User:Sergio.ballestrero

I welcome our new overlord OmegaWiki :-) The multilingual wiki dictionary. It is already so much better than Wiktionaries!

Find me at:
 * Wikipedia IT
 * OmegaWiki (interwiki OmegaWiki does not work yet)
 * Wiktionary EN
 * Wikibooks
 * home page at the Particle-Solids Interactions group of the School of Physics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
 * old home page at the Firenze Linux User Group
 * old home page at CERN

On Wikipedia I'll try, (if I find time for it) to contribute to particle physics, in particular detectors and data acquisition systems. I would also like to translate pages to and from Italian, but first I want to put together something reasonable on the English side.

I also feel for User:Raymond_arritt/Expert_withdrawal and [Wikipedia:Expert_retention]]. While the pages I've been working on haven't been bitten by cranks or other fanatics, I have seen these attacks to real science far too often, and I really am displeased when I see the effort of knowledgeable people going to waste, on the fallacious ground that WP:NPOV should grant to "pseudoscience" (euphemism) the same rights of real science. I really do not want to abandon Wikipedia... but I'm looking with renewed interest to Citizendium.

Interesting pages

 * Work in progress: User:Sergio.ballestrero/Data acquisition
 * it:Acquisizione dati en:Data acquisition
 * en:CAMAC en:NIM en:VMEbus
 * Detectors:
 * it:Scintillatore en:Scintillator
 * en:Scintillation counter
 * it:Fotomoltiplicatore en:Photomultiplier
 * Software:
 * it:ROOT (programma) en:ROOT
 * it:Geant4 en:Geant4
 * en:Monte Carlo method
 * Images (wouldn't it be nice if one could watch images too?)
 * VME
 * Lemo 00
 * HPGe
 * Misc:
 * en:Firenze it:Portale:Firenze
 * it:Categoria:Da_tradurre_dalla_lingua_inglese
 * it:Legge legge giuridica e legge "scientifica" - un massacro :-P
 * http://it.wikibooks.org/wiki/Fisica_e_Filosofia
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity:School_of_Physics_and_Astronomy
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:C_plus_plus

Spam
For those who end up here wondering why I have removed a link they had added to a page, a few good reads:
 * WikiProject Spam
 * User_talk:Shauny000 and User_talk:Shermanmonroe With plenty of good advice from User:Saxifrage, which led to understanding.
 * WP:SPAM What Wikipedia considers SPAM
 * WP:EL When external links are acceptable
 * WP:CORP When a company is worth a page
 * WP:NOT More generally, everything that WP is NOT meant to be.

Help
as a note to myself, since I never remember these:
 * #REDIRECT [ [TheOtherPage] ]
 * [ [Special:Contributions/User] ]
 * Inline Citation
 * User:Sergio.ballestrero/References often-used references for cut&paste

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