User:K.lee
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I am currently attending graduate school at the University of Washington for computer science.
For the curious, here's my homepage (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/klee).
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Current rant:' Over time, a maddening entropy has grown to inflict nearly all articles related to programming languages. For whatever reason, programming language articles are not served well by the gradual accumulation of random facts, at which Wikipedia excels. This may be because too many people overestimate their own knowledge of programming languages, or because too many people confuse familiarity with a few programming languages with a systematic understanding of programming languages as a field. Unfortunately, I do not have the time right now to rewrite the articles into better form, but if I ever get around to it, you can expect major changes.
- Sub-rant: I'm not merely whining. I do spend time editing Wikipedia and I think it's literally one of the Great Wonders of the Post-Internet World. As far as I'm concerned, it's right up there with Google and Project Gutenberg. However, I currently spend most of my Wikipedia-budgeted time on either
- damage control on computer-related topics,
- my suggested PL rewrite, or
- minor edits-for-fun on articles unrelated to programming languages.
- I've observed that this is because significantly rewriting an article, in a way that would meaningfully improve its quality, takes a big chunk of labor that's not easy, and (for various reasons) frequently not fun. Those big chunks of time don't come often, for me or for most other people. However, should I ever get such time, consider this rant an explanation in advance for why I replaced 90% of an existing article, and meanwhile left out your explanation of foobar typing or whatever.
Articles to which I've contributed significant original content:
- Type theory and related topics:
- Mozilla
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and its museums:
- Sister Souljah moment
- Al Gore
Articles to which I've done significant editing for style:
- Microsoft: This is a contentious entry, for obvious reasons. I've tried to limit my editing to cleaning up prose, reorganization for flow, and NPOV.
- Computer mouse
Articles to which I hope to make significant edits in the future:
- Programming language (I am currently working on an extensive rewrite in my user space)
- Manhattan and related topics (particularly, fill in neighborhoods).
- Library (software)