User:RobbieIanMorrison

Robbie Morrison


 * I live in Berlin, Germany. I am a New Zealand national.  I have also lived in Melbourne and London as well as Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin
 * My education comprises: BE (mechanical engineering), BA (industrial design), and MSc (energy management).
 * My professional interests include: energy system modeling, computer programming, and free software development.
 * I follow the German Energiewende energy system transformation and ecological economics more generally.
 * Since 2017, I have advocated for open data in relation to information of public interest.

New articles
Technical — these normally take considerable effort to develop and maintain


 * Energy modeling – the process of building computer models of energy systems (stats)
 * Energy system – interpreting the energy sector in system terms (stats)
 * Open energy system databases – database projects which collect, clean, and republish energy-related datasets (stats)
 * Open energy system models – a review of energy system models that are also open source (stats)
 * Power-to-X – used to describe a number of electricity conversion technologies (stats)

Policy-related


 * EU Energy Efficiency Directive 2012 – a 2012 EU directive mandating national energy efficiency improvements (stats)
 * German Climate Action Plan 2050 – a 2016 German government climate protection policy document (stats)
 * German National Action Plan on Energy Efficiency – released under the European Union directive on energy efficiency (stats)

Organizations and projects


 * Climate-Alliance Germany – a network of civil society organizations calling for climate protection (stats)
 * HiGHS optimization solver – an open source optimization solver (stats)
 * JuMP – a mathematical programming language for Julia (stats)

People


 * Carl-A. Fechner – a German documentary maker (stats)
 * Hartmut Bossel – a German systems scientist (stats)

Other


 * My Extinction (2023 film) – documentary film by Josh Appignanesi on his journey to climate activism (stats)

Translations


 * Starving for honesty climate hunger strike, Berlin, Germany – 2024 climate action in Berlin (even a short translation takes 15hours)

Significant contributions

 * Energiewende in Germany – the German energy system transition (additions) (stats)
 * German Renewable Energy Sources Act – a series of German laws supporting renewable generation (rewrite) (stats)
 * Open Energy Modelling Initiative – a grass roots collection of open energy modelers (development) (stats)
 * Geniatech v. McHardy (2018) – section covering this particular open source copyright litigation
 * Rothschild Patent Imaging v. GNOME Foundation (2019 – 2022) – section covering this particular open source patent litigation
 * Scientist Rebellion — advocating civil disobedience over lack of climate action (general improvements)

Templates

 * Template:Energy modeling – a custom navbox for energy modeling

Selected photographs
Many involve subjects relating to nature or places in Germany. And the image quality has improved over time through better equipment.

Some thoughts on Wikipedia

 * Article creation (AfC) process

I would like the AfC process to provide a preliminary assessment and then allow the creator to comment on that assessment. This is how academic peer review normally operates. The opportunity to comment should lead to better and fairer review decisions and would also provide the creator with more insight in the case of rejection.

I would like to see all new articles (with the exception of disaggregation and redirection pages) go through an AfC process.


 * WikiCite

WikiCite is a proposal to build a bibliographic database in Wikidata to serve all Wikimedia projects. I think this project is hugely important and should be prioritized by the Wikimedia Foundation. Their recent activity is available. Each bibliographic entry should have its own talk page to enable evaluation by the community.


 * Advice on uploading image files

The page contains some advice on uploading image files to illustrate Wikipedia articles.


 * Correct me when I'm wrong

Please leave a note on my talk page if you feel that any of my edits are wrong, misguided, or contrary to accepted practice. I will endeavor to respond.

Wikipedia citation format (WCF) bibliographic database project


I am currently (early-2017) exploring the idea of a python project to develop a modest Wikipedia citation format (WCF) native bibliographic database application. More precisely, the project will support a subset of the Citation Style 1 (CS1) template system. Preliminary discussions are taking place at the Wikipedia village pump/technical forum. Leave feedback on my talk page if you have any suggestions or comments.