Wikipedia:Historical archive/New user log

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Chocolate_bar

I live in an English-speaking country and have extensive experience writing in the English language. My experience includes some knowledge of mark-up languages and plenty of experience in various networked communication environments, including some experience with the psychology of asynchronous network communications. While we often strive to be real in these contexts, I know a lot of the work communicating with a diverse readership is simple show business, and the less people know about the real me, sometimes the better. Using chocolate bar as a user name is a down-and-dirty way to use written words to present as a figure nearly everyone associates with pleasant experiences. If you get some on your fingers, go ahead and lick it off, but please don't smear me on the furniture. ;-) Chocolate bar

Diberri

Hi everyone! I live in Southern California, USA, recently earned a bachelor's degree in physiology, and am currently applying to medical school. I've been hopelessly addicted to Wikipedia for just a few months now (I stumbled upon Wikipedia through a Google search for BAPTA and long-term potentiation), and I don't plan on rehabilitating any time soon. (In fact, I'm getting rather used to my girlfriend's routine inquiry, "So what did you do on Wikipedia today?")

I regularly contribute to topics in medicine and physiology, and am especially interested in learning and memory. As a long-time Perl programmer, I'm also considering whether to devote some time to a Perl-based MediaWiki-esque project. We'll see where that road leads... --Diberri 00:28, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

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Sundar

Hello Wikipedia! I'm Sundar living in Bangalore. I did my Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering and doing my internship at Yahoo! as part of my Post graduation in the Indian Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore.

The things I like most about Wikipedia are true democracy, collective rationality and ease of use. I'm looking at it not just from the stand point of getting to know things, but to see how it evolves as the sum of human knowledge. I'm kind of experimenting with it. One grudge I've about Wikipedia is that the ratio of the amount of information on Cities and people to the amount of material on abstract and scientific issues is huge. I came to this conjecture after finding instances of the former class more often in the Random Page section than that of the latter.

BTW, I stumbled upon Wikipedia while searching for Context-free grammar in Google.

-- Sundar 08:08, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

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Hi everybody,

I am currently a student at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. I was born and raised in East Germany but moved here about 5 years ago. I may go back to Europe soon, who knows. I found this page by doing a search on the History of Greece and immediately set it as my home page. I hope that I will be able to contribute in various areas and help growing the site.

Yardcock 16:30, 01 Apr 2004

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Slowking Man

Hello! I'm a high school student from California. I was linked to Wikipedia from a message board, and was intrigued by its open participation. I plan to focus upon revising and editing. Who knows, maybe I'll write some stuff too. Slowking Man 03:07, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)

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Hello my name is Yago, I'm from Switzerland im interested into history, multimedia (grafik + technik), digital photography, digital-art, and politics. Since iv seen this project i think its great, i love the idea!

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scottryan

Howdy -- Scott Ryan here. I've been writing content for several of the philosophy entries (particularly Brand Blanshard and related entries) and I thought I might as well create a user account.

I'm forty years old, I've got undergraduate and graduate degrees in math/computer science, I've been working in the electronic database industry for about fifteen years, and I'm about to complete a law degree.

Scottryan 17:11, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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PurpleHeather

Hello there! I discovered Wikipedia a week ago, and I've been cheerfully hopping since then. I'm a teacher in Manchester and I'm interested in education, drumming (I play djembe and djun-djun among others) and dyspraxia. I am to have a go at writing an article for dyspraxia, but being dyspraxic I might need some help to make it NPOV! PurpleHeather 20:50, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Uncutsaniflush

Oh my stars and satellites, where do I start?

In the beginning, there was uncutsaniflush? Nah, that would be too obvious. And, I suspect the punters wouldn't be satisfied!

I was born in Poland and live in the U.S. I am interested in music of all kinds but, in my heart of hearts, I reckon I will always have a soft spot for punk. I'm old enough to have seen the Clash live.

How did I find out about Wikipedia? I reckon I must have first heard about it on Slashdot a year or two ago. My wife tells me that I am a Linux geek but compared to the geeks on Slashdot I figure that I am one step above a "newbie"

Why have I started editing here? After months of bitching and moaning that there weren't articles about subjects that I was interested in, it finally dawned on me that I could do something more than just complain.

At any rate, that's the story so far. And I'm sticking with it.

uncutsaniflush 01:59, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Marxist

Hi. I'm not really new here, as I have been editing various entries for a month now, but I only recently made an account. On the recommendation of a guy named Chris Roy I decided I should introduce myself, so heres a little about me. I am a 15 year old student with interests in just about everything, but mainly Japan and Warfare.

Marxist 3 Apr 2004

blankfaze

bonjour, i'm new to wikipedia. i've used wikipedia before, because it's awesome, but not until today did i decide to start contributing.

btw, i think the whole wiki idea is incredible... to think that a project could be everyone's instead of being owned by someone... i love to community aspect of wiki.

anyways, i'm going to try to add to wikipedia whenever i can, to make it even better.

so far i've written articles on: henry lee (criminologist), ron brown (u.s. sec. of commerce), jimmy mchugh {songwriter},

i've also made additions to several other pages.

so. i'm done then. ! blankfaze

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Ex_Ottoyuhr

The terror of rec.arts.books.tolkien for about two weeks in June 2002, under my original alias of Ottoyuhr, and a regular there for quite some time before and after. Intermittent poster elsewhere in Usenet, and mostly dormant regarding the Internet. I still dream that I'll be recognized by that name someday...

My main areas of interest are anthropology, literature, computers, and Early Modern history, but unfortunately, all of these seem reasonably well covered already. I don't know how much I'll be able to contribute.

--ExOttoyuhr 02:37, Apr 5, 2004 (UTC)

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Antandrus

Hi everyone! My name is David; I just found Wikipedia today and have had quite a bit of fun browsing through things; perhaps I will be able to contribute. I have a masters and doctorate in music composition, and will be happy to write in the fields of Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th Century-classical music theory, history, orchestration, performance practice, and so forth ... I'm sure there is a lot I can help with; let me know if there is anything specific you know about already with which I could assist. I'm also moderately capable in English literature, world history, philosophy, and various aspects of computer science.

I'm happy to help, and quite impressed with what is here already.

Antandrus 03:40, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Mustafaa

Hi everyone! I'm mostly on ar:, but always happy to work on en:, especially if it relates to linguistics or North Africa... Mustafaa 00:45, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Connell the Barbarian

Howdy folks - I live in Santa Cruz, California, and my interests are Anthropology, Archaeology, Etymology, Queer Studies, Mormonism and other American cults, Paganism, choppin low-rider bicycles, and traditional skinhead (the anti-racist variety) culture. Keep on skankin'....Conn

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Thomas Veil

Hi all. Nice that there is a welcoming committee - thanks for the welcome and the starter infos. I found Wikipedia long ago via google - but only recently with the help of an article I realized what the core idea of a Wiki is. I just love the idea and instantly started to do some small contributions.

I am from Germany - so my English is a bit bumpy (but thats no problem here I guess, since there are a lot people brushing up the texts). As I work as artist in game development my contributions will be on the geeky side ;-) - games, TV shows, science, art

BTW: Is it possible to get an auto-notification when someone adds something to my Talk Page? I wont be looking there very often I think.

Thomas 22:41, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

John McLean

I've been using Wiki for nearly two years now, but recently decided I needed to start contributing. My current interest is Central Asia, so I've started work on a series of pages about Central Asian explorers and the players in the Great Game.

ThreeTrees

I claim no special knowledge. I don't even know my own password -- for my old user ID, User:RoyV. I am still a beginner. I am still sceptical. I anticipate I will be mainly correcting mispeled wrods.

I don't remember how I heard about Wikipedia, but it was probably through a Google search. I do remember having vaguely heard of Wikis , but it never made an impression on me until Wikipedia.

I keep forgetting to add things... ThreeTrees 05:39, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

sway

i just plan to add information to other lacking entries, and add some entries that are missing. meep!

Hello

Hello, My name is ALex. I live in monmouth count New Jersey, USA.

I am webmaster of http://www.dahobo.tk

Maver1ck

I'm Maver1ck from Sweden. 26 years, interests include astronomy, computers and science in general. In fact I'm strongly in favour of science as the best method to gain knowledge about the universe, and therefor I reject pseudoscience, religion and superstition. When it comes to computers, I favour VB and C as programming languages. Maver1ck 08:46, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Madmagic

Hi. Glad to be here and thanks to Jrdioko for the kind welcome. I'm taking some time to learn how Wikipedia works, and learning by doing minor edits for spelling and grammar, and by filling in links to existing Wikipedia pages.

My current interest is Canadian Military History. I'd like to see this subject as comprehensively documented, organized and well-linked as the US and British military history pages. Here's to Copyleft! Madmagic 20:29, 2004 Apr 10 (UTC)

Arbiter

Hey there. I’ve been using Wiki for a few months now and thought it was about time I got contributing. I’m a mathematics student at Churchill, Cambridge and have a miscellany of mundane interests. See you around.

Arbiter 23:54, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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WhiteDragon

Hi. I mostly plan on fixing minor typos and things like that, but occasionally I make a non-minor edit. WhiteDragon 02:17, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

heavy_chariot

Hi, I am Bharath from India (Karnataka state). I am doing my post-graduation in Computer science and Engg. at IIT Madras, India. I am interested in networking, OS, computer arch and compilers. I am also interested in Indian history and Indian classical music. Heavy chariot 04:46, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Piotrus

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Greetings!

My interests? SF, science (economy, politics, sociology), history

Areas of knowledge? Well...so far I think my knowledge of XVII century Poland may be of use here.

See u around!

Piotrus 12:04, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Setokaiba

Salvete. I am Setokaiba. I am from Welwyn Garden City, in England, and discovered Wikipedia from seaching for IT terms on Google. I am interested in video games, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Latin, to a certain extent, Ancient Greek, Fantasy novels, and grammar. I have contributed to these articles so far, both anonamously and under my usernsme:
Obelisk the Tormentor
Slifer the Sky Dragon
The Winged Dragon Of Ra

Setokaiba 15:50, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Thorn969

Hello, I'm Thorn, writing from Tampa, Florida (USA), where I live. I am finishing my final year of High School and will be going to New College of Florida. I'm interested in Science Fiction and Fantasty books, Politics, sometimes math, and mostly trivia in general. I found it after doing a Google search on anarcho-communists, as my friend claimed to be one and I wanted to learn more about the philosophy. Browsing other definitions, I saw some controversies that interested me and decided to join so I could help keep the articles fair and neutral. Later, viewing random pages turned up stuff that interested me that I expanded on, as the articles were rather short.--Thorn 20:57, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Bluppfisk

Evening! I am Bluppfisk, and in my profile page you may find the more relevant information about me. Just announcing I'm here! Yay!

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Bluppfisk 23:10, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

tpbradbury 23:30, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

my name is Tom. I found out about wikipedia from a friend. interests: economics (undergraduate degree at Cambridge, England) film, wittgenstein, philosophy, meta-wikipedia, experience.

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Carruthers

Hi, my name is David. I'm from Toronto, Canada and I found out about the wikipedia through a Google search. I'm interested in economics, politics, history (particularly 1815 and onwards), and all things Canadian.

Cheers, Carruthers 01:43, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

CD

I'm a weirdo with weird ideas some left some right.

do like

FDR Clinton (the president not the man) BSA

don't like

politically fueled historical revisonism nut jobs math

drbruce

Hi, Im drbruce. I was trained as an anthropologist, but teach middle school math and computers instead on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia. I just found out about Wikipedia last week and have jumped in by adding a few paragraphs about Sumbawa to the stub that was there. The concept behind Wikipedia is super, and I'm looking forward to being involved with it.

MichaelD

Hello everyone. I'm a college student from NJ, US. I study religion and sociology in college and on my own time extensively. I love music and have a lot of knowledge about various topics within music. So far I've contributed a few articles on shoegazer bands that were missing, which I plan on expanding in the future.

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JoJan

Hello, I have joined the Wikipedia community very recently. My main interest is the taxonomy of fauna and flora, while giving at the same time their common names. I have already made some contributions and hope to make a lot more. More than thousand pages on this subject are waiting to be put on Wikipedia. Help by other taxonomists would be very welcome, to review the articles before being published. Besides all this, I have numerous other interests like : physics, astronomy, cosmology, computers, website-building and reading a lot (mostly SF).

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Mumblemore

Greetings, I joined up on April 12,same day as I found out there was such a thing as WikiPedia, which I feel is a good way to go until something even more exciting comes up. I'm a bloody magpie when it comes to interests, picking them up if they look shiny and new and then forgetting them in the nest Just now I'm into Talmud,17th century music,classical (BC 200-AD 400 roughly) Latin,but my staple interests are Buffy the Vampire Slayer,the art of medicine, operating computers,writing,drawing,contemp.politics. I'm very old by contemporary standards, but feel awkward when confronted with rich and powerful people anyway,(or badly trained policemen). I'm not too healthy, and not too well off,and can imitate very few animals. Mumblemore 18:02, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)~ Mumblemore 18:27, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Daniel,levine

Hi, I'm from New Jersey. I like science, history, and jewish studies. I had been here for a while thanks to my brother, User:andrewlevine. I poster just with my IP Address then decided that I might as well join. Pages I've started include Jewish holidays and List of Jewish Prayers and Blessings. Daniel,levine

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Kolomonggo

Hi, I am from Indonesia. I am an employee of a private company in my city, Surabaya. I am very interested in Wikipedia for I can share what I know to the world. I love linguistics, demography, geography and social culture. Wikipedia should promote more so that all people in the world can access it. If you want to know me more, please meet me and mail me.

Regards,

PS : Kolomonggo in Javanese means spider (esp black widow one)

Iceager

I think I'll go by Jongseong, pronounced as if written in German but pronounced by French speakers, with nasalised vowels (roughly as Yong-say-ong), as that was what I was called when I was a little boy in Geneva. I have really varied interests, including languages, music, history, football, and all sorts of random topics. I do most work on the Korean Wikipedia, but have also edited French, Swedish, and Simplified English entries among others.

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Lydgate

Hi, I'm a sophomore at Princeton, interested in philosophy, literature, and finance, but haven't declared a major yet. I'm from Orange County, CA. I am a computer guy, just started putting stuff on Wikipedia, this place is pretty sweet. I've started a couple pages already, one on one of Tolstoy's What Is Art? and a few others. Great to be involved.

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xinit

Been providing minor edits for a while, and starting to see how addictive this bloody thing can be. I'm a big fan of removing POV from articles so far, which is proving difficult on a number of pieces like Hardcore_punk. Amazing how music can be so damned political... well, the music FANS anyhow.

Anyhow, currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia, working in UNIX Systems Administration. Odd. Systems Administration and sysadmin don't exist? That's simply unbelieveable...

Xinit 02:05, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Mattk

I've always been a fan of trivia and general knowledge, so Wikipedia was perfect for me. Already made a page on David Gaunson.

I study at Sydney Grammar School if that's interesting. I forgot how I found this site but my first visit was sometime late last year

Cyber-It

Hi, I'm a new italian wikipedian, I don't speak English well for the moment, i hope to learn your language soon, so I will be able to help you in this "encyclopedic" and "galactic" enterprise.

Ciao!

Cyber-It 06:00, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Hello!

I'm a year-long reader and lover of Wikipedia. I think Wikipedia is the most amazing idea on the Internet in ages! I LOVE the idea that people can contribute their knowledge, or fill in the gaps in the articles, or even dispute articles. I think the free exchange of ideas is the only thing that can assure the continued survival of the human race, and am completely opposed to the repression of the intellect.

Ok, now that that is out of the way, my interests are: all growing things (esp trees and my garden), geology, HISTORY (currently Nazism, but was heavily into the Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Viking Age, early American, etc etc--I love it all), music (fanatical music collector, esp Brit Pop of late), compulsively reading everything, and raising my daughter to be an intellectually free human being in an oppressive environment (Central Florida). I'm also a bit vain.

That's about it, because I'm starting to bore myself (and probably you) with my intro! :)

--SandraP

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Hi, I'm Marnie Webb. I work for a nonprofit organization that provides technology assistance to other nonprofits. I've been thinking alot about group knowledge and how nonprofits can harness the wisdom of others. How they can open up their content and invite others to improve it, change it, use it, and, in turn, share it with the community. I've been wanting to engage in Wikipedia because I think it's an excellent example of that type of community knowledge exchange.

I'm interested in other things as well: Comic books, the San Diego Padres and the San Francisco Giants, tennis, books, creative writing, short stories, the creative writing of short stories, dogs, and California.

Marniewebb 00:07, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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WachterZ

Hello! I'm a student in a rural Pennsylvania town. I'm knowledgable in history, both U.S. and world, and specialize in interpretations of history. I find history fascinating because the same set of facts can have so many different interpretations, and these interpretations can and do effect the present and future - on various levels. I learned about Wiki from a friend, and look forard to contributing all I can. Wikipedia already has so many great articles on history. I intend to add to this greatness by fitting in different interpretations of events, and the reasons and facts behind these (in a non-bias point of view, of course), so that a reader will have a greater area of knowledge of the subject from which to derive his or her own conclusions. I'll do my best not to screw up :)

WachterZ 01:02, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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perurudragoon

Hello I am a student from Pennsylvania and I have been reading Wikipedia for about one year now. I enjoy history (especially German and Russian) and I love to read Science Fiction novels and short stories. Some of my favorite authors include Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, Ben Bova, and Arthur C. Clarke.

I hope that I will be able to add to the history content on Wikipedia and add a lot of information about some science fiction books.

Savant1984

Hello all, I'm a Philosophy student from the western US. My interests extend to pretty much anything in liberal arts academia, but especially philosophy, religion, and politics. I'm also a geek for English grammar, spelling, etc. -- I proofread for fun. I found out about Wikipedia by various websearches and coming up with Wikipedia as an hit. I think it's a great project. :)

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Hi from Delip. My interests are mathematics, physics, computer science and carnatic music. Delip 08:55, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Karnataka, India