User:Jnothman

{|width="100%" cellpadding=3 Hi, my name's Joel Nothman, a Wikipedian when I need to procrastinate.
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I have been absent from Wikipedia essentially since 2007, not for lack of alternative procrastination.

I am an observant Jew living in Sydney, Australia, studying at the University of Sydney, messing my way through a B.Sc./B.A.. I am likely to major in Computer Science (interested in computational linguistics), Linguistics and Classical Hebrew. I have plenty of other committments, so Wikipedia just comes as a procrastination tool- and it is very effective at its job, too. See also my web site.

My interests are many, so maybe once I've consolidated a list, I'll write about them. I think most areas of my knowledge that will come into use on Wikipedia, though, are in relation to Judaism/Israel, particularly focussing on Zionism and Zionist history, modern Israel, Hebrew and Israeli linguistics, etc.

I enjoy responding to questions on the Help Desk and occasionally the email one too.

If I really feel like spending lots of time in the Wikipedia world, I monitor the recent changes with CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter and deliberate on the day's always-stunning collection of AFDs (see my afd helper script).

I have also been working on scripts to make Wikipedia nicer to use and moderate, and am a member of WikiProject User scripts.

See my Wikipedia contribs or kate's edit count.


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Now: Monday 29 July  UTC

Useful links, etc:

 * Help Desk
 * Today's AFDs
 * Village pump (proposals)
 * Israel-related topics
 * Cleanup resources
 * Stub types


 * Category:Judaism stubs
 * Category:Jewish history stubs

On other wikis

 * Hebrew Wikipedia
 * Wiktionary


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Tools, complex templates, etc

 * MediaWiki patches to bugs #146, #1211, #1212
 * Template:bibleverse and the associated php script
 * afd helper tool to make voting on AFDs a lot quicker

Todo

 * Add cookie use to AFD show/hide tool
 * Bible source selector script companion to Template:bibleverse

Working on:

 * Conversation analysis

Possible Todos:

 * Eureka Prize
 * Joshua ben Gamala / Joshua ben Gamla / Jesus ben Gamala
 * Hanukkah
 * Maccabees
 * List of Jewish surnames
 * Jewish denominations
 * Template:Hebrew alphabet and letter articles
 * Politics of Israel
 * Religion in Israel
 * World Union of Jewish Students and related articles
 * Adjacency pair, Discourse analysis, Preference (conversation analysis) or Preference organisation, repair sequence or repair (conversation analysis) (NTRIs, self-repair), pre-sequence
 * Higher School Certificate
 * Clean up Fiddler on the Roof
 * Category:Bible exegetes or Category:Bible commentators
 * Jews in Australia but on Judaism in Oz rather than individuals. See
 * Knesset - a mess of POV and original research
 * Mishnaic Hebrew language: needs a lot of work- common verbal forms; Aramaic and Greek influences; comparison to LBH, DSSH
 * Jews against circumcision / Brit Shalom: research, probably merge and expand
 * Wikiproject:Given_names or Wikiproject:Onomastics to make an encyclopedia of given names (or onomastics), expanding on the likes of www.behindthename.com. See Category:Given_names or John (name) for a good example. But it seems that this may be more wanted in Wiktionary
 * New Jew
 * Kippah - some ideas in the talk page...
 * Category:Jewish_liturgy pages
 * Niqqud could do with some organising and maybe more detail
 * Hebrew phonology
 * Israeli music List of Israeli musical artists these pages need a lot of work in merging and providing content
 * Hineni (youth movement), a youth movement I am involved in, which may or may not deserve entry into Wikipedia. Other similar movements have web pages on Wikipedia, but at least some of them are more international. Here is Hineni online.
 * Birthright Israel
 * add to Paramount Pictures per http://www.cartoonresearch.com/paramount.html
 * take on a dump file at WikiProject Punctuation; solve some Bad links

Done with for now

 * Kaddish
 * Zionist youth movement. My first article! Was easier to define and work with than Zionist youth group or Jewish youth organization, etc...
 * Dudu Fisher. My second article started.
 * Nurit Hirsh. Largely a translation from Hebrew Wikipedia
 * Shalom. Wrote more complete use in expressions section.


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