User:Dsmatthews

Yup seven people in total actually, will add them to the template above if they get their own logins.Dsmatthews (talk) 06:14, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Declarations of interest
Dsmatthews was, over ten years ago responsible for the compilation, packaging and testing of the Microsoft Windows version of the software K-3D and has not and will not make any edits associated with that specific aspect of the topic of K-3D on Microsoft Windows. Any other edits will be on the basis of knowledge gained from reading the publicly available mailing lists associated with the topic, and therefore verifiable.Dsmatthews (talk) 10:40, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Having handled the Windows builds of K-3D many years ago and before that being a test user of the application. I am now trying to rewrite the K-3D wikipedia page. There may be even earlier references, will add them if found, they may go back to the late 1990s! Since then I have not owned or used a computer with anything but some form of Linux or BSD unix on it (yeehah!). Supporting Windows was a PITA, not that I'd say anything on the K-3D page about that. I have certainly played around with the application a lot in the process of the Windows support role, one that was entirely voluntary and from which I have derived no benefit. Each new feature was tested by me. Almost all of the work was managed in the public eye via the mailing lists and most of the people involved over the years have never met each other as it really was a multinational team. These days I defer all decisions to Bart and I did to Tim when he was lead developer. So really I have no provable COI above that of a knowledgeable user as anyone who had a clue about the subject would know, and which bart did point out. Personally I believe that the "obsessive interest" some parties have shown in controlling the edits to the K-3D page is simply malicious interference motivated by their sense of self importance. They could have made the improvements themselves, but didn't, they just delete, revert, or resort to "interference by abuse of procedure".

These days I only use K-3D if my kids want help with something that they find it is useful for, but it is far from dead and runs fine on the latest hardware and Linux operating systems (Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo maintains the Debian build, which is also used by many derivatives such as Mint and Ubuntu), even the rendering export modules for Luxrender work, as the linked file at the bottom of the K-3D demonstrates. The same interfering parties have put a lot of effort into destroying that image file, one of those accounts is now blocked from wikipedia. The Luxrender output was a great example of how Tim's C++ code was designed well, to allow multiple input and output formats to be easily plugged into the core architecture of the applications graphics pipeline. Ultimately, if the interference continues, it is all the people who may miss out on learning how to use K-3D that will suffer, not I.

As things stand the K-3D page has "deleted" status the the deleter is justifying it a way that I have questioned on ethical grounds. I have highlighted the problem with what happened and also requested help with the ethics issue.
 * User talk:Sandstein
 * User talk:L235

I have requested a Review of the Deletion, on ethical and technical grounds.

Deletion review/Log/2018 January 13 Dsmatthews (talk) 10:17, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Oh well that didn't work out well, somebody really badly wanted to hide the history of that page so destroying it was the only choice they and their supporters considered despite there being alternatives which were pointed out to them. They even hit me with a bogus block that prevented me participating in the discussion. What happened stinks worse than a bucket full of skatole, and was just as toxic. So now I have to rebuild the entire page and then update it, using similar free open source software pages as rough template/example. Dsmatthews (talk) 10:40, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Karma
It would appear that the individual who initiated the destruction of the K-3D page as finally succeeded in destroying themselves. Time will tell if this is permanent. It would be nice to think that we can get back to doing good without further interference. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Codename_Lisa Dsmatthews (talk) 02:22, 16 March 2018 (UTC)