User: Wernher
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I'm an embedded systems computer engineer currently living in Kongsberg, Norway. My wikilife began 18 August 2003, when I started contributing to the 'pedia (and soon thereafter contracted a mild to intermediate (?) form of wikipediholism; a year and a half later, this resulted in my promotion to adminship). I have recruited three good friends / colleagues to the cause, Moffedille, Harald Hansen, and Ericthered.
Wikipedical interests
My encyclopaedic editing interests revolves mainly around the history of computing and space exploration (and more broadly around the history of technology as well as history in general). Narrower interests of mine can be found in the relatively archaic field of home computers and their peripherals, centering on Commodore's 8-bit products. My darker side is taken care of by a bent towards military history and advanced weapon systems, particularly missile systems. One of my top ten favourite (science-)fictional characters, brilliantly played, is Chief Medical Officer Phlox. A more ungeekly, and very Norwegian, fascination: the winter sport biathlon.
Edit summary codes
I use a number of abbreviations in my edit summaries. Many of the abbrevs are the standard ones, to be found in official Edit summary legend, while others are my own more or less self-devised ones (some infrequently used std abbrevs might also be listed below). Why I do this: 1) for the obvious reason: it's quicker, hence no reason to drop the summary; and 2) contributors in doubt of the meanings will most probably visit this pg to find out.
- art -- article
- btm -- bottom (of page, etc)
- c12n -- capitalization (of letters, words)
- cat(s) -- category/ies/ize
- cpn -- caption (of imgs)
- cfcn -- clarification
- cfy -- clarify
- chg -- change
- chrono -- chronological (of reo or sorting)
- cms -- comments
- cor -- correction
- cyc -- cyclical (of lks)
- dab -- disambiguate (of lks)
- de- -- prefix to many other abbrevs
- dup -- duplicate (e.g. of lks)
- estb -- established (of cats etc)
- hdg -- heading
- hrz -- horizontal
- indtn -- indentation
- lcase -- un-c12n (q.v.)
- mdl -- middle ("in mdl of sth...")
- mv(d) -- move(d)
- \n -- newline
- plm -- placement (of imgs etc)
- rdun -- redundant
- re- -- prefix to many other abbrevs
- refac -- refactor/ization (splitting and combining paragraphs)
- reo -- reorganize/ation (e.g., changing the placement of lines/items)
- rm(d) -- remove(d)
- sec(s) -- section(s)
- sec'n -- sectioning
- sep -- separate
- spc -- space
- src -- wiki article source text
- sub -- prefix to cat(s) and sec(s); may be cascaded
- topo -- topological (of reo or sorting)
- tpl -- template
- ttl -- title (as opposed to ttl)
- un- -- prefix to many other abbrevs
- upd -- update (of lks after mvs, for example)
- vrt -- vertical
- wfy -- wikify, i.e. fmt & lks & sec & ...
- wkp -- wikipedia*
- w -- with
- w/o -- without
(* To an old PC-geezer like me, "wp" will forever mean WordPerfect -- of which version 4.2 for DOS is the pinnacle of word processing. Period. )
Subdirectory w. links
Handy subdirectory
