User:Petemyers

= Stuff I'm working on =

I am currently watching the following articles:
 * Sawston - I live here
 * Conservative Evangelicalism - Could be used to describe some of my beliefs
 * Limited atonement - Connects with some work I've been doing recently
 * Helicopter - Just a random article that I'm interested in, that I have no real-world connection with!
 * Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer - Created this to plug a red link
 * Personal offshoring - Found this through the "orphaned" list, and am working to wikify and find sources for content
 * R. C. Lucas - Is a notable conservative evangelical theologian in the UK, has helped heavily influence the "movement". I created the page, need to sort out the content a little.
 * New Covenant Theology - Got involved here too, but feel the article doesn't currently reflect the "movement" very well (used to be a proponent of that view, not anymore)

User:Petemyers/My Sandbox

= Where I'm coming from =

We all have a life outside of Wikipedia, this gives us something to contribute, but also shapes our contributions. We should all work hard to contribute with a neutral point of view, and doing that means understanding ourselves and where we're coming from in the first place. I can't attempt to correct my own bias, if I'm not aware of it. This is some idea of where I'm coming from -
 * I live in Sawston, just south of Cambridge in the UK
 * I'm a husband
 * I'm a father
 * I'm half Welsh, and half English, I was raised on the Wirral
 * I'm a Christian, more specifically a Reformed Catholic, who is an Anglican Evangelical, more specifically of the Conservative Evangelical persuasion.

= Tools I'd recommend, that you might find useful to use with Wikipedia =

How to be notified of changes to Wikipedia
If you download the Firefox web browser, then there is an extension called Update Scanner, which will monitor web pages for changes, and then provide a little pop-up on your computer when that happens. Wikipedia has a special page just for you called your Watchlist, you can choose to watch just about any patch with the "watch" tab at the top of it. This page will be updated whenever one of the pages you're watching changes. If you set update scanner to monitor your watchpage, you'll be notified of any change to a wikipedia article that you're interested in.

Instructions
To get update scanner working:


 * 1) Download the Firefox web browser, you can do that here.
 * 2) Download the Update Scanner extension, you can do that very easily from the official Firefox extension website here.
 * 3) Navigate, in Firefox, to your person watchlist by clicking the "my watchlist" link in the top right of wikipedia (when you're logged in of course).  Or just click here.
 * 4) While on your watchlist page, on the Firefox menu bar, click Tools->Update Scanner (or just press Alt+U), in the pop up on the left click on the "New Entry" button (first button on the left).

You may want to fiddle around with the update scanner settings.

To add and remove pages from your watchlist:


 * 1) Navigate to a wikipedia page you're interested in and want to keep track of.
 * 2) Click the "watch" tab, at the top of that page (Wikipedia will now start keeping track of changes to this page for you).
 * 3) To remove a page, navigate to it again and click the tab which now says "unwatch".

And there you have it - how to be immediately informed when your favourite articles or talk pages are edited!

= Stuff I'd recommend reading if you're new here =


 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Help pages
 * Tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style