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Wikipedia editors: You may find this list of wikitext reminders I've made useful. Wikipedia does have a more comprehensive guide, but I find this short list handier. If you'd like to use the templates for my introductory user page and user talk page boxes, they are here.
Hi! I started here in September 2005, with this cricket edit. The kilikiti page came next, and by then I was dreaming in wikipedia entries (I don't recommend it).
How I approach Wikipedia -- How I approach editing -- Languages I speak
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How I approach Wikipedia
There are plenty of on-line communities; this is an encyclopedia. Take a look at the groups you could be a part of, ignore them, start reading and start editing.
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How I approach editing
I'm in favor of informative edit summaries.
I split multi-part edits into multiple edits: it makes change easier to follow, and makes it easier for others to address specific changes.
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On Wikipedia
WP is particularly well suited for...
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- trying to memorize the system of English units (though I don't think I'll take on the volume systems)
- learning traditional games of abstract strategy from around the world (while I'm by no means a serious player, there have been periods when I've seen everything around me in terms of Go) -- see also the full list of pages in the "Abstract Strategy Games" category; the traditional-games subset of that category is:
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Highly recommended articles
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Things learned here that have stuck
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- The sadly boring story of how AC/DC got their name
- Dada
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- (older)
Areas of relatively significant contributions (past and future)
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To-Do list
- If you like you can look at my more complete To do list (really just so I don't forget)
Off Wikipedia -or- Learn What I Know
Work-fun
Away from the computer, some academic interests of mine are the biological basis of psychopathology (especially bipolar-spectrum and schizo-affective disorders) and psychopharmacology, and the relation sleep has with the former. Related areas I'm interested in are the perception of time; conceptual metaphor; emotion; addiction; and embodied cognition. I'm also interested in educational theory education, how we learn and how best to teach --specifically, how best to present (such as in a PowerPoint presentation) information visually,-- the use of graphic novels in education, and related issues of the mind. I've also done work in simulation semantics (for now, get a general inkling through cognitive science, simulation, and semantics).
Book-, art-, hobby-, and music-fun
What else?
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- Writing: Brautigan, Joyce, and Eco;
- Art: Schiele, Pollock, Gorky, Escher;
- Music: The Glove, Gillian Anderson, Talking Heads, Sigur Rós, múm, Do Make Say Think, G.U.R.U., Devon Sproule, Danny Schmidt, Charlie Parker, The Strokes, fiddle music of many sorts, The Cure, Joy Division, The Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Velvet Underground, The Nields, Four Tet, Autechre, Railroad Earth, Turkish religious music (topic 3.3),...
- I'm a contra dancer, and a fiddler with an interest in New England fiddling, Québécois fiddling, Cape Breton fiddling, and Irish fiddling (rougher old Donegal styles in particular -- more the old dance styles than, say, the nearly-as-old Teelin style).
- I'm currently reading Stuart Kauffman's Investigations, a greatly simplified version of the premise of which is that life is an emergent property of collectively autocatalytic, organized groups of autonomous, working individuals, that this can be used as a tool for approaching astrobiology, and that economics works in the same way, making these principles fundamental to a broad range of systems.
External Links
Cloudspotting
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