User:Samboy

"Indignation acts like a drug, releasing massive amounts of endorphins into the system" - David Levinson

"Linux has grown like a penguin in a salmon hatchery in a fairly short amount of time" - Random Leigh

About me

My name is Sam Trenholme; I am a student of computational linguistics in California, USA, and will complete my degree in spring of 2005. I am a former Catholic convert who "officially" renounced Catholicism this spring (just before Easter; Palm Sunday is the last mass I have gone to); I still consider myself a Christian and hang out with protestent Christians. My interests can be seen based on the pages I have edited. My contributions are generally relatively minor, but are on a large number of different pages. If you want to email me, you can find my email on My web page

I am a member of the green party and voted for Kerry this fall; I have good friends who have voted for both Kerry and for Bush.

Task List

Right now, I'm working with User_talk:Deeahbz on reorganizing the free software category. It appears that Deeahbz was a little confused about the existance of proprietary software for Linux; he simply took any Linux application and removed the "Free software" category from it if it was listed as some kind of Linux program. Unfortunatly, this makes it difficult to detemine if a given program is proprietary while available for Linux, such as WordPerfect, Applix Word, and Heroes of Might and Magic III. That in mind,I have created a Free Linux software category and am putting most of the Linux programs he knocked off of the "Free Software" category in to this category. I have, so far, eyeballed all his changes from 02:54, 11 Mar 2005 (Gedit) to 01:01, 12 Mar 2005 (Durpal).

Pages about Chile in English and Spanish

There are a number of pages which cover the same sub-topic of Chile (a city in Chile, an area in Chile, a time in Chile's history, or a famous Chilean) in both the English and Spanish Wikipedias. Interestingly enuogh, the English-language coverage of Chile is generally more extensive than the Spanish-language coverage.

However, there are some Spanish-language pages on Chile without English equivalents:

• Quillota, a city in Chile.

• Some other cities without English translations: La Serena, Quillota, and Talagante

• Chiloe "Big Island"

• Mateo de Toro is a conquistador who we don't have an English entry for (but he is a red link on this long list of "red links").

• Balmeaceda is a former president of Chile.

Pages I have translated myself:

• 1891 Chilean Revolution is now translated as Chilean Civil War

Pages that Trilobite has translated:

• "Roto" (literally "Broken"), which appears to be a nasty Chilean slang term for a poor city-dweller

• "31 minutes", a Chilean TV program

• Antofagasta, a city in Chile.

• Rancagua, another city in Chile.

• Arica, yet another city in Chile.

I may put the untranslated pages on the requests for translation page, or try to translate them myself.

List of stubs about Chile

Universidad Arturo Prat Universidad Austral de Chile Universidad Católica de Temuco Universidad_Católica_de_Valparaíso Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción Universidad Católica del Maule Universidad Católica del Norte Universidad de Antofagasta Universidad_de_Atacama Universidad_de_Concepción Universidad de La Serena Universidad_de_La_Frontera Universidad_de_Los_Lagos Universidad de Magallanes Universidad_de_Playa_Ancha_de_Ciencias_de_la_Educación Universidad de Talca Universidad_de_Talca Universidad_de_Tarapacá Universidad de Valparaíso Universidad_del_Bío-Bío Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana Universidad Diego Portales Universidad Gabriela Mistral

List of red links about Chile

Template:Valparaiso has a few red links.

Santiago lists some red links:

Municipalities: Cerrillos Cerro Navia Conchalí El Bosque Estación Central Huechuraba Independencia La Cisterna La Florida La Granja La Pintana Lo Prado Macul Ñuñoa Pedro Aguirre Cerda Peñalolén Providencia Pudahuel Quinta Normal Recoleta Renca San Joaquín San Miguel San Ramón

Universities: Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano Universidad Alberto Hurtado Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins Universidad Bolivariana Universidad Católica Raúl Silva Henríquez Universidad Central de Chile Universidad de Artes y Ciencias Sociales (ARCIS) Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación (UNIACC) Universidad de Ciencias de la Informática Universidad de Las Américas Universidad del Desarrollo Universidad del Pacífico Universidad Europea de Negocios Universidad Finis Terrae Universidad Iberoamericana de Ciencias y Tecnología Universidad Internacional SEK Universidad La República Universidad Mariano Egaña Universidad Mayor Universidad Miguel de Cervantes Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello Universidad Santo Tomás Universidad Tecnológica Vicente Pérez Rosales

A table to display chess positions

There is a problem with there being a number of different styles of chess boards in the various entries for chess; I like the solution by Arvindn of using graphics for each square, arranged in a table. The downside of this solution: It's slow to load the board over a dialup.

See User:Samboy/Chess and User:Samboy/Chess_med for example diagrams.

Chess Variants

Chess Variants is something which has held my interest since I learned the rules of Chess. In light of this, I have authored the page on Tori shogi, and expanded the entry for Capablanca Chess.

There is, naturally, a limit to what Chess Variants should be listed here; in particular, I don't think a Chess variant should be listed here just because it has a page on chessvariants.com. A Chess variant, to be listed here, needs to be a recognized Chess Variant on chessvariants.com or a variant that is well-known.

Offensive content

This is a rather controversial subject. See User:Samboy/Offensive.