Wikipedia:Historical archive/New user log/August 2004

hi
Been a memeber for a few weeks and still have found everything which is good in a way, but i spend too much time on this:-)

hi
My name is john sumner and i live in sunny south fla, i have neen a member for a few weeks and still have notn made a dent in this place:-)

Aranel
My name is Sarah and I actually have a (bachelor's) degree in physics. Armed with this specialized knowledge, I have been editing articles on such advanced scientific subjects as Neopets and Tolkien, having been shocked to discover that there is a special page just for Tolkien-related "stubs". I am trying very hard not to cause a horrible mess. Aranel 23:33, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Aloysius Patacsil
I live in Honolulu, Hawaii and enjoy reading and writing. Subjects that interest me include music, mathematics, physics, plainchant, history, liturgy, and language. Works that I've read in the past two years include: Les Misearbles by Victor Hugo; Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust; The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus; Das Orgelbüchlein by Johann Sebastian Bach; The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene; Hyperspace - A Scientific Oddysey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimensionby Michio Kaku.

MyNameIsNotBob
Hi! My real name is Adrian. I come from Australia. I am currently a school student so as yet I have very limited specialist knowledge. I was introduced to Wikipedia by my older brother who shares my passion for open source software.

I am always keen to help out in any open source project if I can and as I have limited programming skills I believe Wikipedia is one of the best ways to go about helping the open source community. My most common skills are in the areas of Graphic Design and P.A. & lighting for churches. I wouldn't class myself as an expert in either of those fields though.

ecoons
Hello everyone. I've been using Wikipedia for information for about the last year or so. I decided I'd like to start editing when I noticed there was no entry on the Honda CX500 motorcycle. I'm currently restoring one. My other interests are sculpture, submarines, national security, political theory, complexity and emergence, mythology and ancient diagrams. I hope I can be of help and look forward to contributing.

Ecoons 08:32, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Kinitawowi
Hey all. I'm Dave from Manchester, and I actually got into Wikipedia surprisingly recently - after Googling the article on the Universal Product Code won me a year's supply of beer! My interests are music, cult television (my user name is lifted from Red Dwarf) and retrogaming (which really needs an article; I might see about it).

Weatherman667
Howdy. I'm currently a CSci major at Malaspina University-College. I'd be a full fledged, DVD slut of a geek, if I could afford it. I spent some time in the militia; I'm not a soldier, but as a scholar pretending to be a soldier I learned a lot about military, military history, tactics, etc. I have been using (editing) Wikipedia for a while now, but I've just finally gotten around to signing up. Since I'm new at this, if I mess up, correct me.

Leperflesh
Long time listener: first time caller. I am a technical writer for a large software company, so I already write technical information all day long. I guess that just isn't enough for me, I'm a glutton for punishment.

I have a wide range of interests. I'll try to brainstorm and get most of them down.

Games, computer games, PC games, strategy computer games; board games, word games, pencil and paper games, role-playing games. Science, geology, astronomy, astrophysics, evolution, natural history, Stephen Jay Gould, archaeology, paleontology. Natural disasters. Sports, watching: american football, soccer, baseball; participating: archery, shooting, kubb. Toys, Lego, fake Lego, action figures. Telescopes. Travel, backpacking, hiking, auto touring, the United Kingdom, England, Scotland, Wales, California, the Bay Area. Bicycling. Speculative fiction; movies, books, games, toys. Fantasy: movies, books, games, toys. Computers: x86, IBM PC-Compatables, MS-DOS, Windows. BBSes. The Internet, the World Wide Web, Web standards, XML, markup, P2P, VoIP, the evolution of the Web, digital rights, IP Patents, 2600, Hacker culture, hacktivism. Computer hardware, AMD, overclocking, case modding. Music, classical music, techno, GOA Trance, heavy metal, classic rock, blues, sea chanteys. General technology; electronics, communications, PDAs, cars, low-fuel and alternative fuel technologies, transportation, energy, space exploration, genetic engineering, biotech. Blacksmithing: metallurgy, traditional methods, modern methods, forge welding, knives, weapons, armor. Writing; fiction, poetry, literature, essays, articles, technical writing and editing, professional writing, language, evolution of language. Arguments; discussions, logical fallacy, rules of order, debate, online discussions, forums. Online games; Gunbound, Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, popcap.com, World at War, other games. Comics and comic books; 1980-90 era Marvel comics, Calvin & Hobbes, webcomics. Politics; liberalism, libertarianism, conservatism, American politics, political history, the US Constitution, liberty, freedom, globalism, free trade, environmental politics, elections. The environment, and environmental protection, ecology. Endangered species. Ecology. Economics. The stock market, trading stocks, individual investor psychology, market regulation, derivitives, the global market.

I think that about covers it, at a first approximation. I hope to write and edit articles as time permits.

Shotsy
Hi, just signed up. I've come to Wikipedia in the past for information and thought that it might be fun to start contributing. My interests include music, movies, politics, lots of stuff really.

Shotsy 00:43, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Pjf
G'day Wikipedians. My name's Paul, I'm from Melbourne, Australia, and I've been lurking at wikipedia for a while. I teach Perl professionally, and run Perl Training Australia. My other interests include scuba diving, wild edible plants, homebrewing, chickens, and a vast number of plain old geeky topics.

I'll probably only be contributing infrequently, as I tend to have a busy travel schedule.

pjf 13:29, 2004 Aug 7 (UTC)

Amortize
Hi, my name is Chris and I'm from Birmingham in the UK. Amortize 15:59, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

is necessity the mother or is invention?
From the US, name's Lesley - interested in adding to the project where I can and where it seems interesting, in the areas of language, logic, Western/European/Near Eastern art, history, philosophy. A friend suggested contributing, before this I just used... 67.101.103.151 06:07, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)zorgalina


 * Hi! Would you like to form a user account?


 * Sam [Spade] 06:11, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Aesopian
Heyo,

I just started getting into Wikipedia because I have been using it to research martial arts, which just so happen to be my main area of interest. I'm training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at the moment.

My first real editing job was done on Ashida Kim. If anyone has the time, I would appreciate someone reviewing the changes I made and letting me know how I can improve. The article was heavily POV and borderline libel since its creation, so I did some quick work to try to get it NPOV (which is still a work in progress). You can read comments on why I changed the article in the Talk:Ashida Kim page.

Looking forward to contributing to the Wikipedia community. I've loved this site for a long time, and now I want to give some back.

Aesopian 16:26, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi,

Bruce Blakemore
Hi I heard about Wikipedia via NPR and stopped by to see what it was like. I am very impressed I looked in my area of knowlege and found the article to be reasonably accurate but the disscussion page was most illuminating. I hold a BS in chemistry and work as an automotive engineer. My area of "expertise" is battery technology. I have worked for almost 17 years in the battery field and I have worked in many different roles such as Nickel Cadmium design engineer and process manager, Lead Acid design, manufacturing and quality manager, Nickel Metal Hydride development, and Lithium Ion development. Within the battery world I have focused most of my efforts on electrode design, separator qualification and improvement, charging and controls, and manufacturing design and management. I presently work for a major Auto manufacturer in the hybrid vehicle design group and I work both ICE/Battery hybrid and Fuel Cell/Hybrid vehicles. I also spent 23 years in the military (combination of active and National Guard) serving as an officer branched first as an MP then Field Artillery Officer. I just use my email bblakemo and so far I have only added to the discussion page for the article on fuel cells.

violet/riga
Hey there, forgot to sign this and say hello a few days ago. I think I'm suffering from wikipediaholism (actually I think it's my lady that's suffering more tbh)! I'm currently going through the stage whereby everything I see/hear/do is quickly translated to "I wonder if there's an article about that on Wikipedia..." violet/riga 00:05, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Eliah
Wikipedia is a stunningly useful information resource (though I am slightly suspicious of the neutral POV policy). I pretty much only do copy-editing, though I have added bits of information here and there (mostly not signed in). If there is any coherent policy on whether punctuation goes inside or outside quotation marks, would somebody let me know?

Eliah 09:01, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Zsam
Hello fellow wikipedians. My name is Sam; I'm interested in quite a lot of subjects, but my main domain of competence is computer science. I am especially interested in programming languages, operating systems, computer architectures and history of these subjects. And last but not least in Free software.

Sam 10:54, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

O'Dubhghaill
Hi, I'm Sean O'Dubhghaill. I'm from Wexford in Ireland but live in London. I'm a student in computer science cause it beats stacking shelves. I have been using the mighty wikipedia for so long I should be punished for not contributing more but things are going to change I tell you :) I can't remember how i heard of it, sorry. Interests include programming, free software, ecology and natural history, politics, anarchism, democracy, the waterboys, folk music, rock, punk, hip-hop, afro beat, funk, metal, soul and so on (i ain't a fan of techno music and thats about it), american, irish, indian, mexican, english, scottish and welsh history, the discworld, bill bryson, noam chomsky, hurling, the zapatistas, woody guthrie, enviromentalism, animal rights, christianity and other religions, Cartoonists like steve bell, mark fiore, dilbert, fortrot, good comedy like billy connelly, richard pyror and a whole lot more. Total sum of knowledge on all the subjects above and much more: nil. But no worries I'll be alright. O'Dubhghaill 19:14, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

changlc
Hello all! Name's Loren. I'm a grad student in aerospace engineering, having crossed over to the Dark Side (read: applied science) after doing my undergrad work in physics. I've been working primarily on the articles related to Taiwan, where I lived for many years and still visit frequently.


 * Loren 04:39, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

TheHungryTiger
My name is John. I first heard of Wikipedia through a slashdot article and have been turning up pages off of google for some time now.

The mail goal I would like to work on here is tidying up the knots and knotcraft pages. I am into ropes and knots in a big way and think I can help a lot here. Aside from that, I think I would like to work on the "gruntwork" research for articles. My knoledge base is strong in alternitive science and comparitive religion.

I must warn everyone that my spelling is totaly rotten so dont expect me to help much in editing. Also, I am colorblind so any immage editing I will have to leave up to somebody else.

As far as my intrests go, I am a halway ok chess player and I enjoy cooking.

TheHungryTiger 06:57, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Rune
Nice free encyclopedia

Rune 10:01, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

theInfo
Hi. I'm a web designer and programmer currently living in New York City.

I've found Wikipedia extremely useful as a reference site, and recently joined as a way to return the favor. I'll be contributing articles on art, history, business, and technology.

I appreciate the similarity between Wikipedia and the guidebook in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Theinfo 21:40, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

KuriosD
Howdy... I've been dipping into the Wikipedia for a couple years now, and just decided to become involved today for no apparent reason. I'm a writer and student of philosophy living in the San Francisco bay area, with possibly too many interests to succintly list. My primary areas of interest are computer science, religion, philosophy, politics and art. I'll be spending the next couple weeks familiarizing myself with the tools here, and will hopefully be writing some articles in the not too distant future.

KuriosD 00:10, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

LizzieShupe
Well, my name's Lizzie. Joined not too long ago and have contributed a little, mostly just minor edits. I'm way into literature and history and I have a massive penchant for whiny indie music. My favorite poet is Percy Shelly and I can put on a spectacular pyrotechnics show with a couple of grapes and a microwave.

Lizzie 02:21, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

AllyUnion
I've been using Wikipedia for some time now, I figured to sign up and help out with this large scale project.

Allyunion 22:20, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Bjoern
My name is Björn Feuerbacher; I've got a PhD in physics. I did both my Master and my PhD thesis in theoretical particle physics, but now I am working in theoretical chemistry. So, I've got knowledge in particle and nuclear physics, including quantum field theory, and also in atomic and molecular physics (although my knowledge of chemistry isn't so good...). During my study, I was also interested very much in astronomy, especially cosmology, and heard many lectures on that, so that I feel qualified to participate in discussion about these topics, too.

Other interests beside all these areas of physics include the history of science, the creation/evolution controversy, science fiction and fantasy, and cooking.

In the last weeks, I participated a bit on a discussion on the page about the universe, specifically about the age of the universe, and now finally decided to join as a new user, since that facilitates the discussion probably. I don't know what I will do in the future here - for now, my main interest is to clear up the confusion on this issue. Bjoern 11:42, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

AlvinMGO
Hello.

My name is Alvin McGovern-Orzechowski.

The hyphenated name is because if I am performing or teaching, I use the name Alvin McGovern, otherwise I use the name Alvin Orzechowski. My family and friends know me by both names.

In addition to performing and teaching, I am also a computer programmer, and in April 2004 I started a web page design business. My interests are omnigenous, but my top five (in no particular order) are: music, comparative religions, computer programming, and history. Okay, that was only four. So the fifth one must be humor.

I also like to write, and hopefully I can make a more significant contribution to WikipediA than this personal introduction.

Edsanville
Hi, I am currently a graduate student at Dartmouth College, studying computational chemistry. I'm mostly interested in Chemistry, Physics (especially quantum mechanics), and math and biology to a somewhat lesser extent.

I think this wikipedia is a great idea, and it seems to be growing at an incredible rate. I'm honored to be a part of the creation of a resource that will no doubt become a very powerful tool someday. This is a wonderful gift to the part of the human race which thirsts for knowledge. Oh, and always remember,

$$c^2\nabla \times \mathbf{B}=\frac{j}{\epsilon _0}+\frac{\partial \mathbf{E}}{\partial t}$$

Linn
Hello, I am Linn and I joined Wikipedia and Wiktionary a few days ago, simply because I love the idea of creating a source of knowledge, which can be accessible for anyone. Currently I´m working as a translator. I´m interested in almost everything, and I have always liked various kinds encyclopedias and dictionaries.

wombat says hi
I am an alpaca farmer fiddler linux meme geek cognitive philosopher java programmer recluse muddle-headed renaissance wombat dabbling in genetic algorithms artifical intelligence and occasionally the real kind.

Má tá Gaeilge agat, féach ar mo bhlog

Newbie :-)
My name is Rebecca. I'm from Lawn Guyland (say it aloud), but attend Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. I just found Wikipedia a few days ago, and I'm already addicted. Apparently, so is my brother because he called me last night to tell me that he sees I've discovered Wikipedia. What a stalker!

My primary areas of knowledge are television (especially The Simpsons) and pop culture in general. It seems that everything I know about more academic subjects has already been posted. I hope to make some contributions to more academic pages soon, but for now I'm sticking to those things that I know better than most other people.

SmartyRG 18:29, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)Rebecca

Smyth
I'm Malcolm Smith. My interests are mainly computing-related, but looking at my contributions so far it seems I end up editing anything that catches my eye. I was pulled into Wikipedia by the incredible ease of contributing; was particularly impressed that you didn't need to sign up or register to modify pages. The utter simplicity of the idea is beautiful.

thefirstmovement
I am new here, and that's about it.

-Thefirstmovement 09:19, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

pwentzel
I'm Patrick, from Sweden. I'm interested in politics, music and a lot of other stuff. I'm studying political science right now. I'm an addict of Wikipedia :-)

Pwentzel 11:19, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Suse
Hi, I found out about Wikipedia a few days ago and am thrilled to bits. As I child (a long time ago) one of my favorite things to do was to pull out an encyclopedia volume, open to a random page and start reading. So you can imagine my joy now. Google is not bad, but sometimes one has to wade through many pages, in order to obtain what one needs to know.

I think I would mostly merge pages and expand stubs into substubs. Leave the editing and the in depth writing to the better than me.

cheers :)

simply "wow"
wow! Just discovered Wikipedia. This is truly amazing. Kudos to the talented developers who developed the s/w, and kudos to the content providers. To quote a famous actor / governor: "I'll be back!".

-keith steward

Beirne
I have gotten hooked on the Wikipedia and have been contributing when something hits me. My areas of interest are Summit County and northeast Ohio history, the Chinese language, corporate history, and computer science (my actual career). I don't actually know how I heard about the Wikipedia. It has just always been there. I previously contributed to Everything, but I like the editing procedure here much better.

Lemuel 12:34, Aug 25, 2004 (UTC)

New User: Imoen
Hello! My name's Viki and you can take a look at my userpage but there's not much there yet. I found Wikipedia because my good friend James has been here for ages and has been on at me to contribute to some of the biology stuff (that being my area of dubious expertise). So right now I'm working on a bunch of articles in the epidemiology category, working up to a big one on mathematical modelling of epidemics. I'm game for anything, though. --Viki 10:50, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Soloist
Hi, I've been a user of the fantastic Wikipedia for about a month now. Though my area of expertise is in Physics I have found that the quality and accuracy of nearly all the Physics pages are pretty much the best on the Internet. Not only are they thorough they also are as detailed and due to the constant tweaking of the text as easy to read as most physics text books. So there seems very little I could add. My knowledge of local places can be used though to create a detailed first hand account of something I know a lot about; where I live. Though I did violate some copywrites in an over eager attempt to pad out an article with as much information as possible, I have learnt my lesson and stick to my own accounts.

--User:Soloist 16;55, 26 Aug 2004 (BST)

Olaf_Fritz
I discovered Wikipedia just a few days ago while "googling around". I am very impressed, I like this concept. My special interests are chemistry and all types of natural sciences, but I can also assist in English/German translations, especially related to technical terms. So much to explore! Olaf Fritz 19:40, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Huge queues for taxis.
Hi!

I love the wikipedia. It knows everything. But it could always know more, right? I hope to improve it with my photographic memory for the pointless and an eye (or ear) for improvement.

Sticks and stones will break your bones - debate will break your meme. - Jesus prince of yaoi 21:38, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

mvdhout
Hi! My name is Marco van den Hout, I live in Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands. My primary interests are (rock) music, photography, drama, airliners and old homecomputers. I've done some minor edits before and decided to register myself for some more work :) mvdhout 12:20, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Bamber Gascoigne
Wikipedia is a brilliant idea and a great adventure. I shall be linking to it from my own large website, www.historyworld.net, and so will from time to time add content to a history article - or correct an error if I happen to notice one.


 * It's an honour to have you on board! Welcome! You might be interested to read about creating an account, but that's by no means necessary for contributing. Thank you for the edits you have made so far. &mdash; Trilobite (Talk) 00:01, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Missing Information
Irrelavant posting moved to Talk:Death toll.

Gday all
I'm Jimmy Dodd from Australia. My interests are sports, movies, tv, rock music and other various enterprises. I am shocked to discover that the Australia Rugby page is down on alot of information so I plan to work on that first.

Spalding
Hello everyone,

I have been coming across wikipedia more and more often in Google search results, and today I became fascinated with it, so here I am.

I'm an engineer with an interest in Human Factors, so I would like to peruse and help out in that area by adding some stuff. Bicycling and music are also interest areas of mine. I have always been interested in good biographies of people, and the ones I have seen here are excellent. There are quite a few I would like to add, or at least add stubs. But how do you come up with public domain pictures for people?

This is all somewhat overwhelming in scope, so I hope I don't do anything wrong. I would like to just add a little snippet here and there if there is something I know that that I think others would like to know. I hope that's ok. I love the idea of this project and I am looking forward to getting involved. Spalding 01:29, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC) ____

Fourthtroika
Hi. You guys have it all over the BrainyEncyclopedia. You actually have a search feature! And contributing articles is great for those of us that have Writer's Block and want to keep busy. Currently working on a new article now and loving it! Fourthtroika 06:19, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * BrainyEncyclopedia! Like just about every other encyclopedia site out there "BrainyEncyclopedia" is actually entirely made up of content copied from here. Trilobite (Talk) 23:41, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

rhyax
Hi. I signed up a while ago but am really just now doing anything. I love wikipedia and use it a lot, but now I feel like helping out some. I am a cytogenetic technologist at a cancer hospital. I also have a degree in Microbiology. rhyax 11:25, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Martymar
I found Wikipedia because it was a discussion thread on the Rich Mullins discussion group. I work part-time at a church and hope to go to seminary. I do a LOT of research on the Internet. My interests are worship music, reading, and hiking. Martymar 23:57, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC) ____

LegService
I am new, so if I don't act right, please don't think I'm being obnoxious on purpose. I just don't know any better.

--LegCircus 00:39, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)

philip00
Live in London. Interested in Art history, particularly Early Renaissance painting, which seems a little thin in places. So that should be fun. I work in IT (I'm flattered to discover some Wikipedia links to my own pages), so it's fascinating seeing how all this works.