User:Minesweeper
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NOTE: I've curtailed my editing recently (since mid-2004) for several reasons:
Having said that, the itch to contribute never quite abates, and my editing will continue on a limited basis. |
Greetings! I am a lifelong resident of California and am currently attending the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science.
UCB-Campus-small.jpg
Panorama of the eastern part of UC Berkeley
I stumbled upon and became a member of Wikipedia in January 2003 when the 'pedia made front page news (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/0258226&mode=nested&threshold=3) on Slashdot. I was swept up in the ease with which anyone could contribute to articles. While editing this encyclopedia can be frustrating at times, it is a very worthwhile endeavor that someday (hopefully in my lifetime!) will be an invaluable repository of human knowledge. While the 'pedia is still in its infancy and has a lot of maturing to do, I see every day's worth of edits like a mathematical function approaching a limit. Every day, this project gets better, but it will always have room to improve, and as time goes to infinity, this encyclopedia will approach perfection.
While EE and CS are my primary areas of study, I humbly consider myself not to be an expert in these fields, and therefore I refrain from making any drastic changes to articles pertaining to those subjects.
Some observations:
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• A lesson in wording future events: remember when this was true? (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=2004&diff=2069448&oldid=2069405) → better edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=2004&diff=2075766&oldid=2074806)
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Subpages:
For reference:
- Boilerplate
- Database queries
- TeX markup
- Special characters
- Usage statistics (http://www.wikipedia.org/stats/)
- Astronomy
- Baseball, Major League Baseball
- Economics, Government, History, and Politics
- U.S. presidential election, POTUS, VPOTUS, SCOTUS
- The Matrix, The Simpsons and related pages
- Convincing myself that I'm not a Wikipediholic
- Keeping Wikipedia as tidy, copyedited, and NPOV as possible
- Current month's hits (http://wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org/url_202404.html)
- Current month's webalizer (http://wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org/usage_202404.html)
- Autoupdating link to the mailing list (http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2024-April/date.html)
As of Saturday, April 27, 2024 @ 09:27 UTC Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/) says that 809 articles have been created!
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