User:Slashme#Parliament diagram tool
I am David Richfield, a German chemical engineer / biochemist born in South Africa. I'm also a founder member and former director of [http://www.wikimedia.org.za Wikimedia South Africa], the South African Wikimedia Chapter. I also created the [https://parliamentdiagram.toolforge.org/parlitest.php parliament diagram tool], which is widely used to create diagrams for political articles on Wikipedia.
My username comes from IRC: "/me" is a shortcut which inserts your username.
I enjoy learning languages, graphic design, 3D modeling with Blender, cartography on OpenStreetMap, computer programming, playing Go and promoting free software. In 2016, I started juggling.
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Activity
=Parliament diagram tool=
File:House of Lords 2015 elections.svg|Schematic diagram of the House of Lords, showing government, opposition, cross-bench and speaker
File:Tokyo_Metropolitan_Assembly_2017_edited.svg|Arch version
File:Germany Bundestag 2017.svg|Another arch
You can make diagrams using [https://parliamentdiagram.toolforge.org/parlitest.php this online tool]!
I started work a while back on a tool to render svg diagrams for legislatures - I started out with a tool that spits out a rectangular diagram with a title and a legend. In May 2010, I saw some very nice arch-shaped diagrams drawn with User:Habbit's ADSvote program requested for conversion to SVG on WP:GL/I. Instead of doing manual SVG conversion, I programmed a similar algorithm, which I now host on Wikimedia's Toolserver (link above). The source code is [https://github.com/slashme/parliamentdiagram hosted at GitHub] - Bug reports, feature requests and patches are welcome!
The arch tool is quite popular for election results on Wikipedia, but the Westminster-style tool is still under development: a standard style has not yet been clarified, so if you use it, expect criticism and/or correction. If the output is not as you expect, consider editing with Inkscape and saving the result as a "plain SVG".
You can also upload the diagrams directly from the tool. You can see the most recent uploads [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?tagfilter=OAuth+CID%3A+538&limit=1000&days=30&title=Special:RecentChanges&urlversion=2 here].
There have been significant contributions to the tool by Ambady Anand S, Ranjith Siji, and [https://github.com/Rade-Mathis Rade-Mathis].
=Pages I started=
Don't start what you can't finish.
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- 25th South African Parliament
- 3Beta Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase
- 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry
- Akida
- Amasunzu
- Anthrone
- Anxiogenic
- Aptera fusca
- A Retrieved Reformation
- Aspalathin
- Bardi family
- bath salts
- Brookfield Engineering
- Cape wolf snake
- Capsule (pharmacy)
- Carr index
- Cassia gum
- Chronostasis
- Clastogen
- Claude Serre
- Colloid mill
- Combretum caffrum
- Compagnia dei Bardi
- Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment
- Diatrizoic acid
- Diethyl sulfoxide
- DNA end resection
- Doypack
- Dry basis
- Duberria lutrix
- Dülfersitz
- Ed Nather
- Elysia chlorotica
- Elysia viridis
- Endovenous laser therapy
- Enzyme-modified cheese
- Ernst Schulze (chemist)
- Escritoire
- Far-Eastern blotting
- Feingold Diet
- Fibrobacter succinogenes
- Franklin Sonn
- Fuscospora fusca
- Galinsoga
- Garri
- Goldman's dilemma
- Grand Central Water Tower Midrand
- Greek Orthodox Church, Joubert Park
- Grindometer
- Hausner ratio
- High performance thin layer chromatography
- Hydrophilic-lipophilic balance
- Hydroxycitric acid
- Ian Fleming (chemist)
- Iron Hand (song)
- Isibongo
- Jean-Louis Jeanmaire
- J Willard Hershey
- JN Reddy (South African politician)
- Katja Schumacher
- Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst
- Kominkan
- Konrad Ross
- Latinisation
- Lattice light-sheet microscopy
- List of Latinised names
- List of steroid abbreviations
- List of unofficial observances by date
- Lycasin
- Lycophidion
- Lycophidion
- Magnesium citrate (3:2)
- Merkenstein ruins
- Michael Baigent
- Mike Wilks (author)
- Münchhausen number
- National Postcard Week
- Norweto
- Nothofagin
- Packed bed
- Pain wind-up
- Palm stearin
- Panagia Episkopi
- Particle density
- Pastel Accounting
- Patch point
- Peter Cathcart Wason
- Pickering emulsion
- Pill (pharmacy)
- Plug flow reactor model
- Polyglutamic acid
- Potassium phosphate
- Promin
- Prostho Plus
- Ptychopetalum
- Reducing equivalent
- Residence time distribution
- Riaan Cruywagen
- Robert H. Perry
- Robert Pauli Scherer
- Salatrim
- Sally Cato
- Shazam Entertainment
- Sixto Rodriguez
- Slip melting point
- Solidarity (South African political party)
- Solomon Linda
- Split nut
- Star (1982 film)
- Steve Newman (musician)
- Structured packing
- Tai tai
- Temnopteryx
- Temnopteryx (cockroach)
- Template:Enzyme inhibition
- Theaflavin
- Thearubigin
- The Last of the Light Brigade
- The Ultimate Alphabet
- Thiamine pyrophosphokinase
- Trehalulose
- Trilostane
- Vasitis nodosa
- Vital Health Foods
- Vue des Alpes
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=Translations=
=Some pictures and animations I've contributed=
Here are some selected files. For a more complete list, with many more pictures, see my Commons uploads (or if you have javascript enabled, you can see them in [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:MyGallery&withJS=MediaWiki:JSONListUploads.js&gUser=Slashme a gallery view])
Boleit 5.jpg|A small sample of boleite photographed at the Museum Reich der Kristalle in Munich.
File:Steroidogenesis.png| The main steroidogenic pathways. I made the first version of the svg from scratch; expanded, coloured and successfully shepherded through the featured pictures process by User:Mikael_Häggström.
File:ScrewCompressorCompression.webm|The compression action of a Rotary-screw compressor
File:Promin Molecular Structure Spacefill.png|3D structure of promin - was used as the illustration on WP:DYK
File:External thread pull collet action.gif|A W-type external-thread collet being pulled into its spindle seat with a drawbar, clamping and then releasing a shaft.
File:CDC Echinococcus Life Cycle.svg|Life cycle of Echinococcus
File:WMF under a tack.jpg|Lots of thumbtacks, just for fun!
File:Old tablet press.jpg| An old Cadmach tablet press
File:FlattenedRoundPills.jpg| Round, biconvex white tablets
File:Tabletfailure.jpg| Tablet failure modes
File:PycnometerEmpty.jpg| An empty pycnometer
File:Pycnometer full.jpg| A full pycnometer
File:Simple distillation apparatus.svg|Laboratory distillation set-up
File:RedAndWhiteCandy.jpg|Red and white deposited hard candy
File:RootsBlower3LobeAnimation.svg|Animated SVG: the rotors of a three-lobe Roots blower meshing and rotating.
File:Chlorophyll a.svg|Chlorophyll a
File:Kissingsnails.jpg| Two snails investigate each other before mating
File:SlugeaterHead.jpg|A specimen of Duberria lutrix
File:GreenEggs.jpg|Green insect eggs found on a curtain
File:SundewSwartbos.jpg|A sundew in Jonkershoek, Stellenbosch
File:CockroachSwartbos.jpg|A cockroach in Jonkershoek, Stellenbosch
File:Hyperolius marmoratus white.jpg|The Painted Tree Frog
File:Paropioxys jucundus dorsal.jpg|Parapioxys jucundus
File:P450cycle.svg|The P450 catalytic cycle - thanks to User:Rob Scarrow for the correction!
File:Stress v strain A36 2.svg|Stress vs Strain graph: re-drawn with actual stress line added
File:Stanley Bridge in Alexandria.jpg|Stanley Bridge in Alexandria by night during Ramadan 2009
File:RiaanProudlySA.jpg| A graffito of Riaan Cruywagen
File:MFGco.svg|An SVG icon for manufacturing company stubs
File:Baseball Template.svg|Baseball stub template pic, built from parts
Tools
=Camera=
I bought a Canon PowerShot A630 in April 2007, and have since started contributing photos to Wikipedia. In 2008, due to an insurance payout after a stupid accident involving seawater, it was upgraded to an A650IS, quite a nice camera, and it runs [http://chdk.wikia.com chdk] quite nicely, thanks! That camera was eventually stolen in 2013, and I have replaced it with an SX270HS, which has the new Digic 6 processor. There is [http://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php?topic=11550 a development CHDK version] for this model, but I have not tested it yet: it is still alpha software as of November 2014. I've also since bought a Canon EOS 600D. It's a very nice camera! I have had good success with macro photography using extension tubes with the stock lens, but I later also bought a combination macro/telephoto lens.
External links
=Go, Baduk, Weiqi=
- [http://goclubdb.herokuapp.com/ List of go clubs on the web]
- [http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/go-clubs_76310 International map of go clubs]
- [http://www.sagoclubs.co.za The South African Go Clubs website]
- [http://wiki.sagoclubs.co.za The South African Go Clubs wiki]
- [http://www.xenu.net/ The truth about Scientology]