Shanes (born 1968) is a male Norwegian wikipedian living in Oslo. 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Male is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces sperm. ... County Oslo NO-03 Landscape Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ...

Short Bio

He grew up in Northern Norway but after a 1 year military service in the Norwegian army, he went to Trondheim and studied Theoretical Physics. He finished his Master's degree in 1993, writing his main thesis in Germany on some quantum mechanical effects in solid-state physics. Later, he spent time learning computer related stuff and working for various Internet companies. Shanes has an Erdös number of 4. In norwegian: Nord-Norge meaning Northern Norway. ... Military service is service in the armed forces of a nation or the military arm of a political organization. ... A nations army is its military, or more specifically, all of its land forces. ... County Sør-Trøndelag Landscape Municipality NO-1601 Administrative centre Trondheim Mayor (2005) Rita Ottervik (A) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 258 342 km² 322 km² 0. ... Theoretical physics attempts to understand the world by making a model of reality, used for rationalizing, explaining, predicting physical phenomena through a physical theory. There are three types of theories in physics; mainstream theories, proposed theories and fringe theories. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ... Fig. ... Solid-state physics, the largest branch of condensed matter physics, is the study of rigid matter, or solids. ... The tower of a personal computer (specifically a Power Mac G5). ... The Erdős number of a mathematician is defined inductively as follows: Paul Erdős has an Erdős number of zero. ...

Wikipedia activities

Shanes discovered Wikipedia in 2002 but was for a long time just a casual reader, sometimes doing small edits. It all changed in November 2004 when he signed up an account and started doing more frequent contributions. He is writing and doing fixes on every thinkable subject. And besides that and writing about himself in third person on his userpage, Shanes also spends much time watching the Recent changes page, reverting the many new users test edits, deleting spam, and fighting vandalism. He is one of the many wikipedia administrators, which means he can more easily screw up things, but also that he is more than happy to help new users with any problems or questions. Wikipedia is a Web-based, free-content encyclopedia that is written collaboratively by volunteers. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Upcoming Meetups: Boston, Sun. ...

Likes and Dislikes

Likes

Shanes likes most things. Some of them are (in random order)

• Quizzes
• Beer
• Learning
• Relaxing
• Openness
• Prime numbers
• Women
• Football
• Cooking

Wiktionary has a definition of: Quiz A quiz is a form of game or puzzle in which the players (as individuals or in teams), attempt to answer questions correctly. ... Larger quantities of beer foam than shown atop this glass caused a stir in 1990s England when people received less than a pint (568 ml) of beer for the price of a pint. ... Learned redirects here. ... There is also an album by Blur called Leisure. ... Openness is related to Open Source and is a philosophy that is being used as the basis of how various groups and organizations operate. ... In mathematics, a prime number, or prime for short, is a natural number greater than one and whose only distinct positive divisors are one and itself. ... Image of a woman on the Pioneer plaque sent to outer space. ... The striker (wearing red jersey) has run past the defender (in white jersey) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to stop the ball. ... Cooking is the act of preparing food for consumption. ...

Dislikes

Shanes dislikes a few things. Some of them are

• Pompous Fools
• Rudeness
• Having to wake up early
• Fundamentalism of every kind

About wikipedia

Things I believe most Wikipedians could be better at:

Always use the Edit summary field

The edit summary field is everybody's friend. Use it. Always. It makes it so much easier to browse page histories when summaries are written to each edit. Please.

Be nicer to newcomers

I wish everyone could be as nice as they can, and try being even nicer. There is never a reason to be rude. Even to vandals and pompous fools. It's called not sinking to their level and I strongly believe that even the worst vandal can be turned into a good wikipedian if we go forth as good examples and don't resolve to name-calling and hate. On my RC-patrolling I see (by far) mostly nice treatment of newcomers, but there are exceptions. It's sad to see some talk-messages left to newcomers who (most likely) accidentally blanked a page or just tested a "Hello mom" edit. They are probably already quite confused over the whole wiki-concept and how this edit-stuff works. And when they then get a flame-message, I can't imagine that they think of wikipedia as a nice place to be. Assume good faith!

Be more aware of Copyright infringements

As wikipedia grows to one of Internet's top sites in use and fame it also turns into a very valuable website in terms of money. And where there is value, there is incentive for someone to try and grab some of it. And one way of grabbing it is by throwing lawyers at us and claim that wikipedia is stealing their work and by that enriching us on their behalf. It is not that far fetched that wikipedia one day will receive a cease and desist letter from someone claiming that we are publishing their work and that even if we delete it we aren't able to stop it from recurring since everyone can edit. But I am (thank God) not a lawyer, so I might worry for no reason. But I believe we need to be careful, and I personally think that the fine wikipedians doing copyvio-hunting are doing one of the most important tasks on the whole wikipedia. I hope, one day, I'll do my share at that, too. If only it wasn't so damed boring...

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -- Bertrand Russell