User:Willsmith

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Skills 1st This user has a First class honours degree in Computer Science. MSc This user has a Master of Science degree in Finance. PhD This user is a doctoral student in Mathematical finance. Wikipedian since 2002

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I'm William Smith. I sometimes live in Malaysia, and sometimes in the UK.

My personal home page is at http://www.willsmith.org My professional blog page is at http://www.commoditymodels.com

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I was an early contributor to wikipedia (late 2002, only around 18 months after it started), so I started a fair number of pages. When I started, there were only about 30,000 articles in the English wikipedia. In fact, I worked with User:Brion Vibber, who was Wikipedia's only technical guy at the time, to set up the Malay wikipedia.

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Mainly for my own satisfaction, I list below some of my early contributions to Wikipedia-English:

Articles I started, and wrote a tiny bit:

• Fischer Black - stockmarket theory
• Myron S. Scholes - stockmarket theory
• short selling - stockmarket theory
• underlying instrument - stockmarket theory
• Alias|wavefront - graphics software
• Maxtor Corporation - computer hardware
• Ahmed H. Zewail - nobel winning Chemist, went to a presentation by him
• Pitcher plant - just 'cos I have a picture
• Carniverous plants - to link pitcher plant from!
• Masjid - another word for mosque

Articles I started, and wrote a reasonable amount of information:

• Kuala Lumpur International Airport - Malaysia information
• Mount Kinabalu - Malaysia information
• Technical analysis - stockmarket theory
• Fundamentals analysis - stockmarket theory
• Black-Scholes - stockmarket theory
• Risk free interest rate - stockmarket theory
• Maya (software) - graphics software
• Intrusion detection system - security software
• Shah Alam - Malaysia information
• Thaipusam festival - Malaysia information
• Batu Caves - Malaysia information.
• Petronas Twin Towers - Malaysia information.
• Tower block - British English for high rise.
• High-rise - everybody knows what it is, nobody defined it.
• Crore - Indian measurement.
• Lakh - Indian measurement.
• Mimos Berhad - my employer.
• Localization - what it is.
• Internationalization - what it is.
• G11n - abbreviation.
• I18n - abbreviation.
• L10n - abbreviation.
• Mark Rothko - famous artist.
• Kuala Lumpur Star Light Rail Transit - Malaysia info.
• Kuala Lumpur Putra Light Rail Transit - Malaysia info.
• Kuala Lumpur Monorail - Malaysia info.

Since then, I wrote a lot more...