[WikiEN-l] Article bragging (was: Re: en: well on the way to ... 2 million!)

[David Gerard]

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


- d.