User:Dsimic

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About me

ThisLinux laundry detergentisnotwhat I'm referring to.:)

Hello there! My name inreal lifeis Dragan Simic, just in case you've wondered where my Wikipediausernamecomes from.:) In more detail, I wanted an all-lowercase username, but having one unfortunately wasn't (and still isn't) possible due to certain technical restrictions of Wikipedia that impose differentnaming constraints.I also have an account onWikimedia Commonswith the same username, whichbelongsto myunified loginhavingEnglish Wikipediaas the home wiki.

I'm pretty much a person who ordinary people would call acomputer geek,and I'm proud of that. Myobsessionwith computers started with aCommodore 64in my early childhood, and turned later into a professional devotion to various areas ofcomputingandcomputer science,including differentUnixvariants(with the primary focus onLinux),low-levelandhigh-levelprogramming,compilers,algorithmsanddata structures,networking hardwareandprotocols,load balancing(had anold paperpublished),computer security,databases,computer hardwarein general,microcontrollers,andembedded devices.In addition, a fewuserboxeslistedbelowprovide more of my background information.:)

My Wikipedia work

I'vejoinedEnglish Wikipedia back in February 2008, remaining pretty much inactive until September 2013 when I started to do somereal work(a differentbreakdownis also available,and here'sanother onethat pretty much combines the former two).My workon the English Wikipedia mainly consists ofcontributingnew content and doing variousimprovementsto already existingcomputing-relatedarticles, together withcreatingor starting (so far, a few dozens of)new articlesfrom the same field; traffic statistics and related useful links for those new articles are availablein a section below.Furthermore, so far I've created hundreds ofnew redirectsfor variouspurposes,anduploadeda bunch ofimagesto Wikimedia Commons and a few of themlocally– as we know, a picture is worthat least a few kilobytes.:)

As a contribution different fromdeveloping articles,I've also written acomputer programthat helps in assessing how muchtraffica group of articles receives; more details about it are availablein a section below.Heck, I've additionallydiscovered and reporteda somewhat significant bug inMediaWiki(tracked asT64268), which was fixed very quickly.

Thoughts on Wikipedia

See also:User:Tony1/How to improve your writing

This chart shows the English Wikipedia's article countgrowth ratesince 2001.

In myhumble opinion,Wikipedia is areallygreat thing becausepretty much anyonecanimproveboth themselves and the whole world bycontributingto it and workingtogetherwith theother editors.Where else‍—short of contributingsource codeto a high-profileopen-sourcesoftware project, of course‍—can you have your workreviewedand improved by hundreds ofgoodpeoplefor free,while contributing to a very popular encyclopedia that's (hopefully) going to remainpublicly accessibleindefinitely? Moreover, why would you take your private paper (or text file)notes,when you can instead do thaton Wikipediafor everyone's long-term benefit?:)

Beside opening paths to various improvements in one'sreal-world knowledge,Wikipedia is agreatdestination fornon-nativeEnglish speakers looking to improve theirwritten English– over time,hundreds of eyeballswill look over one's contributions and point out variousgrammarandwriting styleweaknesses. Of course, learning English that way takesa lot of time,but you can hardly get similar quality of teaching throughcopy editingfor free anywhere else. At the same time, please don't miss to have a look at the Wikipedia'sManual of Style,which is pretty much an invaluable free resource.

Lesser-known stuff

Did you know that the entire content of Wikipedia iseasily downloadable,including completerevision histories?Or maybe you'd just like to see theSQL schemaof the Wikipedia'sdatabasebackend? Not a problem, that's alsoeasily accessible.At the same time, variousdatabase reportsare available, broken down by numerous categories; for example, you can see which pages havethe most revisions,thenumber of pagesin eachnamespace,most-watched pagesby namespace, or theWikiLoveusage statistics.

My userboxes

Below is a selection ofuserboxesthat provide more of my background information, including mycomputer programmingandlanguageskills. There are also a couple ofquotationsrelated tosoftware development,which I find amusing and pretty much right to the point – I'm sure those will bring a smile to your face if you've spent any substantial amount of timein that industry.:)

Thisuseris a member of theAssociation of Inclusionist Wikipedians. The motto of the AIW isconservata veritate,which translates to "with the preserved truth". This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

“ Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. ” — Edward V. Berard, software engineer

“ A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. ” — Doug Linder, system administrator

Userboxes

This editor is aSenior Editor IIIand is entitled to display thisRhodiumEditor Star.

This user was ranked1,597onthe list of Wikipedians by number of editsonJuly 3, 2016.

This user is aparticipantinWikiProject Computing.

This user is a member of theWelcoming Committee.

This userhas created aglobal account.Dsimic's main account is onWikipedia(in English).

This user has a long watchlist which they use to track all edits to a great many articles.

en-4This user can contribute with anear-nativelevel ofEnglish.

srМатерњи језиковог корисника јесрпски језик.
Maternji jezikovog korisnika jesrpski jezik.

BScThis user has aBachelor of Sciencedegree inComputer Science.

Dsimic ismale.
He is35years old.

Userboxes

This user is an owner of multipleLinuxsystems. Of course, this userbuilt his owncomputers.

C-4This user is anexpertCprogrammer.

C++-2This user is anintermediateC++programmer.

asm-1This user is abeginningassembly languageprogrammer.

bash-3This user is anadvancedBashprogrammer.

PHP-4This user is anexpertPHPprogrammer.

mysql-4This user is anexpertMySQLprogrammer.

pas-2This user is anintermediate Pascalprogrammer.

re-2This user writesintermediateregular expressions.

-3This user is anadvancedLaTeXuser.

Articles I've created

Monthly breakdown of total daily page views
800	1,100	1,500	1,800	2,000	3,060	2,700	3,100	3,450	3,800	3,700	4,120	3,450	4,160	3,920	4,330	4,420	4,210	4,020	4,050	5,450	4,900	5,000	4,900	5,070	5,930	5,890	5,920	5,340	5,370	5,350
Dec '13	Jan '14	Feb '14	Mar '14	Apr '14	May '14	Jun '14	Jul '14	Aug '14	Sep '14	Oct '14	Nov '14	Dec '14	Jan '15	Feb '15	Mar '15	Apr '15	May '15	Jun '15	Jul '15	Aug '15	Sep '15	Oct '15	Nov '15	Dec '15	Jan '16	Feb '16	Mar '16	Apr '16	May '16	Jun '16

See also:User:Dsimic/Traffic stats calculation

The box below lists the articlesI've createdor started, in the reverse chronological order of their creation so the newest article is on top of the list; the article titles are linked to their 90-daytraffic statisticscharts.

As of July 1, 2016,there are about 5,350 total dailypage viewsfor all these articles, based on their traffic statistics forone month into past;see alsomy PHP programthat calculates the monthly statistics. This summary statistics value doesn't includespider- orbot-generated traffic, and doesn't include accesses to articles via variousredirect pages,which also applies to the traffic statistics charts linked below and the monthly breakdown provided above. The described redirect-related behavior can be verified by comparing the statistics of an article thathas been renamed:here are thearticle statistics,redirect statistics,andstatistics search.

Footnotes

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