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Hi, my name is John Vandenberg, and I am a member of the 2009 [[WP:ARBCOM|Arbitration Committee]]. |
Hi, my name is John Vandenberg, and I am a member of the 2009 [[WP:ARBCOM|Arbitration Committee]]. Refer to [[User:John Vandenberg/recusal|/recuse]] and [[User:John Vandenberg/recall|/recall]] for my pledges. |
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I registered on Wikipedia in September 2004, however I only made two edits prior to March 2006 due to work responsibilities. I quickly fell in love with the vision, and enjoy the work and the people. My username was always very quickly linked to my real identity, and since September 2006 I have signed all my comments using my own name. In my opinion, everyone should do the majority of their editing using their own name to encourage accountability and moderation, and only use [[WP:SOCK|socks]] sparingly. However, I am not a fool; there are very good reasons to remain anonymous or [[pseudonymous]], and I will go out of my way to protect everyone's right do so. My opinions on matters of taste only affect me. |
I registered on Wikipedia in September 2004, however I only made two edits prior to March 2006 due to work responsibilities. I quickly fell in love with the vision, and enjoy the work and the people. My username was always very quickly linked to my real identity, and since September 2006 I have signed all my comments using my own name. In my opinion, everyone should do the majority of their editing using their own name to encourage accountability and moderation, and only use [[WP:SOCK|socks]] sparingly. However, I am not a fool; there are very good reasons to remain anonymous or [[pseudonymous]], and I will go out of my way to protect everyone's right do so. My opinions on matters of taste only affect me. |
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Hi, my name is John Vandenberg, and I am a member of the 2009 Arbitration Committee. Refer to /recuse and /recall for my pledges.
I registered on Wikipedia in September 2004, however I only made two edits prior to March 2006 due to work responsibilities. I quickly fell in love with the vision, and enjoy the work and the people. My username was always very quickly linked to my real identity, and since September 2006 I have signed all my comments using my own name. In my opinion, everyone should do the majority of their editing using their own name to encourage accountability and moderation, and only use socks sparingly. However, I am not a fool; there are very good reasons to remain anonymous or pseudonymous, and I will go out of my way to protect everyone's right do so. My opinions on matters of taste only affect me.
My formal education includes a associate diploma in electrical engineering at Southbank Institute of TAFE and a graduate diploma from Queensland University of Technology, majoring in computer science and data communications. In spite of achieving very high grades throughout my education, I failed to complete my masters by coursework, as I wasnt turning up to lectures of my last three units due to being very happily over-employed as a network administrator of an internet service provider which had multiple point of presence across Queensland (in those days, that was a major differentiator between the BBS's and the ISPs which went on to become the dominant players in the market). I have since worked as a lecturer at TAFEs and private colleges, as a consultant to two other ISPs, as a software engineer for SGI and a senior software engineer at another notable company that specialised in ERP systems with research management being my focus and motivation. I have also been very strongly motivated by the open source movement, which is where I was first exposed to copyright law. My open source contributions include:
- Mozilla : IRIX port [1]
- STLport : IRIX port
- Open Office : IRIX port (I didnt get this nasty piece of code up and going)[2]
- Bugzilla : Misc. [3]
- Apache Portable Runtime : Ported the build system to MSYS/Mingw [4]
- quilt : Large overhaul of build system and Solaris, OSX and Tru64 ports - [5][6]
English Wikipedia was my first open content project, however English Wikisource is now my "home wiki" (or home away from home; I'm not quite sure). I became a Wikipedia administrator in September 2007, and a English Wikisource administrator in November 2007. I am also an admin on the Multilingual Wikisource, Latin Wikisource, and a junior sysop on Commons and Incubator (i.e. I dont make any controversial decisions). I also have checkuser on Wikisource, and Oversight here on English Wikipedia. For a while, I was a Arbitration Clerk, but due to a disagreement with a sitting arbitrator, I resigned at their request. I have over 60,000 edits to the various Wikimedia projects, and my bot has over 75,000 edits. I have been serving on the interim committee of Wikimedia Australia, a regional chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, since the April incorporation meeting.
While I prefer writing content, I have also built tools used by Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikibooks:
- Deletion sorting tool - pushing AFDs towards people who are most likely to do a Heymann-esque rescue.
- New page patrolling bot - 99,450 new pages patrolled on en.wp, and 81,785 revisions patrolled on en.ws.
- m:djvutext.py : Djvu OCR import tool for Wikisource
- Toolserver tools - Stats and handy "Subpage migration" viewer, for the Wikisources and Wikibooks.
Sounds good right? Well, I have only a few DYKs to my name, no Good or Featured articles, and the WikiProject that me and a few others started (Academic Journals) hasn't really done much except create articles for 0.01% of the List of missing journals. I have created over 450 articles on English Wikipedia, including 80 disambiguation pages. Here are my most recent creations (see User:John Vandenberg/New pages for the full list):
Date | Article | Reason | Nation |
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2013-03-08 22:57:40 | Amplify Education | Current events | USA |
2013-03-08 23:37:45 | Desmos (graphing) | Restored article | USA |
2013-03-10 22:36:36 | Promapp | Restored article | New Zealand |
2013-03-11 02:58:22 | SAI Global | ASX 500 | Australia |
2013-03-18 10:01:07 | Bank deposit levy | Current events | Cyprus |
2013-03-19 05:58:24 | The Journal of African History | Journals | International |
2013-03-26T10:03:12 | NaTemat.pl | Ssources | Poland |
2013-03-26T12:22:56 | Australian Competitive Grants Register | Research | Australia |
2013-03-28T01:17:07 | BAA2 | Disambiguation | Disambiguation |
2013-04-03T07:24:52 | Teksty z Ulicy | Ssources | Poland |
2013-04-08T03:45:33 | Environmental Trust (New South Wales) | Research | Australia |
2013-04-08T07:30:27 | Department of Employment and Industrial Relations | Disambiguation | Disambiguation |
2013-04-09T00:35:54 | Northern Tablelands state by-election, 2013 | Politics | Australia |
2013-04-10T07:48:17 | National Centre for Vocational Education Research | Research | Australia |
2013-04-10T10:45:28 | Australian Research Institute for Environment and Sustainability | Research | Australia |
2013-04-10T12:08:37 | Dairy Australia | Research | Australia |
2022-08-01T04:21:51 | ParaMatildas | Paralympics | Australia |