User:Skierpage
- Blog: http://www.skierpage.com/blog/
- e-mail: info@ the skierpage domain. You're smart, you can figure out.
I have excellent grammar and spelling skills (writing in the small), not so good on organization and layout (writing in the large), and substantial expertise on computers. I maintain William Gibson and Chic fan sites at http://www.skierpage.com/ so made early edits to those pages before I got an account. I do some light correction as I come across bad pages and contribute to sections that don't reflect what I know.
I gave Wikipedia $100 in 2005 and again in 2006.
[edit] Semantic MediaWiki
I paid a lot of attention to the m:Semantic MediaWiki project and around version 0.4 joined as a developer (now more tester/writer/supporter). Check it out at http://semantic-mediawiki.org. This extension provides an easy way to add machine-readable "facts" to wiki pages, so you can query things like "Show the population and area of every country in Asia". It's a huge deal, wikia enabled the extension, I really hope wikipedia enables the extension soon!
If you need help sharing and organizing information within your company, you should contact me! I've worked with "Knowledge Bases" (Lotus Notes, Verity search of internal, technotes, Kanisa, etc.) for years and MediaWiki + Semantic MediaWiki is the best real-world implementation there is. My expertise, a spare PC, some excellent free software, and suddenly you've got the best information portal there is.
[edit] One Laptop Per Child
I bought an OLPC XO-1 laptop in their Give One Get One program in December 2007, started fixing http://wiki.laptop.org, testing builds, etc. By a happy coincidence OLPC installed olpc:Semantic MediaWiki, so I'm helping the project use semantic features to track releases, test cases, etc.
[edit] Tests
Date of 2006-04-05 , does it get localized based on my prefs?
And 15 May, 2006 does not get recognized.
