User:Kku

I have been 'in' for more than 20 years now, going from excited fanatism to frustration and back again. I still tend to agree with the enthusiastic comments provided during the donation campaigns run previously.

Although I used to be more active in my native tongue, I drop by here more frequently, trying to push hyperlinking, internationalization, and contributing to things I feel fairly certain about (Jazz, biology, cybernetical issues, self-organization, others (see:user contributions)). I do hope the worst examples of germish / denglisch get cleaned up by somebody else after me...

Wikipedia:Tools

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Toolforge_tools

	User contributions		New Reflinks		CopyPatrol		tab2wiki csv-wiki html2mediawiki mediawiki tables
	Petscanprev. Catscan, searches categories (article count per... etc.)		Person search		My cite templates		citer convert isbn, doi, url to citation
	Range contributions		X's tools: automated edits, more		My template collection		pageviews stats.grok.se (down) wikishark compare google trends
	Range block calculator IPv6 range block		wikiblame find the authors of good, questionable, or copyrighted passages of an article		Intersect contribs		find_link interwiki linking helper, e.g. Find links for biodiversity loss
	Autoblock finder		Wikichecker user activity		Σ's Editor Interact Tool
	Page history statistics		Buttons and gizmos		external links search
	All pages with prefix		Special:ComparePages		Wiki ViewStats	link count e.g. https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Right%20to%20repair&namespaces=

...possibly TODO...

Why WP keeps me fascinated and excited? Because it allows you to (learn how to) learn through teaching. I cannot think of a better way to structure my own thoughts than by writing them down and hyperlinking them. Usually, my understanding of a topic becomes rounded off only after going through a few cycles of reading, writing, linking - even if my starting information happens to be incomplete or faulty! Can there be a more satisfying moment than realizing that the relevant bits and pieces have fallen into place and you can see a lemma in its full context? For me, Wikipedia really is, not least, one gigantic mindmap (side remark: when will we see the "visual wiki" ?). I guess I would be hard pressed to name all the insights that WP has provided me with but they certainly amount to the number of my original contributions (whatever you might think about those). WP distinguishing feature - above all other knowledge repositories I know of - is its network structure. Simply no concept is left in murky solitude. And traditional paper browsing is replaced by one simple mouse click. What the WWW did for making information cross (political, geographical,...) boundaries, WP does for knowledge. -- Kku 12:34, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia: Wikid stuff. Pardon my wikicism. :-D

• relationship between hyped MapReduce and Divide and conquer algorithm, some insights may come from here
• relationship between strange loops, self-reference, recursion and metacognition.