On 8/9/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/08/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/7/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Since late April, I've created [[Marc J. Rochkind]], [[Kumler, Illinois]], [[PALcode]], [[CYGM filter]], [[RGBE filter]], [[MySociety]], [[Envoy (WordPerfect)]], [[Smart terminal]], [[Smart Display]] and [[Ctelnet]]. (And a zillion redirectes.)
I notice that the common thread in all of these articles (except Eric Harshbarger) was that I knew absolutely nothing whatsoever about the topic when I started writing them. Kind of a disturbing trend when you think about it, if Wikipedia is mostly written by people who know nothing about what they're writing about...
Heh! That's how I wrote [[Envoy (WordPerfect)]] and [[Smart Display]]. I saw both terms mentioned on Groklaw, didn't know what they meant so looked them up on Wikipedia (it's already a fantastically useful computer terminology guide - hence why the [[FOLDOC]] maintainer saw it and promptly wondered whether he should continue with FOLDOC at all. Since they didn't exist, I promptly researched them and wrote the articles. This is where a lot of my articles come from.
Oh yeah? Well I created (and am the sole contributor of) the article [[American Eskimo]], the shining example of a perfect article. So there.