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About me
Anything I say about me would depend on a combination of memory, ego, fact and fiction. The more interesting I made it seem, the more you would assume a point of view. And, while you might be right, what is more important here (to me, and many others who write for this amazing project) is that I/we really do aspire to the Wikipedia ideal of NPOV.
The articles I have the most trouble with are the political ones. I will be writing something based on my knowledge and experience; trying very hard to deal with my own POV and someone will suddenly edit out my p-r-e-c-I-o-u-s words. So I meet them on the talk page. Next thing I know, my worst, reactive, self is having it out with some doorknob.
Spiritual exercise. Wikipedia fosters that. Getting past some sort of ownership of those words… even past the tendency to think of someone who seems "unreasonable" as a doorknob. Remembering that it is a community. Then finding out that I’ve learned something in the exchange with that shadowy other person who probably represents a part of me that I try to deny. Many, many amazing things happen on these pages.
That is what my experience is like. Now something about where I am heading:
I came across these two statements in the Massive Change exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery:
- The amount of the sun's energy reaching the earth in one hour is enough to meet the energy needs of humankind for one year.
- The solar energy gained in two hours is equivalent to the energy available from all known petroleum reserves on earth.
Some people I know are working at creating alternatives that don't depend on petroleum: [1] (http://yarrowecovillage.ca/index.html)
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Wikipedia articles contributed to
(other than “minor” edits):
New or substantially re-written articles
Archambault report - Blessing of same sex unions - Johnny Canuck - Charity Organization Society - Columbia University School of Social Work - Cultural mosaic - Louis Cyr - Ecoregion - Henrietta Edwards - Georgia Depression - John Murray Gibbon - Diane Gilman - Robert Gilman - Global Ecovillage Network - Glooscap - Halkomelem - Michael Ingham - Intentional community - Kiviuq - Lower Mainland - Nellie McClung - Jos Montferrand - The Natural Step - Natural building - Novascotian - New York School of Philanthropy - Irene Parlby - Alice Paul - La famille Plouffe - John Porter (sociologist) - Poverty in the United States - Karl-Henrik Robčrt - Sam Slick - Sheep husbandry - David Thompson (explorer) - Visible minority
Major edits or additions
Canadian humour - Canadian Prairies - Common Era - Consensus decision-making - Critical thinking - Tommy Douglas - Ecological footprint - Ecovillage - Mahatma Gandhi - Medal of Honor - Georgian Bay - Gun politics in Canada - Halifax - History of the Punjab - I Ching - Liberalism in Canada - List of Canadian heroes and heroines - Marxian economics - Oracle - Paul Martin - Lorne Michaels - Multiculturalism - Ontario Municipal Board - Pitikwahanapiwiyin - Punjab - Renewable energy - Saturday Night Live - Belinda Stronach - Sri Lanka - Suffragette - Sustainable development - Tallgrass prairie - Tao - Pierre Trudeau - The Valiant Five - Vancouver, British Columbia - M.G. Vassanji - War of 1812 - Dr. Who - Yankee
Other edits
Anthropology - Abenaki mythology - Gro Harlem Brundtland - Lucy Burns - Canada - Calorie - Canadian and American politics compared - CANDU reactor - China - Christ Church Cathedral - Cohousing - First Nations of Canada - Dan George - Group of Seven (artists) - Inuit - Iroquois - List of Canadians - List of law schools in Canada - Alexander Mackenzie (explorer) - Agnes Macphail - Melting pot - Montreal, Quebec - Osgoode Hall Law School - Ojibwa - Pastoral - Polarization - Professional - Richmond-Airport-Vancouver Rapid Transit Project - Salish mythology - Georg Simmel - Spouses of the Prime Ministers of Canada - Suffrage - Supreme Court of Canada - Sustainability - Taoism - Tecumseh - Temperance - Temperance movement - This Hour Has 22 Minutes - Woman's suffrage - WOMBLES - Wyandot - Yin and Yang
"All things are connected" --Chief Seattle