User:XTaran~enwiki

Actual article count in the Englisch language Wikipedia:.

About me & Home Page
I studied computer science and now work in a small but fine IT company near Mainz (Germany), mostly doing web application development there using Apache, mod_perl, MySQL and LDAP, mostly on Linux and FreeBSD boxes.

See http://abe.home.pages.de/english.html or my German Wikipedia user page for details.

de:Benutzer:XTaran

How I came here
I'm also a (non-professional) writer for Symlink, a Swiss German news site in the style of Slashdot and focused on Open Source, IT politics and data protection. I often needed some hyperlinks for details on some topics and Wikipedia often gave me exactly what I looked for... Maybe I also heard first about Wikipedia on our own news site.

Wiki experience history
IIRC I had my first Wiki experiences with the Emacs Wiki, the tcsh Wiki, and the POE Wiki. On the last one I also have a Wiki home page. Now my Wiki activity mainly focuses on Wikipedia in German and English as well as our company internal Wiki, a TWiki. :-)

Pages initially created by me

 * Adams-Farwell
 * Bonzai Linux
 * EkkoBSD
 * Fendt
 * FTBFS
 * GPL (former redirect)
 * MicroBSD
 * MirBSD (rewritten from stub)
 * NMU (former redirect)
 * Number sign
 * PicoBSD
 * POE (rewritten from an article with unfitting content)
 * thttpd
 * SLS (former redirect)
 * TrustedBSD
 * VW Type 2
 * xargs

Early contributions
I made early contributions from 194.95.226.11

Friends at en.Wikipedia

 * Ermel
 * Elian
 * Leonach
 * TheK