User:The Shadow Knows

The Shadow Knows This user is a Wikipedian in Canada. This user is of Québécois ancestry. This user's time zone is GMT-5. Wikipédia Je contribue sur la Wikipédia francophone. I support French language Wikipedia with my contributions. Content contributed by this user is released into the public domain. This user is a member of Wikipedians against censorship. This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues. This user prefers the metric system. prog-3 This user is an advanced programmer. BASIC-4 This user is an expert BASIC programmer. C-2 This user is an intermediate C programmer. c++-2 This user is an intermediate C++ programmer. Java-4 This user is an expert Java programmer. PHP-4 This user is an expert PHP programmer. vb-4 This user is an expert Visual Basic programmer. as This user knows ActionScript. HTML-4 This user is an expert HTML user. js-4 This user is an expert JavaScript programmer. SQL-3 This user is an advanced SQL programmer. XML This user can write XML. xhtml-4 This user is an expert XHTML user. This user is interested in his family history. This user is interested in politics. This user enjoys rock music. This user's Internet service provider is Vidéotron. User:J/Telus This user contributes using a PC. This user contributes with a computer manufactured by Dell. n This user uses a nVidia {{{1}}} graphics card in his PC. intel Core This user contributes with a computer based on the Intel Core 2 Duo microprocessor. This user contributes using Windows Vista Ultimate. MS Office This person uses Microsoft Office. Ps This user uses Photoshop CS3. This user BOINCs. This user contributes using Firefox. This user uses Google as a primary search engine. This user is crunching numbers using BOINC.

About myself

• I'm born in Saint-Anselme, Quebec (Canada).
• I'm a computer scientist and I work as a senior analyst-developer and senior system administrator.
• My main interests are technology, science and politics.
• I contribute to Wikipedia since October 20^th 2005.

My contribution

My own articles

Most of my articles are located on the French version of Wikipedia. You can have an exhautive list in my French user page.

My translations

I've done translations from English to French (see this).

My big alterations

See my French user page

My categories

See my French user page

My templates

In the French Wikipedia, I'm known as a great template maker. I wrote some very complex templates, with powerful features. Some of these are altered translations from the English Wikipedia. And some of those enhanced versions were used back in the English wiki ;-).

See my French user page for details.

My workplace

My "wiki-projects"

• Creating articles about my neighbourhood ;
• Inciting other members to do the same ;
• Recruiting new contributors for Wikipedia ;
• Ameliorating the quality of the encyclopedia :
  • Correcting mistakes ;
  • Correcting inappropriated layouts ;
  • Using internal Wikipedia resources when available ;
    • Using the Wikipedia syntax ;
    • Using the existing templates ;
  • Updating outdated info ;
  • ...

For me, mistakes are like spamming. If I see one, be sure I'll correct it !