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Quote of the day / week / month / year / whatever:
- "Finding out that pine cones are Frenchmen in clever disguise would revolutionize our understanding of biology, physics, pretty much everything. It would be a stunning discovery of astonishing impact. This doesn't mean it is an open problem whether pine cones are Frenchmen in clever disguise or that it would make sense to attempt to show they are." — Aatu Koskensilta insci.math
About myself
I am, as of this writing, an undergraduate mathematics student living inHelsinki,Finland. I am currently working on myMSc thesis on the cluster approximations of cellular automaton models inmathematical biology. I have been an active poster onUsenet since 1996, and (occasionally) maintain a personal web site (see below). My past and current interests include, in no particular order:
I have contributed to a number of articles as IP85.76.76.123 prior to registering this account.
Contributions
Articles I've started
This is a list of new articles I've added to Wikipedia. Feel free to improve them!
- Second order cellular automaton,Block cellular automaton
- My first new articles. They started off as additions tocellular automaton, but that article is already so long that I decided to split them off.
- Darwin (programming game)
- A predecessor ofCore War. Earlier versions incorrectly identified the two games. I corrected the claim, and created a separate article for the original game.
- Base 36
- Someone decided to name thisnumeral system after himself and create a vanity article about it. I caught it onSpecial:Newpages, nominated it for deletion and, since no proper article existed on the subject, decided to start one.
- Dental drill
- I wanted to link to this article from thereference desk but discovered that it didn't exist. I decided it was easier to start it myself than to request that someone else do it.
- Electronic Frontier Finland
- Finnish on-line civil rights organization. I'm a member, I figured the least I could do was start a stub for them.
- van der Corput sequence
- Alow-discrepancy sequence over the unit interval.
- Eurasian Least Shrew
- The second-smallest mammal in the world after theEtruscan Pygmy Shrew.
- Wolfram code
- A brief explanation of this rather opaque way of numberingcellular automaton rules.
- Wikipedia:Advice to AOL users
- So you're anAOL user and you've just found yourself blocked from editing. What to do?
- Fisher-Yates shuffle
- A popular and efficientshufflingalgorithm that dates back to 1938.
- Bagheera kiplingi
- The only (mostly) herbivorous spider known so far. (With thanks toSarefo forturning my awkward stub into a real article.)
Articles I've worked on
- Core War
- Rewrote about half of the article. Still need to complete the job. Also recently started work onRedcode.
- False morel
- This article was a mess after multiple editors had added contradictory claims seemingly at random positions. Irewrote it andgyromitrin almost completely, trying to put the important part (don't eat them raw!) first.
- Siberian Flying Squirrel
- Translated fromFinnish. Could use more references.
Article rescue
These are some articles I've spotted duringnew pages patrol or found onCAT:CSD and cleaned up and/or wikified. The diffs include my original improvements; often others have since picked up from where I left.
Images
SeeUser:Ilmari Karonen/Image gallery.
Templates
- Template:Familytree
- A template for creating simple HTML/CSS family trees using an ASCII art -like syntax.
- Template:Stars
- A twisted little template for displaying star ratings inalbum infoboxes.
User scripts
Here are someuser scripts I've written. SeeUser:Ilmari Karonen/scripts for the full list, including obsolete and broken scripts.
- cologneblue/shorteditlinks.js
- Make the edit links on the Cologne Blue skin say simply "Edit" rather than "Edit this page". (Install atcologneblue.js.)
- deletereasonlisthack.js
- Admin-only: Tweak the predefined deletion reason drop-down menu to directly modify the summary text box.
- deletionlog.js
- Add a "Deletion log" link to the toolbox. Semi-obsolescent, as the deletion log is now automatically shown for non-existent pages.
- editbutton user.js
- Add a button for inserting {{user}} to the edit toolbar.
- editsection0.js
- Add a "0" tab for editing the lead section of the page next to the "edit this page" tab.
- fixarxivlinks.js
- Semi-automatically fix bad links toarXiv preprints. Seedocumentation.
- fixconverttosvg.js
- Semi-automatic helper script for sorting images tagged with {{Convert to SVG}} by type.FIXME: Been a while since I tested this, may or may not still work.
- fixdontknow.js
- Semi-automatic helper script for sorting images inCategory:Uploader unsure of copyright status. Works again, but somewhat useless since the category has been tagged with __NOGALLERY__.
- fixuserjslinks.js
- Semi-automatic helper script for replacing links to JS subpages ofUser:User name,User:Your name orUser:Example with links toSpecial:Mypage. Semi-obsolete, most instances that should be replaced have been.
- googlelink.js
- Add "Google search" and "Yahoo! search" links to the toolbox, to search for non-Wikipedia mentions of the current page's title.
- ifdthumbnails.js
- Add thumbnail images toWP:IFD and its subpages.
- liveclock.js
- Optimized replacement for the "Live UTC clock"gadget.
- nfurbacklink.js
- Semi-automatic helper script for adding missing "Article" parameters to images inCategory:Non-free images lacking article backlink. Seedocumentation. Semi-obsolete, as the backlog in that category has been mostly cleared.
- prefixindex.js
- Add a toolbox link toSpecial:Prefixindex listing subpages of the current page.
- purge.js
- Add a tab topurge the server page cache.
- rblcheck.js
- Add a toolbox link for IP user/talk/contributions pages to check the IP against multipleDNSBLs, courtesy ofrobtex.com. Useful for detectingopen proxies, but needs some nontrivial interpretation. Semi-redundant, since a similar link is now provided in the page footer.
- replace.js
- Add a tab to edit pages to do aregexp search-and-replace on the text.
- rollbacksummary.js
- Automatically prompt for a custom edit summary when clickingrollback links.
- rot13.js
- Silly script torot-13 en/decode selected text on a page.
- searchnsmenu.js
- Add a drop-down menu to the search box to choose the namespace to search in
- sigdash.js
- Make the "Your signature with timestamp" edit button use a realem dash.
- signcheck.js
- Pop up a confirmation dialog if trying to save a talk page without signing your name.
- unwatch.js
- Add "unwatch" links to each item inyour watchlist.
- unwatchredlinks.js
- Add a button tothe watchlist edit page to select all non-existent pages for un-watching.
- userrights.js
- Add a toolbox link toSpecial:Userrights to user and user talk pages for showing the rights assigned to the user in question.
- watchlisteditdoublesubmit.js
- Adds a second submit button to the top ofthe watchlist edit page.
- watchsince.js
- Adds a "Changes since last loaded" link toyour watchlist, for keeping up with new changes.
To do
This is my personal shopping list of articles that are either missing or in need of improvement. By listing them here, I hopefully won't forget them so easily.
Missing diagrams:
MediaWiki improvements:
Licensing
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