User:Bkell
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Template:Babel-3 I'm a lazy college kid who lives in Nebraska. I edit Wikipedia pages because I'm procrastinating something useful.
My largest Wikipedia contributions to date are the article about indigo dye, of which I wrote the majority, and the list of solar system objects by mass, which I began.
Of course, I have made a few other contributions as well. It seems that most of my edits are minor spelling or grammatical tweaks that I do in passing. But I hope to someday have something listed in Brilliant prose.
I know Stack. I also know Swid.
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Licensing
Licensing hassles annoy me, so I release, revoke, waive, and otherwise disavow all exclusive rights to all my textual contributions on Wikipedia in all languages. I similarly release all exclusive rights to any images or other non-textual contributions that I upload to Wikipedia in any language, unless I specifically indicate otherwise. (I don't think I've specifically indicated otherwise to date, but I'll keep my options open.) Anyone may freely use, reproduce, distribute, or modify, for commercial or non-commercial use, with or without attribution, anything I wrote or uploaded to Wikipedia to which I have released my exclusive rights. (Ideally I would just release everything into the public domain, but I guess I can't do that. It is unnecessarily difficult to give up rights you don't want.)
As a corollary, if you want to license anything to which I have given up my exclusive rights (if, say, you need a license for some technical legal reason), you may do so under whatever license you want. Pick one that suits your needs. If you need me to officially "agree", send me an e-mail.
Know thine image formats
A big personal annoyance for me is images in JPEG format that should be PNGs (and vice versa, though that doesn't happen as often). Things like maps and diagrams should always be PNGs, unless they were scanned from a hard copy, in which case PNG still isn't a bad idea. In my quest to rid Wikipedia of JPEGs that should be PNGs, I have orphaned some images. If you're an admin and you happen to wander by this neck of the woods, you can delete some of these if you wish.
I also have a list of images in the wrong format that I haven't gotten around to fixing yet. If you have some graphics software and want to help, please do so.
Awards and honors
I haven't received any barnstars yet, but I got this nice bouncing picture from Stack:
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Bookmarks
- Gallery of national flags
- List of chemistry topics
- List of compounds
- List of geography topics
- List of linguistic topics
- List of mathematical topics
- List of reference tables
- MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing overview
- MediaWiki User's Guide: Using tables
- User:Bkell/Sandbox
- Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
- Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
- Wikipedia:Images for deletion
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Maps
- Wikipedia:Reference desk
- Wikipedia:WikiProject
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
Most bizarre topics on Wikipedia
- List of amblypygid genera
- List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California
- List of historical pigs
- List of locales in Britain where ant species have become locally extinct
- List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
- List of Sesame Street Grouch characters
- Three-letter vowel-less English word
Other random pages
- List of countries by date of nationhood
- User:Wapcaplet/Accessibility sandbox
- User:Zocky/Pyramid structure
Wikipedia in other languages I know
To do
It seems to be fashionable to have a list of articles labeled "To do", so here's mine.
- Calcium hydroxide
- Replace City_of_Chicago_Flag.png with Us-il-chicago.png
- Cyclopropane
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer — good material from the Nobel e-Museum (http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1905/baeyer-bio.html)
- Kensington runestone
- Liana
- Monuments of Portugal
- Nitrobenzene
- Convert Ru-ingusxetija.bmp to a PNG
- Wright brothers
External link
- Zif Yoip (http://www.zifyoip.com/) — my home page