User:Skierpage

Contributions under this account are exclusively in my individual, personal capacity. I used to work for the Wikimedia Foundation from 2012-2015, and during that period tried to do all my work as a Foundation employee under the account m:User:S Page (WMF)

Long-time but non-hardcore Wikipedia editor.

"skierpage" also has a user page on English Wikipedia and on English Wikibooks where I fitfully write on music theory. (Where's w:Project Xanadu's transclusion when you need it? My blog post "it's one social network, not 1000 sites" is apropos.) Decades (!) ago I maintained FoaF info at ontoworld.org, and elsewhere, now I just have a bunch of rel="me" links on my own web site.

Subpages on this wiki, how?

I want to show subpages of User:Skierpage on every wiki where this shows up as my user page, but I can't see how. {{List subpages}} and transcluding {{Special:PrefixIndex/User:Skierpage/} show my subpages on meta-wiki.

Maybe {{subpages}} -> all subpages of this page, or Special:PrefixIndex/User:Skierpage/, does the right thing, though I have to click to see.

2000s: Semantic MediaWiki

I was interested in the project since w:Cyc hasn't turned into either Wintermute or Neuromancer from w:William Gibson. I want to believe in the glorious dream of adding semantics to Wikipedia.

Back in 2007 I installed Cygwin, the XAMPPLite bundle, eclipse, PHP/eclipse, MediaWiki, and SeMediaWiki (about 3M lines of code for free!!) and started hacking on simple SMW things like Special page improvements and additional datatypes.

I implemented additional datatypes in SMW 0.4 and 0.5, and custom unit handling thanks to Markus Krötzsch's excellent work and insights; contributed more type work to SMW 0.7 development; and documented SMW 1.0.

• more details about this code, with links to source
• I put my personal properties (and a bunch of tests) on my user page on Ontoworld SMW server.
• my old thoughts on type handling.

Related (old) résumé

I've written technical documentation, I've created Software Development Kits, and have been a Web site engineer (UNIX, perl, ColdFusion, Apache, etc.) for 7 years.

I built a corporate search system using Verity that used HTML meta tags for better filtering and summary presentation, and watched it founder because the metadata grows stale and unusable (users can't even get the <title> tag right, let alone a KEYWORDS value!), so Google's brute force page ranking appears to do a better job. Nevertheless, call me an optimist because I never metadata I didn't like.

I've developed "knowledge bases" in Lotus Notes, Perl, ColdFusion, and Kanisa. But strip away the big-dollar words like "taxonomy" and these were all just structured documents with searchable organization. I've integrated Web site search using Verity, Atomz, and Google.

I have a few projects and forks on Github, mostly using node.js