User:JohnOwens

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[edit] John Owens

John Owens lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is a sometimes-student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is (yet another) computer system and network administrator, with some knowledge of server administration and a good grasp of Perl. And he has been voted Number 1 on the "list of bigots to avoid" on User:Olga Bityerkokoff's page! He came in at number 32 on this month's Top 200 Countdown, and he'd like to extend his special gratitude to Michael, who made it all possible.

If you have a Un*x computer and check its native-format time, you've got a pretty good idea how old he is, in seconds.

[edit] Currently

As a recovering non-Wikipedoholic, I'm starting to edit again, but in moderation, so far. I recently got a digital camera, so I'm starting to accumulate some pictures for the Wikipediæ. See some of what I've got so far: /Pet Projects#New pictures from trip.

In things tangentially related to Wikipedia, I've started a project to create an electronic markup format for corrections to all those things that aren't Wiki. With my vast imagination, I've decided to call it the ProofReading Markup Language, or PRML for short. (SourceForge project site)

[edit] What he does

Weed whacker extraordinaire, great at spotting typos, too.

Oh yeah, and I know lots of stuff, too. ;)

And I refuse to ever take the Wikipedia:Are You a Wikipediholic Test. There are some things both you and I are better off not knowing. See also: Wikipedia:Wikipediholics in denial.

[edit] Foreign languages and contributions

I'm now contributing to the German and Russian Wikipædiæ in my own small way, too. (And in case you can't tell by my abuse of 'æ's, I just wish there was a Latin Wikipædia for me to contribute to, too.)

I'll be demmed, there is a Latin Vicipædia!!! :) I always wondered if there was a language code for Latin; never could find one in a list. Now I'm going to have to find out if 'la' is really official, or just what they use because it makes sense.

Since then, I've discovered Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination and ISO 639. Yup, it's a real, genyooine, official code.

[edit] Web admin

I've started up a Wiki for the local astronomy group here in Milwaukee. You can see it at http://wiki.urbanstargazers.homelinux.org/; so far, I'm calling it the "Urban Stargazers' Compendium", but that could change. I've also got some other related sites using other software doodads which aren't wiki: WebCalendar (using WebCalendar), News (using Drupal), and Image Gallery (using Gallery).

[edit] Contributions

A few of my best, most pride-inspiring contributions:

Aerial refueling
Atlatl
Aztalan State Park
- Increase Allen Lapham
Continental divide (OK, I'm setting the bar pretty low here, but somebody had to write it...)
Hodag
List of caves (The bar comes down another notch....)
Various subpages of orders of magnitude
- especially orders of magnitude (power)
Wikipedia:Wikipediholics in denial

Mostly though, I'm more of an editor than a writer. And yeah, I know what all those authors say about editors....

[edit] Licensing

All contributions of my own work (i.e., excluding only a few photographs snarfed from web sites) excluding items in the User:JohnOwens "userspace" (or whatever the proper term might be) are available under any or all of the following licenses unless stated otherwise:

GNU Free Documentation License:

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
Subject to disclaimers.

Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License:

	Multi-licensed with any Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under the GFDL and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license draft version 1.0 and version 2.0 and the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.

BSD License:

BSD license

Copyright © John Owens, all rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, and this list of conditions; Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, and this list of conditions in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution; Neither the name of John Owens nor the names of other contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

Lesser General Public License:

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

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