User:JohnOwens

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John Owens
John Owens lives in Manchester, UK since 2016, after moving from Tucson, Arizona, and was until recently a student at the Pima Community College. He is (yet another) computer system and network administrator, with some knowledge of server administration and a good grasp of Perl. And he has been voted Number 1 on the "list of bigots to avoid" on User:Olga Bityerkokoff's page! He came in at number 32 on this month's Top 200 Countdown, and he'd like to extend his special gratitude to Michael, who made it all possible.

If you have a Un*x computer and check its native-format time, you've got a pretty good idea how old he is, in seconds.

Currently
As a recovering non-Wikipedoholic, I'm starting to edit again, but in moderation, so far. I recently upgraded to a mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera, so I'm starting to accumulate some pictures for the Wikipedi&aelig;. See some of what I've got so far: /Pet Projects. I'm currently focusing on my astrophotography technique (pun intended).

In things tangentially related to Wikipedia, I've started a project to create an electronic markup format for corrections to all those things that aren't Wiki. With my vast imagination, I've decided to call it the ProofReading Markup Language, or PRML for short. (SourceForge project site)

What he does
Weed whacker extraordinaire, great at spotting typos, too.

Oh yeah, and I know lots of stuff, too. ;)

And I refuse to ever take the Are You a Wikipediholic Test. There are some things both you and I are better off not knowing. See also: Wikipediholics in denial.

Foreign languages and contributions
I'm now contributing to the German and Russian Wikip&aelig;di&aelig; in my own small way, too. (And in case you can't tell by my abuse of '&aelig;'s, I just wish there was a Latin Wikip&aelig;dia for me to contribute to, too.)

I'll be demmed, there is a Latin Vicip&aelig;dia!!! :) I always wondered if there was a language code for Latin; never could find one in a list. Now I'm going to have to find out if 'la' is really official, or just what they use because it makes sense.


 * Since then, I've discovered Multilingual coordination and ISO 639. Yup, it's a real, genyooine, official code.

Contributions
A few of my best, most pride-inspiring contributions:
 * Aerial refueling
 * Atlatl
 * Aztalan State Park
 * Increase Allen Lapham
 * Continental divide (OK, I'm setting the bar pretty low here, but somebody had to write it...)
 * Hodag
 * List of caves (The bar comes down another notch....)
 * Various subpages of orders of magnitude
 * especially orders of magnitude (power)
 * Wikipediholics in denial

Mostly though, I'm more of an editor than a writer. And yeah, I know what all those authors say about editors....

Licensing
All contributions of my own work (i.e., excluding only a few photographs snarfed from web sites) excluding items in the User:JohnOwens "userspace" (or whatever the proper term might be) are available under any or all of the following licenses unless stated otherwise:

GNU Free Documentation License: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License: BSD License: Lesser General Public License:

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