User:Damian Yerrick
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Damian Yerrick (b. October 1, 1980) is originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and graduated with a 4-year degree in computer science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Started on Wikipedia in 2001-09-24 (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/9/24/43858/2479).
He once contributed to Everything2, bouncing ideas back and forth between the two projects, until E2 moved squarely in a subjective direction. If you want to see some of his E2 work (http://everything2.com/?node=yerricde) de-biased and integrated into Wikipedia, Talk to him, making sure to mention the specific writeup.
Contact: User talk:Damian Yerrick | e-mail (mailto:tepples+wikipedia@spamcop.net) | AIM: PinocchioPoppins | ICQ
Some of his more substantial contributions to Wikipedia
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- managed to describe Everything2 neutrally
- added much information on Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and its impact on the public domain from his E2 writeup on the topic (http://everything2.com/?node_id=738769)
- wrote about the copyright-like protection on semiconductor mask works, also based on an E2 writeup of his
- made a faux pas which led to the geographical classification in Wikipedians
- started a list of major languages of Muslims based on a nonsense rescue
- fixed trademark usage in spam, Java programming language, and Unix and some articles that linked to those articles
- wrote initial denormalization
- gave a basic explanation of ClearType
- explained the Cyclic redundancy check, including pseudocode
- added PackBits, including a C implementation
- created efficient images for Sierpinski carpet and Sierpinski triangle plus code to generate those images
- implemented Arithmetic-geometric mean in Scheme
- explained three methods of parallax scrolling and two methods of audio time stretching
- added detail to Tetris, tetromino, Apple II family, Game Boy Advance, other video game console articles, telecommunication and data compression articles, Cygwin, and more
- described several video games such as Dr. Mario, Zoop, and Spellevator
- explained the Tengwar writing system
- overhauled countable
- converted Common phrases in different languages into a list of lists (rather than an unwieldy table) and added the translations of the key phrases into Toki Pona
- added various tidbits to several other entries while revising them to add more active voice; see E-Prime
- and contributed too many other minor fixes to list here.
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