User:Seth Ilys
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The Ant The ant has made himself illustrious Through constant industry industrious. So what? Would you be calm and placid If you were full of formic acid? -- Ogden Nash | |
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Seth Ilys (leave a message at the sound of the tone (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Seth_Ilys&action=edit§ion=new)) is
- a Wikipediholic (user #35314, since 20 December 2003) and a Wikipedia administrator (since 19 March 2004). If you like my work on Wikipedia, you can donate to me directly using Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=seth.ilys%40gmail.com&item_name=Wikipedia&no_note=1&tax=0¤cy_code=USD).
- not a bot himself, but operates the Sethbot. (since May 2003)
- one of the serial bloggers (Social Anomaly (http://somewhereindurham.blogspot.com/) since November 9, 2004).
- a resident of Fort Collins, Colorado (since 1 June 2005),
- a graduate student in physical chemistry and chemistry education at Colorado State University
- an alumnus of North Carolina State University (B.A., chemistry, minor in music theory, 2003),
- a native of the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, having lived in Chapel Hill, Cary, Carrboro, Raleigh, and Apex (my real hometown), born in Durham.
- a genuine living, breathing human being (since 26 November 1982)
- "...just another guy with weird philisophical objections... which I cannot profess to understand." - Fennec
- in agreement with Jengod in saying "Semicolons are my favoritest punctuation..."
- one of the "oddly freakish people who are exceptional." - User:Menchi
- "prefer[s] to work behind the scenes. The reward is nearly as great, and the risk far, far less." - Londo Mollari, in Babylon 5: "The Coming of Shadows," written by J. Michael Straczynski
You can reach me by posting a message on my Wikipedia talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Seth_Ilys&action=edit§ion=new), sending an email to seth (dot) ilys (at) gmail (dot) com, catching me on IM (AOL, MSN, Yahoo) as JehanneDaix, or finding me in the wikipedia IRC chatroom on Freenode (http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC_channels),
Seth's Wikipedia Policy Trifecta
These should be all the basic rules we need. In fact, it's probably overkill. See Wikipedia:Policy trifecta for a public restatement of these.
(Credit to Ayn Rand for style)
Important corollaries to these include:
Seth's NPOV Primer
Because people tend to forget that NPOV policy is actually a positively phrased policy and not a negatively phrased one (because the N doesn't stand for No!), I thought I'd paraphrase a familiar song as a reminder:
(credit to Cookie Monster for, well, everything)
- N is for Neutral. That's good enough for me.
- N is for Neutral. That's good enough for me.
- N is for Neutral. That's good enough for me.
- Neutral, neutral, neutral starts with Ni!
Wikipedia Meets Real Life
- Everyone on Wikipedia should read Charles van Doren's 1963 essay "The Idea of an Encyclopedia." Since it's kinda hard to come by, I've posted illegal (copyvio) pics of it here: 1 (http://img177.echo.cx/img177/6052/vandoren13qn.jpg), 2 (http://img177.echo.cx/img177/9918/vandoren29ks.jpg), 3 (http://img177.echo.cx/img177/171/vandoren30lh.jpg), 4 (http://img177.echo.cx/img177/9131/vandoren42az.jpg), 5 (http://img177.echo.cx/img177/885/vandoren52gq.jpg), 6 (http://img233.echo.cx/img233/8328/vandoren69sp.jpg).
- I was profiled in Daniel Teridman's 8 March 2005 Wired News article "Wiki Becomes a Way of Life (http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66814,00.html/wn_ascii)" and was one of the Raleigh Independent Weekly's (http://www.indyweek.com/) Our Favorite Geeks (http://indyweek.com/durham/current/cover2.html) on 6 April 2004 (article scan (http://img102.exs.cx/img102/5062/independentarticle8br.png)).
- I was at the I.T. Littleton Seminar (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/libraries.php?p=959&more=1) at NCSU on April 13, where Blaise Cronin (http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/cronin/) will speak on “Who Dunnit? Agency, Attribution, and Authority in an Age of Hyperauthorship.” I had a nice little chat with him afterwards, too. See my rough notes and a blog post (http://somewhereindurham.blogspot.com/2005/04/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes.html) on the lecture.
- I intend to make it to the May 2005 D.C. Meetup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup#Wikipedians_of_the_East_Coast_field_trip), and would like to but probably won't make the August 2005 Wikimania conference (http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Main_Page) in Frankfurt (because of the horrendous cost of airfare).
Works in Progress
- User:Seth Ilys/Seth's Massive List of South Dakota Things
- User:Seth Ilys/Seth's Massive List of Wyoming Things
Major Projects
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Catalysis
 Nobody has given you a BarnStar! Insane. Do I need to even give a reason? This (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_most_recent_edit&oldid=3467860) says it all really. Thanks! Tom- 23:13, 4 May 2004 (UTC) |
 Aside from the above, this page is a Barnstar-free zone. - Seth Ilys 12:21, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC) |
One of the things that Wikipedia demonstrates amazingly well, as people have noted, is the power of collaborative journalism; our articles on breaking news events tend to become very good, very quickly. As something of a news junkie, I like to think that I've helped pushed a few of these articles along in their infancy and that the community has made them great. Some of the articles I'm proudest of that I had a hand in catalyzing at their creation:
- Boniface Alexandre
- Michael Badnarik
- Nick Berg
- Mydoom
- William Hung
- Mike Melvill
- 2004 Osama bin Laden video
- Alberto R. Gonzales
- 2005 Sumatran earthquake
Articles that I'm also proud of that weren't breaking news:
Wikipedia Signal-to-Noise Statistics
As I (used to) spend a good deal of time at Special:Newpages patrolling new article additions, I thought I'd generate some statistics as to how much what content is being added (at least, in brand-new articles). The results of my completely unscientific study are summarized in the table below and are surprisingly encouraging. I'll continue to add to the data over time, so hopefully the ratios will steady-out eventually. (These data are from early 2004. I'll try to do this again sometime during summer 2005).
| Stubs: | Articles: | |
| Competent: | 50 | 31 |
| Halfway: | 20 | 13 |
| Lacking: | 6 | 2 |
| Garbage: | 20 | |
| Vanity: | 2 | |
| Copyvios: | 4 | |
Another interesting statistic regards who creates new articles. From a casual glance at Newpages, there are three broad classes of users: anyonymous users (shown as IP addresses), logged in users without userpages (usually relatively new Wikipedians), and logged in users with userpages (usually more experienced Wikipedians. Page creation breakdowns run roughly thus:
| Anons: | 44 |
| No-pages: | 33 |
| Pages: | 52 |
Copyrights
I have a hard time coming up with any moral or practical justification for copyright law. Because of that, and because Wikipedia is a free project, you can use any of my text submissions to Wikipedia freely, with no restrictions, or you can apply the GFDL, or CC-By-Sa, or any other free or copyleft license, at your discretion. I try to remember to tag all the images I take myself as public domain, but some (like the dot-maps) are adapted from other (more restricted) sources. When in doubt, ask me, and I'll probably tell you it's PD.
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