User:Mathwiz2020

"If it's a small world, then it's definitely a small 'pedia." --M@thwiz2020 02:04, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

"I used to have  a life, a life full of trivial matters such as memorizing 150 digits of pi, solving Rubik's cubes in less  than two minutes, and  so on. Then I discovered Wikipedia. As I said, I used to have  a life." --M@thwiz2020 22:07, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

"Due to a heavy workload in the world that most people would call "real" but which relativity states is  only an  observer-created reality, I will be on a quasi-wikibreak for the next negative thirty days or  so. If you really need to contact me, just travel through your spacetime at the speed of light until you drop by mine before I arrive and  leave me a message." --M@thwiz2020 17:34, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Introduction

Hi, I'm Mathwiz2020. I don't like to divulge personal information, but if you try really hard, I'll tell you that my name is  not Bob.

As you can see in my userboxes, I speak many languages - English, English, and  English. I also speak some French and  Pig Latin, but no 1337. (In fact, 1337 is  the only word I know how to spell in 1337.) I would like to learn more  languages though - with like being the key word, because I'm probably not going to learn any more  languages, unless, of course, you count programming langauges. :)

I live on the planet Earth near Sol in the Milky Way Galaxy. I happen to reside in multiple parallel universes, but I don't know how many - I just know that I live in this one. In another universe, I probably have  never heard of Wikipedia, and, in another, it  probably doesn't even exist, so I'm glad that the this me lives in this universe, whatever it  may be called.

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Skills trpt-3 This user is  an advanced trumpeter. pno-3 This user is  an advanced pianist. html-4 This user is  an HTML expert. js-4 This user is  an expert JavaScript coder. css-4 This user is  an expert Cascading Style Sheets user. c#-1 This user is  a beginning C# programmer. re-3 This user is  an advanced regular expression programmer. cvg-0 This user does not play/is not interested in  and  video games">computer and  video games. This user knows by heart the first 240 digits in the decimal representation of pi. eiπ This user is  an expert mathematician.

As I said above, I'm always willing to learn new programming languages. I picked up C# when I volunteered to take over the AWB, and  I took up HTML, javascript, and  CSS years ago (although only the second of the three is  really a programming language).

I consider myself extremely adept at both trumpet and  piano but... well, opinions differ from person to person. If there's one thing I hate, that would be video games. On the opposite side of the spectrum is  pi. I love all flavors of pie - apple, blueberry, cherry, uhh, what begins with "d"? No, really, I've memorized 240 digits of the number pi! Yeah, pretty useless, isn't it?

I'm skilled in acquiring more  skills, too, but most of my new skills are, as I said before, useless in most people's opinions. I'm not even sure if most would even be considered skills.

As you can probably tell from my user name, I like cheese. and  math. (And, with math comes science, so I like that too.) I scribble random proofs on Post-it notes all day long for fun, and  it actually does help to pass the time.

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Beliefs lib This user is  a liberal. This user understands biological evolution. This user knows that 42 is   and  Everything">the answer to life, the Universe, and  everything. This user has been touched by His Noodly Appendage. D This user reads Dilbert.

I believe in evolution, not Bush. (You can probably infer from that that I am  a Democrat in the US politcal party system.) I am  a supporter of string theory and  I hope that it  will lead one day to the grand unified theory, or  the theory of everything.

I think that 42 is  the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and  Everything... or  at least, it  was until we discovered the Ultimate Question. Then, the Ultimate Question became "What is  a hrung?" but someone figured out the Ultimate Answer to that, so the Universe became something completely different yet again. Now, I have  no idea what the Ultimate Question and  Answer are  because, if I knew them, they wouldn't be ultimate anymore. The Ultimate Question now might be "What is  the theory of everything?" and, once scientists figure that out, it  will change again. I also think that Dilbert is  the best comic strip ever - well, it's the only comic strip I've ever read, so how should I know?

On Wikipedia, I believe that all articles should be included - except for the useless ones, the empty ones, those that advertise or  attack, vanity articles, and... Okay, let me reword that: I believe that all good articles should be included. And, yes, schools articles are  "good" articles assuming there is  something notable about them.

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Software G This user uses Google as a primary search engine. This user uses Gmail as a primary email service. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP.

I love Google and  I hate Microsoft - why I use XP then, no one knows (not even me). I'm waiting for the purported Google OS to come out, at which time I'll switch. it  was supposed to come out last Christmas season but, well, you know the technology industry. I use Gmail, but not often, just for Wikipedia, actually. For everything else I use something else. And, since I hate Microsoft, I use, obviously, Firefox for everything, including editing Wikipedia.

By now, you're probably getting really bored reading about me. If you've actually gotten this far, congratulations, I hereby award you this imaginary barnstar! Now on to some slighty more  boring, I mean interesting, information.

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Projects This user is  a member of Esperanza. WC This user is  part of the Welcoming Committee. This user is  a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. This user is  a member of the WikiProject Stub Sorting.

I started editing Wikipedia on 21 February 2005 and  became an  admin on 12 January 2006. And, while I kept meaning to join Esperanza every day, I didn't actually join until 17 February 2006. I'm now considering leaving, though, due to a recent debate with Esperanza about the Council elections just a week after I "joined." So's life, I mean, wiki-life. (Real life is  quite different.) At around New Year 2006, I discovered the AutoWikiBrowser, which I enjoyed since it  expedited many Wikipedia editing processes. When Martin left on an  indefinite Wikibreak, I volunteered to take over the code. Luckily, Martin's back, but I'm still helping code the AWB every now and  then.

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Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar awarded by Jared Preston "for supplying [him] with an  editcount in a real, bleak, Saturday-night time-of-need." – 01:10, 16 April 2006 (UTC) [1]

I'm also part of the Welcoming Committee, and  I use this special code to greet new users. Nifty, eh? I'm a member of the counter-vandalism unit and  also the stub sorting project. I also participate in some missing article projects, schoolwatch, and  the schools project every now and  then, too. I try to do as much at Wikipedia as possible. I even got a barnstar once!

[ more  on Wikipedia">edit] More on Wikipedia

Programs Warning to Vandals: This user is  armed with Vandal Fighter This user uses Lupin's navigation popups. This user uses Bluemoose's AutoWikiBrowser.

I, as I said earlier, help program the AutoWikiBrowser. Which means, you guessed it, I use it! I also monitor RC using CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter, and  occasionally use popups, although the rollback feature has replaced those in most situations. I still use popups to preview pages, though - I love that feature! I, of course, still take time for quality edits, i.e., those improving and  expanding articles, and  I also vote on RfA and  AfD quasi-regularly.

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Wikipediholic This user [2] an  administrator on the English Wikipedia. This user wastes far too much time editing Wikipedia. This user scored something on the Wikipediholic test. vn-11 This user page has been vandalized 11 times.

I am  a Wikipediholic. I took the test soon after it  was condensed and  got a really low score so, now that it's been expanded, I'll take it  soon and  post my score here. I have  too many edits and  don't know what to do with them.

In fact, I am  an administrator on Wikipedia. I was nominated in order to edit the AWB's protected page of allowed users, but, in fact, I was more  qualified than I had previously expected. I am  glad of the new rollback feature since it  greatly expedites RC patrol and  reverting vandalism, and  this is  one reason why I am  a supporter of requests for rollback privileges. I also look through candidates for speedy deletion and  clean up Wikipedia of useless nonsense as appropriate.

On a final note, my user page has been vandalized eleven times. Ouch!