User:JanetDavis

I am the early Wikipedian Janet Davis, not the Canadian politician Janet Davis.

I am Associate Professor and Microsoft Chair of Computer Science at Whitman College. See | my professional homepage.

It's good to be back!

Wikipedia CV
I was involved early in the history of Wikipedia, roughly March - September 2001.


 * I proposed "Cite your sources" as a rule to consider, and made a brief appearance in the Cite your sources debate.
 * My contributions from that time include many pages related to my hobbies: Beadwork, Bead weaving, Seed bead, Knitting, and Gardening, along with pages for many herbs, Annual plant, Biennial plant, and Perennial plant. As Beadwork does not appear in my prior contributions, there may be others now lost to history.
 * My contributions to Insulin were noted in the Wikipedia News on August 19, 2001, although they no longer appear in the revision history.
 * Many of my contributions were revisions and "Wikifications" of others' contributions. I am incorrectly credited with starting several of Wikipedia's earliest articles because I made the last edit before the non-history-preserving move to the Phase II software.
 * I'm sure I really did start the page for blend word, because linguistics is cool and I took a class my senior year of college. (Incidentally, Wikipedia and crowdsourcing are both blend words.)
 * My original account is blocked as it was taken over as a sock puppet account in 2008.