Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/October 2022/Op-ed
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Meet the new lead coordinator |
- By Hawkeye7
I'm your new lead coordinator. I thought I might get the ball rolling by telling a bit about myself.
How did you become interested in Military History?
I was interested in history as a boy. I persuaded my parents to buy
How did you become involved with the Wikipedia Military History Project?
I got an email asking for changes to an article of mine on Wikipedia. I didn't think I had written any, but there it was, lifted from one of my web pages. So I corrected it and created an account. A friend of mine was editing Wikipedia and encouraged me to edit. I started during the Christmas break in 2006, and I signed up for the military history project. There were fine editors working on World War I, so I concentrated on the less popular World War II. I spent a few years on articles on the Manhattan Project, then wrote up the British nuclear weapons program. Now I am back to World War II again. My method of working normally involves bringing an article up to featured, and in the process creating or improving a couple of smaller articles (usually biographies) to good status. I was elected as a coordinator in 2011, and served until 2016, and then again since 2018. But I've never been the lead coordinator before.
Meet a returning coordinator |
- By Hog Farm
Hey y'all! I'm one of the returning coordinators. In the spirit of Hawkeye above, I thought I'd tell a little about myself as well.
How did you become interested in Military History?
I spent most of my childhood on a farm, and spent much of my spare time reading. My parents had a decades-old copy of
How did you become involved with the Wikipedia Military History Project?
I started editing back in 2019 as a bored college student, and just kinda stuck around. I really started actually writing content regularly during the COVID-19 pandemic when stuck at home. I formally joined the project in 2020, and was elected coordinator for the first time that year. I've since had the honor to be re-elected in 2021 and 2022. I still read a lot, so my general article writing process is to notice something in what I'm reading that catches my interest, write about it, and then often work on some related subjects (for instance, work on
Meet a new coordinator |
- By Schierbecker
How did you become interested in Military History?
My grandfather Capt. Harold "Bud" Schierbecker was a dentist in the 24th Infantry Division in Korea, where he was attached to the 6th Medium Tank Battalion. After the Battle of Unsan he became separated for a time and was assumed captured. He was later awarded a Bronze Star. My grandfather first started opening up about his experiences in the war around the time I started editing in late 2008 (when I was 14). I was particularly interested in learning more about the Patton tanks he served with and Wikipedia was a great place to learn about that history.
I used to edit Wikipedia every chance I got, often at the school library. The vice principal took some explaining to understand why I was looking up the Wiki entries for ARs and Kalashnikovs.
Meet a coordinator emeritus |
- By Ian Rose
Hi everyone, I figured if I contribute to this we'll have an example of every species of active coord you can have, so...
How did you become interested in Military History?
Breeding I guess. I'm an
How did you become involved with the Wikipedia Military History Project?
Oddly enough I discovered WP while searching for info on rock music, and my first articles were amateurish efforts on that subject (you might be surprised to learn that I created WP's articles on David Bowie's "
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