User:Male1979
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Welcome
I became a contributor on February 1, 2005 after finding repeatedly very useful information there when I was searching some topic. Finding the misspelled name of Anne Treisman, I registered (see below about my user name), and pressed the edit-button [1]. My first non-minor series of edits came about when stumbling over the Adolf Hitler article, which was in a terrible condition. Being unexperienced and bold enough, I thought I would go and save it...
I think I helped improving the article considerately and at the same time I learned a lot about wikipedia and other wikipedians. I since have prefered to stay away from controversial topics – well, that is except for
After my article about Scholarpedia was deleted during a short absence I am very hesitant to start new articles.
I enjoy very much the broad spectrum of ideas and the global perspective that can be found in en.wikipedia. I like meeting different people and to try to figure out how they understand the world.
Contributions
Usually I start reading somewhere and edit when I find something incorrect or inaccurate or have something to add to the article. Most of my edits consequently constitute minor edits or just expansions of articles. Topics are widespread but currently focus around artificial intelligence and free software. I have made many edits to wikipedia.
My favorites among the articles I contributed to (or which I created) include: (earliest first, recent last)
Here is a list of the articles I started. Sometimes I've only created a stub, sometimes it became more.
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The article Nuclear power phase-out, which Ben T/C created, has been mentioned on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on August 16, 2005.
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| Thanks for your work on Nuclear energy and trying to keep NPOV alive. Jfingers88 22:34, 19 February 2006 (UTC) |
Attempt at a Declaration of Bias
My user name Male1979 was chosen by accident when trying to register on a very slow server connection via a badly configured proxy. I was timed-out again and again and subsequently found each name already in use (probably by myself when trying before). So, I came to trying names that I would have never be thought of under
, and having a strong sense of ethics. Please take these considerations into account in order to eliminate any possible bias I might have introduced.Political and psychological attitudes
On the
Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.97
... but I am not sure as to what that means. You also have to take into account that it was an American test.
I also took a very strange
MBTI type is ISFP. |
About wikipedia
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types - to know what stub to put
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- mozilla keywords for wikipedia - to be faster in posting and editing (just don't forget them)
- how to get the (talk) thing next to your signature and help other people save time
- Public domain resources
- Wikipedia:2004_Encyclopedia_topics
- Wikipedia:Five pillars
- User:Angr/Reasons to leave. I strongly support points 2 and 8. I also would like to agree to point 3, but I feel it is too ambitious.
- MMOG. (German)
- Erik Möller's comparison of block frequency
Toolbox
I think it is very important to source articles with references. Thus, useful tags are {{fact}} and {{unreferenced}}.
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Toolbox adapted from
Some popular articles
- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll
- AFI 100 Years series
- Hitler Has Only Got One Ball
- Infinite monkey theorem
- erototoxin
- cow tipping
- Inherently funny word
- Heavy Metal Umlaut
- Exploding Whale
External links
- Seth Anthony (2006), Contribution Patterns among Active Wikipedians: Finding and Keeping Content Creators. Wikimania 2006.
- Aaron Swartz (2006), Who Writes Wikipedia?. Raw Thought. This helped me to reconcile the obvious contradiction between Jimbo Wales' statements about the 1500, who are supposedly responsible for all good articles10% of wikipedia users make 80% of all edits on one side, and free software movement group dynamics (cf The Wisdom of Crowds) about boosting article quality on the other side.
- Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch (2006), Overcoming the Brittleness Bottleneck using Wikipedia: Enhancing Text Categorization with Encyclopedic Knowledge. Department of Computer Science, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology.
Licensing
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| Instead of doing something useful, you are staring at this page since 14:42 Wednesday, June 26, 2024 UTC .
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