This user wasawarded theCitation Barnstar for sourcingPassive attack after17 years, 79 days, at the time the longest any Wikipedia article had been unsourced.
This user wasawarded theSewer Cover Barnstar: "You can read throughanything. You don’t know the meaning of attention deficit disorder, laugh in the face of boredom, and are wasting your talents if you don’t become a patent examiner."
This editor is aLooshpah Laureate of the Encyclopedia and is entitled to display thisBook of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix, Errata Sheet, and Author's Signature.
This user was awarded theSignpostBarnstar twice.[1][2]
This user wasawarded theBarnstar of Diligence: "Thanks for your many updates toWikipedia:Wikipedia records. That's a lot of research to do and I appreciate it!"
This user wasawarded theGraphic Designer's Barnstar: "Absolutely love your visualizations of AfD submissions with your Oracle; keep up the awesome work!!!"
This user was awarded theBarnstar of Good Humor thrice.[1][2][3]
I take lots of photos: one is aFeatured Picture. Check out myCommons userpage if you want to see more. Below is some of the stuff I've done around here, mostly so I can keep track of it. If you are trying to form an opinion of me quickly, take a look atthis software andthis article.
Private inquiries can be made throughEmailUser or directly tojppiss@gmail.comxg-dëv at pröpiss@gmail.comtönmail döt cöm (type it in without the umlauts).
Oracle for Deletion: a live dashboard of all openAfD discussions. You can click to instantly sort by age, subject, keep/delete ratio, number of comments, page size, et cetera. There are alsodetailed statistics and sortable month summaries for all 482,281 discussions going back to 2005 (including sick-ass graphs). You ever wonder what thebiggest deletion discussion of all time was? Now you know.
PressPass: a collection of tools for usingNewspapers.com, including enhanced search and configurable auto-citation in five different formats. This will automatically generate fully formatted{{cite news}} templates from n.com clippings (not that half-assed Citoid output), from the convenience of your own browser window.
CurrentSwitcher: this gives you links on your contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns. This allows you to use your contribs page as an easy way to check if people have responded to your comments/questions, or look at which discussions/pages have been active since your last post.
I've made a coupleSolarized versions of Wikipedia skins,here andhere (which look likethis). Only the Vector (and legacy Vector) skin (here) is actively maintained.
The ones after this are pretty boring, and recommended only for extreme nerds.
TrackSum: this lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like{{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
Unbreaker: this gives you a button to fix those messed-up <br /> tags (i.e. <br>) which cause the syntax highlighter to go bonkers.
CopyTitle: a fork ofNovem Linguae'sCopyTitle.js, which puts a small button next to the title of an article which copies it to your clipboard. Mine makes it a little smaller and shortens it from "copy" to "c".
Monthcounter: A very, very niche script: adds a button to the "more" tab at the top of the page which goes through the text in the edit box, counts the occurrences of "January", "February" [...] "December", and outputs a tab-delimited summary of each count in the edit box. I made this for the sole purpose of tallying uparb enforcement log entries for arbitration reports in theSignpost. Maybe it will be useful for something else.
More random crap can be found in myPrefixIndex, although I don't provide any warranty for what you find in there being useful or finished.
You may notice I resembleUser:JPyG; pay this greasy little man no attention, he is but a sock.
I did acontributor copyright investigation on 1,650 articles once, and copyedited a few hundred of them so that they no longer contained huge quotes from copyrighted sources. What a mess.
There are a lot ofpotentially dated statements in articles. Sometimes I update them, and sometimes I restructure them so that historical information is placed in proper context. Either way, I emptied out1990 (22 articles) and1991 (20 articles).