User:Z22

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My first...[edit]

  • First edit (July 2006): Newark Light Rail. Was it on July 25, 2006? The dates on Wikipedia are in UTC, so my first edit was actually on July 24 local time.
  • First page creation (July 2006): Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne‎. It was just a follow up on my first edit. I read an article about Bayonne getting the old Newark City Subway cars to use in their development project. So I wrote something about it. Unfortunately, after more than 6 years, those subway cars haven't made to Bayonne's operation yet. Not a good start for the first page, right?
  • First sandbox (May 2009): Need I say more? By 2009, I realized that I edited more and more pages. I just needed a space to test out my new pages.
  • First mass edit (December 2009): Atlantic City School District. Adding Indicator 13 to the great work about school spending done by Alansohn (talk). Then I spent a great deal of time on the Christmas day editing hundreds of NJ school district pages manually to add that indicator from the source. Still, I spent more time in writing English than just coding a bot to do this job.
  • First image (January 2010): File:TheBriadGroupLogo.jpg. Learned something new about Wikipedia's policy on fair use.
  • First photo (January 2011): File:Cast of Eubrontes Gigantis track by Paul Olsen.jpg. It was interesting that almost two years after I edited Riker Hill Fossil Site (in Roseland, New Jersey), I just came across this artifact from the site during my vacation in Washington, DC.
  • First template (January 2012): Template:United States figure skating clubs. I decided to create this template after finding it difficult to get to other figure skating clubs after I created Essex Skating Club.
  • First Wikimedia Commons (November 2012): Image:Sixth and a Half Avenue and W 51 Street in Manhattan New York.jpg. I just did't expect that NYCDOT would be flexible enough to do something funky.
  • First SVG file on wiki (November 2012): Image:Higher speed loco ca us.svg. You can see that it was the starting point of my new obsession about trains.
  • First WikiLove (February 2013): Someone just gave me a WikiLove message. It was a cheeseburger right after I created the Medicine chest (idiom) page. Thanks for that juicy burger, but hey, I needed to go get Tums from my medicine chest right after I ate that thing.
  • First user page of my own (March 28, 2013): Finally, after more than 6 years of creating and editing other pages. It's now time for my own!
  • First barnstar (May 2013): I got the Tireless Contributor Barnstar for "authorship of interesting articles like the Westinghouse Lamp Plant page". I came across an interesting story of how they refined uranium in a site in New Jersey to be used for the first reaction in Chicago. So, I spent time digging through old documents and created that page. It was nice to know someone else appreciated it. Thank you for that.
  • First 1,000 unique page edits (October 2013): The 1,000th unique page that I edited was Wind turbine design to add a photo taken when we visited Wolfe Island Wind Farm in 2012. I had been adding photos (extracting from public domain documents or using my own) to articles lately in a hope to help those visual learners out there.
Edison batteries
Yolanda
  • First Media of the Day (December 2022): My video of Yolanda, a delivery robot, was featured on Wikimedia Commons main page as Media of the Day on December 10, 2022.

My obsessions[edit]

  • Mostly something about New Jersey in my early years
  • In late 2012, I started editing many train-related articles.
  • In 2013, I started creating and editing articles related to electricity generation.
  • In 2013, I also started uploading more and more images to Wikimedia Commons to include in several Wikipedia articles. See the list of my uploaded files here. I don't just dump my hard drive to Commons. I only upload the media that can be used in Wikipedia articles.
  • After that point, most articles that I created or edited were driven by photos that I took of interesting things that I happened to come across.

Below are some examples of the articles that I created and contributed a significant portion of the contents:

Articles I created that were listed as "Did you know" DYKSTATS leaders of the month:

My tools[edit]