User:Augnablik

                Wiki editor level: Novice  / Confirmed Extended

Hello, Wiki world.

I'm a transplanted American on the other side of the globe.

How I got my "Wiki handle" ... around the same time I came on board with Wikipedia, I'd been looking at Iceland Air's website a lot to get some flight information, and I found it so cute what the airline kept flashing on the screen in the few seconds between my making a request for flight information and when it would arrive: "Augnablik: that means just a second in Icelandic, literally 'blink of an eye.'" That's my only connection to Iceland, if you can call it that!

I've done a lot of proofreading and editing over my life, though I identify more as an educator, instructional designer, and writer. But I'm one of those picky people who react to egregiously awful grammar, punctuation, and spelling — as well as lack of clarity and coherence — the same way as if I heard nails screeching down a chalkboard.

I have to laugh at my title of being a "confirmed extended" novice editor, as I'm definitely over-extended on many days. Which is why long gaps have sometimes gone by between my posting of messages or edits.

Tip of the day...

Making the editbox more visually pleasing

Do you know the CC BY-SA/GFDL License inside-out, and have thousands of edits to your credit? Are all those copyright disclaimer warnings starting to bug you? Add this to your (pick one): vector.css (default), monobook.css, modern.css, minerva.css Skin (or add it to your common.css to hit all your skins):

/* Remove to-me-useless notes in all edit boxes. leaves only the command buttons and special chars. */ #editpage-copywarn { display: none; } #editpage-copywarn1 { display: none; } #editpage-copywarn2 { display: none; } #editpage-copywarn3 { display: none; } div.editpage-head-copywarn { display: none; }

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