Wikipedia:Historical archive/New user log
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presentation of Dr delorme -lyons
hello my name is nathalie delorme -lyons but evry one call me Dr nath my first language is french but i do study in england (artificial intelligence ) i born on the belge/french border but my genetic background spread all over the world and i found trace of genetic heritance in mongolia,india,north america,germany,russia,greece and celt my interest are various : i study metaphysic pevious of my actual study in computing with metaphysic i did i study psychology and para-psychology ,hypnotherapy, as well as antropology of religions my initial trainning was physics ,math, biology and chemistry i like most of all Music and arts which i practice on a personal basis i find this project very interesting and will love to contribute when time manadgment will allow me to do so whish you all the best Dr Nath
Canon
I'm the author of the book Wordplay, A Curious Dictionayr of Language Oddities (Sterling, 1999, ISBN 0806917970), the editor of the archive of the Usenet newsgroup rec.puzzles, and a member of the National Puzzlers' League. My interest area is, duh!, puzzles. I think Wiki provides a means for sharing information in a more strucutred format than newsgroups, blogs, RSS, etc. I plan to convert a lot of my old material over to Wikipedia. Take a look at my first attempt, which discusses the most popular word puzzle: the three words ending in gry.
Likethewatch
Hi! I'm Likethewatch, a bit of a joke based on my last name, which sounds (but isn't spelled) like Casio, the electronics company that makes, among other things, watches. I have a Bachelor's degree in English, and work as an admin for a non-profit health care organization's IS department. I'm an amateur academic/activist in the health of transsexual people, and in that role an editor of Trans-Health. I espouse beliefs in whole foods, sustainable living, and anarchy. My principal hobbies are cooking and queer theory, although I mainly read historical, philosophical, and psychological topics on Wikipedia. I have lived in rural Florida and currently live in Brooklyn, New York.
ViolentGreen
Hi, I just registered a few days ago. My areas of knowledge are probably more obscure than usual: demonolgy and botany. I can't think of anything else to say so I will end right now
I am a couple of months old in Wikipedia chronology. More extensive information is available at my User Page. I have one qualm with Wikipedia... the headings and titles of sections... I prefer capitalizing all significant words, like " The Rise and Fall of Empires" rather than "The rise and fall of empires". Gives it a little bit more verve in the former. The latter is lackluster, apathetic, giving one the air of deflation into apathy, an anticlimax only it's to be found at the beginning of the Section! Meh. --LordSuryaofShropshire 17:18, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)
DJHipflask
Hi, I've been using WikiPedia for the last few Months and decided it was about time I put something back in. I'm a student in my final year of a BSc(HONS) Degree in Software Engineering at Staffordshire University, UK. --Djhipflask 12:44, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
apotheon
I suppose I had better introduce myself. I'm still basically a new user, though I've ignored this bit of getting into the swing of things for about a week now.
I'm kind of a jack of many trades, master of not bloody much. I've a wide range of interests and have picked up a lot of trivialities along the way that might become useful in an endeavor like Wikipedia. As such, I suppose I'm eager to help out. Since people don't come to Wikipedia to hear life histories of the article authors, I'll get to the encyclopedic data now:
I got started with a couple of dinosaur articles, and went on to start editing articles relating to Japanese history and martial culture -- a subject of great interest to me. I imagine I'll get my fingers into more pies as time goes on.
sempf
Hello World. I am an author and programmer specializing in Microsoft products. I've been making small to medium edits to Wikipedia articles for a while now, as weird trivia is something of a hobby of mine. Don't so much have a speciality, but I love this stuff.
Sempf 23:10, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Glenn6502
Hi all, Been reading Wikipedia for a while and made a couple of trivial edits anonymously. I've seen several areas I think I could contribute to, so now have a user name. I am sure to be an infrequent contributor. Glenn6502 01:57, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Mista-X
Hi,
My name is Marcell Rodden, and I know atleast one user on here, AndyL.
Anyways, I came across Wikipedia well converting text from a pamphlet of a speech Paul Robeson gave to HTML; I needed to find references to some of the things mentioned in the text for footnotes.
Of course I am a big fan of Open Source/GNU and naturally would support this sort of initiative.
I currently use Debian-Libranet GNU/Linux (stable release) as my Desktop OS, and run other OS's around the house, such as eComStation (see: OS/2) and Solaris.
I am Committee Coordinator of the Rebel Youth Network, General Coordinator of Young Left, a member of the Executive Committee of Canadian Friends of Soviet People, I'm on the Committee to Reclaim May Day (Toronto) and I will be running for the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada in the upcoming Federal Election here in Canada, in the Toronto-Danforth riding, where I shall run against Jack Layton, Dennis Mills, and others.
Ideologically, I consider myself to by something like a neo-Maoist.
--Mista-X 05:50, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Mihoshi
Hello everybody!
I really like the site, but I never really saw a reason to contribute to it until I discovered that there was no entry for the Boomer bible, which was a shame. So I fixed it!
Anyway, I'm a huge dork, a fan of board games, like Cheapass Games (which also needs an entry, apparently,) anime, video games (particularly Halo: Combat Evolved), history, and Role-playing games. Right now GURPS is my RPG of choice, and I'm pretty jazzed about 4th edition.
Mihoshi 21:17, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Jel
Hi all :)
Typical linux geek. I've a wide variety of interests, and some detailed knowledge on a few things, but nothing special. Hopefully I'll find enough overlap between what I know and what's missing to be of use, though -- I really like Wikipedia :D
-- Jel 23:59, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I found Wiki a few days ago when I did a search on Google to figure out whether "Jack Ass" is a donkey and mule, and has been hooked since.
I'm a software engineer/financial advisor who lives in the forever cloudy part of San Francisco, California. I was born in China, then moved to the US when I was thirteen. My interests outside of work lies in history, geography, and food. My mother-in-law sings Chinese opera, so I'm quite familiar with the topic as well. I've also an avid collector of random useless trivia.
So far my contribution have been with minor formatting edits, as well as adding links between Chinese articles and English ones. Once I can my computer to use Chinese correctly, I'll start on translating some of the English articles to Chinese and vice versa. Trying to trick Babelfish into generating the correct Chinese character is simply too hard. Requests to translate specific articles are welcome.
I also seems to have different logins for the English and Chinese versions of the Wikipedia. Both "Vina" and "Vinama3171" are me. I'll put up a profile page soon.
Vina 00:17, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
patberry
Greetings! I live in Holly Springs, North Carolina, USA. I gradually became aware of Wikipedia as it showed up in more and more of my Google searches, and I've begun to rely on it as one of my primary reference tools. Tonight I finally edited my first page, and decided it was time to create an account and start learning more about how the Wikipedia project and community work. My interests include the space program, games (especially Dungeons & Dragons, which I've been playing since 1978), and some other similarly geeky areas. But I'm also a professional technical writer with nearly two decades of experience, so I suspect I will be more useful as an editor and proofreader. We'll see.
Pat Berry 04:01, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
ThC
Hello all. I live in Groningen, which is a big city in the Northern part of the Netherlands. I found out about Wikipedia by searching for essay information on google. My field of expertise is mostly military history, especially WWII history. I also have a lot of knowledge about explosives and all ranges of firearms which comes from practical experience in this field. I will do my best to contribute to these subjects as well as I can. Furthermore I would like to say that Wikipedia is incredible, and to everyone who contributes here I'll say: Keep up the amazing work. Ipsa Scienta Potestas Est = Knowledge itself is power
BobbyG
I was Google searching the other day for additional online resources for my students -- looking up "statistical fallacies" -- and came across Wikipedia.
Very interesting concept. I see a ton of good work here.
I am a risk management officer with a credit card bank, and I teach "Critical Thinking" part-time at UNLV. See www.bgladd.com/EPS701.
Swervy_a
I'm in Houston at Rice University. I'm here because some jerks put up a page about me, Andy Johnson, and I don't like it. But I guess it's not all bad if it got another person to join the community, eh? Swervy_a 04:53, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Hi, Swervy_a (or Andy?), welcome to Wikipedia! As you have found, YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR USERPAGE - but you can also change the "bogus" one. I look forward to seeing contributions from you on the subject of juggling! Robin Patterson 05:17, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Magus
I recently joined after stumbling my way around the site, and coming across an entry for my school, Willamette University. I also found an alumnus that posts here quite frequently, Decumanus. Figured I'd see if I could add anything helpful :)
Magus 07:05, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Suhit Kelkar
Hi, I am Suhit Kelkar, a journalist working in Mumbai/Bombay, India. My interests are (and I write on) the local civic government, environment and IT.
08:50, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)
tjwood
Hi, I'm Tom Wood, a Computer Science student at the University of Bristol. My interests include computing stuff, first aid, and all sorts of randomness... :)
Tjwood 20:05, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Melonhead
Hi to all Wikipedians out there. I've been browsing through the site for many months now and finally decided to join. I'm from Indiana, and my interests are very, very scattered.... ;)
Ufux
Hi, It's nice to have a great content source that is so close to the open-source spirit in every way. I live in Istanbul, Turkey and I was born on 1981. I'm interested in literature,technology and art in general.
Cingar
Hi everybody. I am a computer programmer from Italy. My main personal interests are in linguistics.
== Chris Ducat == bernlin2000 19:08, Apr 27, 2004 (UTC)
Hi everybody! I discovered this amazing encyclopedia while surfing on the web for a report. I love archives and watching a article evolve into something The World Book should be afraid of. This website shows that things don't always have to be proprietary to be sucessful (and useful). I enjoy a variety of subjects including (but not limited to): Video Games, Politics, Computers, History (in general), Software, etc. etc. and so forth. I also love all works by J.R.R Tolkien and the LOTR movies. I wouldn't mind some advice on what are good articles that need some help. I've started some articles, but they're all stubs. Check out my user page for what I've done. Anything that I've made could use some extra information. Thank you.
Pete in AZ
Hello. I'm a pressman working for our local small town newspaper. I got here by following
a link from an article on another website a couple of weeks ago and danged if I can remember which site. oops My current interests are gardening, astronomy I just started, so, don't expect me to edit any pages unless I look it up in five books and ask around at the observatory and wandering around here I love encyclopedia's I did my first edit the other day and figured
I'd sign up if I'm going to continue with this madness ;)
Pete in AZ 02:16, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Markhadman
Found an article about wikipedia on news.bbc.co.uk
Interests mostly musical. So far edited Frank Zappa, and created Ahead Of Their Time, The Black Rider, Julian Cope. Considering some major revision and extension of William S. Burroughs. Anyone wanna collaborate on this?
--Markhadman 17:02, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Houshuang
I've looked at Wikipedia in the past, but never really thought much about it - it was really Konqueror, with it's feature of being able to type in wp:oslo and get the Wikipedia article for Oslo that made me start consulting it - for a lot of the things I typed in, I actually got really good informative articles. Can't promise that I will actively lurk around and look for stuff to do, but I seem to be consulting it fairly regularly, and if I see stuff that is wrong/could be better, I'll try to fix it. Already did a substantial revamp of Hamar (my old town, plus some other things around.
I am Norwegian, 22 yrs, living in Hangzhou, China.
--Houshuang 18:34, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Taxman
I've been reading everything I could get my hands on since the age of 5, so I was very excited to learn about the wikipedia project. I like the idea of trying to dump everything encyclopedic that I know into wikipedia, and contributing whatever else I can to make the end result better. I've already contributed a fair bit to a few articles before learning about this new user page.
I have a degrees in economics and the mathematics of finance, but here are some other areas I might be able to contribute usefully in:
finance, securities, derivatives, planning, tax law, etc; economics; outdoors, camping, survival, hiking, knots, scouting etc; woodworking; sales and management; business; risk management and insurance; FreeBSD, Linux other free unices and open source software; computer security concepts; cooking; some travel and a bit of Spanish, though certainly others know much more than I.
I heard about wikipedia from Slashdot
Taxman 02:22, Apr 28, 2004 (UTC)
Hey gang!
Kay Ellen here from Alabama. I really like logging on to the Wiki every morning to see what has changed overnight. I discovered that not many of the lizard articles were written (and especially the Rhacodactylus articles (gasp)! I have a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and Management and a Master's degree in Management and Finance. I breed many species of geckos and chameleons as a hobby. I am a motorcycle racing junkie. (Mat Mladin and Aaron Yates are my favorites) I am also working my way up the belt levels in Taekwondo and Hapkido. I love hiking and camping and swimming and...
As a recent widow at 28 I am trying to fill my spare time with useful projects and am happy to say editing the rhacodactylus gecko articles was fun and made me feel pretty good! Check them out if you get a chance!
Kayellen 18:30, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Wurzeller
Hi all, discovered this enterprise yesterday. I'm studying for a PhD in physics at University College London. My name was chosen for the West Country (of England) links. For an explanation of the name refer to The Wurzels. I imagine any contributions I make will have some connection with my home territory. My first article was on Babycham, perhaps odd but it was red-linked. I accidentally found Wikipedia searching for something or other else.
--Wurzeller 22:50, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)