On 09/08/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/7/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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.