Ilustration credit: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
Hey! My name's Matt Flaschen. My original username was Superm401. I'm from Lower Merion, Pennsylvania. I'm 36. I graduated from Georgia Tech in December 2010, with a BS in Computer Science. I'm currently living in Philadelphia.
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Ideas
edit- Frank Hecker - Mozilla Foundation executive director.[1] Helped convinced Netscape to open source their code. In Revolution OS.[2][3]. Disambiguate Frank J. Hecker.
- Umaru Fofana - BBC world reporter renowned in Sierra Leone.[4]
- Donald Trump v. Timothy L. O’Brien - Lawsuit in which Trump unsuccessfully alleged that his wealth was misreported causing reputational damage.
Convenience Links
edit- Watchlist
- Watchlist Anonymous Article Edits
- New Pages Patrol from back
- In-progress conversations
- Template:Opentask
- Image tagging notes
- Wikipedia error messages
- Custom Common (all skins) JavaScript
- Custom Common (all skins) CSS
- Custom Vector Javascript
- Custom Vector CSS
- Sandbox
- Sandbox2
- User:Mattflaschen/decimal to binary
Wikipedia Quotes
edit- "There wasn't a big encyclopedia, then people were allowed to edit it just for fun. There was nothing, and people were allowed to create an encyclopedia." -- Notinasnaid
- "At the end of the day we are all flawed meatbots trying to build a great encylopedia together." -- R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine)
- "I'm addicted to reading Wikipedia, it's the only encyclopedia that grows faster than you can read :D" -- Taraborn
Contributions
editI'm mostly a wikignome. Besides admin duties, I do verification and referencing, and update diagrams and illustrations to use SVG, an easily editable vector graphics format. Below are a few of my other contributions.
Creations
editArticles
edit- W.R. Grace Building (stub)
- John Lovewell (Junior) (stub)
- Damballa (company)
- Nissan Altra
- Qasem Soleimani (stub)
- Alan Joyce (executive) (stub)
- Somchai Wongsawat
- Cavanagh Company
- LaserMotive
- Air India Flight 812
- Meyer v. Grant
- Goldenberg restaurant attack
- Oracle v. Google
- Libor scandal (converted redirect to article)
- app.net
- Chalk Hill Middle School (stub)
- School resource officer (stub)
- Friedrich Beer (stub)
- History of Iraq (2011–present) (stub)
- Vladimir Kononov (military) (stub))
- 2015 bombing of Médecins Sans Frontières hospital
- USS Fitzgerald and MV ACX Crystal collision
Templates
editImprovements
edit- A Dream Play
- Golden angle
- Bruce Harris
- Arthur Gonzalez
- John Granville
- CloudStack
- Trump campaign–Russian meeting
Software
edit- I was one of the developers of ProveIt, a graphical tool for Wikipedia referencing. Georgia Tech paid me as a research assistant for some of the software development.
Awards
editThank you to everyone. I appreciate your kindness.
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For your due diligence in every endevour to which you attach your effort. We've never seen your activities directed towards anything but the betterment of this project. Our compliments to your energy and mannerism. You seem to make friends far more easily than others would wish for themseves . --Heidi and Joe
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I award this The Original Barnstar to Superm401 for his amazing work on Wikipedia:Mirrors and Forks. -- WB 23:48, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
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For adopting a user I User:Swirlex give you this adopting Barnstar.
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For exemplary performance at the Resource Exchange, tirelessly delivering the reliable sources on which this encyclopedia depends, please accept this award. :) Given for your assistance in providing sources to complete the Lincoln Park (Jersey City, New Jersey) article. -- Jim Miller
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Thank you for adopting me. Here is a cookie to thank you. Legolover26 (talk) 21:14, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
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For adopting many users I hereby give you this barnstar. Congradulations. Legolover26 (talk) 16:24, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
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Awarded for your work to improve the performance and cleanliness of the MediaWiki codebase, particularly through cleaning up messes like jQuery UI loading by default. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 18:39, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
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You are hereby awarded the Barnstar of Awesome for your amazing work on The Wikipedia Adventure. You. Are. Awesome. Check out your name in the game credits here: WP:TWA/About. Thank you again :) --Ocaasi 15:40, 3 November 2013 (UTC)