User:Nickj

Greetings. My name is Nick. I live and work in the inner west of Sydney, Australia. I write, sell, and support software for a living.

Stuff I'm most interested in includes:

Projects

I hereby award Nickj this Barnstar of Diligence for his incredible work on the Missing Redirect project.
Noel (talk) 13:44, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Current main interest is the Link Suggester and LinkBot - a project to suggest useful wiki links on the talk page of articles.
• As a related project of suggesting links, the code for this needs to examine the wiki syntax of a page. It logs any pages that have malformed wiki syntax, such as malformed brackets. The project to get these problems fixed has grown and evolved to become the Wiki Syntax Project.
• As a related project of suggesting links, automatically suggesting new useful redirects and disambiguation pages, from the data that we have already got in the Wikipedia.

Articles

I award Nickj a barnstar for his incredibly excellent work on the Sydney suburb of Summer Hill! Personally, I reckon this is at featured suburb status :-)
Ta bu shi da yu 13:39, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• Suburbs of the inner-west, as part of the Sydney Suburbs WikiProject. I'm starting with Summer Hill, and considering adding one of the following neighbouring suburbs next if that goes OK:
  • Ashfield ; Have made a very rough start on this.
  • Previously added Haberfield, but it really needs to be expanded; Can research with the Haberfield Society.
  • Leichhardt.
  • Lewisham. See Marrickville Heritage Society, Marrickville Road; Also see book by Chris Meader; Also Petersham Council maintains an archives in the local studies library, in the Old Marricville Town Hall.
  • Dulwich Hill ; Can research with Canterbury Historical Society, who open 1st Saturday afternoon of each month, in the premises in a house in Church Street, Canterbury.
  • Croydon - Needs disamgiuation page (redirects to UK Croydon currently); See Burwood Historical Society.
• My girlfriend and I have a maine coon cat. They're an interesting breed - they're smart for one thing, and they're naughty too (e.g. whilst fast asleep, try being jumped on at 4 AM from a height of 8 feet by a 7 kilo cat - you wake up pretty quick).
• Most articles involving Australia I'm happy to proof-read, if I've got time (which lately I tend not to). E.g. articles on the Australian wikipedian's noticeboard.

Possible future projects

These things are just ideas that interest me at the moment - nothing has been done on them yet - rather they're things I may do in the future.

• One thing I'd like to do (and I must strongly emphasise that this is just an idea at this stage, at the end of very long list of things to!) is this: HTML validate the entire English Wikipedia (and produce a list of all the errors, same as for the Wiki things). This should get every mismatched div tag, every stuffed HTML table, every bad HTML entity - the whole enchilada across the whole Wikipedia. I see this (for the HTML side) + the what the Wiki Syntax does already (for the wiki side) as being the ultimate combination for these types of problems.

Misc

• Wiki contribs by Bec.
• My homepage.
• No longer interested in fixing pages with bad titles.
• List of Wikipedians by number of edits.
• Sandbox for me to test stuff.

My Wiki Timeline

• 19 Aug 2004: My first logged-in edit.
• Made my 1000th edit some time on 6th Nov 2004 as part of the second batch of the Wiki Syntax project.

Licensing

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below: