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Hello, I am a big xkcd fan.
 
Hello, I am a big xkcd fan.
  
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On every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, when the next comic is published, my bot [[User: DgbrtBOT|dgbrtBOT]] tries to create all the necessary pages here.
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====My introduction as xkcd fan====
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My random list of favourite Comics by Randall:
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[[Combination Vision Test]],
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[[Up_Goer_Five]]
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and of course that tiny rover never coming home:
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[[Spirit]]
  
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Since the major server updates in May 2018 I'm an Administrator here. As an IT professional I really know how this stuff works.
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====I'm not native English====
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...and I do not like "typos". So many THANKS for helping on this issue or even more important: Wrong grammar <-I don't like this errors I didn't see.
  
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After a few tests and always reading some useless error messages I've debugged the source code of the Math extension. In general it's simple but the error messages didn't help - especially when searching them at Google. But a brief understanding how this software works brought me to this solution:
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As a German native speaker I had to learn something like "Oxford English" in school, and I did hate it. My knowledge about the (American, British, more...) English language mostly belong to later experiences. International contacts, science (especially physics), programming (Randall does not know how funny IBM does translate to German, "Copy from To" is in German just "Copy Until"), AND the main language at the internet of course is English.
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:<math>P_{MathDoesWork} = 100%</math> or this one <math>\sum_{n=0}^N</math> (''N'' is the number of what???)
 
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The mathematical formula is rendered to a PNG picture. There are more possibilities, this is just the simplest way and compatible to the vast majority of all browsers.
 
  
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Also I was even bad on the German language sessions at school. But that's just an other story.
  
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====My introduction as xkcd fan====
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I'm happy about corrections on my typos and grammar, but on essential content I will discuss.
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My random list of favourite Comics by Randall: [[Combination Vision Test]], [[Up Goer Five]] and of course that tiny rover [[Spirit]] never coming home.
 
  
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====I'm ''not'' a native English speaker====
 
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...and I don't like "typos". So much THANKS for helping on this issue or even more importantly: Wrong grammar <-I don't like these errors I don't see.
 
  
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As a German native speaker I had to learn something like "Oxford English" in school, and I hated it. My knowledge about the (American, British, more...) English language mostly belongs to later experiences. International contacts, science (especially physics), programming (Randall does not know how funny IBM's translations for German are - "Copy from to" becomes "Copy until") in German, '''''AND''''' the main language on the Internet is, of course, English.
 
  
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Also I was even bad at the German language sessions in school. But that's just another story.
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Hello! I have noticed that "In this comic" is a pet peeve to you. As a gift, I have removed it from almost all of the 60 explanations that it started, but there remain some more places where it could be removed.
  
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I'm happy about corrections to my typos and grammar, but on essential content I will discuss.
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If you need a general copy-editor for grammar, punctuation, or usage, let me know. I consider myself adequate at it, being a decently educated native American English speaker. (I am not a professional editor, though, so stuff can always be made better.)
  
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Thanks to [[User: Spongebog|Spongebob]] for some smaller edits on this page. I'm still learning English...<br />
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Also, as you definitely have noticed, I can get belligerent over some things, particularly whether a page deserves its "Incomplete" status. I expect some more sparring matches in the coming future. I do hope to work with you on cutting the number of such pages down. <br />
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Thanks to [[User: Spongebog|Spongebob]] again for fixing a really damn typo...
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Anyway, thanks for the intro to the wiki! --[[User:Quicksilver|Quicksilver]] ([[User talk:Quicksilver|talk]]) 21:31, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

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