User:Asa Winstanley
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Hello I am Asa. I live in London, UK. I discovered Wikipedia when it was listed on Slashdot in July 2001. I then started tinkering with various bits. I continue to do so when I have a bit of time.
Here on Wikiepedia, I sign myself: aw or AW. My user name used to be just Asa, but that was needed for an article (should have thought more before i used that user name really!). Software changes now mean I could have the user Asa again, but this one is fine :)
Only just noticed that some cheeky so-and-so edited my page to make it look as if I LIKE The Matrix. Of course the fact that he/she did this over a year ago leaves me with substantial amounts of egg on my face...
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Some articles I have contributed to
Computers
- The GIMP one of the first things I did on Wikipedia!
- GNOME gave birth to
- GNU/Linux uh oh. gave birth to
- Famous Programmers
- Programmer
Arts
- Poets just listed R. S. Thomas
- Little Nemo
- Comic books and strips started
- Comic book someone else split this off from the above. good job too
- Film history/China was disgusted at the lack of Hong Kong people. Needs loads of work!
- Martial arts film
- Miyazaki Hayao A good start. cheers for the unicode and Romaji!
- The Matrix stupid overated rip-off film which spawned a new era of stupid rips-offs
- Princess Mononoke love this film
- My Neighbor Totoro mmm... CatBus
Religion
- Biblical canon
- Allah I brought up the moon god origins stuff
- Yahweh this has developed quite nicely. The first versions were just plain wrong. Now its pretty acurate
- Jehovah still doesn't feel right. perhaps merge with Yahweh?
- Pope Damasus I very happy with this. 99% was my work at one point
- John Chrysostom under development, but largely done
- History of Christianity ...gaining momentum... could be good...
- Theodosius I "Catholic" -> "catholic"
- Saint original meaning
History and Politics
- Cultural imperialism sigh... i give up
- Rupert Murdoch corperate censorship!
- History of Malaysia just a few tweaks
- Bloody Sunday (Northern Ireland 1972) started
- Derry
- The Troubles
- War on Terrorism
- Suez Crisis
- Propaganda model
- L. Frank Baum - did you know that the author of the Wizard of Oz was an advocate of genocide? Neither did I till recently.
- Fred Hampton - Black Panther Party activist in the late 60s who was assinated by the Chicago Police with the active help of the FBI
- Noam Chomsky
- Ahmed Chalabi - former US favourite to run Iraq. I added the survey results about his complete lack of popular support. Ayad Allawi did not fair much better.
- Weathermen - Crazy US Marxists
- History of East Timor
- Christopher Columbus - mass murderer
- Scipio Aemilianus Africanus - he orchastrated the genocide of the Carthaginians. I added the picture and caption
- Contra - Reagan's favourite terrorists
Misc
- European languages just listed Welsh
- Welsh language gave birth to. but needs significant work by a Welsh scholar
- Wales need to say more about my own country!
- Wade-Giles started
Todo - stuff I have (vaugely) lined up to do at some point
Talk - if you want to talk to me, put it on this page
My page (http://meta.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=User:Asa_Winstanley) on meta.wikipedia.com.
Here is my web site (http://www.winstanleys.org).
Musings and Projects
- Early September 2001: searched for "Linux" and modified most references to "Linux" the OS to read "GNU/Linux". Exceptions: personal opinion (Wikipedian's personal pages, /Talk pages and general reporting of opinion), quotes (book and essay names) and titles (e.g Mandrake Linux).
- So someone put the Linuxs back annonymously after a bit of a row in the Talk on GNU/Linux. It was certainly an interesting experiment anyway :)
- 5th Dec. 2001 - Searched for all instances of Papacy and made sure they were linked to the article i started. :) I was seeking distraction, ok?!