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User:Acid0057

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(Born: September 21 , 1982, in Port Perry, Ontario)

Hey Fellow Users!

I've used Wikipedia for a lot of years so now I thought it was time to step it up a notch and start editing! I've made my first edits on this day, December 24, 2006. Yeah I know Christmas Eve!! Anyway I enjoy perusing the pages and fixing up whats needed. Currently I live in Hanover, Ontario and work for a company called Wightman Telecom.

The current day and time is 08:12, Wednesday, October 2, 2024 (UTC).

Tip of the moment...
Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex)
Searching with regex online

To search Wikipedia live with regular expressions, use the insource: parameter, followed by your regex search string enclosed in forward slashes, like this: /regular expression/. Here is an example:

insource:/(Abraham|Abe) Lincoln/

insource searches the wikitext version of articles, and so, wikiformatting codes can be included in the search string. If any characters you wish to find are used as special characters within regex, they will need to be "escaped" by preceding each with a backslash. For a cheat sheet on writing regexes, see Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression.

For case insensitive searches, include an "i" after the closing forward slash.

Searching with regex offline

To search all of Wikipedia offline using regex, you need to download the Wikipedia database and do the search offline with AutoWikiBrowser's Database Scanner. Activate it from the tools menu in AutoWikiBrowser (AWB). It returns the names of the pages that match your query, which you can have sent directly to AWB's list maker (then you can use AWB to view them all). The Database Scanner has many features, and each query can be easily configured to match, exclude, specify namespaces, ignore redirects, etc. as you see fit.

Other methods of searching Wikipedia with regular expressions
  • To search Wikipedia titles with regex, use Grep.
  • To search within the current page use the edit window:
    • If source editing, use the "Search and replace" dialog by clicking the magnifying glass icon at the far right of the "Advanced" toolbar.
    • If visual editing, type Ctrl-F to get the search box, then click the "(.*)" icon for regular expressions.
    • Regular expressions are also supported by the WikEd text editor gadget.
  • AutoWikiBrowser can do regex search/replaces, on a list of articles that you provide it.
Read more:
The insource: parameter
Regular expression (regex)  
AutoWikiBrowser (AWB)  
WikEd help  
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Pages that I participate/contribute often

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Article Article
* Owen Sound * Bayshore Community Centre
* Owen Sound Attack * Port Perry

Wikipedia Friends

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Notable caracteristics

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This user comes from Ontario.
Public domainThis user is Canadian, eh?
This user lives in Owen Sound.
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
27This user is 27 years old.
♂This user is male.
This user is married.
This user is a Virgo.
This user is left-handed.
This user does not smoke.
This user is interested in politics.
This user strongly opposes Dubya and Daddy Bush.
This user is interested in maps.
COLThis user is a fan of the
Colorado Avalanche
OSThis user is a fan of the Owen Sound Attack
This user enjoys ice skating.
This user enjoys skiing.
This user is a better skier or snowboarder than you are.
This user plays baseball.
This user plays basketball.
This user loves to bowl, but would love to get more strikes.
This user plays ice hockey.
This user plays eight-ball.
This user plays nine-ball.
bas This user can program in BASIC.
This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP.
WLM This user uses Windows Live Messenger and their username is acid0057@hotmail.com.
This user uses MSN Hotmail as a primary email service.
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This user loves using Google Earth.
AXP This user uses an AMD Athlon XP processor.
This user built his own computer.
BBThis user contributes using a broadband connection.
GoogleThis user uses Google as a primary search engine.
This user contributes using Adobe Photoshop.
This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference.
This user contributes to the
Internet Movie Database.
This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.
This user plays Hearts.
This user plays Euchre.
This user is addicted to Texas Hold 'em and is going all in with pocket aces.


AYBThis user knows that
"all your base are belong to us."
This user is a fan of
first-person shooters.
cvg-4This user is an expert gamer.
This user enjoys computer and video game music outside gaming.
game
dev
This user is interested in video game development.
+This user enjoys playing retro games.
This user uses Steam for digital distribution.
This user loves video game easter eggs, and is a master at finding them.Like this, for example!
This user prefers to play games on a PC.
This user enjoys PlayStation 2 games.
This user still enjoys the
Nintendo 64.
This user still enjoys playing
games on the NES.
This user still enjoys playing the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
This user owns a Game Boy.
This user plays Pac-Man.

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This user plays various breakout-style games
MAMEThis user enjoys playing MAME.
This user loves the Final Fantasy series.
TR This user loves the Tomb Raider series.
Medium This user plays Guitar Hero on medium.
This user is thinking with Portals!
L4DThis user was Left 4 Dead.
FordThis user drives a Ford.
This user drives a Ford Focus.
WWAA This user is addicted to Word association.