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Revision as of 12:17, 13 September 2006
A friend introduced me to Wikipedia in early April, and it was like waking up from a nap, with warm sun on my face.
I love sharing about nifty subjects, so Wikipedia is like crack for me. There's something — magical in passing on what you've learned to a friend, and in learning from them in return.
I like crafty things, and making gifts for other people, although it sometimes gets me in trouble. I also like beautiful, symmetrical things, which means that I end up studying too much science. So that's what I write about.
Writing is fun, although words aren't tame; they never seem to say what I want them to. My favorite book is Middlemarch by George Eliot, which I can read over and over. I also love vivid, poetic language, ranging from Homer and Sappho to silly, fun stories like those of P. G. Wodehouse.
I also enjoy music, especially musicians like Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls and (early) Tori Amos. My own playing is lame, though, so I only play when no one's around; I'm better at riffing on this keyboard.
I'm a wiki-newbie, so I'm still figuring out
how to do things, although the Help pages are great. If you have any suggestions or helpful hints, please let me know. Thanks for stopping by!
Fun articles
I contributed to an article about No Rest for the Wicked, a wonderful webcomic that I read.
I've also created some craft-related pages:
- Lace knitting
- Cable knitting
- Selvage (knitting)
- Plaited stitch
- Dip stitch
- Yarn over, Tucked stitch
- Decrease (knitting)
- Increase (knitting)
- Double knitting
- Shadow knitting
- Drop-stitch knitting
- Slip-stitch knitting, mosaic knitting
- Ribbing (knitting)
- Welting (knitting)
- Basketweave (knitting)
- Casting on (knitting)
- Binding off (knitting)
- Bobble (knitting)
- Short row (knitting)
- Bias knitting
- Elongated stitch (knitting)
- Pleat (knitting)
- Hem (knitting)
- Pick up stitches (knitting)
- Buttonhole (knitting)
- Knitting abbreviations
- Bead knitting, sequin knitting
- Loop knitting
- Tufting
- Weaving (knitting), Couching (knitting)
- Tuck (knitting)
- Brioche knitting
- Medallion knitting
- Blocking
- Uneven knitting
- Warp knitting, weft knitting
- Grafting (knitting), Kitchener stitch (knitting)
- Yoke (knitting)
- Sweater curse
- Knitting chart, knitting symbol
- Knitted fabric, Pilling (knitting)
- Swatch (knitting), Tension (knitting)
- Flat knitting, right side (knitting), wrong side (knitting)
- Gather (knitting), Binding (knitting), Clustering (knitting), Smocking (knitting), Ruching (knitting), Shirring (knitting)
- Basic knitted fabrics, stockinette stitch, reverse stockinette stitch, garter stitch, faggoting (knitting)
- List of knitters in literature
and helped out with another
I'd also like to add some articles about clothing design. I've begun with
- Neckline
- Waistline (clothing)
- Hemline
- Style line
- Dress size
- US standard clothing size
- Sweater design
- /Scarf and shawl design
- /Handbag design
I really need to add some pictures/figures to these articles. :( I also added some polishing touches to
A few other random crafty contributions...
Biographical articles
I've created mini-biographies of people and places that I admire...
- Kaj Ulrik Linderstrom-Lang
- Carlsberg Laboratory
- Mortimer Louis Anson (Tim Anson)
- Edwin Joseph Cohn
- John Tileston Edsall
- Hans Neurath
- Hugh Stott Taylor
- Gilbert Smithson Adair
- Maurice Loyal Huggins
- Franz Hofmeister
- Perseus, an ancient Greek geometer
- Jakob Hermann
...and contributed to a few others
- William Astbury
- Arne Tiselius
- Francis Crick
- Albert Einstein
- Jöns Jakob Berzelius
- Hypatia of Alexandria
Biochemistry articles
Biochemistry students have it rough - so much to learn! And so few good textbooks - it's a recipe for Confusion Stew. Here's my dash of paprika ;)
- Thiol-disulfide exchange
- Hydrogen-deuterium exchange
- Deamidation
- Turn (biochemistry)
- Ribonuclease A
- Oxidative folding
- Beta bulge
- poly-Pro helix
- Beta helix
- Pi helix
- -helix
- Ribonuclease inhibitor
- Beta-propeller domain
- Ferredoxin fold
- TIM barrel
- Immunoglobulin fold
- Flavodoxin fold
- Hofmeister series
- All-α protein fold
- All-β protein fold
- α/β protein fold
- α+β protein fold
- dithioerythritol
- Chemical modification
- Flow birefringence
- Fluorescence anisotropy
- Equilibrium unfolding
- Cyclol
I spiffed up a few articles as well
- Secondary structure
- Chromatography
- Size exclusion chromatography
- Dihedral angle
- Primary structure
- Intrinsically unstructured proteins
- Hydroxylation
- Peptide bond
- Ribonuclease
- Cooperative binding
- Alpha helix
- Coiled coil
- Protein NMR
- Structural biology
- Cryo-electron microscopy
- Circular dichroism
- X-ray crystallography
- Bromodomain
- SH2 domain
- SH3 domain
- Structural Classification of Proteins
- CATH
- Families of structurally similar proteins
- Dithiothreitol
- Beta-alanine
- Beta-peptide
- Disulfide bond
- Phi value analysis
- Proline
- Protein
- Enzyme
Theoretically, I'm a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology, although I'm just beginning to contribute to the project. I set up our article worklist and make some linked navigational templates on protein structure
- Template:Amino acids
- Template:Protein primary structure
- Template:Protein secondary structure
- Template:Protein tertiary structure
- Template:Protein quaternary structure
- Template:Protein structure determination
and on biochemicals (under construction — don't look, please!...unless you want to help out, mwahaha)
- Template:Biochemical families
- Template:Peptides
- Template:AminoAcids
- Template:Nucleic acids
- Template:Carbohydrates
- Template:Lipids
- Template:Terpenoids
- Template:Carotenoids
- Template:Tetrapyrroles
- Template:Vitamins
- Template:Steroids
- Template:Flavonoids
- Template:Alkaloids
- Template:Polyketides
They were fun, I've learned a lot making them! :)
Physics articles
Physics is beautiful; I always wish I understood more. I started a few articles about nifty topics...
- Axial multipole moments
- Spherical multipole moments
- Cylindrical multipole moments
- Ewald summation, particle mesh Ewald
- Parametric oscillator
- Hydrodynamic radius, hydrodynamic volume
- Gyration tensor, Asphericity, Acylindricity, Relative shape anisotropy
- Perrin friction factors
- Intrinsic viscosity
- Poinsot's construction
- Loop entropy
- Cation-pi interaction
- Fiber diffraction
- Bertrand's theorem
- Canonical transformation
- Constant of motion
- Action-angle coordinates
- Axilrod-Teller potential
- Hamilton's principle
- Maupertuis' principle
- Gauss' principle of least constraint
- Hertz's principle of least curvature
- History of variational principles in physics
- Virial theorem
- /Semiclassical radiation
- /Mass of the photon
...and helped out with a few others
- Sedimentation
- Multipole moments
- Multipole expansion
- Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector
- Centripetal force
- Mean free path
- Radius of gyration
- Moment of inertia
- Euler's equations
- Lennard-Jones potential
- Adiabatic invariant
- Normal mode
- Two-body problem (still needs a little work)
- Hamilton-Jacobi equations
- Fictitious force
- Inertial frame of reference
- Rotating reference frame
- Non-inertial reference frame
- Action (physics)
- Luminiferous aether
- Speed of light
- Entropy
- Photon
- Light
- Bohr model
I try to write articles about topics that puzzled me when I was a student, so as to help the next generation. Theoretically, I'm a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics, although I haven't contributed much there.
Mathematical articles
Making new mathematics articles is fun, especially if geometry is involved
- Mason-Weaver equation
- Lamm equation
- Linear dynamical system
- Orthogonal coordinates
- Elliptic coordinates
- Elliptic cylindrical coordinates
- Ellipsoidal coordinates
- Prolate spheroidal coordinates
- Oblate spheroidal coordinates
- Conical coordinates
- Parabolic cylindrical coordinates
- Paraboloidal coordinates
- Bipolar cylindrical coordinates
- Bispherical coordinates
- Toroidal coordinates
- Harmonic division
- Apollonian circles
- Problem of Apollonius
- Coordinate surface, Coordinate line
- Isodynamic point, Lemoine line
- Toric section
- Spiric section
- Dead-end elimination
I love that feeling when you choose just the right coordinates and a big, terrifying problem dissolves into something trivial. It's like throwing water on the Wicked Witch of the West. ;)
I've contributed to existing articles as well
- Spectral theorem
- Legendre polynomials
- Dynamical system
- Poisson summation formula
- Parabolic coordinates
- Bipolar coordinates
- Circle
- Circles of Apollonius
- Poisson distribution
- Cassini oval, Cassinoide
- Hippopede
- Lemniscate of Bernoulli
- Lemniscate of Booth
- Lemniscate of Gerono
- Polar coordinate system
Someday, I'll add some stuff about my first love, map projections. Wikipedia's already pretty good, though! Theoretically, I'm a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics, although I haven't contributed much there, either.
Chemistry articles
I've never been good at chemistry - bleh :p So I've only fixed up a few articles
- Equilibrium constant
- Acid dissociation constant
- Dissociation constant
- Mass action
- Chemical equilibrium
- Thiol
Categories and user boxes
I was really timid when I made my first few categories...
...but then I went a little wild...
- Category:Wikipedian knitters
- Category:Wikipedians who like to crochet
- Template:User dressmaker
- Category:Wikipedian dressmakers
- Template:User sewing
- Category:Wikipedians who sew
- Template:User clothing designer
- Category:Wikipedian clothing designers
- Category:Quilting
- Category:Wikipedian quilters
- Category:Spinning
- Template:User spinning
- Category:Wikipedian spinners
- Template:User weaving
- Category:Wikipedian weavers
- Template:User embroidery
- Category:Wikipedian embroiderers
- Template:User lace-maker
- Category:Wikipedian lace-makers
- Category:Wikipedians interested in fiber arts
Hopefully, more Wikipedians who love the same crafts will find each other by following these links. Unfortunately, I don't really know what I'm doing, so I really hope that someone knowledgeable about Userboxes will fix mine up.
As part of a proto-WikiProject(s?) on clothing/textiles/fashion, several of us have been organizing categories into a coherent framework. Here are a few of the new categories
- Category:History of clothing (ancient Greece)
- Category:History of clothing (ancient Rome)
- Category:History of clothing (Byzantine)
Inter-Wiki stuff
Original sources are great for encyclopedia articles since they are the ultimate references and, strangely, they're often written more understandably than secondary works. Unfortunately, many original sources (or translations thereof) aren't in the public domain or simply have never been rendered electronically. I've begun adding some original texts (along with my translations) to the Wikisources
- De partibus animalium (English translation of short blurb; needs work) by Aristotle
- I'm really fond of Aristotle.
- Confessio philosophi (English translation) by Gottfried Leibniz
- Confessio philosophi (original Latin text) by Gottfried Leibniz
- Fun dialog written by Leibniz at the age of 27 that gives a good sampling of the themes running throughout his philosophy.
- Invention of the principle of least action for light (English translation) by Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
- Invention of the principle of least action for light (original French text) by Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
- Assertion of the principle of least action by Maupertuis in April 1744, but only for light, not matter. Maupertuis shows the equivalence of minimizing time (Fermat's principle) and action, and asserts without justification that action is more fundamental.
- Invention of the principle of least action for mechanics (English translation) by Leonhard Euler
- Invention of the principle of least action for mechanics (original Latin text) by Leonhard Euler
- In the fall of 1744, Euler proposed the principle of least action for mechanics, not light, independently of Maupertuis. Euler also notes that the principle holds only when speed was a function of position (in modern langage, when the total energy of the particle is constant).
- Re-invention of the principle of least action for mechanics (English translation) by Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
- Re-invention of the principle of least action for mechanics (original French text) by Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
- Assertion by Maupertuis in 1746 that he invented the principle of least action as a general principle, and that Euler merely applied it to determining the motion of planets. Maupertuis does not seem to understand the principle, since he mis-applies it to perfectly elastic/inelastic two-body collisions and mechanical equilibrium.
- Euler's defence of Maupertuis' priority (English translation) by Leonhard Euler
- Euler's defence of Maupertuis' priority (original French text) by Leonhard Euler
- Remarkably, Euler gives all the credit for the principle to Maupertuis a few years later, in 1752. Ironically, Leibniz may have been the original inventor of the principle, in 1707, at least for mechanics.
- A Heuristic Model of the Creation and Transformation of Light (English translation of the 1905 "photoelectric effect" paper) by Albert Einstein
- Article for which Einstein was awarded the Nobel prize, where he first introduces a "photon"-like concept.
- The Development of Our Views on the Composition and Essence of Radiation (English translation of a 1909 talk) by Albert Einstein
- Amazingly prescient talk in which Einstein introduces wave-particle duality (decades ahead of everyone else) and argues forcefully for particles (photons) that carry the energy and momentum of light. Unfortunately, European copyright restrictions prevent the original 1909 Einstein article from being added to the German Wikisource; check back in 2026 (it'll go by quickly! ;)
- Spanische Tänzerin (original German poem) by Rainer Maria Rilke
- A breathtakingly beautiful poem from my favorite German poet. Lame translation soon to follow.
I've also entered other nifty works in the public domain, such as
- Lysistrata (English translation; anonymous translator rumored to be Oscar Wilde) by Aristophanes (a very cool play!)
and some brief essays by Kurt Tucholsky, modern, bitter-sweet and beautiful:
- Bread with tears (original German)
- Procreation (original German)
- Enjoying life (original German)
- Worry (original German)
- Hello to the future (original German)
- On the hotel terrace (original German - hilarious)
- There is no virgin snow (original German)
- Spots (original German; horribly prophetic, powerful)
- The flea (original German; clever and cute)
- One sentence (original German; portrait of a Nazi)
- How to give a bad (good) speech (original German; excellent advice)
- Clairvoyance (original German)
- The Border (original German)
- A vision of the distant future (original German)
- Fairy tale (original German)
- The pious fisherman (original German)
- How to have a bad (good) vacation (original German)
- The face (original German)
- Mr. Smith makes a phone call (original German)
- Tenant and Landlord (original German)
- Unpacking a suitcase (original German)
Tucholsky's works entered the public domain this year (2006).
Other trivia about me
I share Catherine's optimism that Wikipedia deserves our devotion, despite its vandals and scandals and sometimes silly personality clashes. (She's an INFP, too!) Wikipedia feels like a medieval cathedral of knowledge being built over a century, one that brings together a community of wonderful, well-meaning people.
When I was about seven, my grandmother gave me a Children's Book of Knowledge, a fat, yellow book that I read over and over even after the binding had cracked in three places. I loved all the chapters, especially those about different lands and languages. Somehow, my articles now feel like gifts to my younger self.
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