User:Jokestress
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Hi! I'm Andrea.
I am a writer and consumer activist based in Los Angeles. I consider Wikipedia one of the most important online projects happening right now, and I am delighted to do what I can to contribute. My interests include issues related to film and literature, scientific methodology, consumer fraud and medical quackery, skeptical inquiry, gender, hair removal, humor, bioethics, cymatics, and probably several other things since I wrote this. One of my favorite things to do on Wikipedia is to follow links wherever they take me. Thanks to all who have contributed to this important step forward in the propagation of human knowledge!
I hate seeing a red link in an article, so I usually click on it and start an entry if I can find enough information.
My favorite Wikipedia moment (so far)
For some reason, I got all fascinated with the revelation that W. Mark Felt was Deep Throat in late May 2005, which led to a great collaboration on his biography with dozens of other Wikipedians. The article was even mentioned in the Washington Post the next day:
- "Wikipedia's many volunteer editors weren't napping on the job as the W. Mark Felt story broke on Tuesday. A new entry (created yesterday, in fact) on the former associate FBI director and bona fide Deep Throat went up with great dispatch. A glance at the entry shows a clean, dry biography on Felt along with the circumstances of his involvement with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate series. It is not the first time that Wikipedia has tried to function as a sage tome of encyclopedic knowledge on breaking events, but it almost certainly is one of the most prominent, at least on its English-language site."
- Encyclopedia Immediata (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060100491_2.html), in the "Random Access" column by Robert MacMillan, 1 June 2005.
That's pretty cool!
I hope you will get involved and make additions or corrections when you see an opportunity. Drop me a note on my talk page!