Hi, I'm Gidi from the Netherlands. I'm on Wikipedia mostly as an eager user of information, both professionally and for personal interests, but sometimes I edit and add stuff I find to be wrong or missing. So, if you want to know what I'm about, you'd get a good idea by looking at my contributions. I'm also on Wikimedia Commons (as commons:User:Gidi70) and the dutch Wikipedia (as nl:Gebruiker:Gidi70).

Professionally I use Wikipedia for computer stuff like programming and software design methods and descriptions of open source and commercial packages. Personally I look at an eclectic lot of subjects ranging from physics to entertainment via tennis and volleyball. I'm especially interested in people in the widest sense of the word.


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wiki-1This user is a beginning Wikipedia editor.


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Current translations

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This user is a translator from Dutch to English on Wikipedia:Translation.


These are the current translations I'm interested in or requested.


WikIdeas

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Regarding Wikipedia I support the effort to keep it as encyclopaedic as possible. But I do envisage the need for other outlets and stores of information.

rumourNet

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Sales figures of certain magazines show that there is clearly a need to read gossip and many incorrect edits to Wikipedia are done because people want to provide the information for that. Why not make a rumourNet, a central wiki store of all rumours anyone has heard? It reduces vandalism to Wikipedia and also makes life easier for celebrities: a free source of gossip means less magazines bought by the public, less income by the magazine publishers, less money paid to paparazzi photographers and therefore less people hiding in the bushes. The rules for such a rumourNet would be: agree to disagree, state your opinion or rumour only once and don't try to get to a consensus because in rumourNet, there will be no single truth. Or any truth.

KBase

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Another big wiki source of information could be a central knowledge base of everything the human race knows. This sounds like Wikipedia but is completely different: this knowledge base of Life, the Universe and Everything would contain original research, while Wikipedia as an encyclopaedia will never be a first source but always needs references to reliable other sources. In a way, such a KB of everything is very much like the computer on Star Trek: one place that just stores everything, logs everything, correlates everything. Except that on Star Trek they use local offline copies, while I would prefer one central source. But then, if you're on a starship, local offline copies seem the way to go; there's only so far that subspace can stretch.

What could this KBase (or shall we actually call it LCARS?) contain? Physics research papers. No peer review before publication, but possibly peer reviews attached to it afterwards. Film and music reviews. Your analyses of politic problems. Things that went wrong in history, so we don't need to do it again. Software design patterns. How to use dating sites effectively. Understanding women, once mankind has figured that one out. How to repair a bicycle. Course material. In short: anything...

Interests

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Language and writing

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Regarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct.
<sum>:1This user believes that every edit should have a summary.
 This user respects copyright, but sometimes it can be a major pain.


. TheThis user does not put two spaces after a full stop.
A, B and CThis user prefers not to use the serial comma.
’sThis user realises that plural nouns should not have an apostrophe while possessive words should!


IntS-2This uxor's Internet slang is k, but TBH, they're still mostly a lurker.
...This user would like to be able to speak some more languages.
dlph-1Eeek ack sque'ek ook kkkk'k squeek.


MixThis user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.
AIM-1This uzer has an amateur understanding of the AIM talk. Brb


Professional interests

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MSThis user has a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
 This user graduated from the Eindhoven University of Technology.
CThis user can program in C.


C++This user can program in C++.
C#This user can program in C#.
JavaThis user can program in Java.


pasThis user can program in Pascal.
 This user can program in Python.
TclThis user is a Tcl scripter.


vbThis user is a Visual Basic programmer.
vb.netThis user is a Visual Basic .NET programmer.
 
This user can write Cascading Style Sheets.


<html>This user can write HTML.
 This user can program in JavaScript.
W3CThis user believes in compliance with W3C standards.


 User programs in VBA.
XMLThis user can write XML.
xhtmlThis user can write XHTML.


xsltThis user is an XSL Transformations programmer.
prog-NThis user thinks in bytecode and dreams of electric sheep.
 This user is a software engineer.


Music

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I play a Medeli MC710 keyboard, very badly.

kbd-1This user is a novice keyboardist.


Entertainment

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I watch a lot of films (cinema and dvd) and listen to a lot of music (concert and cd).

Some people I follow more closely: the actresses Lalaine, Jodie Foster, Georgina Leonidas, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Natalie Portman, Jane Horrocks, Emma Pierson, Emilia Fox, Eve Myles, Indira Varma, Jewel Staite, Summer Glau, Morena Baccarin, Chloë Annett, C.P. Grogan etc etc. Directors Mike Leigh, Jodie Foster, Sam Mendes. Writers Douglas Adams, George R.R. Martin, Terry Goodkind, Susan Nickson and Nick Vivian. Singers Lalaine, Katie Melua, KT Tunstall, Lindsay Armaou, Tori Amos, Tanya Donelly, Kristin Hersh, Norah Jones, Marike Jager. The bands B*Witched, The McCarricks, Krezip. And generally Evy Gruyaert (nl:Evy Gruyaert) for being Evy Gruyaert...

Fictional characters that intrigue me: Gabrielle of Xena: Warrior Princess, Amber of The Tribe.

Some novelty tv programmes I watch: De Mol in its original Belgian format, Mythbusters and especially the fun Kari Byron has and how she keeps pretending she doesn't have a mean streak. I loved and completely expected Nicola Jackson to win the Spy reality series: in that series a group of students received real spy training and the best one would win. At the end one of the tutors said: You're a cut above the rest. In the real world you would have made a great spy. And you just sense that he regrets that this is for tv; she really would have been great. I've got it on dvd and rewatching it makes me admire all her subtle tricks more and more.


NJ This user is a fan of Norah Jones.
 This user knows basic
music theory.
LOTR This user loves The Lord of the Rings, both the books and the films.


£This user knows the first rule of the con: you can never cheat an honest man.


This user secretly wants to be the Yellow Power Ranger
 This user works at
MI5 not 9 'til 5.
BtVSThis user is a fan of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series.


 This user believes in the power of three.
FarThis user watches Farscape.
fireflyThis user thinks Firefly is the greatest television series ever made.


RDThis user is full of smeg.
 This user is a Hard Core Nut Ball Xenite.
 This user is a Doctor Who fan.


  This user wants Rose to be his companion.
STAR TREKGidi70 is a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation.TNG


LCARSThis user, as a Federation citizen uses both LCARS and Wikipedia
 This user is a fan of Blackadder.
DTDDThis user watches GlobeLink News.


STPThis user likes to Smack the Pony.
You're Fired!This user is a fan of The Apprentice.


BBCThis user watches BBC
1, 2 AND 4 (plus 3 on iPlayer).


Sports

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I play volleyball, indoors and on the beach. I watch that as well, but I also like watching F1 and tennis. I prefer women's tennis over men's, because the different way they play (more angles, more slice, more tactics) is better to watch; and they are better to watch...

Some people I follow more closely: Kim Gevaert, Leila Barros, Jacqueline (pt:Jaqueline Carvalho) of the brazilian national volleyball team, Ana Ivanović, Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Marion Bartoli, Sania Mirza, Michaëlla Krajicek, Kim Clijsters, Sabine Appelmans, Jana Novotná, Larisa Neiland and Natasha Zvereva.

 This user is a volleyball player.


Personality

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 This user loves deadlines. They love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.
 This user is nocturnal. 
GMT
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This user's time zone depends on whenever they decide to get up today.


 This user does not understand mean people. Please be nice.
 This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.
 This user is from Earth.


 This user is proud to be a European.
 This user is from the Netherlands.
 This user's homeworld is mostly harmless.


54YThis Wikipedian was born on 07 February 1970 and is 54 years, 10 months, and 5 days old.
 This user is a child at heart. They might have grown older, but they'll never grow up.
 This user is of Dutch ancestry.


0This user ranks a 0 on the Kinsey scale.
 This user is single.
 This user is a flirt.


  This user likes to wink a lot, usually by the combination of a parenthesis and semicolon, but sometimes with a pretty graphic.
 This user is a Trekkie.
  This user is glad that Pluto isn't a planet.


 This user knows global warming is a reality we are facing.