User:Dwheeler

My name is David A. Wheeler, and I specialize in computer security and developing large software systems. I've also written a number of articles on open source software / free software (OSS/FS). My personal website is at http://www.dwheeler.com (http://www.dwheeler.com).

If you want to chat with me, please email me, dwheeler-NOSPAM at dwheeler.com (eliminate the "-NOSPAM"). I do not accept SPAM. You're welcome to add to my talk page instead, but I don't scan it that often.

I have many other interests besides the Wikipedia. My main interest in the Wikipedia is trying to contribute ideas to help the Wikipedia project overall, rather than contributing specific articles. Simply put, I want the Wikipedia project to succeed, and since I don't have time to contribute lots of articles, I'm trying to contribute as I can. I've contributed a general html2wikipedia tool, and posted several ideas to the Wikipedia-l list that I hope are useful. I've also modified various "policy" documents and Wikipedia user documents, in the hope that by doing so I'll influence many articles (not just ones I've written).

html2wikipedia

Among other things, I've developed a tool that translates HTML files into Wikipedia's Wiki format. You can get the tool at http://www.dwheeler.com/html2wikipedia (GPL license).

Wikipedia Article Contributions

Most of my article contributions to the Wikipedia are small incremental improvements. However, I have contributed several articles whole cloth or as a major rewrite:

Computing: Scale-free network, Unix philosophy, Worse is better, Software patent, Law of Demeter

History: George Mason, Virginia Declaration of Rights

Chess: Fischer Random Chess, Chess opening, Descriptive chess notation, Portable Game Notation, Forsyth-Edwards Notation

Cards: Playing card, Ninety-nine, Most wanted Iraqi playing cards

Miscellaneous: John 3 16, Pictures at an Exhibition, Four fours, Mesklin, Sebastian Shaw (supervillain)