User:Leucosticte

Life sucks.™ It would be wonderful if the will to live could be defeated. But since it can't, there's nothing left for me to do but try to achieve the impossible.

Inclupedia
Inclupedia is my passion and my obsession; its creation is my mission in life. I carry around a pocket watch with the custom engraving "Inclupedia über alles". There have been times when I thought that Inclupedia was my only reason for living. I would almost say that I would sell my soul to the devil if it would cause Inclupedia to be implemented immediately; however, I have a low threshold of pain, especially when it comes to thermal burns, and eternity is a pretty long time to suffer for even something as cool as Inclupedia. Given the devil's non-existence, though, the question is somewhat academic.

My current main project is Extension:MirrorTools, which implements some of the crucial features for Inclupedia. I look at the code sometimes and think, There is so much left to be done and it's too much for one person. I think of what a PHP software developer told me, that it would take a whole team of developers to make Inclupedia a reality. Then I think back to what Julian Heicklen said: "You need two characteristics to change the world. (1) You must be stupid enough to think that you can do it. (2) You must be persistent and not give up."

Impossible or not, I'm going to try. If I leave behind an incomplete codebase that only does half of what I need it to, it'll be a monument to the attempt. No one will be able to say that there were zero people who tried to make Inclupedia happen. They will only be able to say that there was one person. I will pursue this goal as long as there is strength in me.

I've been pursuing the impossible all these years, so why stop now? Changing the world through the political system by running for office as a Libertarian or by breaking the law is theoretically impossible too. Given Sanger's Law, it's theoretically impossible to repeal Wikipedia's notability policy, or open up the ArbCom's proceedings to public scrutiny, or get rid of the policy that requires the banning of users who express dissident views off-wiki or disclose a stigmatized orientation. Almost everything worth doing seems impossible. Driven people do it anyway.

Commit name
My commit name is tisane.

Extensions to which I have contributed

 * Extension:BedellPenDragon
 * Extension:BlockBatch
 * Extension:Blurb
 * Extension:CategoryGallery
 * Extension:EmailAllChanges
 * Extension:EmailDeletedPages — In need of a write
 * Extension:ExtensionCheck
 * Extension:GoToShell
 * Extension:InterwikiIntegration — In need of a rewrite
 * Extension:InterwikiMap
 * Extension:MirrorTools — In need of a rewrite
 * Extension:MisesQuote
 * Extension:NamespaceReadRestrict
 * Extension:OneColumnAllPages
 * Extension:OneColumnAllUsers
 * Extension:PerPageLicense
 * Extension:PureWikiDeletion — In need of a rewrite
 * Extension:Recent Pages
 * Extension:ROT13
 * Extension:RPED — In need of a rewrite
 * Extension:SacredText
 * Extension:UndeleteBatch
 * Extension:ViewFiles

Pastebins

 * User:Leucosticte/Sandbox
 * User:Leucosticte/Junkyard
 * User:Leucosticte/Stuff to always import from Wikipedia

Screenshot

 * File:ProjectDefaultNamespace.png