User:UKoch
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I'm a German computer scientist and computational linguist. I use the same nickname on several other Wikipedias, but I'm really active only on the German-language and English-language ones.
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Star Trek
Literature
Literature I often refer to can be found here.
The Wikimedia Foundation's behavior towards the project communities
The community of the German-language Wikipedia voted in favor of making the Media Viewer opt-in. (There were also RfC's on this WP and on Commons.) The Wikimedia Foundation said they would not honor that decision. Two German admins wheel-warred over the complete deactivation of the Media Viewer on the German-language Wikipedia (which was not covered by the above-mentioned poll), A Wikimedia Germany employee used the hastily implemented superprotect feature to decide the wheel war in favor of the Foundation. The Board was OK with that. So I refrained from making article edits for a week, to help remind the Foundation of whose work raises the money that pays their wages. In case anyone of them is willing to listen:
- Don't use us as your beta (actually, alpha) testers without even asking us first.
- Honor community decisions.
- Remove the superprotect feature.
More information:
- RfC "On a Scale of Billions"
- The core problem as seen by Kww -- I think he's got it right.
Useful stuff
- Help:IPA/English
- … 12–14 p.m. — (em dash)
Participation
- Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English
- Category:Wikipedia articles needing cleanup after translation
- Wikipedia:Article Incubator (articles to be improved)
- Category:Stub categories
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment
- Wikipedia:Requests for adminship
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Theoretical Linguistics