About me

Background

My background includes

• a degree in electronic engineering
• a general interest in many areas of science
• an occasional interest in mathematics
• a number of years working primarily on document design, editing and typesetting
• many years of amateur orchestral playing
• a strong interest in language; I often regret not studying linguistics.

On Wikipedia

On Wikipedia I typically copy-edit articles on technical subjects which have attracted my interest. This lets me combine learning about the subject with improving the article.

Norwegian, Danish and Swedish

Occasionally I make small edits to Norwegian Wikipedia (Bokmål version),^[1] but only when I'm very sure of my ground linguistically or when language doesn't arise (e.g. inside LaTeX equations).

I read Wikipedia in English, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.

My user pages on the other Wikipedias are:

• på norsk Wikipedia, finn meg her
• på dansk Wikipedia, find meg her
• på svenska Wikipedia, hitta mig här.

Opinions

I hate cryptic (and non-cryptic) abbreviations in edit summaries: I think the summaries should be readable by anyone viewing a page history for the first time, not just those who know the code and are used to editing Wikipedia. Also, very brief summaries like ce get buried visually among the other details, making it significantly harder to see at a glance what's been done.