User:RobbieIanMorrison
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Robbie Morrison
- I live in Berlin, Germany. I am a New Zealand national. I have also lived in Melbourne and London as well as Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin
- My education comprises: BE (mechanical engineering), BA (industrial design), and MSc (energy management).
- My professional interests include: energy system modeling, computer programming, and free software development.
- I follow the German Energiewende energy system transformation and ecological economics more generally.
- Since 2017, I have advocated for open data in relation to information of public interest.
New articles
[edit]Technical — these normally take considerable effort to develop and maintain
- Energy modeling – the process of building computer models of energy systems (stats)
- Energy system – interpreting the energy sector in system terms (stats)
- Open energy system databases – database projects which collect, clean, and republish energy-related datasets (stats)
- Open energy system models – a review of energy system models that are also open source (stats)
- Power-to-X – used to describe a number of electricity conversion technologies (stats)
Policy-related
- EU Energy Efficiency Directive 2012 – a 2012 EU directive mandating national energy efficiency improvements (stats)
- German Climate Action Plan 2050 – a 2016 German government climate protection policy document (stats)
- German National Action Plan on Energy Efficiency – released under the European Union directive on energy efficiency (stats)
Organizations and projects
- Climate-Alliance Germany – a network of civil society organizations calling for climate protection (stats)
- HiGHS optimization solver – an open source optimization solver (stats)
- JuMP – a mathematical programming language for Julia (stats)
People
- Carl-A. Fechner – a German documentary maker (stats)
- Hartmut Bossel – a German systems scientist (stats)
Other
- My Extinction (2023 film) – documentary film by Josh Appignanesi on his journey to climate activism (stats)
Translations
- Starving for honesty climate hunger strike, Berlin, Germany – 2024 climate action in Berlin (even a short translation takes 15 hours)
Significant contributions
[edit]- Energiewende in Germany – the German energy system transition (additions) (stats)
- German Renewable Energy Sources Act – a series of German laws supporting renewable generation (rewrite) (stats)
- Open Energy Modelling Initiative – a grass roots collection of open energy modelers (development) (stats)
- Geniatech v. McHardy (2018) – section covering this particular open source copyright litigation
- Rothschild Patent Imaging v. GNOME Foundation (2019 – 2022) – section covering this particular open source patent litigation
- Scientist Rebellion — advocating civil disobedience over lack of climate action (general improvements)
Templates
[edit]- Template:Energy modeling – a custom navbox for energy modeling
Selected photographs
[edit]Many involve subjects relating to nature or places in Germany. And the image quality has improved over time through better equipment.
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Observation hut Alter Bessin, Hiddensee, Germany
54°34′27.4″N 13°8′40.5″E / 54.574278°N 13.144583°E -
WikiWoods planting from 7 November 2009 (6 years 11 months old) at NSG Biesenthaler Becken, Brandenburg, Germany
52°44′50.9″N 13°35′14.4″E / 52.747472°N 13.587333°E -
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Volunteers rake reedgrass at the Vogelschutzreservat Flughafensee (Flughafensee Bird Protection Reserve), Berlin, Germany
52°33′54.2″N 13°16′56.5″E / 52.565056°N 13.282361°E -
View towards lake, Gamla Ekuddens naturreservat, Lake Vänern, Sweden
58°43′19″N 13°48′02″E / 58.72189°N 13.80069°E -
Climate activist Luisa Neubauer speaking at the Fridays for Future global strike in Berlin in 2023 -
A Letzte Generation activist sits silent at the Massenblockade in Berlin in 2023, surrounded by police, after gluing her hand to the road -
Climate activist Tessel Hofstede from Extinction Rebellion (XR) Netherlands speaking at the Letzte Generation Massenblockade Berlin on 28 October 2023 -
Environmental engineer Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick (Wolli) during the 48th day of his hunger strike in Berlin to protest slow progress on climate protection. Taken 23 April 2024. -
Energy economist Claudia Kemfert speaking at a Fridays for Future rally in Berlin on 31 May 2024 -
Energy engineer and hunger striker Richard Cluse at a press conference on 3 June 2024 after 70 days with only limited juice -
Support march on 4 June 2024 for the Berlin hunger strikers -
Michael Winter in a skeleton suit lying outside the residence of the German chancellor to protest inaction on climate policy
Selected diagrams
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Diagram showing the principle attributes of an energy system model
Some thoughts on Wikipedia
[edit]- Article creation (AfC) process
I would like the AfC process to provide a preliminary assessment and then allow the creator to comment on that assessment. This is how academic peer review normally operates. The opportunity to comment should lead to better and fairer review decisions and would also provide the creator with more insight in the case of rejection.
I would like to see all new articles (with the exception of disaggregation and redirection pages) go through an AfC process.
- WikiCite
WikiCite is a proposal to build a bibliographic database in Wikidata to serve all Wikimedia projects. I think this project is hugely important and should be prioritized by the Wikimedia Foundation. Their recent activity is available here. Each bibliographic entry should have its own talk page to enable evaluation by the community.
The project seems to have materialized in 2021 using the Cite Q template.[1]
- Advice on uploading image files
The page contains some advice on uploading image files to illustrate Wikipedia articles.
- Correct me when I'm wrong
Please leave a note on my talk page if you feel that any of my edits are wrong, misguided, or contrary to accepted practice. I will endeavor to respond.
Wikipedia citation format (WCF) bibliographic database project
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I am currently (early-2017) exploring the idea of a python project to develop a modest Wikipedia citation format (WCF) native bibliographic database application. More precisely, the project will support a subset of the Citation Style 1 (CS1) template system. Preliminary discussions are taking place at the Wikipedia village pump/technical forum. Leave feedback on my talk page if you have any suggestions or comments.
It seems progress has been made using the cite Q template system, see Peel and Mabbett (2021).[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Mike Peel; Andy Mabbett (14 January 2021). "Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q". Diff. Wikidata Q104831003. Blog