User:LudicrousSengir

Due to the nature of being a student I take frequent, unpredictable wikibreaks.

I greatly enjoy this project, and the democratization of knowledge is an important goal. However, my life obliges me to take significant pauses to focus on more acute matters, and at times, the intense bureaucracy of this place can be quite overwhelming. If you need to contact me, drop me a message on my talk page even if I haven't been active in a while. It will get to my inbox one way or another.

Here are two questions that guide my work on this project:

What role does language play in limiting our knowledge or efficacy in communication, both in general and on Wikipedia?
What systemic barriers does language create, and how can we help to reduce their harm?   

In general, if you reach out to me, I will respond in the language that your correspondence is written in, so if you have a preference from the languages other than English of which I have some knowledge of, please feel free to use it.

Things I'm working on

I am mainly working within the confines of copy-editing, anti-vandalism, and other sorts of minor edits. I do not currently have enough time to work on drafting new articles, and the bureaucracy of Wikipedia is more difficult to deal with when you are creating content from the ground up. I would rather spend my time making edits to articles folks are already reading rather than argue about what is worthy of a new article and what is not. Additionally, I am more inclined to work on entirely new articles on the Wikipedias of other languages for several reasons, the most important two of which being that these sources have less articles, and that the moderation of these Wikipedias is carried out remarkably better than here at English Wikipedia.

About LudicrousSengir (Essentials) This user is a native of the United States of America. he This user's pronouns are he, him, his. B This user attends or attended Brown University. EST This user lives in the EST timezone. This user is a Wikipediholic but somehow survived the Wikipedia blackout This user believes in the power of nonviolence. This user has completed a half marathon. BUF This user is a fan of the Buffalo Bills Let's Go Mets! This user has great respect for Dmitri Shostakovich. This user is an expert in music theory. This user has absolute pitch. This user has seen another Brick in the Wall. 简体中文 这个用户使用简体中文。 This user uses Simplified Chinese characters. 這個用戶認為漢字簡化並無增添或破壞漢字之美。 这个用户认为汉字简化并无增添或破坏汉字之美。 This user thinks that simplification neither ruined nor increased the beauty of Chinese characters. This user adamantly supports Net Neutrality. This user is politically independent. C8H10N4O2 There is too much blood in this user's caffeine system. This user drinks cappuccino. Quoth this user, "Nevermore." This user is an advocate of open research and open access. e This user's favorite number is e (1), (n) → (n+1) This user loves Mathematical Induction. ${\displaystyle \lim _{t\to \infty }(Wikipedia[t])=}$ 42 This user is interested in Molecular Biology. ${\displaystyle \varphi ={1 \over {\sqrt {2}}}\left({\begin{array}{c}\varphi ^{+}\\\varphi ^{0}\end{array}}\right)\;}$ This user supports the Standard Model, and believes that it will end mankind's quest for a Theory of everything °C This user uses the Celsius scale, as he finds it superior in every way to Fahrenheit. RVW "It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music." asm-3 This user is an advanced assembly language programmer. C-3 This user is an advanced C programmer. C++-3 This user is an advanced C++ programmer. Java-3 This user is an advanced Java programmer. lisp-3 This user is an advanced Lisp programmer. MAT-2 This user is an intermediate MATLAB programmer and user. py-4 This user is an expert Python programmer. -2 This user is an intermediate Rust programmer. This user contributes with Arch Linux, by the way. This user contributes using Firefox. This user contributes using i3. This user supports free software. This user prefers LibreOffice over Microsoft Office. INTP This user has an INTP Myers–Briggs Type Indicator This user can solve the Rubik's Cube in 10 seconds. This user has a White deck in Magic the Gathering This user sucks at playing Freeciv. This user is Radioactive. Approach with extreme caution-they may be highly unstable.

A Modest Proposal

A trivial task that would probably do better at moderating Wikipedia than the current bureaucracy would be to train a machine learning model on policies that all articles and edits must abide by. Some policies of focus would be those centered around living persons and basic requirements for notability. Given the enormous amount of data that is generated just from a week's worth of editing, this would be an easy task, yet probably yielding very useful results. If anyone else has interest in this idea, please leave a message on my talk page.

My pages on other Wikipedias

Spanish Wikipedia

Chinese Wikipedia

French Wikipedia