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Edits – a selection
Here’s some 'befores & afters' of some of my work here—my problem solving motivation:


 * The last edit (2006 April 15) before my first ever edit (2006 April 19)—the obvious problems i came to—compelled—to make a start on remedying, as a complete Wikipedia newbie.


 * 2006 April 19 – my first edit, as 202.83.73.180 before i registered.


 * 2007 July 07 – before i stepped up edits a bit more, as 203.57.8.11 without renewing my registration and password.


 * 2007 July 18 – after i had stepped up edits a bit more, as 203.57.8.11, together with another editor (82.43.112.99) who cleared up the key, critical, correction of the widespread wrongly attributed quotation – "quotation is Horace’s not Fukuoka’s".


 * The article before i started in earnest for some months of solid editing! – editing here for personal motivations, after we at a certain Federal Gov’t agency, deliberately unnamed, we, all the team, our whole team, and so many more long time staff, managers, CEO, Board Chairman, etc., all resigned from, because we all experienced it imploding with problems, which became very public in the media three months later. The comprehensively evidenced problems of certain other unnamed people who stayed, and the politics. No names, here, no record. Just, a very strong experience–based motivation here, to come to really use my professional skills to benefit the fixing of some serious problems, related but different to problems which we all were suppressed from doing so to fix at that time in that certain Fed. Gov’t agency.


 * 2010 August 3‎ – then my 2010 first step of the many edits—of solid editing—in earnest, as 120.156.57.75, before renewing and re-registering this, my old login, again.


 * Then my progress in editing up until a point where it was very much a work in progress –it was about to be split into a set of articles about him: main, works, chronology/CV, family nature farm, etc., and during that split throughly copyedited from an English language and readability point of view. Disgustingly hatefully, this ongoing long–term work in progress was so very rudely (diff) disrupted, including by massive blanking (hist diff) and so on, at the time of this last live version.

Reflection – seeing clear through – actual dialogue – obviating 'a head of the pigs' – far–sightedness
Relevant to communication philosophy, community and strategic planning, in WP here and for all 'westerners', a quotation of part of contemporary natural philosophy scholarship—brilliance on the topic of false philosophy, etc. Re: * * * *—no moral authority these pallid pink 'philistines'. :

→ WikiMedia March 2011 Update – Strategic Planning

→ WikiMedia May 2011 Update – Strategic Planning

(–from WikiMedia Strategic Planning)

Some straight talking Wikipedia policy of consensus that i really appreciate, but which now has been sterilised, banalised:

It was removed here (diffs) – i don’t know if there was any discussion about its removal.

A little bit of straight talking regarding the goodness of apologising may still be found unsterilised here in Civility – Apologizing - It’s OK to say sorry.

The Wikipedia editor - competence essay should be written as a more scholarly and formal Wikipedia competence policy, including higher scholarly standards of reliable sources’ research and use as the basis for article statement writing/editing. Not everyone has the experience, skills or ability to do reliable sources’ research and reliable sources’ based scholarly writing, to this scholarly standard—a part reference, the essay: Wikipedia is not just an encyclopaedia - Not everyone can write articles—or in subjects outside their expertise if they have subject expertise—one more part reference: Expert retention. This issue requires much more policy elaboration, in my humble opinion. This unscholarly quality is the biggest shortcoming of this Wikipedia encyclopaedia project, in my humble experience, in my awareness of public opinions of it, and the reason why it gets nicknamed: dodgy–paedia, 'Dickipedia'*, gossip rag masquerading (as encyclopaedia). Moreover, this describes why it gets thought of as reflecting popular prejudices (aka, particularly in politics: Demagoguery).

Some professional writers in the real world, writing on the subject

 * The Guardian – "Can you trust Wikipedia?". 24 October 2005,
 * USA Today – "A false Wikipedia 'biography'" by Seigenthaler, John. 29 November 2005,
 * NY Times. 2007,
 * The Times (online) – "Wisdom? More like dumbness of the crowds" by Kamm, Oliver. 16 August 2007 (archived version 2011-08-14) (Author’s copy) (A response from J Wales),
 * The Independent – "Wikipedia and the art of censorship". 18 August 2007 (archived version 4 October 2011),
 * Slate (online) – "The Wisdom of the Chaperones: Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy." by Wilson, Chris. 22 February 2008,
 * Lapham’s Quarterly – Means of Communication – "Nicholson Baker’s Last Stand". 2008,
 * The Guardian – "Have you stopped editing Wikipedia? And if so, is it doomed?". 25 November 2009,
 * NY Times. 11 January 2010,
 * A. Charles Muller – Professor, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. 14 June 2010,
 * Wired UK – "Which Wikipedia page has 12 volumes worth of edits?". 8 September 2010,
 * Nature – "No rest for the bio-wikis". 15 November 2010,
 * Nature – "Time to underpin Wikipedia wisdom". 09 December 2010,
 * Wired UK – "The battle to make Wikipedia more welcoming". 10 January 2011,
 * The Guardian – "Wikipedia at 10: a web pioneer worth defending". 13 January 2011,
 * Wired UK – "Viewpoints: what the world thinks of Wikipedia". 13 January 2011,
 * BBC World Service – "Wikipedia at 10". Broadcast 14 January 2011,
 * The Guardian – "The online sub-life". 15 January 2011,
 * NY Times Business – "Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List". 30 January 2011,
 * The Guardian – "PlagiPedia shows the web is passionate about correcting its own follies". 1 March 2011,
 * The Guardian – "Wikipedia wants more contributions from academics". 29 March 2011,
 * The Guardian, Editorial – "In praise of… academic Wikipedians". 6 April 2011,
 * Wikipedia, Critical Point of View. 10 May 2011 (scholarly multi-author book PDF),
 * NY Times. Updated up to 23 May 2011,
 * The Guardian – "When I died on Wikipedia". 19 October 2011,
 * NY Times. 5 February 2012,
 * NY Times. 7 February 2012,
 * The Guardian – Books – "Encyclopedia Britannica in the age of Wikipedia". 14 March 2012,
 * The Guardian – "The internet: citizen scientists demonstrate the power of collaboration". 18 March 2012,
 * The Guardian – "Wikipedia founder to help in government’s research scheme". 1 May 2012,
 * BBC News – "Jimmy Wales denies Wikipedia admin recruitment crisis". 8 July 2012,
 * BBC News – "Meet the 'bots' that edit Wikipedia". 25 July 2012,
 * BBC News – "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales denies political muscle" (video). 2 August 2012,
 * The Guardian – "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales attacks government’s 'snooper’s charter'". 5 September 2012,
 * NY Times – "Philip Roth Goes Public With Fact Check of Wikipedia". 7 September 2012,
 * BBC News – "Author Roth rebukes Wikipedia over Human Stain edit". 8 September 2012,
 * The Guardian – "Philip Roth’s complaint to Wikipedia". 11 September 2012,
 * The Guardian – "Why Philip Roth needs a secondary source". 19 September 2012,
 * The Guardian (hosted by) – "Why women fade into the background on Wikipedia". 19 October 2012,
 * Nature – "Throw off the cloak of invisibility". 22 October 2012,
 * Nature – "Edit-a-thon gets women scientists into Wikipedia". 22 October 2012,
 * The Guardian – "Wikipedia page of Judge Koh, of Apple-Samsung trial, locked after 'edit war'". 26 December 2012,

etc..

Then some not doing professional journalism, who, like me, like to think of themselves as bigger than mere geeks—hehe, e.g.: "… the sun will still set in the West, the worlds will not collide, and Wikipedia articles will still show #1 in Google search results … " —Wikipediocracy. e.g. * * *, *, etc..

Quotation: "In a land of the blind, a one–eyed man is king" —who said that renowned quotation? In reality, let’s keep perspective, both eyes open wide, genuine maturity and let’s not deny the flaws—no sane (whitewash) fairytale exists to escape to—then we might solve them.

Pragmatic Language Usage
How do you do? Do you think that Wikipedia (main), here, is for plain and simple English only??? ie. technical, advanced, eloquent or even brilliant English language not allowed even when the subject necessitates it??? Well, one word for you: Ligature &#91;the typographic kind&#93;! Also, two more of many article topics for you: Bohr–Einstein debates & Adiabatic theorem.

Simplistic English is what that is called when necessarily advanced–language–subjects get unnecessarily banalised—dumbed down, motivated by an inappropriately simplified and plain English version of the language—see policies eg. WP:NOT PAPERS—see professional media comment eg. NY Times.

Simple English Wikipedia is the place for that; as appropriate for people who have those degrees of English language, from just starting to learn English, to English as a non-native language.

(The world’s vast majority of people have multiple native languages, except for monolingual English speakers. Very few people in the world speak only one language that isn’t English. In other words, very few people do not speak more than one language. In other words, the world’s vast majority of people are either: 1. fully bilingual, trilingual, etc. or 2. have a fully fluent first language and fully functional, if not fully fluent, second, third, etc., languages.)

Simple English Wikipedia also is for people who suffer from dyslexia and other reading difficulties; and for people who simply want to read their chosen subject in a cut–down, simplistic Wikipedia story.

The seriously–fun big–puzzle question is: Who is going to write up the Simple English Wikipedia articles of: Ligature, Bohr–Einstein debates, Adiabatic theorem, etc.?

Then there are ineffable major subjects in reality. What does one do in Wikipedia to write up them???

My life, professional and personal, includes lots of learning awareness, very varied and wide learning—an autodidact, who did attend University 1988–90, and had already learned before that from giants: in cultured–nature; in ecology eg. D.C., J.B.K., L. Webb, T. Irvine, etc.; in natural history eg. many 'Field Nat’s' and late D. Neale, etc.; in botany, eg. D.C., late D. Neale and Jim Willis ("doyen"), G.C., etc.; in philosophy eg. W.F.; in horticulture; etc., etc.. Lots of and very varied technical and/or advanced awarenesses. So, i edit accordingly, in articles here appropriate to the fullest possible use and exercise of my skills and ongoing learning!—only, i have little time for Wikipedia.

Of relevance here, also, continuing appreciation of:




Rev. edns 1986– Australia’s Kakadu man, Bill Neidjie. Darwin : Resource Managers. Rev. edns 2002– Gagudju man, Bill Neidjie, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. Allan Fox ISBN 978-1-876622-38-1.




 * –see further: National Library of Australia Trove (service): "Neidjie, Bill (1913-2002)" sources


 * National Library of Australia record.








 * –from: Aboriginal Bush Foods at www.RGBSyd.NSW.Gov.Au












































 * –UQ Press Description in order form –Complex designs reveal country’s first architects (National news - Sydney Morning Herald) –Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture Of Australia - "The myth of a country devoid of indigenous architecture - 'architecture nullius' - has long persisted." (smh.com.au Book Review)










 * Google scan of the 1989 printed book


























 * 2000 Satoyama: Japan’s Secret Garden (Film). Bilingual English and Japanese HD feature documentary. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough. (NHK, Japan and Nova, PBS, USA).




 * Sample pages NLA page



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 * Ecological Humanities journal (situated within Australia’s oldest and most prestigious on-line humanities journal: the Australian Humanities Review. Australian National University: Canberra) ISSN 1325-8338








 * – Biography of Tenzin Palmo (aka Dianne Perry) ’s life up to the point of the publication date.











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 * (login to the link with National Library of Australia membership)








 * A key section, in quotation here.
 * A key section, in quotation here.


 * Here available online. Project page.














 * -Paper presented to International Botanical Congress (13th: 1981: Sydney)-














 * (Congress: International symposium on fructan. 1 1988)


























 * Interview about the book, 11 Oct 2011. Talk, contextualised for Melbourne history, 27 October 2011.









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 * This older paper has both: some crucial insights and some evidently very incorrect preconceptions—errors, it’s extremely partial (or ethnocentrically–partisan) in its value. With this in mind, please read it—it’s important in its crucial insights—read out the errors (by using other scholarly study). Their still–partial update is here to help you read out the real errors. Be certain, the 'Western' foods drugs are real, and not errors.

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 * Cunninghamia journal (NSW Government, Sydney).


 * Ecological Management and Restoration journal (Wliey). doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1442-8903


 * Pacific Conservation Biology journal (Surrey Beatty and Sons).


 * Australian Journal of Botany (CSIRO, Australia).


 * Telopea journal (of NSW Herbarium. NSW Government, Sydney).


 * Muelleria: ("A research journal published by Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne since 1955." Victorian Government, Melbourne).












 * —contents
















 * (Author website)







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 * A discussion with some good writing on the subject of WWWJDIC? : here.


 * Originally published in French in INTERculture 1998 135: 99-120.