User:Herzbube
Current status
I am usually "working" for ISFDB in bursts of a few days or weeks, then go MIA for a couple of months or half a year. While I am "on it", there is no fixed day of the week when I will be present.
If necessary I can be contacted by email. See below for details.
My interest in ISFDB
Being an avid SF reader, ISFDB of course is on my list of useful Internet resources, alongside other services such as IMDB or Wikipedia. Since I believe in community efforts, I have always felt a diffuse need for contributing something back to those projects that I take advantage of. Unfortunately, most of the time those projects have already passed the stage where I believe my feeble efforts could make any difference. ISFDB on the other hand has opened up for public editing rather recently, so I think that my help could still be of some use.
My interest in SF
I have been reading SF&F, horror and mystery stories since my early teens, but in more recent times SF has become the main focus of my interest. I mostly read for entertainment, currently I prefer older stuff from the 1940-1970ies. I also try to get a vague overview over the history of SF, but I have no real scholarly interest in the field. Although English is not my first language (I am Swiss), I almost exclusively read my books in English - otherwise I would not be here, I guess :-)
Projects / Goals
- Enter my not-so-big books collection into the ISFDB [first pass DONE]
- Cleanup of Tolkien bibliography. See this sub-page.
- Learn python and study the code that runs ISFDB, together with its DB scheme.
- Generate a list of "books that I own", aka shamelessly exploit ISFDB for personal benefit. Maybe I even have to help working on this feature request - mon dieu, quel horreur! :-)
Mini projects
Stuff that I encounter during regular editorial work and that takes more time than usual to complete.
Mini projects - TODO
- Cleanup of Expanded Universe. Details are outlined on this sub-page.
Mini projects - Done
- Delete "Prologue" and "Epilogue" titles for The Fall of the Towers. Discussion of this can be found on the Community Portal.
- Regularize excerpt titles in "The Road to Science Fiction" volume 1 and volume 2. Discussion of this can be found on the Help Desk page.
Contact
I have a confirmed email address in my Wiki preferences, so you can simply send me an email.
Links
Home:
- List of verified books
- Notes about my activities on ISFDB
Feature requests that I am interested in (FR list last scanned on August 12 2014)
- Re-submit edits and Edit proposed submission (yes!)
- Pubs "owned by me" (yesyesyes!)
- Edit history of pubs/titles
- Change "titles" to "works" (see the Community Portal discussion leading to the FR)
- List PVs with most-recent on top
- Show transient PVs
- Auto-notify PVs of pub changes
- Regex search support
- External IDs
- Ghostwriter support