User:Jesse V.

Hello there, I'm Jesse Victors! I'm a white hat and computer scientist with a special interest in network security and privacy-enhancing systems like Tor. You can find more about me on my website, jessevictors.com. I also support and contribute to open-source software. I believe that Wikipedia is succeeding and I continue to support it.

Although I am less active on Wikipedia than I used to be, I continue to make edits here and there. The Folding@home article remains my crowning achievement on this site. It became my editing focus in August 2011 and it was the primary reason why I became very active on Wikipedia. When I started, the article was in this unhelpful state. Following eight months of research and 540 edits, it achieved Good Article status on April 7, 2012. Since then, it passed through a peer review and it's  FA nomination succeeded and it finally became a Featured Article!. It's a complex article consisting of multiple facets that had to be intertwined, but I'm very pleased at how it turned out. I would like to thank Emw and Crisco 1492 for their comments, Dmitrij for his professional review of the GA nom, and many others on foldingforum.org and scientists at Stanford University for their support and advice. I'm encouraged by comments like this and this, and I know that the author of this publication was assisted by the Folding@home article, which is awesome. Folding@home appeared on the Main Page on November 1st, 2012. There was even a blog post about it :)

I've also made substantial improvement and cleanup changes to List of distributed computing projects (before). I created List of Folding@home cores. I have Advisor.js,  Checklinks,  CitationBot, and  AWB at my editing disposal, and a number of scripts installed. They are extremely useful for serious editors. I've also taken to using AWB for auto-tagging and auto-untagging articles, thereby assisting editors while seriously reducing backlogs. My page about my editing history is here, and you can see how many semi-automated edits I've made by clicking here.


 * Wow! Thanks! And I got the banner from User:Brightgalrs, so you can thank her for that. I also placed it on User:Montanabw's page. Got ya! :D User:Jesse V. (talk) 21:45, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Proof that lolz can be found on Wikipedia. So much win! :)

I'm glad all that larking around has ended and that the discussion has ceased to be. 78.144.205.123 (talk) 19:40, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Some of it was indeed pretty cuckoo . . . Awien (talk) 23:29, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * No need to crow about it any longer.  dci  &#124;  TALK   03:15, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * No, but we do need to remain eagle-eyed to watch out for any signs of it starting up again. 2.97.31.6 (talk) 03:28, 25 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Guess everything went tits up. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:29, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Careful, people - retribution may be swift. Awien (talk) 03:31, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I can swallow whatever they dish out. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:34, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Me, I quail. Awien (talk) 03:36, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Never fear, no-one will rail on you here. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:38, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * If they do, you can always duck. Froggerlaura  ribbit  04:21, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * See, I only fear when if one should goose me. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:59, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Now, I am cocksure that the page that is too bird-centric is not Main Page, but Talk:Main Page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.89.157.213 (talk) 06:17, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The quality of the puns is definitely taking a tern for the worse; we shall all look like boobies if this awkward situation continues. AlexTiefling (talk) 07:27, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Sheesh, some people can always find something to grouse about. Awien (talk) 10:43, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Mind you, everything can be seen as a cock-up. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:45, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

(reset) Is this conversation quackers? 80.254.147.68 (talk) 11:14, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * No, but we are all quacks. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:16, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Just don't call us bird brained. That is sure to ruffle people's feathers. --Allen3 talk 12:43, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Anyone post a tweet about this?  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 13:59, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Not yet. I've been too chicken. Maybe I should pluck up courage. AlexTiefling (talk) 14:21, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Tweeting might cause people to flock here. 78.144.201.136 (talk) 14:32, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

The above was what the 'Wikipedia humour pages' were meant to be about. 80.254.147.68 (talk) 17:49, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Is this a sequail? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.111.209 (talk) 22:05, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Don't worry. Just like the swallows of Capistrano, discussions of Main page bias (some even dealing with birds) will return. --Allen3 talk 22:32, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Flocking idiots. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.111.209 (talk) 01:59, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * humour pages? My post above was a serious complaint! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.89.157.213 (talk) 05:40, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

See WP:BJAODN --Dweller (talk) 08:21, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

After all this, there came another bird on main page today? §§ §§ {T/C} 06:22, 28 October 2012 (UTC)