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Trying to contact me? Please use my talk page instead.
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This user is a recent changes patroller.
This user is a member of the
Counter-Vandalism Unit.
This user is a WikiElf.
This user is a professional web developer.
This user is interested in medicine.
This user is interested in psychology.
This user is NOT known for taking themself too seriously.
fr-4Cet utilisateur parle français à un niveau comparable à la langue maternelle.
PHP-5This user is a professional PHP programmer.
SQLThis user uses SQL queries to locate their car keys.
Tcl-4This user is an expert Tcl scripter.
C-3This user is an advanced C programmer.
c++-3This user is an advanced C++ programmer.
Perl-2This user is an intermediate Perl programmer.
c#-1This user is a beginning C# programmer.
make me less lonely

who

Basic stats.

  • My name is Kurt.
  • My old nickname is koder.
  • I'm 22, but at times I feel like I'm 72.
  • I'm from hell Dallas, Texas.

why

Why I'm here.

  1. The Internet is the last bastion of true free speech.
  2. Wikipedia embodies free speech at its finest. I think it does a better job at filtering fact from fiction than real life ever could. Seriously, how often can you slap a {{fact}} tag on someone's nonsense? How often can they slap one on you back? How often are they actually confirmed? Even better, we don't have to worry about corporate interests, liberal/conservative bias, and campaign contributions. Everyone keeps everyone else in check-- without guns, bombs, or white ghost costumes.
  3. I like to learn, and I wish more people did too.
  4. I'm an avid homosexual, and enjoy buttsecks of all kinds.
  5. I'm very racist and hate niggers.
  6. so i herd u liek mudkips?!
  7. I sleep in a white ghost costume.
  8. I'm fat.
  9. I'm a virgin and live with my mother.

home

General stuff about me.

  • I find profound joy in reverting vandalism and spam. I mean, it's kind of like walking down a street, seeing a badly-graffitied wall, and being able to magically wave a magic wand to make it go away. I encourage everyone to check out the recent changes portion of the site and do the same.
  • I especially have an interest in AI and finding ways to automate that and other tasks using heuristic analysis.
  • I suck at making things pretty. I kinda sorta somewhat try, though. If something I edit isn't Wiki-pretty... or, witty, if you will... then please, please correct me (and my bad puns, while you're at it) :P.
  • If you don't know me intimately, you'll think I'm extroverted. I'm not really this nerdy in real life. Well, then again, I suppose it depends who you're talking to. :P
  • If you saw me in real life, you would probably assume I'm the type of person who would use his cd tray for a cup holder. Wait a second... *looks at his tower* Yep, yep, you'd be 100% correct on that one. Since my old sony dvd-rom quit working, I actually do sometimes use it for a cupholder. Obviously I yanked the power cord out and used the ide for other things, but it does still look funny to see that in an otherwise stereotypically nerdy setup of two monitors, stacks of papers with "gibberish" written on them, and "guts" hanging out of my box's open case.
  • I've never been much of a gamer-- I've always much more preferred to metaphorically write the game itself.
  • I like bulleted lists. :)
  • My sleep schedule is perpetually funky. It's like my body is set to a 25 hour cycle that invariably ends up always making me gradually stay up and sleep in later-- all over the course of a few weeks. It's annoying, to say the least. Maybe it's because I'm of Romanian descent and I was originally a vampire or something. I do have a weird thing for necks. :o[...
  • If you have any questions, I'll try as best as I can to answer them.


contrib

Various things that I've either already contributed or plan to contribute to Wikimedia and its various projects.

Stuff
General
in progress done planned meh.
beta eek! it broke! canceled
R and D
deferred expedited stalled merged
snagged need consensus

bots

Bots are automated programs that help with trivial tasks. They aren't human, but they aren't quite inhuman, either, because at some point someone has to make them behave like a human. They're kind of like zombies-- except they don't crave brains. My bots are the exception, because they actually do crave brains-- and Cheez-its-- that is, brains and cheez-its. Let me know if any of them give you trouble; or, if you're an administrator, use the handy dandy emergency shutdown link to send you to the bot's block page.

SineBot (talk · contribs · count · api · block log) · (emergency shutdown)

[ whiteboard ] A bot to fill in for User:HagermanBot (proactively).

codename: image eye bot (inactive).

[ whiteboard ] Uses image similarity algorithms to implement image blacklists, locate duplicate images that aren't bit-for-bit, and link images to probable subjects.

codename: Yet Another Bot for Edit Counting (YABEC) (inactive).

[ whiteboard ] Significantly more in-depth analyzing of RfA candidates than current statistics.

codename: CSD bot (inactive).

[ whiteboard ] Overall criteria for speedy deletion monitoring and maintenance. Merged for now as Chris G juuust started working on one.

RobinBot (talk · contribs · count · api · block log) · (emergency shutdown)

[ whiteboard ] Watches for people adding affiliate marketing links to pages.

codename: arrseeD bot (inactive).

[ whiteboard ] A bot for interfacing with the arrseeD socket server.

codename: IFD bot (inactive).

[ whiteboard ] A bot to perform maintenance tasks on WP:IFD.

codename: antitrouble bot (inactive).

[ whiteboard ] A bot to autoblock reverts by people reported to reporting pages (ex, WP:AIV and WP:UAA) run locally on the tool server or somewhere similar for security reasons.

wiki

Stuff related solely to wikimedia and its content.

User:Slakr/twinkle-oldwarn.js.

[ script; from twinkle ] A copy of an old Twinkle release that reinstates the old twinkle tabbed warnings as opposed to the new dialog box.

Wikipedia Killer.

[ article; active ] When an unknown member of the Countervandalism Unit goes bad.

User:Slakr/WikiMonkey.

[ script; whiteboard ] A thinggymabobber for performing random tasks that I haven't been able to find (or haven't been able to find that work the same way) in other scripts.

mediawiki

Stuff related to modifying MediaWiki's actual code and/or adding extensions. If you have any problems with these, please do not contact me directly. Instead, submit a bug.

XCache support

[ patch; done ] Adds XCache support to Mediawiki 1.10.0. Added to SVN as of revision 22842.

arrseeD

[ patch; whiteboard ] A high-volume, event-driven socket server for the recent changes list.

Spam blacklist changes

[ patch; whiteboard ] Update Tim's blacklist extension to be faster and use less regexes, since we're getting close to hitting the limits giving preg an aneurysm.

Introduces article creation log

[ patch; cancelled ] Adds an article creation log plus its appropriate entries to Special:Log. DeletedContribs is better for this, and has now been implemented across wikimedia, available to admins.

mail

Ways to contact me.

  • Add stuff to my talk page. Just be sure not to remove anything; otherwise, you might make somebody else sad that you deleted his/her comment. :(
  • E-mail me. Also works, but you're less likely to get a response back from there because I don't like responding to emails-- I do enough of that when I work. :P
  • IRC: slakr@freenode. My preferred method of two-way communication-- if I'm active, at least. :D
    • #mediawiki. When I'm in a coding mood.
    • #stressed. My personal channel. If I'm not there, just leave a message. Beware, I or others may be testing random things there, so you temporarily might not be able to get in.


extern

Random things that go elsewhere but might be complete wastes of time, depending on how you look at it.

  • Just plain fun.
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