User:Erik Zachte
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| Erik Zachte at Wikipedia Meeting in Utrecht / Photo: Muijz |
About me
I am Dutch, 49 years old and live in Amsterdam.
Interests: science, history, movies, modern art, gaming.
I studied biochemistry and history each for several years, visited art school (Rietveld Academy) for two years.
I work as software engineer at KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) for 23 years now.
See also my Wikipedia web site (http://eza.gemm.nl/).
Perl scripts
Wikipedia on the handheld
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April 2003 I wrote a lengthy Perl script that converts the Wikipedia to TomeRaider format.
TomeRaider files can be browsed on Palm, Pocket PC and EPOC handhelds and on Windows.
From July till November 2004 I upgraded the scripts to the completely revised TomeRaider 3 release. This project is still in beta phase, pending some crucial TomeRaider modifications and bug fixes.
See also
- Wikipedia:TomeRaider database.
- My site, section TomeRaider (http://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia) for more screenshots and detailed info.
Statistics for all Wikipedias
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July 2003 I started to work on Perl script to produce extensive statistics for all Wikipedias (http://www.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm). These statistics are now available at the Wikipedia server in 15 languages. They are refreshed weekly, after a new SQL dump (= backup) of the databases has been produced, which serves as input.
EasyTimeline
This script makes it possible to define a graphical timeline using a reasonably intuitive script syntax. EasyTimeline has been incorporated into WikiMedia 1.3 in June 2004 (but can also be used offline). See meta:EasyTimeline for examples and syntax description. More on EasyTimeline (http://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia/EasyTimeline/Introduction.htm).
For an overview of all charts (images and code) generated with EasyTimeline on all wikipedias see Timelines Index (http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TimelinesIndex.htm) (index updated weekly as part of the stats job)
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HTML validation
I recently started working on a script that scans a Wikipedia dump file, validates all HTML and CSS attributes and produces a list of errors. Output will be published on Project Wiki Syntax page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Syntax). To be added later: validation of wiki and html table structures.
Examples
Boxer_MRAV
<td colspan=2 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 bgcolor=#ffdead>
Comparison_of_World_War_I_tanks
<tr align=middle> (21x)
hint: align=middle -> align=center
IRAS:
<th bgcolor=#skyblue colspan=2> (2x)
hint: invalid characters in color #skyblue, use 0-9A-F
hint: invalid #skyblue length, use 6 characters in range 0-9A-F
