User:Anachronist - Wikipedia
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Hi, I'm Axl Matulić, A.K.A. Anachronist. My old username User:Amatulic redirects here. My Wiktionary account Wiktionary:User:Anachronist offers an explanation of the username.
I am an administrator here on the English Wikipedia and a member of the Volunteer Response Team (VRT). I'm also a bureaucrat and administrator with the same username on the Minecraft Wiki.
Background
Professionally, I've had roles as scientist and engineer in the military field of stealth technology, entrepreneur leading a startup through acquisition, and more recently as a program manager for Silicon Valley tech companies. Now I'm retired, doing occasional freelance 3D design work.
I enjoy anime, role-playing games, educational topics, and especially travel. I'm first-generation American, my mother is German, my father is Croatian, my spouse is Singaporean. I have traveled all over Europe and Eastern Europe, also Canada and Mexico, as well as Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia (particularly Singapore as well as Malaysia and Thailand). I must say Croatia is one of the more beautiful countries I have ever seen, and Stockholm and Dubrovnik are the most beautiful cities I have visited. Unfortunately I have never set foot south of the equator (Singapore is the closest I've come), and hope to do that someday.
I enjoy good wine. Read my profile on the Wikipedia wine project.
Also, I maintain a mathematics-related blog, NABLU (Numerical Analysis Better Left Unsaid), which I update sporadically every few months, mostly for educational purposes and for my own amusement.
Projects
Last dozen or so contributions
- 15:2515:25, 27 February 2025 diff hist +1,924 Growth of religion current Tag: Undo
- 15:2115:21, 27 February 2025 diff hist −152 m Shaun the Sheep Tag: Rollback
- 21:0621:06, 26 February 2025 diff hist −429 Draft:Famous Birthdays Today current
- 21:0521:05, 26 February 2025 diff hist +698 Draft:Famous Birthdays Today
- 19:3219:32, 26 February 2025 diff hist +2 Draft:Famous Birthdays Today
- 19:3119:31, 26 February 2025 diff hist +426 Draft:Famous Birthdays Today
- 19:1519:15, 26 February 2025 diff hist −20 m Famous Birthdays Tag: Rollback
Articles I started
- Naugahide — my first-ever experimental edit that got merged into Naugahyde
- Sirrah (disambiguation)
- Plavac Mali
- Kastel (disambiguation)
- Advanced Enclosed Mast/Sensor
- Steviol glycoside
- Guy Montag Doe v. San Francisco Housing Authority
- Average directional movement index
- Wine list
- Glider (furniture)
- Wikipedia:Notability (wine topics)
- Crock (disambiguation)
- Enrober
- Funding bias
- Sayyid Baraka
- Up-island spider
- Faux Faulkner contest
- True strength index
- Too Tough to Care
- Wilhelm Busch (disambiguation)
- Red Deer Cave people
- Just This Once
- Bitmessage
- Lycopus lucidus
- Verrückt (disambiguation)
- Clarence N. Hickman
- The Train Is Coming
- Nobel Prize effect
- ATM: Er Rak Error
- Zona (streaming video software)
- Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/today
- Betwixt (disambiguation)
- Historical rankings of heads of government
- Surfactant leaching
- Stride (software)
- Gayla Industries
- Monotrophic diet
- Opulence (disambiguation)
- Manuel Pizarro (disambiguation)
- Solid (web decentralization project)
- Template:SealifePhotos
- Chickapig
- Tinkercad
- Paul Trappen
- Blue Aquarius
- Fair Warning (Connelly novel)
- Perineum sunning
- Ellen Baker (disambiguation)
- Assembly theory
- The Brothers O'Toole
- Gameknight999 (after writing all those before it, this was my first article submission via WP:AFC)
- Magnesium torch
- Balls to the wall (disambiguation)
- Sugar Shot to Space
- User:Anachronist/Reliable sources (university presses) (essay)
- Offler (disambiguation)
- Three sheets to the wind (disambiguation)
DYKs
Articles I wrote that appeared on the "Did you know" section of the Wikipedia home page:
Images I created
On Commons
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"Karma Sangria", a cultivar of cactus dahlia
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Two bees foraging on a dahlia "party" flower
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Inaccessible section of the Berkeley Pier
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Unusual fortune cookie message
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Surfactant leaching on a bathroom wall
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Purple and yellow flowering ice plants
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OK Kosher Certification with Dairy designation
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Icosahedron construction in OpenSCAD
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Half pyramid construction in OpenSCAD
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Salvia guaranitica or Blue Anise Sage
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Backward metachronal wave
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Tessellation using Texas-shaped tiles
On Wikipedia
- Non-free images
- File:CupNoodle.jpg used in Cup Noodles
- File:Glide floss brands.jpg used in Oral-B Glide
- File:Draken_front.jpg used in Draken International
- File:Shithole_countries_cnn.jpg used in seven dirty words
- File:Gayla_Industries_logo.png used in Gayla Industries
- File:Magnesium_torch_Cousteau.png used in magnesium torch
- Free images
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Jug wine refilling station
Third opinions
I enjoy offering third opinions in disputes between two editors who have reached an impasse. There's something satisfying about coming to an article I have no opinion about, studying the edit history and talk page discussion, and offering a neutral disinterested viewpoint in an attempt to resolve the dispute. I think the Wikipedia:Third opinion page is a great vehicle for dispute resolution, and more people should use it and participate. My third opinions:
- Washington Monthly mentioned me in an article about Wikipedia's efforts to provide reliable information on controversial events: Grace Gedye (4 February 2021). "When the Capitol Was Attacked, Wikipedia Went to Work". Washington Monthly.
- Journal of Documentation published an analysis of a talk page disagreement I had with another editor. This was brought to my attention at Talk:Gynostemma pentaphyllum#Meta: this Wikipedia page is the subject of an academic paper. I can't say I agree with their characterization, but there it is: Morris-O'Connor, D.A.; Strotmann, A; Zhao, D. (2023). "The colonization of Wikipedia: evidence from characteristic editing behaviors of warring camps". Journal of Documentation. 79 (3): 784-810. doi:10.1108/JD-04-2022-0090.