user:Mxn
{{#ifeq: {{SERVERNAME}} | en.wikipedia.org | |
Minh {{smallcaps|Nguyễn}} is a contributor to Wikipedia. You can view [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mxn his userpage there].'''
}}{{DISPLAYTITLE:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{lcfirst:{{PAGENAME}}}}}}
border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 0em 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%" align="right" width="248"
|+ {{smallcaps|Nguyễn}} Xuân Minh |
colspan="2" bgcolor="#dddddd" | |
---|
Residence |
Born
| March 1987 |
Gender
| Male |
colspan="2" bgcolor="#dddddd" | Wikipedia |
Joined
| class="plainlinks" | May 6, 2003 [{{fullurle:United States presidential line of succession|diff=896140&oldid=896113}}] |
Local pages created
| title="06:56, 14 September 2022 (UTC)" | 195 (3,914th) |
class="plainlinks" | Local edits
| title="06:56, 14 September 2022 (UTC)" | 36,800 (2,808st) |
Global edits
| title="06:56, 14 September 2022 (UTC)" | 328,094 |
Hi, I’m Minh {{smallcaps|Nguyễn}} ({{langx|en|Minh Nguyá»…n}}), a software developer in the San Francisco Bay Area and Stanford Computer Science alumnus{{cite web|url=https://cs.stanford.edu/directory/undergraduate-alumni|title=Undergraduate Alumni|publisher=Department of Computer Science, Stanford University}} originally from Loveland, Ohio, United States.
I volunteer as a bureaucrat at the Vietnamese Wikipedia and Vietnamese Wiktionary, as well as an administrator at the Vietnamese Wikibooks, and Vietnamese Wikisource – and formerly the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, Multilingual Wikisource, and Wikipedia 10 planning wiki. I’m also one of the people who keep the [http://www.wikipedia.org/ main Wikipedia portal] up-to-date. (If you know HTML, you can too!)
Outside of Wikipedia, I volunteer contributions to OpenStreetMap. I worked for Mapbox from 2015 to 2023 and have been affiliated with the OpenStreetMap Foundation since April 2025.
For those not using a Unicode-capable browser, you can call me Minh Nguyen. But I'm not related to that Minh Nguyen. Or this one. Or probably any other Minh Nguyen you come across.
{{Babel|en|vi-2|es-2|tlh-0|color=#f9f9f9|bordercolor=#aaa}}
Concentrations
Although I copyedit articles of all topics as I come across them, I typically write detailed, rigorously sourced prose on the following topics:
- Cincinnati geography, schools, media, and history
- Ohio culture, symbols, and roads
- Santa Clara Valley media, architecture, and businesses
- Vietnamese language and cuisine
If you’re writing articles about any of these topics and have questions, feel free to send them my way and I’ll do my best to help.
Contributions
My first contribution to Wikipedia was a minor, anonymous edit at United States presidential line of succession that was later shown to be incorrect.
Most of my contributions occur at the Vietnamese Wikipedia and Wiktionary, where I serve as a bureaucrat, kind of like a forum’s “super-administrator”, but less dictatorial. I made many of the first contributions to the Vietnamese Wikipedia in late 2003 and started the Vietnamese Wiktionary not long after. In high school, my marathon editing sessions would offer an effective form of procrastination, as well as an outlet to learn Vietnamese. These days, I’m no longer quite as active on these wikis but continue to play a supporting role.
Being an administrator at a Wikimedia wiki is tons of work, but it allows you to actively collaborate with countless people and visibly shape an important project. Participating in smaller projects, like the Vietnamese-language wikis, is like working for a startup: you work day and night, handling numerous poorly-defined roles, and recognize just about everyone you encounter. You make real, lasting decisions that aren’t so much influenced by written policies or guidelines as by common sense and intuition. On the other hand, if you tell your meatspace friends you’re working on the Vietnamese Wiktionary, you get a blank stare.
So working for the English Wikipedia is like working for a huge conglomerate whose logos appear on the sides of buses: even if you get a lot done, your contributions aren’t going to stand out too much. Nevertheless, you’re part of something big. I turned down an offer to run for administrator here in 2007. Most of my contributions here come in the form of typo corrections and interwiki links (see Wikipedia:WikiGnome). But I’ve also contributed some original content here, too. My first Good Article was "Flag of Ohio".
=[[/Articles|Articles]]=
{{/Articles}}
=[[/Files|Files]]=
{{/Files}}
=Licensing=
After much thought and consideration on the topic – about three seconds’ worth – I’ve decided to be generous with my pittance of contributions here, especially to free the Rambot articles:
{{MultiLicenseMinorPD}}
{{MultiLicenseWithCC-BySA-Any}}
With respect to the permission granted below, I specifically add Anthony DiPierro in addition to the Wikimedia Foundation for any contributions automatically generated and added by the rambot from the public domain census bureau statistics. The above exclusions still apply.
{{WikimediaTextLicensing}}
(I typically license my original work under the Attribution license anyhow.)
Tasks
File:Peace Barnstar Hires.png|The Barnstar of Diplomacy (awarded by Drmies in 2011)
File:Graphic Designer Barnstar Hires.png|The Graphic Designer's Barnstar (awarded by Veggies in 2020)
- Write some more articles:
- Metrobot [https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/arts/2014/09/10/nam-june-paik-metrobot-relocated-to-cincinnati-contemporary-arts-center/15350139/]
- Girls' Town of America [http://www.forgottenoh.com/News/gsarticle.html]
Notes and references
{{reflist}}
Subpages
{{Special:Prefixindex/User:Mxn/}}
External links
- [http://notes.1ec5.org/ Minh’s Notes], my personal weblog
{{Userpage}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:{{PAGENAME}}}}
Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Stanford University
Category:Wikipedian computer scientists
Category:Wikipedians in Silicon Valley
Category:Wikipedians from Cincinnati
Category:Wikipedians who understand ParserFunctions
Category:Wikipedians who use Mozilla Firefox
Category:Wikipedians who contribute to OpenStreetMap
Category:Wikipedians who contribute to the Vietnamese Wikipedia
Category:Wikipedians who contribute to the English Wiktionary
Category:Wikipedians who contribute to Wikimedia Commons
Category:WikiProject Ohio participants
Category:WikiProject U.S. Roads participants