User:Benc/About me
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Started a new job; less time for wiki'ing. :-(
About me
[edit]- Name: Ben
- Age: twenty-something
- Alma mater: Virginia Tech (B.S., computer science)
- Wikipedian editor since late June 2004; occasional reader since 2002
Random factoids
[edit]- I don't spell-check my entries (althoug i amprety good speling)
- For a while, I thought that "rv" meant "revert vandalism". I'm glad we don't have as much vandalism as I first thought!
Wikistats
[edit]I probably need to take a Wikivacation.
- According to the 22 September 2004 List of Wikipedians making excessive numbers of edits, I've made:
- 2022 edits in the article namespace (420th highest of all editors)
- 4309 edits in all namespaces (271st highest of all editors)
- 46.9% of my edits were in the article namespace
- Wikipediholic score: 158.5 as of late August 2004. The test is constantly growing, though, so if I retook it now my score would probably be higher. FWIW, I haven't added any questions to the test, myself. :-)
- I wrote m:edit counting to convince myself to stop visiting Wikipedians by number of edits. I was partially successful.
- I have a relatively high edit count, I think, because (1) I do a lot of grunt work, and (2) I try to use the show preview function, but I almost always find a word I want to change after saving. Argh! Stop edit counting!
Verbosity
[edit]I'm verbose. I tend to write more than is strictly necessary. I write too much stuff. I need to write less.
- Perhaps unsurprisingly given that I tend to wax verbose from time to time, I am also somewhat of an anti-deletionist. So many articles on VfD would be better sent to cleanup... or better yet, cleaned instead of nominated at all!
- Also unsurprisingly, I tend to not create stubs. If I'm going to start an article, I research it and write a full-length article. If I'm not up to it, I make sure there are at least two or three of those lovely red links pointing to the needed article.
Interests
[edit]- 24, the only TV show I've ever watched religiously
- American football, mainly at the college level, but I'm a 'Skins fan, too
- Artificial intelligence
- Automata theory
- History of the English language
- Genetic algorithms
- Linguistics
- Literature
- Mathematical logic
- Mathematics in general
- Number theory
- And anything else that strikes my fancy :-)
Programming languages
[edit]My favorite computer programming languages:
- Python (see the scripts I've written for cyborg wiki'ing)
- SQL
- C++
- PHP
- JavaScript, which actually has surprisingly functional support for OOP. Too bad its name has been forever sullied by pop-up advertisers.
Notably absent from the above list: Java. I like OOP, but Java's bloat? Feh!
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