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'''Fundamental Question''' How should knowledge be conveyed to others? Should complex topics be simplified? What is the purpose of an encyclopedia? Should someone who has no mathematical skills be able to come to a math article (algebra for instance) and come away knowing how to ''do'' algebra? Or should Wikipedia editors take a hands-off approach by filling articles purely with information, data, and knowledge? Are there any existing Wikipedia policies and practices that may be used as clues to answer these questions? These questions have been tugging away at me for some time now. Maybe they can be answered, maybe not.

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Hi! My name is Matt (b. September 12, 1980). I live in central [[North Carolina]] in a sort of small town. It is as boring as one anyway. I am a transfer student trying to decide on a final field of study. I think I may have the list narrowed down to include music, sociology, or art. I am here so that I may improve my poor grammar in order to pass my English classes and to find something to which I can devote some of my time. For fun, I rework [[Engrish]] articles to see if I can make some sense of them! My first ever contribution was on July 24, 2004 and the page was [[Veno Pilon]]. Actually, my first ever true contributions were vandalisms! I have since been reformed and now I understand the importance of this project!! I spend a lot of time just hitting random and making minor edits to grammar, punctuation, and formatting. I have not yet settled on one particular niche in Wikipedia. This thing is so vast I could not possibly understand it even with the time I have been here. Some activities that I have dipped my feet into in the past are: Disambiguation, VfD, Grammar patrol, and Vandalism patrol.

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Check this out! This is awesome! [[Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups]] This tool will display a fast loading popup presenting various editing shortcuts when you hover over a page link! Eliminates the need to load that page! Includes as a summary the first few sentences of the article! Can work in other wikis too as long as you add it to your .js file at those wikis.
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At times I imagine that the [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] web browser was created for editing Wikipedia! First there is the password wand. All you have to do when you come to a sign-in page is click the wand button and instantly you're signed-in! When Opera does have to close unexpectedly (if you have windows, ahem) it remembers all of your last tabs that you had open! Wikipedia editors all know that multiple tabs are a must. You can save 'Notes' which are accessible through the right click menu! So, if you have a handful of common summaries, templates, or tags that you add several times a day they are right there at your fingertips. Opera is awesome! Plus, Opera is the originator of tabs and other such features that are in other popular web browsers. Opera comes built in with tabs and mouse gestures. Also, it is smaller even with the built in features than [[Firefox]] is when it is 'empty'.

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==Favorite links==
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums]]
*[[Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards|Forum for Encyclopedic Standards]]
*[[Meta:Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians|Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians]]
*[[Wikipedia:Department of Fun|Department of Fun]]
*[[Meta:Wikipedia sociology|Wikipedia Sociology]] A sociological evaluation of Wikipedia, sort of!!
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia|Wikidemia]] Academic research of Wikipedia behind the scenes.
*'''[[User:Jaberwocky6669/Laboratory|My laboratory]] | [[User:Jaberwocky6669/Laboratory/Article Forge|Article Forge]] | [[User:Jaberwocky6669/Ruminations|Ruminations]]''' I reserve these pages for testing my ideas before I implement them in the Wikipedia. Feel free to check them out.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=User:Jaberwocky6669 Different Watchlist] Recent Changes to all pages linked from User:Jaberwocky6669
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=68.18.182.58 68.18.182.58] My IP from back when I was a minor vandal.
*[[User:JCarriker/Wikipediology|Wikipediology]] -- The Institute of Wikipediology is dedicated to conducting a serious study of the dynamics and problems of the Wikipedia community and providing resources about the Wikipedia community that currently do not exist.
*[[:Category:Wikipedia essays|Wikipedia essays]] Popular essays concerning Wikipedia. I have a list of essays that often are not read by many people in my [[User:Jaberwocky6669/Ruminations|Ruminations]] page.
*[[Wikipedia:Sandbox/Checkers|Checkers]]
*[[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|How to edit a page]]
*[[Wikipedia:Userboxes|Userboxes]]

==Articles of which to keep track==

*[[Körner’s Folly]]
*[[Nash-Hooper]]
*[[Maxwell Murderers]]
*[[Riverine forest]] Create article
*[[Hugo Pool]] Create article about awesome movie!
*[[:Category:Cemeteries in North Carolina|Cemeteries in North Carolina]] Add local <s>notable</s> (all cemetaries are notable!) cemetaries.
*[[Geography of North Carolina]] Expand...
*<s>[[Historic houses in North Carolina]]</s> Expand...
*[[List of North Carolina rivers]]
*[[Charvel]] Either send to VfD, rename, expand, or whatever
*[[Burlington Athletic Stadium]] - Take pictures since I live 15 - 20 minutes away!
*[[Soul city, North Carolina]] go here and take pictures

==Articles and such that I have contributed==

YAY! And I thought I would never find anything to contribute!

*[http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpsichord Harpsichord], [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plectrum Plectrum], and [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar Bass guitar] on the [http://simple.wikipedia.org Simple English Wikipedia].
*[[The Innocence Mission]] All time favorite band!!!
:[[The Innocence Mission:Glow|Glow]]
:[[Birds of My Neighborhood]]
:[[Christ Is My Hope]]
:[[Small Planes]]
:[[Befriended (album)|Befriended]]
:[[Now the Day is Over]]
*[[Thermochromism]] Cool inks & dyes that make color-changing clothing and other cool things possible.
*[[Pectus carinatum]]
*[[Wikibooks:Car Washing Techniques|Car Washing Techniques]] I have moved this over to Wikibooks and now it will flourish into the personable how-to guide that I had originally intended for this article.
*<s>[[Wikipedia:N degrees of separation]]</s> Connect two randomly generated pages with the shortest path! Now a redirect to a similiar, older game.
:<s>[[Template:NDegrees]]</s> Template for future use.
*<s>[[Wikipedia:Checkers]]</s> Play the American variant of this popular game! No longer with us on this mortal plane, sadly.
*[[:Category:Historic houses in North Carolina]] Created category per user request.
*[[User:Jaberwocky6669/Laboratory|RfA Ideology Analysis]] An ambitious project that seeks to analyze most of the adminships that were successful and those that were not successful. So far some very interesting and insightful conclusions have been drawn even at this early stage!

==Userboxes==

There are so many that I gave them their own heading! I borrowed elements of this table layout from [[User:Halflife28|Halflife28]]

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| style="width: 45px; height: 45px; background: #c0c0c0; text-align: center; font-size: 14pt;" | <u><b><font color=red>[[Monoglottism|u]]</font><font color=white>[[Monoglottism|s]]</font><font color=blue>[[Monoglottism|a]]</font></b></u>
| style="font-size:8pt;padding:4pt;line-height:1.25em;" | If this user has '''en-N''' followed by 30 non-language [[Wikipedia:Userboxes|userboxes]], then they are probably an '''[[United States|American]]'''.
| style="font-size:8pt;padding:4pt;line-height:1.25em;" | If this user has '''en-N''' followed by 30 non-language [[Wikipedia:Userboxes|userboxes]], then they are probably an '''[[United States|American]]'''.
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<tr><th>'''Interests'''</th></tr>
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<tr><td>{{user:UBX/ancient civilizations}}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{user:UBX/ancient civilizations}}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{user:UBX/Ancient Egypt}}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{user:UBX/Ancient Egypt}}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{user programming-1}}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{user programming-1}}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{User:UBX/straight}}</td></tr>
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<tr><th>'''Wikipedia'''</tr></th>
<tr><td>{{User:UBX/Support ubx}}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{User:UBX/Support ubx}}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{User:Feureau/UserBox/ubx-5}}</td></tr>
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<tr><td>{{User:Vishwin60/Userbox/vandalized|2}}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{User:ZeroOne/Userboxes/User browser:Opera}}</tr></td>
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'''Fundamental Question''' How should knowledge be conveyed to others? Should complex topics be simplified? What is the purpose of an encyclopedia? Should someone who has no mathematical skills be able to come to a math article (algebra for instance) and come away knowing how to ''do'' algebra? Or should Wikipedia editors take a hands-off approach by filling articles purely with information, data, and knowledge? Are there any existing Wikipedia policies and practices that may be used as clues to answer these questions? These questions have been tugging away at me for some time now. Maybe they can be answered, maybe not.
==Toolbox==

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Hi! My name is Matt (b. September 12, 1980). I live in central [[North Carolina]] in a sort of small town. It is as boring as one anyway. I am a transfer student trying to decide on a final field of study. I think I may have the list narrowed down to include music, sociology, or art. I am here so that I may improve my poor grammar in order to pass my English classes and to find something to which I can devote some of my time. For fun, I rework [[Engrish]] articles to see if I can make some sense of them! My first ever contribution was on July 24, 2004 and the page was [[Veno Pilon]]. Actually, my first ever true contributions were vandalisms! I have since been reformed and now I understand the importance of this project!! I spend a lot of time just hitting random and making minor edits to grammar, punctuation, and formatting. I have not yet settled on one particular niche in Wikipedia. This thing is so vast I could not possibly understand it even with the time I have been here. Some activities that I have dipped my feet into in the past are: Disambiguation, VfD, Grammar patrol, and Vandalism patrol.

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Check this out! This is awesome! [[Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups]] This tool will display a fast loading popup presenting various editing shortcuts when you hover over a page link! Eliminates the need to load that page! Includes as a summary the first few sentences of the article! Can work in other wikis too as long as you add it to your .js file at those wikis.
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At times I imagine that the [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] web browser was created for editing Wikipedia! First there is the password wand. All you have to do when you come to a sign-in page is click the wand button and instantly you're signed-in! When Opera does have to close unexpectedly (if you have windows, ahem) it remembers all of your last tabs that you had open! Wikipedia editors all know that multiple tabs are a must. You can save 'Notes' which are accessible through the right click menu! So, if you have a handful of common summaries, templates, or tags that you add several times a day they are right there at your fingertips. Opera is awesome! Plus, Opera is the originator of tabs and other such features that are in other popular web browsers. Opera comes built in with tabs and mouse gestures. Also, it is smaller even with the built in features than [[Firefox]] is when it is 'empty'.

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==Favorite links==
{{deletiontools}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums]]
*[[Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards|Forum for Encyclopedic Standards]]
*[[Meta:Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians|Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians]]
*[[Wikipedia:Department of Fun|Department of Fun]]
*[[Meta:Wikipedia sociology|Wikipedia Sociology]] A sociological evaluation of Wikipedia, sort of!!
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia|Wikidemia]] Academic research of Wikipedia behind the scenes.
*'''[[User:Jaberwocky6669/Laboratory|My laboratory]] | [[User:Jaberwocky6669/Laboratory/Article Forge|Article Forge]] | [[User:Jaberwocky6669/Ruminations|Ruminations]]''' I reserve these pages for testing my ideas before I implement them in the Wikipedia. Feel free to check them out.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=User:Jaberwocky6669 Different Watchlist] Recent Changes to all pages linked from User:Jaberwocky6669
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=68.18.182.58 68.18.182.58] My IP from back when I was a minor vandal.
*[[User:JCarriker/Wikipediology|Wikipediology]] -- The Institute of Wikipediology is dedicated to conducting a serious study of the dynamics and problems of the Wikipedia community and providing resources about the Wikipedia community that currently do not exist.
*[[:Category:Wikipedia essays|Wikipedia essays]] Popular essays concerning Wikipedia. I have a list of essays that often are not read by many people in my [[User:Jaberwocky6669/Ruminations|Ruminations]] page.
*[[Wikipedia:Sandbox/Checkers|Checkers]]
*[[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|How to edit a page]]
*[[Wikipedia:Userboxes|Userboxes]]

==Articles of which to keep track==

*[[Körner’s Folly]]
*[[Nash-Hooper]]
*[[Maxwell Murderers]]
*[[Riverine forest]] Create article
*[[Hugo Pool]] Create article about awesome movie!
*[[:Category:Cemeteries in North Carolina|Cemeteries in North Carolina]] Add local <s>notable</s> (all cemetaries are notable!) cemetaries.
*[[Geography of North Carolina]] Expand...
*<s>[[Historic houses in North Carolina]]</s> Expand...
*[[List of North Carolina rivers]]
*[[Charvel]] Either send to VfD, rename, expand, or whatever
*[[Burlington Athletic Stadium]] - Take pictures since I live 15 - 20 minutes away!
*[[Soul city, North Carolina]] go here and take pictures

==Articles and such that I have contributed==

YAY! And I thought I would never find anything to contribute!

*[http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpsichord Harpsichord], [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plectrum Plectrum], and [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar Bass guitar] on the [http://simple.wikipedia.org Simple English Wikipedia].
*[[The Innocence Mission]] All time favorite band!!!
:[[The Innocence Mission:Glow|Glow]]
:[[Birds of My Neighborhood]]
:[[Christ Is My Hope]]
:[[Small Planes]]
:[[Befriended (album)|Befriended]]
:[[Now the Day is Over]]
*[[Thermochromism]] Cool inks & dyes that make color-changing clothing and other cool things possible.
*[[Pectus carinatum]]
*[[Wikibooks:Car Washing Techniques|Car Washing Techniques]] I have moved this over to Wikibooks and now it will flourish into the personable how-to guide that I had originally intended for this article.
*<s>[[Wikipedia:N degrees of separation]]</s> Connect two randomly generated pages with the shortest path! Now a redirect to a similiar, older game.
:<s>[[Template:NDegrees]]</s> Template for future use.
*<s>[[Wikipedia:Checkers]]</s> Play the American variant of this popular game! No longer with us on this mortal plane, sadly.
*[[:Category:Historic houses in North Carolina]] Created category per user request.
*[[User:Jaberwocky6669/Laboratory|RfA Ideology Analysis]] An ambitious project that seeks to analyze most of the adminships that were successful and those that were not successful. So far some very interesting and insightful conclusions have been drawn even at this early stage!

Revision as of 19:17, 27 September 2007

Language
en-3This user can contribute with an advanced level of English.
usa If this user has en-N followed by 30 non-language userboxes, then they are probably an American.
Interests
This user is interested in
ancient civilizations.
This user is interested in
Ancient Egypt.
prog-1This user is a beginning programmer.
This user is straight.
Wikipedia
This user uses userboxes on their userpage, in fact, this is a userbox
ubx-5This user uses entirely too many userboxes.
This user believes that userboxes do not divide the Wikipedia community, but rather emphasise its diversity.
This user is not a Wikipedia administrator but would like to be one someday.
Wikipedia is not censored.
Public domainContent contributed by this user is released into the public domain.
evenThis editor is an eventualist.
inclThis user is an inclusionist.
Quality, not quantity.This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.
vn-2This user page has been vandalized twice.
This user contributes using Opera.
This user provides information using userboxes to contact other Wikipedians with similar interests.
Music
This user plays the bass guitar.
band-3This user likes The Innocence Mission.
band-3This user likes Sophia Travis.
This user enjoys classical music.
This user likes all types of music.
Humor & Misc.
MBTIThis user took different MBTI tests and discovered that they had multiple personalities, so they're a bit confused.
This user's time zone is GMT-5.
pornThis user enjoys pornography.
This user believes in the existence of Zoom Zoom.
This user has a sense of humour and shows it through the use of userboxes.
Grammar
theyThis user considers singular they standard English usage.
snukThis user says snuck.
byThis user does not use the passive voice.
with, at, in, for, to...This user has no opinion about ending a sentence with a preposition.
man-
kind		Regarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct.
whoThis user prefers using who for both the object and subject case. Who does it hurt to simplify things?
which & thatThis user knows how to use which and that correctly.
which
that		This user typically uses "which" and "that" interchangeably.
A, B, and CThis user prefers the serial comma.
its
it's		It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.
USThis user uses American English.
Y'allThis here user talks Southern, y'all.
AIM-0This user does not understand or have any interest in AOLer.

Fundamental Question How should knowledge be conveyed to others? Should complex topics be simplified? What is the purpose of an encyclopedia? Should someone who has no mathematical skills be able to come to a math article (algebra for instance) and come away knowing how to do algebra? Or should Wikipedia editors take a hands-off approach by filling articles purely with information, data, and knowledge? Are there any existing Wikipedia policies and practices that may be used as clues to answer these questions? These questions have been tugging away at me for some time now. Maybe they can be answered, maybe not.

Hi! My name is Matt (b. September 12, 1980). I live in central North Carolina in a sort of small town. It is as boring as one anyway. I am a transfer student trying to decide on a final field of study. I think I may have the list narrowed down to include music, sociology, or art. I am here so that I may improve my poor grammar in order to pass my English classes and to find something to which I can devote some of my time. For fun, I rework Engrish articles to see if I can make some sense of them! My first ever contribution was on July 24, 2004 and the page was Veno Pilon. Actually, my first ever true contributions were vandalisms! I have since been reformed and now I understand the importance of this project!! I spend a lot of time just hitting random and making minor edits to grammar, punctuation, and formatting. I have not yet settled on one particular niche in Wikipedia. This thing is so vast I could not possibly understand it even with the time I have been here. Some activities that I have dipped my feet into in the past are: Disambiguation, VfD, Grammar patrol, and Vandalism patrol.

Check this out! This is awesome! Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups This tool will display a fast loading popup presenting various editing shortcuts when you hover over a page link! Eliminates the need to load that page! Includes as a summary the first few sentences of the article! Can work in other wikis too as long as you add it to your .js file at those wikis.

At times I imagine that the Opera web browser was created for editing Wikipedia! First there is the password wand. All you have to do when you come to a sign-in page is click the wand button and instantly you're signed-in! When Opera does have to close unexpectedly (if you have windows, ahem) it remembers all of your last tabs that you had open! Wikipedia editors all know that multiple tabs are a must. You can save 'Notes' which are accessible through the right click menu! So, if you have a handful of common summaries, templates, or tags that you add several times a day they are right there at your fingertips. Opera is awesome! Plus, Opera is the originator of tabs and other such features that are in other popular web browsers. Opera comes built in with tabs and mouse gestures. Also, it is smaller even with the built in features than Firefox is when it is 'empty'.

Articles of which to keep track

Articles and such that I have contributed

YAY! And I thought I would never find anything to contribute!

Glow
Birds of My Neighborhood
Christ Is My Hope
Small Planes
Befriended
Now the Day is Over
Template:NDegrees Template for future use.
  • Wikipedia:Checkers Play the American variant of this popular game! No longer with us on this mortal plane, sadly.
  • Category:Historic houses in North Carolina Created category per user request.
  • RfA Ideology Analysis An ambitious project that seeks to analyze most of the adminships that were successful and those that were not successful. So far some very interesting and insightful conclusions have been drawn even at this early stage!
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