I'm just some random guy who has become mildly hooked by Wikipedia, and who recently dragged
Alex Kennedy down with me.
Some of the pages I've contributed to significantly are:
Acetylene
Actaeon
Amino acid
Anthropomorphism
Callisto
Carbon chauvinism
Charybdis
Clanking replicator
Circe
Cruithne
Daedalus
Dyson sphere
Edmonton
Exon
Exxon
Freenet
Genetic code
Greek mythology
Grue
Intron
Jack L. Chalker
Lycanthropy
Muppet
Nagasaki
Neoteny
Pan
RNA
Sampo
Scylla
Sidehill Gouger
Solar system (and practically all of the planets, moons, comets - whew!)
Victor Von Doom
Werewolf
"Discussion board" section of my homearticle:
Brian, please do me a favor and don't use the unicode symbols for the number sets throughout. This locks out people who haven't updated their fonts unnecessarily, since C works just fine and is understood by everybody in the field. How about if you just mention the character once, like I did on rational number? --AxelBoldt
Allrighty, I was just momentarily overcome by the fun of putting exotic characters into pages. :)
- Even once is not good, unless you add a note explaining that it probably won't display correctly and what it would look like if it did display correctly. Since there's really no point to doing this, I'm just removing them. --Zundark, 2001 Dec 9
- Actually, I think I've got to disagree with this. Mathematicians often use these symbols, and so I think it's important to show people what they look like when discussing these topics if at all possible. I'll put in notes explaining that unicode doesn't display properly on all browsers, but other than that I can't see any good reason not to include them. -BD
Thanks for your recent welcome on
my page. I look forward to collaborating with you in areas we both find interesting -- such as
mythology. As a newbie, may I ask a couple questions on wikitiquette?
- When someone offers a welcome on your personal page, do you respond on your page or on theirs?
- I have no idea. I don't think there's any sort of formal standard, so I guess put it wherever you think the other guy is most likely to see it, or wherever it looks like it fits best. I responded to my greetings here on my own page, for example.
- When you add comments to a /talk page, do you add to the top, bottom, or middle (if relevant)?
- Again, I don't think there's much of a standard. I think most people add to the bottom of the page, though, except when they're responding to some specific point that someone made in which case they add it indented directly below the point in question (like how newsreaders often display threaded usenet posts).
- I'm not a very prolific wikipedian, though, so I'm probably wrong. :)
-- Cayzle