Hello there, I'm Jesse Victors! I'm a white hat and computer scientist with a special interest in network security and privacy-enhancing systems like Tor. You can find more about me on my website, jessevictors.com. I also support and contribute to open-source software. I believe that Wikipedia is succeeding and I continue to support it.
Although I am less active on Wikipedia than I used to be, I continue to make edits here and there. The Folding@home article remains my crowning achievement on this site. It became my editing focus in August 2011 and it was the primary reason why I became very active on Wikipedia. When I started, the article was in this unhelpful state. Following eight months of research and 540 edits, it achieved Good Article status on April 7, 2012. Since then, it passed through a peer review and it's FA nomination succeeded and it finally became a Featured Article!. It's a complex article consisting of multiple facets that had to be intertwined, but I'm very pleased at how it turned out. I would like to thank Emw and Crisco 1492 for their comments, Dmitrij for his professional review of the GA nom, and many others on foldingforum.org and scientists at Stanford University for their support and advice. I'm encouraged by comments like this and this, and I know that the author of this publication was assisted by the Folding@home article, which is awesome. Folding@home appeared on the Main Page on November 1st, 2012. There was even a blog post about it :)
I've also made substantial improvement and cleanup changes to List of distributed computing projects (before). I created List of Folding@home cores. I have Advisor.js, Checklinks, CitationBot, and AWB at my editing disposal, and a number of scripts installed. They are extremely useful for serious editors. I've also taken to using AWB for auto-tagging and auto-untagging articles, thereby assisting editors while seriously reducing backlogs. My page about my editing history is here, and you can see how many semi-automated edits I've made by clicking here.
Good to eat while editing.
Please seek consensus before making any more edits. Semi-protect the Constitution! :)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For amazing work on the Folding@home article. It is a hard job to write an article that would cover both the medical and software aspects of such a topic and adhere to Wikipedia standards, and I'm quite impressed with the result of your efforts. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 10:19, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thank you for the amazing amount of edits and improvements you are making to the WikiProject Computational Biology pages! Alexbateman (talk) 12:03, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
For your very fine work on evaluating Yogo sapphire for GA status, I hereby award you this Barnstar of Diligence! Nice work!! Dreadstar☥ 01:22, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Polishing
Thank you for polishing the article of a precious gem, demanding top quality, and for supporting its author, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:04, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Congratulations, Jesse V., you recently made your 1,000th edit to articles on English Wikipedia!
Thanks for helping clean up and improve so many articles, and for all your contributions to the encyclopedia. P.S., your talk page message banner totally trolled me :-P Maryana (WMF) (talk) 21:43, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Wow! Thanks! And I got the banner from User:Brightgalrs, so you can thank her for that. I also placed it on User:Montanabw's page. Got ya! :D User:Jesse V. (talk) 21:45, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Helping some kid using the internet on the other side of the world Barnstar
You're awesome! I would have never gotten user boxes without your help! Thanks a lot! Rabidretardedolphinz (talk) 09:27, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
This user believes that one should never stop feeding one's brain.
Proof that lolz can be found on Wikipedia. So much win! :)
OK, that's enough of the off-topic comments - you're all busted. Admittedly, though, it was a sterling performance by all concerned, by sheer weight o' jokes if nothing else. We get the point: judged by these incredibly witty puns, you're all stupendously funny people and each of you deserves a special place in hell comedy series of your own. But the time you spend here pouring petrel onto the situation is just robbing time that you could be spending elsewhere, making a real difference... BencherliteTalk 14:45, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
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I'm glad all that larking around has ended and that the discussion has ceased to be. 78.144.205.123 (talk) 19:40, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Some of it was indeed pretty cuckoo . . . Awien (talk) 23:29, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
No need to crow about it any longer. dci | TALK 03:15, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
No, but we do need to remain eagle-eyed to watch out for any signs of it starting up again. 2.97.31.6 (talk) 03:28, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Guess everything went tits up. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:29, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Careful, people - retribution may be swift. Awien (talk) 03:31, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
The quality of the puns is definitely taking a tern for the worse; we shall all look like boobies if this awkward situation continues. AlexTiefling (talk) 07:27, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Sheesh, some people can always find something to grouse about. Awien (talk) 10:43, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Indeed. Mind you, everything can be seen as a cock-up. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:45, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
(reset) Is this conversation quackers? 80.254.147.68 (talk) 11:14, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
No, but we are all quacks. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:16, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Just don't call us bird brained. That is sure to ruffle people's feathers. --Allen3talk 12:43, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Not yet. I've been too chicken. Maybe I should pluck up courage. AlexTiefling (talk) 14:21, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Tweeting might cause people to flock here. 78.144.201.136 (talk) 14:32, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
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One stone. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:34, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
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The above was what the 'Wikipedia humour pages' were meant to be about. 80.254.147.68 (talk) 17:49, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Don't worry. Just like the swallows of Capistrano, discussions of Main page bias (some even dealing with birds) will return. --Allen3talk 22:32, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
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After all this, there came another bird on main page today? §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 06:22, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
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