User talk:SomervilleTom

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Happy editing! Mackensen (talk) 15:00, 28 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I appreciate the quick response and helpful links.
 * Although this is my first signup with Wikipedia (I think!), I coincidentally have relatively deep experience using various Wiki instances.
 * In the primordial mists of the past, I worked and socialized with Ward Cunningham during our Smalltalk years (starting in 1982). I was therefore one of the first users of his original C2 wiki in 1997 (cf https://wiki.c2.com/?TomStambaugh). With Ward's encouragement, I spun up one of the first Wiki clones in 1997. Some colleagues and I added some significant extensions when we spun up the same code for use by scientists striving to sequence the human genome for the first time at the turn of the century.
 * So I have relatively deep experience with the "big ideas" of Wiki. I'm curious to see how Wikipedia has approached some of the challenges that have faced Wiki maintainers from the very beginning. SomervilleTom (talk) 15:16, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Fascinating, thanks for the background! I started here in 2003 (which at the time felt somewhat late, it doesn't now), and I think someone who left in 2005 and came back in 2020 would find it unrecognizable. Still, it persists.
 * Regarding the Ethan Allen Express, I have to wonder if you encountered Amtrak's typical Sunday-morning maintenance cycle. It often interrupts booking if you're on early, East Coast time. I was on the first train going north to Burlington back in July, and I was worried for a moment that the problems with the warehouse in Albany had somehow returned. Mackensen (talk) 15:23, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I've been having the same problem for about two weeks.
 * I have family living in Burlington, and I had hoped to book midweek travel (I live in Boston) the last week in September.
 * I've joined the "Rail Passengers Association" in hopes that I can channel my frustration into constructive engagement. SomervilleTom (talk) 15:29, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I find that Burlington (BTN) to Boston (BOS) is bookable in both directions in September. It's not a great schedule, as you (currently) have to change in New York. Are you using those endpoints? Mackensen (talk) 16:41, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah -- I love wikipedia!
 * The incorrect station code was the issue. I just booked my trip!
 * Thank you so much for following through on this!
 * I added some text to that effect on the wikipedia page. SomervilleTom (talk) 21:34, 28 August 2022 (UTC)