User:Rye1967

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1 Wikipedia life
2 When were topics 'born' Wikipedia
3 Some famous (to me) old people from WP
4 To do

[edit] Wikipedia life

First visited at 15:45PST Fri Oct 8, 2004 via Google result #6 for Australian PM John Howard. Voting had just started in the Australian 2004 elections, and Howard was seeking a record 4th term. I wanted more info on his terms of office - and found it on WP. Twenty-four hours later Howard had won the election, and was featured on the WP home-page.

I was amazed that Oct 1st re-election of Irish President Mary McAleese, just 8 days earlier was recorded. I made my first contributions to pages on Irish politicians John O'Donoghue and Mary Harney to refelect the recent cabinet reshuffle.

Next day, to test WP, I researched my favourite topic - What date is the best reflection of Irish independence? The answers were there on Irish Republic. I added to that info, made a few more contributions and joined WikiPedia on Sun 10th October, 2004. Looking fwd to being a constructive member. - Rye1967 20:57, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Made my 1500th logged-in contribution with a new page on Eddie Wade on 1st Dec 2005 and 2000th on March 20, 2006 with a change to Esera Tuaolo, 2500 on 16 May, 2006, change to Gerald Boland

Made a few contributions without being logged in on Dec 11, 2006 as 75.80.109.78

Current contribution count

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[edit] When were topics 'born' Wikipedia

Alan Turing started Nov 12, 2001
Google started Oct 30, 2001, Googol started Aug 8, 2001
France started Jan 29, 2001 (small entry, amusing)
first contrib recorded for jimbo wales - defn of Saturday-night special, a us handgun, on 27-mar 01
the first entry on the Sept 11 attacks at 10:02 EST. Much written since.

Jimbo wales contributed updates on that day also.

Wikipedia.com launched Jan 15th 2001 - see History of Wikipedia
From WP I learned that Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia was born just one day before me

[edit] Some famous (to me) old people from WP

List created Feb 2006

1889 September 14 María Capovilla (d. August 27, 2006)

1912 December 22 Lady Bird Johnson

1913 July 14 Gerald Ford

1913 August 17 W. Mark Felt

1914 January 4 Jane Wyman

1914 October 16 Mohammed Zahir Shah

1915 January 13 Kit Ahern

1915 February 4 Norman Wisdom

1915 November 9 Sargent Shriver

1915 November 25 Augusto Pinochet (d. December 10, 2006)

1916 January 12 Pieter Willem Botha (d. October 31, 2006)

1916 May 8 João Havelange

1916 July 11 Gough Whitlam

1916 November 4 Walter Cronkite

1916 November 10 Louis le Brocquy

1916 December 9 Kirk Douglas

1916 December T. K. Whitaker

1917 February 6 Zsa Zsa Gabor

1917 March 20 Vera Lynn

1917 August 18 Caspar Weinberger (d. March 28, 2006)

1917 November 3 Conor Cruise O'Brien

1918 March 12 Pádraig Faulkner

1918 April 8 Betty Ford

1918 July 18 Nelson Mandela

1918 December 21 Kurt Waldheim

1918 December 23 Helmut Schmidt

[edit] To do

User:Rye1967/KerryProj
search for (exact match) of 'Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy' in http://debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebates.aspx?Dail=29&Type=DAL
create a list of irish political party leaders, with terms in service
Clann_na_Talmhan says it is 1943 onwards, but it was in the 1927 general election - see link from there, however wiki.politics.ie say that was the Farmers Union
according to Government of the 23rd Dail Albert Reynolds was temporarily min for Trade, Commeerce & Tourism in 1982, according to Irish_Minister_for_Industry_&_Commerce it was Paddy Power (politician)
improve sentence structure in Fianna Fáil
remove links to Fianna Fail
define Rapprochement in Wikictionary.com and link from Bertie Ahern, search for other occurences in WikiPedia.com
review Irish categories at approx [[1]]
review all links to Irish and see if they should instead go to one of the others, or not be a link at all