User:EpochFail/Old userpage

  EpochFail talk •  email  •  contribs  You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here and what the question might mean.

I might think about it a little bit and if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else, but I don't have to know an answer, I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it is really in so far as I can tell.

It doesn't frighten me.

Richard Feynman

The majority of my work in English Wikipedia involves the development and maintenance of user scripts that enable communication or otherwise provide insight into the editing process. I also like to edit articles relating to computer science, mycology, psychology and philosophy.

Other accounts
I own and use User:PermaNoob, User:GLTester and User:Wiki labeler for testing user scripts. I only use those accounts to perform test edits or to test new interface modifications. Edits I perform as a WMF staff member mostly occur through User:Halfak (WMF). All of my work on the wiki comes from this account.

My essays

 * Don't bite the researchers
 * What are these researchers doing in my Wikipedia?

Tools I've developed

 * Wiki labels is a generalized, crowdsourced labeling system for Wikipedia. (see also en:WP:Labels)
 * Snuggle supports wiki-mentors by allowing them to find desirable newcomers that need mentorship.
 * Mr. Clean allows readers to insert cleanup templates in articles.
 * Wikignome allows edits to individual sentences while viewing an article.
 * NICE is an experimental interface that asks reverting editors to be nice to newbies.
 * HAPPI add highlighting to edit pane to visually present information about who last editing wiki-markup and how long ago.
 * NOOB adds a visualization of editor experience to talk pages and the revision history page.
 * APS Review is a review system for APS:WI to allow members to more easily submit reviews of the articles that they read.