About
Wiki history
I made my first edits in 2005 and became highly active in late 2006. Most of my work was reverting vandalism using a script to monitor recent changes, or sourcing articles using news databases. In 2007, I became an administrator ( verify, RfA, logs).
What's a SpuriousQ?
I write this down for the curious and before I forget myself.
I was in the university lab doing some compilers project with my friend. We'd alternate between working and browsing Wikipedia. At one point we arrived at an article about a professor whose selected bibliography was missing something, so I added it in my first ever edit. It was an anon edit.
Back to our project, we were stuck tracking down some perplexing bug. Finally we discovered the cause: in one of our input files, there was, randomly, off by itself many columns offscreen, the lone character q.
"It's a spurious q," one of us remarked, as we deleted our mysterious visitor. And on we continued.
Next time I wanted to make an edit, I decided to register an account. Obviously, this is what came to mind.
Useful links
- Wikipedia:Citation templates
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- Special:Linksearch
- Special:Listusers
- Special:Prefixindex
- User:Dragons flight
- Magnus's reference generator
- Magnus's isbn-to-wiki
Subpages
Random stuff I always have to look up
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{{cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title = | work = | pages = | language = | publisher = | date = | url = | accessdate = }}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Last name, first name}}
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Interesting things I've come across
About
Wiki history
I made my first edits in 2005 and became highly active in late 2006. Most of my work was reverting vandalism using a script to monitor recent changes, or sourcing articles using news databases. In 2007, I became an administrator ( verify, RfA, logs).
What's a SpuriousQ?
I write this down for the curious and before I forget myself.
I was in the university lab doing some compilers project with my friend. We'd alternate between working and browsing Wikipedia. At one point we arrived at an article about a professor whose selected bibliography was missing something, so I added it in my first ever edit. It was an anon edit.
Back to our project, we were stuck tracking down some perplexing bug. Finally we discovered the cause: in one of our input files, there was, randomly, off by itself many columns offscreen, the lone character q.
"It's a spurious q," one of us remarked, as we deleted our mysterious visitor. And on we continued.
Next time I wanted to make an edit, I decided to register an account. Obviously, this is what came to mind.
Useful links
- Wikipedia:Citation templates
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- Special:Linksearch
- Special:Listusers
- Special:Prefixindex
- User:Dragons flight
- Magnus's reference generator
- Magnus's isbn-to-wiki
Subpages
Random stuff I always have to look up
{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | work = | publisher = | date = | url = | format = | doi = | accessdate = }}
{{cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title = | work = | pages = | language = | publisher = | date = | url = | accessdate = }}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Last name, first name}}
?action=purge
&diffonly=1&action=render