User:Cumbrowski

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About this Wikipedian

 * Personal
 * Hi, my name is Carsten Cumbrowski aka Roy/SAC.
 * I was born on April 14, 1974 in East Berlin/Germany, the ex-communist part of Germany called East Germany or GDR (German Democratic Republic).
 * I was 15 years old and in the 9th grade when the "Berlin Wall fell" on November 9, 1989.
 * I moved to the United States on May 15, 2000 and was living in Fresno/California until october 2015.
 * I completed my Green Card process and became permanent resident of the United States in September 2007, over 5 years after I started it (see details)
 * I moved back to Berlin/Germany in 2015
 * Wikipedia
 * I am an active "Wikipedian" since December 31, 2005. See my detailed blog post titled "How Did I Become a Wikipedian?" at my personal blog
 * and also my Wikipedia edit counts via the "Wannabe Kate" edit counter tool.
 * I am now "retired" and do only occasional edits today


 * Hobby
 * I am an ASCII and ANSI text artist and co-founder of the "scene" art group Superior Art Creations (SAC).
 * I was active in the computer art scene, demoscene and the warez scene between 1992 and 1998.
 * Roy was my "handle", but I am better known in "the scene" as Roy/SAC, because of my ASCII and ANSI text art work.


 * I was between 1995 and 1997 the sysop of my own bulletin board system called "Closed Society".
 * The BBS had at the end 5 nodes (4x ISDN + 1x 28.8kbit modem) and was running on OS/2 and PCBoard.


 * I have a site dedicated to ANSI and ASCII art at RoySAC.com, which also double-functions as SAC homepage since 2007.
 * Professional
 * I used to be a SAP consultant while I was in Germany and Switzerland
 * I started web development and SQL Server database development in 1999. I learned my first programming language with the age of 13 though. The language was Commodore 128D BASIC.
 * I also learned Turbo Pascal, COBOL, Foxpro, Visual Basic, T-SQL, HTML, JavaScript, ASP, PPL and ABAP/4.


 * I got involved in affiliate marketing at the end of 2000/beginning 2001. I was an affiliate for over 10 years and also an affiliate manager for over 4 years.
 * Since 2016 I am a business consultant for large companies in Germany.


 * Other
 * "Who am I?", expressed in user templates (or userboxes)


 * Additional user pages of mine, which you might find useful or interesting


 * About me - More details about me and what I do plus some personal resources.
 * My Wikipedia Resources - Wikipedia resources just for me. My sandbox so to speak.

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My Wikipedia Activities
I have my editor account at Wikipedia since 12/31/2005. See "How Did I Become a Wikipedian".
 * For my contributions to Wikipedia from 12/31/2005 to today, see my edit counts via Kate's Wanna-Be Edit Counter.


 * Other Edit Count Tools


 * You can also use Lupin's Edit Counter (JS), but also the still available User Contibutions Page gives you some ideas about my activities here at Wikipedia.


 * I opt-in to User:Interiot's EditCounter. You should be able to get my counts here now. My Edit Counts!


 * Spamda Approval Request 4/28/2007

To-Dos
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Articles I contributed to
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 * The list is not a complete list of articles, which I edited. I edited a lot more, but those articles have more or less my attention.
 * The articles I am very strongly focused on are in bold font
 * The articles I edited and WP:COI applies are in itallic font
 * The articles I edited and WP:COI applies are in itallic font

Started by me
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Wikipedia Images Contributions
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Other Wikipedia Stuff
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Media Activities
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Image Licencing
All my Text Art Images which I already uploaded to Wikipedia are flagged as PD, but I went beyond that and released my complete work as Text Artist and my few Scene Art Pixel Graphics into the Public Domain. See Details here.

You can release your images into public domain as well. Simply add the Template to your image that you uploaded to Wikipedia or grab the HTML Code generated by the Template below and add it to the Page with your Image on your Website.



Wiki Links, Help, Tutorials and Guides
I moved this section of my userpage to its own page for easier reference. You can find the resources at its new location at User:Cumbrowski/WikiResources.

User Templates @ My User Space
Content Moved. Please See User:Cumbrowski/Userboxes

User Talk Page Archiving Solution
There exist a bunch of solutions for archiving talk pages. You can find the official Wikipedia guide to this subject here.

The solution based on the templates  and   or   are nice, but generic to fit all types of talk pages. As a compromise were some good features and options excluded. For that reason did I create a custom version of the  and   templates at my user space, which you can find at Template:UserTalkArchive. To see the template in action see User_talk:Cumbrowski/Archive 5. It has a documentation how to install the template properly. If you have any comments or suggestions to improve it, let me know.


 * Main features and improvements
 * Setup guide provided, which is easy to understand and simple to follow
 * Automatic check. Shows link to next archive page only, if it exists (supports 41 100 archive pages)
 * Improved layout and images added to better highlight the important things and improve look and feel
 * Adds at the end of each archive page automatically the Wikipedia user page template
 * Links to user page and current user talk page added
 * "Do not edit this page" statement highlighted (bold and red)
 * Shows additional list with all existing archive pages and links to them (also max. 100 pages)

User Talk Archiving Primer

 * 1) Create a new User Talk Page with the suffix "/Archive 1". A link to the archive page would look like this:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Username/Archive 1 
 * 2) It will say that the page does not exist yet. Go and press edit.
 * 3) Add at the top the following code.  
 * 4) Open your default talk page at   and press edit.
 * 5) Select everything you want to archive and cut it out of the page ("Ctrl-X")
 * 6) Paste the content into the new talk page after the   template
 * 7) Add a link on your standard talk page to the Archive page   * * You can also use   instead to make the linke to the archive pages on your main talk page  exclude the word "Archive" within "Archive X" in the anchor text to only show "X" instead.
 * 8) Save the standard talk page and you are done


 * Notes
 * The next archive pages would work the same, just call them .../Archive 2 ..../Archive 3 etc.
 * The  template is a modified version of the   template and adds the little box to the archive which you can see here User_talk:Cumbrowski/Archive 1. It creates a link to your current talk page automatically (that's why the specific name .../Archive X). It also adds a little navigation to the previous and next archive page. In addition to that (my custom part) does it add a reference to your user page and shows your name (that it is your user talk archive) and the   at the bottom. I also changed the font sizes and colors to emphasis the important parts.
 * The  on your main user talk page creates a little "Archive" box with links to all your archive pages automatically. You don't have to change that one anymore. It automatically detects, if new archive pages were created.


 * Note for myself
 * Development version of template moved from User:Cumbrowski/usertalkarchivenav to Wikipedia main template space at Template:UserTalkArchive on December 23, 2007.
 * Template:UserTalkArchiveBox created, based on template:archive box collapsible on January 20, 2008 for layout reasons
 * Template:UserTalkArchiveListLong created, based on template:archive list long on January 20, 2008 for layout reasons and to support 100 archive pages (instead of 32)



Who is Carsten expressed in User Boxes/Templates
Just so that you know who you are dealing with ;)

Webmaster and Blogger
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