User:Damian Yerrick

Damian Yerrick (b. October 1, 1980) is originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is currently studying computer science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (whose IPv4 address block is 137.112/16; his desktop computer sits at 137.112.129.xxx).

In addition to Wikipedia, he also contributes to Everything2, bouncing ideas back and forth between the two projects. (Because E2 has been moving in even more of a subjective direction, he has considered quitting E2.) If you want to see some of his E2 work (http://everything2.com/?node=yerricde) de-biased and integrated into Wikipedia, Talk to him, making sure to mention the specific writeup.

Some of his more substantial contributions to Wikipedia

he

• managed to describe Everything2 neutrally
• added much information on Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and its impact on the public domain from his E2 writeup (http://everything2.com/?node_id=738769)
• wrote about the copyright-like protection on semiconductor mask works
• made a faux pas which led to the geographical classification in Wikipedians (this may not be relevant under php-wikipedia)
• started a list of major Muslim languages
• fixed trademark usage in spam, Java programming language, and Unix and some articles that linked to those articles
• wrote initial denormalization
• gave a basic explanation of ClearType
• explained the Cyclic redundancy check, including pseudocode
• added PackBits, including a C implementation
• created efficient images for Sierpinski carpet and Sierpinski triangle plus code to generate those images
• implemented Arithmetic-geometric mean in Scheme
• explained three methods of parallax scrolling and two methods of audio time stretching
• added detail to Tetris, tetromino, Apple II family, Game Boy Advance, other video game console articles, telecommunication and data compression articles, Cygwin, and more
• described several video games such as Dr. Mario, Zoop, and Spellevator
• explained the Tengwar writing system
• overhauled countable
• converted Common phrases in different languages into a list of lists (rather than an unwieldy table) and added the translations of the key phrases into Toki Pona
• added various tidbits to several other entries while revising them to add more active voice; see E-Prime
• and contributed too many other minor fixes to list here.

Possible future contributions:

• NES programming[?]