User:Barefootguru

Notes which may one day become a proper home page:

I tend to hang out on the New Zealand pages and Mac pages. Guess where I’m from and one of my hobbies ;-)

English is my second language; my primary being grunting.

Wikipedia's an amazing testimony of an enabling technology and group collaboration effort: in four years volunteers from around the world have recreated and surpassed the Encyclopedia Britannica, and growth is exponential.—Barefootguru, 2005-07

On the quality of Wikipedia: (as in genealogy) this isn't a primary source, but as a secondary source and collator of data, I think it’s great.

Saddest page on Wikipedia: Category:Failed Apple initiatives.

I really enjoy Wikipedia and if it paid the bills I’d spend a lot more time here. However it’s a hobby, so I limit myself—hard as it may be to pass up a good edit. I scored 79 on the Are You a Wikipediholic Test (2005-12).

I tend toward copy-editing, fact checking, and collating rather than verbose prose.

Pages created

 * IBM 3179G
 * McGillicuddy Highland Army

Significant contributions

 * Brooklyn, New Zealand
 * Caesar III
 * Cathedral (board game)
 * Cockney rhyming slang (an 'anti-contribution'. Sometimes simpler is better)
 * Crash reporter
 * Deverry cycle
 * Exchangeable image file format
 * GEDCOM
 * iPod
 * iTunes
 * Job Control Language
 * Kapiti Island
 * Lambton Quay, Wellington
 * List of artists who have covered ABBA songs
 * List of New Zealand feature films
 * List of IBM products
 * Macintosh 128K
 * Māori language
 * Maruia Society
 * McGillicuddy Serious Party
 * Motorola ROKR E1 (in its early days)
 * OpenDocument
 * Comparison of OpenDocument with Microsoft XML formats
 * List of applications supporting OpenDocument
 * Microsoft position on OpenDocument support
 * Runaway and many linked pages
 * SAS System
 * Shona Laing
 * Spike Milligan
 * List of teletext services (a basic research addition turned into a string of edits)
 * Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
 * TRS-80
 * Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
 * Wellington
 * Vandalism
 * Category:E-mail
 * Category:iPods

Images I've contributed
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