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Hi, I don't have a lot to say about myself, really. I was born in 1978, I'm from Sokndal, a small municipality in the county of Rogaland in Norway. Oh, and I'm male. I think people sometimes think my nickname is some mutation of "Cherol" or something and get the wrong idea... The name is just something the random name generator at the Discworld MUD spit out a number of years back, no special meaning I just kinda like the "sound" of it.
Most of my contributions are in areas of science fiction, fantasy and things computer related, seeing as those are my main interests. I also find science and history interesting, but I'm more of a reader than a contributor in those areas.
By far the most of my edits are "janitorial" though, fixing broken links, sorting stubs and categories, the occasional wikifying of new articles, sorting and tagging images and things of that nature.
As of 22 March2006 my edit count is over 10700, of which over 4300 are in the article space (mostly minor edits), and over 2500 in Image: space. Add to that over 3800 deleted edits (mostly tagging images as {{no source}} or {{no license}} if they are missing required info and such). You can get a detailed count, or check your own here.
Ongoing projects
Lately I've been working mostly on cleaning out Category:Free use images, there is a staggering amount of images in that category that either lack the source or the license information required to justify this label. A fair number are also plainly mislabeled as they include license info that prohobit commercial use and things like that. I'm also ocationaly tagging a few dozen untagged images over at Wikipedia:Untagged images or deleting orphanded fair use images, or unsourced and unlicensed images that have been tagged for more than 7 days and such.
I've also started Wikipedia:Image copyright issues for dummies as I was getting weary of writing the same lengty messages over and over trying to explain the basics of copyright to uploaders (things like "free for personal use" != "public domain" and what not). Haven't spent too much time polishing it yet though.
Keep working on orphanding the flag images from Category:Redundant media that are still used around the place.
Weed out flags from Category:Images on Wikimedia Commons that are not identical to the commons version but simply redundant with it and orphand and deleted those too.
Copyright problems
Patrol Category:Free use images for images that lack source info, fail to explain why they are free use or images that are blatantly mistagged.
Get some more work done on Wikipedia:Image copyright issues for dummies. I'm thinking add a list of common mistakes and misunderstandings in some form (permission to use, non-commercial, educational, lack of copyright notice etc).
Take some pictures and flesh out the Sokndal article.
Pay some actual attention to this to.do list rather than getting distracted by all sorts of other stuff
Sort Category:Wikipedia requested photographs into more spesific subcats to make it easier for people to look for photo requests for spesific things that might interest them.