User:Benc/About me

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Contents 1 About me 1.1 Random factoids 1.2 Wikistats 1.3 Verbosity 1.4 Interests 1.4.1 Programming languages

[edit] About me

• Name: Ben
• Age: twenty-something
• Alma mater: Virginia Tech (B.S., Computer Science)
• Wikipedian editor since late June 2004; occasional reader since 2002

[edit] Random factoids

• 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!

[edit] Wikistats

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!

[edit] Verbosity

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.

[edit] Interests

• 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 :-)

[edit] Programming languages

My favorite computer programming languages:

1. Python (see the scripts I've written for cyborg wiki'ing)
2. SQL
3. C++
4. PHP
5. 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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