification and provision of references), Theodor Geiger (added references).

[edit] Biographies of academicians and researchers

Created: Robert Marks

Improved: james Kennedy (social psychologist) (added employment info)

[edit] Academia and education

I created the articles Future of Humanity Institute, Hyde Park High School, frontistirio, Master of Science in Management, Master of Science in Marketing Management, Mark R. Beissinger

I improved the articles University of Oxford.

[edit] Beauty pageants

I improved the articles Miss America, Miss India, Miss Asia Pacific International, Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss Europe.

[edit] Military

Created: HMS Vernon

I improved the articles HMS Astute (S119), Military of the Republic of Macedonia, Hellenic Air Force (added section on Greek F1CGs and improved references), Dassault Mirage F1 (improvements to the Operators section, added new maps, added Mirage F1CG section)

[edit] Geopolitics

I improved the articles Middle power, Macedonia naming dispute (provided better references).

[edit] International organisations

I improved the articles Nordic Passport Union, Common Travel Area.

[edit] Geography

I created the articles Ano Patissia, List of islands of the European Union.

I improved the articles List of settlements in Attica, Skorpios, Ireland, United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, Template:Africa in topic, Template:South America in topic, Template:Oceania in topic, Template:Europe topic, Template:North America in topic, Template:Asia in topic, Aegina (added ticket prices), Macedonia (region) (added Byzantium map and reorganised image positions, [4]).

[edit] History

I created the articles Ephimeris.

I improved the articles Okhi Day.

[edit] Numismatics

I created the articles Luc Luycx.

[edit] Computer software

I created the articles RedShift (planetarium software), Instrumented GIMP.

[edit] Software engineering

I improved the articles Software versioning (added info on peculiar versioning schemes and external links)

[edit] Consumer electronics

I created the articles HP Photosmart E427.

I improved the articles ThinkPad Z60m.

[edit] Politics

I created the articles Fotis Perlikos.

I improved the articles Liberal Alliance (Greece), ASPIDA (provided name in Greeklish), Russian Party (Greece) (provided context)

[edit] Political science

Improved: Federal republic (added Nepal).

[edit] Sociology of science

I created the article Graphism thesis.

[edit] Culture

Improved: Etiquette in Europe (added paragraph on use of red ink in Greece)

[edit] Nutrition and food

Improved: Souvlaki (added history section), Gyros (added info on history and the story about the origin in Piraeus)

[edit] Crime

Created: Nisha Patel-Nasri

Improved: Northern Illinois University shooting (aded section Perpetrator's publications)

[edit] Academia

Created: Western Esotericism (academia)

Improved: Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (added academic degree and copyedit), Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (added alternative name and the Open University degree programme)

[edit] Education

Created: European Qualifications Framework

[edit] Books

Created: The Mysterious Universe, Scientific Management, Socialist Discipline, and Soviet Power

[edit] Law

Improved: Convention on Cybercrime (added date and place of signing)

[edit] General

[edit] Created

I am the creator of these articles:

Carl August Ehrensvärd
DynPort
Mary-Louise Coulouris

[edit] Improved

I have added some new information or otherwise improved these articles:

Parsley
Street market
PHP Data Objects
Closed-circuit television
Nunatak
David Eppstein
Albert Ghiorso
Hedgehogs in culture (added Monty Python info)
Pollen (added new section 'pollen in human diets')
Newbie (added origin and reference)
Rani Whitfield (added reference, wikification)
Recruitment (initiated Greece section)
Millennium Run

[edit] Images

I contribute imagery and photographs to Wikimedia Commons. I have contributed these photos and maps:

Name	Image	Description
Image:LondonHomeless2006.jpg		Homelessness in London
Image:OxfordCCTV2006.jpg		CCTV in operation!
Image:CommonTravelArea.png		Common Travel Area map
Image:NordicPassportUnion.png		Nordic Passport Union map
Image:MiddlePowers.png		Middle powers map
Image:SkorpiosIsland.png		Skorpios location map
Image:Triceratops-goulandris-fullnotail.jpg		Triceratops
Image:Triceratops-goulandris-head.jpg		Triceratops head
Image:Human-spaceflight-countries.png		human spaceflight countries
Image:Space-launch-capability-countries-with-esa.png		Space launch capability countries
Image:Satellite-operators.png		Satellite operating countries
Image:RONJA-installations-world.png		RONJA installations
Image:Current and former operators of the F1 with legend.png		Dassault Mirage F1 current and former operators with legend
Image:Current and former operators of the F1 no legend.png		Dassault Mirage F1 current and former operators without legend
Image:Current operators of the F1.png		Dassault Mirage F1 current operators
Image:Former operators of the F1.png		Dassault Mirage F1 former operators
Image:Byzantine Macedonia 1045CE.svg		Byzantine themata in central Balkans.