Ian Kluft
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This is the user page of Ian Kluft
Some of my online presence:
These are organizations which I am currently involved in.
I also maintain the free Amateur Radio online exam practice web site at radioexam.org
I maintain a web site about Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
I'm a commercial pilot and certified flight instructor. Since June 2010, I'm a member of the San Jose International Airport Commission, appointed by the San Jose City Council. However, this is just a volunteer advisory position, part of the public input process - I am not employed by the airport or the city, and am not obligated to tow any party line.
I'm a Perl programmer. My CPAN ID is ikluft, just like on Wikipedia.
I first got started editing at Wikipedia sort of by accident. SEWilco started a Wikinews story about a web page that I posted in Feb 2007. His news article was started on Mar 8 and published Mar 9, " Rocketeers find possible impact crater in Nevada". His approach was to start the article and then tell our discussion mail list about it and invite updates. To me, that was something out of the this-never-happens department, being invited to look over and edit a news story before it goes out. So I participated in the story as invited. It was a thinly-veiled but apparently effective attempt to recruit more Wikipedia volunteers. :-) I was actively involved until early 2010, when I took a break for a year and a half. Though I have resumed some editing, my participation remains minimal.
The research into the suspected impact crater at Black Rock has kept going. I have a web page about the the research project. This project was listed in the December 2008 issue of Discover Magazine in an article about amateur scientists' research in 2008. In January 2009, I finally found the heavily-eroded outline on the map - the current estimate is 54 miles (87 km) in diameter. At some point after we collect enough evidence there should be a paper about it.
See also my page on Wikiversity.
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The Working Man's Barnstar | |
I do hereby award this barnstar to Ikluft for his assumption and completion of the otherwise thankless task of creating a stub for each of the mountain ranges in California—over 200 in total. Great job! Un sch ool 09:07, 29 December 2008 (UTC) |
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WPOR Award: Sponsored by the Big Gold Dude. | |
This +1 Barnstar of Mountain Creation is awarded for the work you've done creating Virtue Hills, Sheepshead Mountains, Rogue River Range, Red Hills of Dundee, Paulina Mountains, and many more in Oregon's geographic range. tedder ( talk) 23:48, 29 August 2009 (UTC) |
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The Content Creativity Barnstar | |
I award you this Barnstar, for the excellent templates you created in Wikipedia:Method for consensus building and your hard work, in general. JokerXtreme ( talk) 15:01, 13 March 2010 (UTC) |
These are the pages where I have my highest numbers of edits per page.
Sometimes my editing has been along cleaning up and/or building a theme. Here are the highlights, including what led me to pursue them.
Along the way, some admin gave me WP:Autoreviewer privileges. Thank you, whoever you are...
These are photos I've uploaded and contributed to Wikipedia (via Wikimedia Commons) of which I'm the photographer. These are listed in chronological order of the time taken.
These are other images I created and contributed to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia. So far these are all maps that use public-domain federal map imagery in the background and overlay topic-specific details which I added.
See List of mountain ranges of Nevada (though I did not create that article).
Done All the entries from USGS GNIS for Nevada mountain ranges now have at least stub articles using that data as a reference. (215 stub articles created)
This originally started to fill in stub articles for the mountains around the Black Rock Desert. But the perl script I wrote to generate the text of a mountain range stub article from GNIS also works for other locations.
After starting articles for the mountains in the Black Rock Desert, the effort continued to the rest of Nevada.
After completing the Nevada ranges, I created the list article, List of mountain ranges of California and got started on mountain range stub articles for California. By the point the Nevada articles were done, the script that generates them had gotten enough incremental changes to generalize it to handle any state. Except that the time zone is still hard-coded for Pacific Time - so the script will still need a little more work before it's ready for Prime Time.
Done All the entries from USGS GNIS for Cal;ifornia mountain ranges now have at least stub articles using that data as a reference. (216 stub articles created)
It took 31 new articles to fill in the missing mountain ranges for List of mountain ranges of Oregon.
This is just experimental use of the mountain range stub generator for some places in other states.
How do I pick the colors on these?
These are consensus-building templates for Wikipedia:Method for consensus building and {{ Method for consensus building}}.
I have a sandbox workspace in my Wikipedia user space. These pages are usually not interesting for browsing.
This is a collection of useful Wikipedia editing links
Ian Kluft
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This is a Wikipedia
user page.
This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user to whom this page belongs may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ikluft. |
This is the user page of Ian Kluft
Some of my online presence:
These are organizations which I am currently involved in.
I also maintain the free Amateur Radio online exam practice web site at radioexam.org
I maintain a web site about Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
I'm a commercial pilot and certified flight instructor. Since June 2010, I'm a member of the San Jose International Airport Commission, appointed by the San Jose City Council. However, this is just a volunteer advisory position, part of the public input process - I am not employed by the airport or the city, and am not obligated to tow any party line.
I'm a Perl programmer. My CPAN ID is ikluft, just like on Wikipedia.
I first got started editing at Wikipedia sort of by accident. SEWilco started a Wikinews story about a web page that I posted in Feb 2007. His news article was started on Mar 8 and published Mar 9, " Rocketeers find possible impact crater in Nevada". His approach was to start the article and then tell our discussion mail list about it and invite updates. To me, that was something out of the this-never-happens department, being invited to look over and edit a news story before it goes out. So I participated in the story as invited. It was a thinly-veiled but apparently effective attempt to recruit more Wikipedia volunteers. :-) I was actively involved until early 2010, when I took a break for a year and a half. Though I have resumed some editing, my participation remains minimal.
The research into the suspected impact crater at Black Rock has kept going. I have a web page about the the research project. This project was listed in the December 2008 issue of Discover Magazine in an article about amateur scientists' research in 2008. In January 2009, I finally found the heavily-eroded outline on the map - the current estimate is 54 miles (87 km) in diameter. At some point after we collect enough evidence there should be a paper about it.
See also my page on Wikiversity.
![]() |
The Working Man's Barnstar | |
I do hereby award this barnstar to Ikluft for his assumption and completion of the otherwise thankless task of creating a stub for each of the mountain ranges in California—over 200 in total. Great job! Un sch ool 09:07, 29 December 2008 (UTC) |
![]() |
WPOR Award: Sponsored by the Big Gold Dude. | |
This +1 Barnstar of Mountain Creation is awarded for the work you've done creating Virtue Hills, Sheepshead Mountains, Rogue River Range, Red Hills of Dundee, Paulina Mountains, and many more in Oregon's geographic range. tedder ( talk) 23:48, 29 August 2009 (UTC) |
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The Content Creativity Barnstar | |
I award you this Barnstar, for the excellent templates you created in Wikipedia:Method for consensus building and your hard work, in general. JokerXtreme ( talk) 15:01, 13 March 2010 (UTC) |
These are the pages where I have my highest numbers of edits per page.
Sometimes my editing has been along cleaning up and/or building a theme. Here are the highlights, including what led me to pursue them.
Along the way, some admin gave me WP:Autoreviewer privileges. Thank you, whoever you are...
These are photos I've uploaded and contributed to Wikipedia (via Wikimedia Commons) of which I'm the photographer. These are listed in chronological order of the time taken.
These are other images I created and contributed to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia. So far these are all maps that use public-domain federal map imagery in the background and overlay topic-specific details which I added.
See List of mountain ranges of Nevada (though I did not create that article).
Done All the entries from USGS GNIS for Nevada mountain ranges now have at least stub articles using that data as a reference. (215 stub articles created)
This originally started to fill in stub articles for the mountains around the Black Rock Desert. But the perl script I wrote to generate the text of a mountain range stub article from GNIS also works for other locations.
After starting articles for the mountains in the Black Rock Desert, the effort continued to the rest of Nevada.
After completing the Nevada ranges, I created the list article, List of mountain ranges of California and got started on mountain range stub articles for California. By the point the Nevada articles were done, the script that generates them had gotten enough incremental changes to generalize it to handle any state. Except that the time zone is still hard-coded for Pacific Time - so the script will still need a little more work before it's ready for Prime Time.
Done All the entries from USGS GNIS for Cal;ifornia mountain ranges now have at least stub articles using that data as a reference. (216 stub articles created)
It took 31 new articles to fill in the missing mountain ranges for List of mountain ranges of Oregon.
This is just experimental use of the mountain range stub generator for some places in other states.
How do I pick the colors on these?
These are consensus-building templates for Wikipedia:Method for consensus building and {{ Method for consensus building}}.
I have a sandbox workspace in my Wikipedia user space. These pages are usually not interesting for browsing.
This is a collection of useful Wikipedia editing links