User:Gereon Stein

So I'm a "Wikipedian" now after all...

or, to be more exact, I joined on March 31, 2006.

My Stats:
Name: Gereon Stein

Location: Bottrop, NRW, Germany

Year of birth: 1966

Marital status: married, 2 children

I have now been retrieving information from Wikipedia for a very long time, and feel happy to even find a couple of web pages I created out there to have been linked to by other Wikipedians. Now is the time to start giving back to the community.


 * My contributions

I am also a registered user of the German Wikipedia, where for natural reasons I will be showing a little more activity than in other places.

My Areas of Interest:
History (general, with a focus on the Antique period and the 20th century)

Computers (history, operating systems (Unix / Linux))

Music (Jazz, saxophone)

Family

I have a tendency to dig after a problem, so I will be happy to try and be of help with any questions regarding the above (or any other) subjects.

My mother tongue is (surprisingly) German, due to professional requirements I am quite fluent in English (both spoken and written) and I can get along reading and understanding Spanish, French and Dutch texts. I usually solve tasks that require a computer using Apple Mac OS X, with my preferred alternatives being Sun Microsystems machines running Solaris, only then followed by "regular" PCs.

Web-Links:
There are a couple of traces I left out in the World-Wide Web, most of them being in German.

There is one, however, that is being linked to quite frequently and available in an English language version:

The German Dubbing Database, a collection of German voiceovers for international movies collected by Arne Kaul (I did the programming, Design by Mats-Peter Schmitz, online since 2003)

I am also a team member and active user of

The large German saxophone portal site Saxwelt.de, which is also partially available in English