My private editing activities concentrate on
Southern African, primarily
Namibian topics. Occasionally I stumble across inaccuracies in other subject areas which I then attempt to repair.
I teach computer networking at
Namibia University of Science and Technology in
Windhoek. In this role I have a few Wikipedia assignments because there currently is no second active Wikipedian at my institution. Among these "official" tasks are:
When someone in Namibia requests a public lecture, training, or some general information on Wikipedia it will usually be me to deliver it.
I am the inofficial campus ambassador of Namibia University of Science and Technology. I coordinated a mandatory Wikipedia assignment
from 2010 to 2012. We had to stop it due to excessive copyright violations; the assignment is now voluntary.
I have created a new account for teaching how to create new accounts, and I might do so again if the look-and-feel of new accounts differs too much from that of established ones. I do not intend to edit much from these:
Pg new2 (
talk) 14:02, 28 May 2014 (UTC) for a small video project on getting started with Wikipedia
Pg new3 (
talk) 05:08, 17 October 2016 (UTC) in preparation of an editathon at our university
Pg new4 (
talk) 18:46, 14 August 2020 (UTC) for a video editathon during
COVID-19 lockdown
Countries I've been to
I was born in , witnessed (and helped) its reunification into , and then emigrated for
Some things I wish I had said
All ripped out of their context, and some emphases or links added. In chronological order.
"The theory that I find most credible as an explanation of the decline of the community since 2007 is the end of the 'SoFixIt' culture and its replacement by the templating culture which [...] has lead to hundreds of thousands of articles disfigured by garish templates calling attention to problems that somebody hopes someone else will understand and fix." ---
WereSpielChequers,
Nov 2011.
"The First
Law of Holes remains good advice even if you think it is unfair that you are in the hole or you are unsure why you are there [...] if an arbitration case is opened with your username as the casename, you may be in some sort of a hole." ---
Newyorkbrad,
Aug 2016
My private editing activities concentrate on
Southern African, primarily
Namibian topics. Occasionally I stumble across inaccuracies in other subject areas which I then attempt to repair.
I teach computer networking at
Namibia University of Science and Technology in
Windhoek. In this role I have a few Wikipedia assignments because there currently is no second active Wikipedian at my institution. Among these "official" tasks are:
When someone in Namibia requests a public lecture, training, or some general information on Wikipedia it will usually be me to deliver it.
I am the inofficial campus ambassador of Namibia University of Science and Technology. I coordinated a mandatory Wikipedia assignment
from 2010 to 2012. We had to stop it due to excessive copyright violations; the assignment is now voluntary.
I have created a new account for teaching how to create new accounts, and I might do so again if the look-and-feel of new accounts differs too much from that of established ones. I do not intend to edit much from these:
Pg new2 (
talk) 14:02, 28 May 2014 (UTC) for a small video project on getting started with Wikipedia
Pg new3 (
talk) 05:08, 17 October 2016 (UTC) in preparation of an editathon at our university
Pg new4 (
talk) 18:46, 14 August 2020 (UTC) for a video editathon during
COVID-19 lockdown
Countries I've been to
I was born in , witnessed (and helped) its reunification into , and then emigrated for
Some things I wish I had said
All ripped out of their context, and some emphases or links added. In chronological order.
"The theory that I find most credible as an explanation of the decline of the community since 2007 is the end of the 'SoFixIt' culture and its replacement by the templating culture which [...] has lead to hundreds of thousands of articles disfigured by garish templates calling attention to problems that somebody hopes someone else will understand and fix." ---
WereSpielChequers,
Nov 2011.
"The First
Law of Holes remains good advice even if you think it is unfair that you are in the hole or you are unsure why you are there [...] if an arbitration case is opened with your username as the casename, you may be in some sort of a hole." ---
Newyorkbrad,
Aug 2016