User:Staticd

Userboxes Language en This user is a native speaker of the English language. kn-1 ಈ ಬಳಕೆಗಾರನಿಗೆ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಕನ್ನಡ ತಿಳಿದಿದೆ hi-1 इस उपयोगकर्ता को हिन्दी भाषा का प्रारम्भिक स्तर का ज्ञान है। Interests in science This user is interested in Biochemistry. This user is interested in Cell Biology. This user is interested in Molecular Biology. This user is interested in DNA and genetics. This user is interested in Chemistry. Programming and software bash-3 This user is an advanced Bash programmer. C-3 This user is an advanced C programmer. py-3 This user is an advanced Python programmer. C++-1 This user is a beginning C++ programmer. js-1 This user is a beginning JavaScript programmer. This user contributes using GNU/Linux. OSrc This user contributes to Open Source projects. This user contributes using Inkscape. This user contributes using GIMP. This user uses Geany. Other accounts where I'm active This user has a special purpose sockpuppet : user:decruft. This user contributes to Wikimedia Commons.

I dabble in NPP and Vandal Patrol(under a different account), drop a line or two in at WP:RD/S, correct a few mistakes I see as I read and create the odd article from the list of missing articles at project biology. My most fulfilling work at wikipedia is when I extensively review primary and secondary literature to add a balanced summary to existing articles. This is something that scientific articles greatly lack in wikipedia.My list of wikipedia things to do (on my desktop) is threatening to exceed my edit count, but rome (or wikipedia) was not built in one day nor was built by a single person.

An example of the reviewing I like doing: "Can starfish reproduce asexually? can they regenerate from a single bit of an arm?"- A most banal pair of "trivia" questions, but questions that nevertheless would intrigue a student and questions that students will ask. However, articles written "one line/one fact at a time" can't answer such questions because there is no tertiary literature explicitly mentioning it (there are plenty of sites pointing both ways but nothing clear). I enjoyed searching for answers and finding more things that could be expanded (in fact i expanded the sexual reproduction section more). Though I managed to write only a few paragraphs (spread over several articles) for my whole month of intense effort, I was satisfied to have given the topic of starfish reproduction a well cited finishing touch. The best part was citing nearly every fact with a carefully chosen, interesting FREE paper that I hope will help another editor to easily expand something else at a future date.

• Universal ref generator
• PMID to ref translator
• citation generator
• get author of a particular phrase in an article
• wikiblame

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