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Mike J. Brown (mjb), an autodidact and Web technology consultant, has been contributing to Wikipedia since August of 2002. Since 1992 he has also been co-administrator of Hyperreal (http://hyperreal.org/), a home for informational and community resources related to electronic music, rave culture, and altered states of consciousness.
Some of Mike's music reviews appeared in URB Magazine in 1997. His profile of the musical group The Art of Noise was published in the first edition of Musichound R&B (1998; ISBN 1-57859-026-4) and the second edition of Musichound Rock (1999; ISBN 1-57859-061-2), both of which are encyclopedic album guides. He served as technical editor for the Addison-Wesley book XQuery: The XML Query Language by Michael Brundage (2004; ISBN 0-321-16581-0), and contributed to the second edition of the O'Reilly Python Cookbook (2005; ISBN 0-596-00797-3).
Since 2001, Mike has been one of the core developers of 4Suite (http://4suite.org/), a toolkit for XML and RDF processing in the Python programming language. He also self-publishes articles and resources related to XML, XSLT, URIs, and character encoding on his own web site (http://skew.org/xml/).
On Wikipedia, Mike created or completely rewrote these articles:
- Uniform Resource Identifier, system identifier and percent-encoding;
- HyTime and numeric character reference;
- ISO 10646, UCS-4, UTF-16, and Byte Order Mark;
- Intelligent dance music, The Art of Noise and Sun Electric; and
- Detroit Electronic Music Festival.
Mike made significant edits and contributions to these articles:
- Semantic Web, Resource Description Framework, Document Type Definition and fragment identifier;
- Character encoding, Unicode, UCS, ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859, ASCII, and Code page;
- Operating system advocacy;
- Fahrenheit and U.S. customary units;
- Modular arithmetic, Division (mathematics), and Remainder;
- Rave party, Techno music, and Deep house;
- LSD;
- Bi-curious;
- AMBER Alert; and
- Hispanic.
A complete list of Mike's contributions is available here (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=mjb).