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

[Death Phoenix]

On 8/9/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Oh yeah? Well I created (and am the sole contributor of) the article
[[American Eskimo]], the shining example of a perfect article. So there.