User:Bwoodcock
| — Wikipedian — | |
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| Name | Bill Woodcock |
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| Born | |
| Pronouns | he/his |
| Country |  France |
| Languages | English |
| Time zone | CET |
| Education and employment | |
| Occupation | Secretary General, Packet Clearing House |
| High school | Berkeley High School |
| University | |
| Contact info | |
| Website | PCH Profile --> |
woody pch.net | |
| XMPP | woodypch.net |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/bwoodcock/ | |
| Mastodon | pleroma |
I help run several non-profits in the Internet infrastructure space, and tinker with electric vehicles. I've lived in Berkeley, Miles City, Hong Kong, and currently in Paris. Hoping to move to Kerherniou next.
With respect to Wikipedia, my interest is mostly in keeping Internet infrastructure, economics, and protocol articles, like those related to anycast, Internet exchange points, Internet traffic cost accounting, and aspects of the domain name system camel, accurate. I also try to help out with copyediting and article reviews, and occasionally employ my black-hat Adobe Illustrator skills to create SVGs of diagrams and illustrations for articles where they're needed.
A few of the articles I've written:
In addition to Wikipedia, I also answer questions on Quora, where I moderate the Electric Vehicle Performance and Internet Economics spaces, and mostly answer questions about design and culture:
- Will the Cybertruck design translate to future Tesla vehicles?
- Why aren't cities pretty anymore?
- What was the Internet like in 1994?
- In what decade of the last hundred years was San Francisco a good place to live relative to other places in the same era?
- Which automotive marques stand the test of time aesthetically?
...how the Internet works, technically and economically:
- Why do some countries have faster Internet speeds than others?
- How many DNS root servers are there, and where are they located?
- What's it like to work on infrastructure for five years at the same company?
- How does Cloudflare make money with their 1.1.1.1 DNS?
- How can I permanently own a domain name?
- Can you bypass your ISP to increase Internet speed?
- What are throughput, bandwidth, latency, response time and completion time?
- Is there truth to the fear of 5G networks?
- How much storage can the largest datacenter contain?
- How much of a role did pornography play in building the Internet?
- What does Internet access cost the companies that provide it?
- Economic analysis of Ethos purchase of .ORG and not-for-profit alternatives
- What is the source of Internet bandwidth?
- Can a cyber-attack affect our everyday life?
- When were the first transatlantic Internet and phone cables laid?
- What is an Internet Service Provider?
- How does the Internet get faster?
- How was the Internet invented?
- Why would someone want to regulate the Internet?
...and vehicles (mostly electric) and how they work:
- Are there any hybrid pickup trucks? (Caution if you're looking for current information, this was an answer from c. 2018)
- How does the cooling system on an electric car work?
- How do electric vehicles charge their 12V battery?
- What's the difference between a supercharger and a turbocharger?
- Why don't electric vehicles have solar panels on their roofs?
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