User:Sj

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. ~ G.B.Shaw more -

About me

This user seeks the peaceful resolution of disputes.

Hello, my name is Samuel Klein. To reach me: talk page messages will receive the fastest response. If you have suggestions about how to improve aspects of the Projects or Wikimedia as a whole, please share them on the Meta wiki. You can also send me email ( meta.sj@gmail). I was a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees for three terms, and sometimes think about project-wide issues.

I am a Wikipedian, a one laptop per child organizer, a Crimson mathematics and physics geek, a compulsive proofreader, and a long-time Bostonian. Currently working on an innovation information initiative. I thought Wikipedia Zero was the best thing since Wikipedia One. I edited How Wikipedia Works (published with no starch [1]), a GFDL book aimed at reducing community barriers to entry for new Wikipedians. I aspire to curiositate. See my blog for more.

My favorite page remains+ the Wikipedia:Backlog. I work to help groups improving the open Internet find legal and technical support in all jurisdictions, and to extend Wikidata-style knowledge bases into open knowledge networks. I have had this account since early 2004, when WP officially became more interesting and instructive than Universities and coursebooks. I am an administrator here and on the Nahuatl and Swahili Wikipedias, and was a steward for the other Wikimedia projects at one point; if you need assistance with a small project that does not currently have active administrators, you can ask me for help or find a steward or global sysop.

I sometimes speak and write about Wiki[p|m]edia, and organizing local, continental, and international community events. We have great opportunities to grow through related projects, and supported or participated in a special projects committee, community-run communication and grant-writing processes, and data analysis. Curious about: Indexing lists of reliable sources

Outside of the wikis, I work with other collections of knowledge: expanding citations and innovation catalogs, improving global annotations (hypothesis: noch nicht komplett), identifying and freeing large data repositories and publications owned by well-meaning but copyright-confused people and groups. In 2018 I co-founded the Knowledge Futures Group. In 2013 I became a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. In 2011 I started working on the Digital Public Library of America, which borrowed much of its free-knowledge focus and transparent participatory governance model from Wikipedia. In 2006, I became director of content for the One Laptop per Child foundation, helping to distribute access to these collections and the ability to contribute to them. I also enjoy synchronizing translations and bringing together translators to work on global projects. My Erdős–Bacon number is 8. I have an xdi sj-entity, but no .sj domain (Svalbard and Jan Mayen still does not seem to allow registrations. If you know of exceptions to this policy, or Norwegian royalty that need heroic feats accomplished, let me know.).

Things I love: physics, CSP, language, The City ++++++, perma-tools, music, poetry, color, nature, meta-lists, stub-sorters, Life, F*C, Cups
Things I loathe: simple dichotomy, navels, myopia, wanton arrogation, stasis addiction, discorporation.
Things I miss: all-hands public debates about the projects, quartile updates, GFDL flamewars, single-page VfD (sic), Rambot debates, writing contests, corporate entities flaming Wikipedia, weekly Tilman-style updates, universal Wiktionary, multilingual wikipedia-l threads, the promise of multilingual talk-pages.
Things I am not: SJ, /SJ, e-SJ, sj, Sjakkalle, Sjc(+), Sjc196, SJK, SJK', SJKissane, Sjorford, Essjay, -R, a Hazard, Kepler, a sj phone, bearded woodsman sjklein, Swedish rail, a Jesuit society, Gambro's CIO, an antique diarist, a My-Br temperament, an arctic isle, a moral lawyer, a Burgess bird, a department store, a fabricated Sox fan, racter, a Giant, Shark, library, a Wodak, a musical Tucker, a beer judge, or ED of a Coexistence Trust. I do not recall publishing hospice research with Jimbo, nor attending Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity dressed as a tea bag. I do hoard Klein bottles, and look snappy in a trenchcoat, but did not model for Levine's detective Sam Klein or Harry's Underlayer.
Titles I have added: Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica

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en-5

This user can contribute with a professional level of English.

de-2

Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.

es-2

Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.

he-2

משתמש זה יכול לתרום ברמה בינונית של עברית.‏

fr-2

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

sw-1

Mtumiaji huyu aweza kushiriki kwa Kiswahili cha kiwango cha msingi.

zh-1

該用戶能以基本的中文進行交流。
该用户能以基本的中文进行交流。

ja-1

この利用者は初級の日本語ができます。

pl-0

Ta osoba nie zna języka polskiego (albo ma z nim olbrzymie trudności).

Meta: About me and related projects : Physics wikiportal | comm^2 ~ TALK ☎ to me!
Reflection: Iterative; manic; covered in mail (8% inbox growth per month) ~ full of choice and commentary
Writing: Quarto, Random log, Rec log, Touched pages (briefly: v), Sj-mesh
Reading: Essays (Iso), Fun (BOB, &c.), History (Congo, Sammy, Sattelite, SS1), Meta-Lists;
brilliant!, wanted, menial & stats | original research | contests

Events: Wikimania was grand (back for more) | Meetups : Boston, New York || Contests
Projects: True | Fun | Promo | Peace(1,2,3,4,5 ) | Newpage stats | Missing images (Faceblob) || Thoughts and potential groups | Anonymity, name changes, & attribution | css (edit) | js (edit) || Assessment : Half-decent | Standard | Good articles, Q & Retro, SIGN, 'zine, metalogueing, VOA conversion, Special:Booksources and its header, WM SIGs, translation
Categorization: Articless by cat, WP:Cat, Sj ... || Tools: Maximize Utils !, Messaging, Comm
Action: Press(releases, coverage, awards), Translation, Policy(Tank,Block,IP,Long), Ext Syntax, Approval, ...

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Articles

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Admin statistics
Action	Count
Edits	25050
Edits+Deleted	26981
Pages deleted	201
Revisions deleted	2
Pages restored	191
Pages protected	13
Pages unprotected	13
Protections modified	3
Users blocked	62
Users reblocked	2
Users unblocked	12
Users created	5
Pages merged	1

Other media: VOA pronunciations, sound samples(x2000), music clips(x0), <just a NTS for now>, Whole Earth scans

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ic transit gloria mundi
nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum

cf. User:GaryW

table cf. User:Seth Ilys
+/- :		n,np/spd, vfd(l)
chg:		rc, rcp, head
fight:		m(r,ama)-a(r,pol) rfc,conf,qp
arts:		stb,old,att,cl,enc proj,req,mw,cp
trans:		to, now, log

It is Friday, 00:02 UTC :: en:count--[6,930,383]
mesh	^!admin# - RC# - ^mediate# - protected!# - ?!articulate#$ - !imagined$ - !content*#
fat	^+New*# ~ Babel ~ ce\|ref\|vp ~ ^Arts(M\|W\|R) ~ Tr(logo)
+ + + :	world clock \| front: dyk, feature, itn Boils - db Qs - TeX - chars - Topic list - sils's cheats .\| stats: Tabled, live, use, than..., activity \|. #wp
links	~ redirs +orphans +msg,elements ~
Logos:	Ant \| Shell \| W \| Emb \| Head \| Worm \| Lines \| Star \| In \| Dots \| Barc

Metapages

Overview: Community Main | Simple Main | multiling

Slimming: Sj/mesh | Sj Main

Community: Structure , Translation, Press

Semiotics: Naming(dab, salvaging key names), Top ic s

Concerns: Disappearing revisions, db corruption, lack of widespread backups

Miscellany

Architect: Circlehenge of knowledge hanging garden, 2018

Annotorious, Cambridge syncratic edition, 2015

First-Rickroll Hall of Fame: Knuth & Penrose, 2014

Chauffeur: #DSKDRV transportation services, 2012 (sponsored by Fiji)

Director: XO Jams International, 2008.

1st place: Randomized 80-person spymastery, Codex Alimentarius, 2011

3rd place: Rasperry Pi-eating contest, Pi-day, 2009

Manager: proofreader.com

Conference lead, Prodigal Son of Wikimania, August 2006

Program co-organizer, Inaugural Wikimania conference, August 2005

Top 10: Wikinews article contest, March 2005

8th/4th/2nd place: French Armada/Setec/++ multiplexed mystery hunt, 2004/5/7

5th place: Amateur Eggalchemy awards, for Lemon Souffle, 2003

3rd place: Cambridge area vegan cake stable height contest, 2002

2nd place: NE Complexity Institute "complicated costume" ball, 2000

1st place: High-Energy Metaphysics circle-tour marathon, 1998

1st place: MIT Unified Engineering design competition (indoor flight), 1997

In parting: "Humanity will be destroyed in about a billion years due to increasing sun temperature, and in about five billion years we'll be engulfed by the sun. Hopefully by then we will have colonized other planets, but if we haven't, Wikipedia will be destroyed."

Warning: Please be aware that any information you may find on Wikipedia may be idiotic, misleading, offensive, extraterrestrial, dangerous, or illegal. Wikipedia is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or remove erroneous suggestions they are not obligated to do so. If you need specific advice ( medical, legal, psychosexual, financial, arcane, &c. ) please seek a licensed, bonded, and knowledgable professional. YOUR INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION OF ANYTHING FOUND IN WIKIPEDIA IS STRONGLY ADVISED. Love, Sj.

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