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==Highland Games== |
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[[Image:VancouverLadiesPB.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Vancouver Ladies Pipe Band marches into competition at the Pacific Northwest Highland Games in the early 1990s]] |
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Although my main contributions to Wikipedia thus far have been in the area of Women's cycle racing area (see below), my principal future activities will likely be connected with the Scottish Highland Games. |
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One of my main goals with respect to Highland Games activities is to improve the reporting of results of competitions, especially the athletic competitions. If these events are to take their place as serious sporting activities and be recognized as such (as they should), then it is necessary that there be developed a system of same or next day reporting of results. Only in this way can a fan base be fully developed and serviced. The collaborative potential of the Wiki software provides the basis for doing just this. |
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A number of photographs taken by myself have been posted to the various articles on women's cycle racing. Most of these were obtained at the Women's Challenge race between the years 1998 and 2002, the last year in which that race was held. In addition, I obtained a number of photos at the Sea Otter Classic and at the Tour of Willamette. |
A number of photographs taken by myself have been posted to the various articles on women's cycle racing. Most of these were obtained at the Women's Challenge race between the years 1998 and 2002, the last year in which that race was held. In addition, I obtained a number of photos at the Sea Otter Classic and at the Tour of Willamette. |
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My current work in this field is in the area of videography and centers mainly around the Scottish Highland Games. |
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Revision as of 23:40, 2 June 2005
Wikipedia Interests, areas of knowledge
- Women's cycle racing (wikipedia) - first contribution March 2005
- Russian language
Internet experience
- HTML, CSS, C++ (current study), web site maintenance and promotion
Computers
- 486 (Windows 3.1) - until very recently, still used for some Internet work (using Opera 3.62 browser)
- i586 (Linux)
- iMac (OS 9)
- PowerMac G5 (Mac OS X 10.3)
Women's cycle racing
Formerly, in the late 1990s, I was the webmaster of Mari Holden's official web site at http://www.mariholden.com. And, for a number of years, until mid-2003, I maintained the Palmarès of Elite Women Cycle Racers web site. This web site was the largest site on the web devoted exclusively to women's cycle racing, attracting between three and four thousand site visits per week.
Much of the material obtained in support of the former Palmares web site (that which is suitable for inclusion in the Wikipedia), including many dozens of photos, will be made available under free license terms on Wikipedia.
Articles created
Dede Barry - Jochen Dornbusch - Mari Holden - Susanne Ljungskog - Rasa Polikeviciute - Edita Pucinskaite - Rebecca Twigg - Diana Ziliute - Women's Challenge - Grande Boucle - Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Feminin - World Championship of Road Cycling (women) - World Championship of Track Cycling (women) - World Championship of Mountain Biking (women) - World Championship of Cyclo-cross Racing (women) - World Cup of Road Cycling (women)
Major edits
Women's cycle racing (created category) - Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Sports in Lithuania - Jeannie Longo - Kathy Watt
Images uploaded
Note on sources
The Palmarès of Elite Women Cycle Racers web site, although no longer available, but with much of the material probably available through archive.org (look for wcrpalmares.org), is the immediate basis for much of the data regarding women cycle racers which I am in the process of posting.
But the primary source (and the basis for the data on the Palmarès web site itself) consists mainly of official race results as reported from official sources and posted on the official race web site for the given races. For results prior to about 1998, Alfred North's data, as reported on the former cyclebase.nl web site was extensively used. At tmes, other sources, such as radsport.de, were also used in the compilation of the data on the Palmarès web site.
Further sources include the UCI web site (http://www.uci.ch), especially for more recent data and, where available, the riders' own web sites. In many instances, I asked the riders themselves to check over the data as reported on the Palmarès web site and report back with any errors they might find. In only one instance did a rider request that a correction be made. First, in that case, I added a result not previously known to me. And secondly, the rider reported that she had finished in 2nd place in a time trial, while the Palmarès web site data indicated that she had won the race. A check with the race director of the race in questin revealed that the Palmarès web site was in fact correct and the rider was thus able to correct her own resumè based on the Palmarès data!
The bottom line is: I have a high degree of confidence in the accuracy of the posted data. A true and correct copy will be kept available on my hard drive, so that it will always be available in case of need.
Photography, Videography
A number of photographs taken by myself have been posted to the various articles on women's cycle racing. Most of these were obtained at the Women's Challenge race between the years 1998 and 2002, the last year in which that race was held. In addition, I obtained a number of photos at the Sea Otter Classic and at the Tour of Willamette.