User:pgallert

My private editing activities concentrate on Southern African, primarily Namibian topics. Occasionally I stumble across inaccuracies in other subject areas which I then attempt to repair.

I teach computer networking at Namibia University of Science and Technology in Windhoek. In this role I have a few Wikipedia assignments because there currently is no second active Wikipedian at my institution. Among these "official" tasks are:

• When someone in Namibia requests a public lecture, training, or some general information on Wikipedia it will usually be me to deliver it.
• I am the inofficial campus ambassador of Namibia University of Science and Technology. I coordinated a mandatory Wikipedia assignment from 2010 to 2012. We had to stop it due to excessive copyright violations; the assignment is now voluntary.
• I give technical assistance to our translators into OshiNdonga, Juǀ'hoan, Otjiherero, and Khoekhoe.
• Whenever our research projects lead us to remote rural schools in Namibia I bring an offline Wikipedia with me.

Past and upcoming events: Schedule

• Main space contributions
• Did-you-know hooks
• My voting at RfA
• Awards
• Essays:
• On IAR
• On reliable sources,
• On plagiarism
• User space drafts that one day will become articles (feel free to help with them; it is a wiki, after all)
• User:Pgallert/Independence of Namibia
• User:Pgallert/Goreangab Water Reclamation Plant
• Email me

I infrequently contribute to [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pgallert Commons], [https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pgallert Wikivoyage], [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/Pgallert German Wikipedia], and the [https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pgallert Incubator], and I have some presence on [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pgallert Meta] in form of a [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Indigenous_Knowledge research project] and the preparation of [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/02/wikipedia-education-program-namibia/ several] [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/11/namibia-education-update/ blog] [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/12/tapping-into-the-knowledge-of-indigenous-communities/ posts].

I have created a new account for teaching how to create new accounts, and I might do so again if the look-and-feel of new accounts differs too much from that of established ones. I do not intend to edit much from these:

• Pg new1 (talk) 18:46, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
• Pg new2 (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2014 (UTC) for a small video project on getting started with Wikipedia
• Pg new3 (talk) 05:08, 17 October 2016 (UTC) in preparation of an editathon at our university
• Pg new4 (talk) 18:46, 14 August 2020 (UTC) for a video editathon during COVID-19 lockdown

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I was born in {{flagicon|GDR}}, witnessed (and helped) its reunification into {{flagicon|Germany}}, and then emigrated for {{flagicon|Namibia}}

All ripped out of their context, and some emphases or links added. In chronological order.

• "The theory that I find most credible as an explanation of the decline of the community since 2007 is the end of the 'SoFixIt' culture and its replacement by the templating culture which [...] has lead to hundreds of thousands of articles disfigured by garish templates calling attention to problems that somebody hopes someone else will understand and fix." --- WereSpielChequers, [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/rcom-l/2011-November/000469.html Nov 2011].
• "The First Law of Holes remains good advice even if you think it is unfair that you are in the hole or you are unsure why you are there [...] if an arbitration case is opened with your username as the casename, you may be in some sort of a hole." --- Newyorkbrad, Aug 2016

Category:Wikipedian logicians

Category:Wikipedians in Namibia