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Me
- Maths lecturer at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Based at Ourimbah campus, a multi-sector campus shared by the University of Newcastle, TAFE NSW and the Central Coast Community College.
- Double Bassist - Classical and Jazz. (
Gotta fix that article getting there)
Me and WikipediA
Previously a sporadic skimmer of wikipedia, I took the plunge on 18:26, 4 Aug 2003 with MetaPost. Not intending to be a hard-core wikipedian, you can find some of my contributions below
My claim to fame/shame on Wikipedia
I started the page 1729 (number) (aka 1729 (anecdote)) in November 2003. I included a note about classifying numbers as interesting/uninteresting, as it had crossed my mind to list on the page (or section as it was then) for 38 that its only interesting property was that it was the smallest uninteresting number. At the time wikipedia had "interesting" properties listed for all numbers 1 to 37 (disclaimer: some of these I wrote). So this was not an original thought, just a whimsical comment on the process of identifying interesting properties for numbers to put in wikipedia.
This page lead to an edit war way out of proportion with the innocuous content:
None of this has improved my original half-arsed article terribly much. There has been months of activity on this material, and yet little or no new content, only bickering about tightening up the semantics of a construction that was clearly intended to be an amusing observation based on a sloppy definition. As a result, there is now just a mess of overlapping pages with trivial differences, protected pages and protected redirections to empty protected pages. Want my opinion?
- People who want to cooperate should figure out how to cooperate.
- People who don't want to cooperate are free to grab the wikimedia code and the wikipedia database and run their own wiki server behind a firewall where they are God and can purge it of all content contributed by their sworn enemies.
There, I've said it, now I'll shut up about it.
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As the mood takes me, I may be writing/editing the following at some point
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