User:MacGyverMagic

"In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves." - Jack Horner on the 80 years between Darwin's On the Origin of Species and the nuclear bomb in Time Magazine on April 26, 1993

I am MacGyverMagic, also known by the abbreviation of Mgm on the internet and I come from the Netherlands. I first came to Wikipedia after seeing it featured on BBC Click Online. My very first edit was improving the article Sodium chloride on April 18, 2004. I did the coding by looking up examples elsewhere. Only after succesfully editing that page, did I start reading all the help and policy pages. I got addicted soon after and since December 1, 2004 I have administrator status on the English Wikipedia.

As of 2007 I primarily keep myself busy with article creation, copyediting and administrator tasks. I'm also listed as a translator from Dutch to English.

Even though I study chemistry, I tend to stay away from chemistry articles in order to keep my time of Wikipedia a hobby instead of work. My favorite topics to edit are: magic, Ancient Egypt (hieroglyphs in particular) and more recently forensic science; I also contribute to various articles on film and television. Since I believe talented young people are heavily underrepresented on Wikipedia, I tend to work on articles related to child actors, child singers and other famous children (see my list). But I often get distracted, resulting in edits all over the place. For quite a while I managed the "Did you know" section on the Main Page and on October 23, 2006 I won the Esperanza Userpage Award shortly before the award's page got deleted.

Outside of Wikipedia I enjoy performing magic, fiction writing and a game called mafia (also known as werewolf).

[edit] My Travels

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We've all got one, and if you've gone this far, you may as well know mine.

User:MacGyverMagic/Views (a work in progress)

[edit] Useful stuff

• Venomous Snakes and herpetology for short story.
• London, London Underground, MI6 and espionage for novel.

• I found a mirror version of That Summer Day [1] less than a week after I created it.
• Writer's jokes found through Miss Snark.

• Template talk:Qif - conditional templates
• WP:TOOLS are very useful.
• How to start a wiki

• Top 100 WikiCharts
• WP:HOLE
• Wiktionary Question
• How to start a Wiki
• Essjay's Tools - edit counter and search amongst others
• Special:Linksearch
• Pedia Press
• User:Adam1213/warn
• User:KimvdLinde- editor who left
• Google Sketch Up - Free 3D modelling.
• Autostitch of photographs.
• User:Shinmawa - especially this thankyou note.
• File encryption.
• Tea Boy
• nl:Gebruiker:Robotje
• User:AndyZ/peerreviewer - automated peer reviewer for style issues.
• WikipediaWeekly podcasts
• Randfan's personal messages
• Wannabe Kate counter
• Virtual classroom
• ALoan has a list of obituary sources.
• The Transhumanist's User Page Design Center
• User:Fastfission/Noncommercial
• Old African maps
• TDS article contribution counter
• Toolserver TOC
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies‎
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Articles
  • My AA section
• Wikipedia:NavFrame - collapsible tables
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment
• Biographical search engines
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
• User:Ais523/catwatch.js - Category watchlist
• User talk:Qxz/header - now deleted, but may have useful history. (contact owner)
• User:MacGyverMagic/sandbox.js - copy of my monobook to see if I can make the page more readable and update it.