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This is a Wikipedia user page.
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| You can see all my contributions (chronologically) here, and you can see them analyzed here. |
Wikipedia editors: You may find this list of wikitext reminders I've made useful. Wikipedia does have a more comprehensive guide, but I find this short list handier. If you'd like to use my "this is a user page" and "this is a user talk page" banners on your own pages, instructions and the templates are here.
Hello! I started here in September 2005, with this cricket edit. The kilikiti page came next, and by then I was dreaming in wikipedia entries (I don't recommend it). The dreams have stopped, but I still spend far too much time here. I also occasionally edit Wikitravel (see my userpage there) and Wikinews (see my userpage there).
Click to see: How I approach Wikipedia -- How I approach editing -- Languages I speak
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How I approach Wikipedia
There are plenty of on-line communities; this is an encyclopedia. Take a look at the groups you could be a part of, ignore them, start reading and start editing.
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How I approach editing
I'm in favor of informative edit summaries.
I split multi-part edits into multiple edits: it makes change easier to follow, and makes it easier for others to address specific changes.
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Wikipedia Recommendations and Activities
WP is particularly well suited for...
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- trying to memorize the system of English units (though I don't think I'll take on the volume systems)
- learning traditional games of abstract strategy from around the world (while I'm by no means a serious player, there have been periods when I've seen everything around me in terms of Go) -- see also the full list of pages in the "Abstract Strategy Games" category; the traditional board games subcategory contains (with the exception of Kubb, which is traditional but not a board game):
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Highly recommended articles
Things learned here that have stuck
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- (more recent)
- The sadly boring story of how AC/DC got their name
- Dada
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- (older)
Areas of relatively significant contributions (past and future, chronologically)
As of 28 February 2012, I have made over 1500 edits on Wikipedia.
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To-Do list
- If you like you can look at my more complete To do list (really just so I don't forget)
With Wikipedia, Learn What I Know
Book-, art-, hobby-, and music-fun
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- Authors I recommend: Brautigan, Helprin, Joyce, and Eco;
- Artists I recommend: Schiele, Pollock, Gorky, Escher;
- Music I enjoy: The Glove, Gillian Anderson, Talking Heads, Sigur Rós, múm, Do Make Say Think, G.U.R.U., Devon Sproule, Danny Schmidt, Charlie Parker, The Strokes, fiddle music of many sorts, The Cure, Joy Division, The Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Velvet Underground, The Nields, Four Tet, Autechre, Railroad Earth, Turkish religious music (topic 3.3),...
- I'm a contra dancer, and a fiddler with an interest in New England fiddling, Québécois fiddling, Cape Breton fiddling, and Irish fiddling (rougher old Donegal styles in particular -- more the old dance styles than, say, the nearly-as-old Teelin style).
- I'm currently reading Stuart Kauffman's Investigations, a greatly simplified version of the premise of which is that life is an emergent property of collectively autocatalytic, organized groups of autonomous, working individuals, that this can be used as a tool for approaching astrobiology, and that economics works in the same way, making these principles fundamental to a broad range of systems. (Note: I haven't touched Investigations since September 2006. Still, it's pretty cool.)
External Links
Buying books online
- This is what I've found by testing all of the booksellers listed in WP's list of book sources:
- AddAll, a price-comparison site, finds the best prices. They have the best results display: they list the results by the total price, but also give you the book cost / shipping cost break-down, tell you the shipping speed, and let you save books to a "memo list" of books you're interested in.
- ISBNdb usually comes up with the same or worse prices than AddAll. But it has three great features no one else has: "Price History" shows you how the average price, or the price at specific book sellers, has changed over time; "Books on the same shelf" lists books with nearby Dewey decimal classification entries; "Similar books" seems to list books related by keywords.
