User:Jimj wpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jim Jaworski en This user is a native speaker of English. fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français. This user comes from Winnipeg. This user comes from Manitoba. This user comes from Canada. This user is of Polish ancestry. This user is of Ukrainian ancestry. According to the Political Compass this user is: Economic Left (-5.13) and Social Neutral (-0.62) This user supports public broadcasting. This user just LOVES to cycle! This user uses public transit. This user is a kid at heart. They may have grown older but they'll never grow up. html-3 This user is an advanced HTML user. .css This user can write Cascading Style Sheets. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user is interested in his or her local history. This user watches Leo Laporte on Call For Help. 1 This user thinks Thunderbirds are GO! STAR TREK This user is a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation. TNG LS This user watches the Late Show with David Letterman 2 This user thinks BBC Radio 2 is worth the licence fee alone. This user is a member of WikiProject Television Stations. This user is a member of WikiProject Radio. NET This user listens to radio over the Internet. This user contributes with Fedora Core. X This user is a member of Generation X. This user remembers using a rotary dial telephone. This user remembers when television programming was only in black-and-white. This user is a synthesizer player. This user enjoys jazz music. This user is a fan of progressive rock. 80s This user enjoys 80s New Wave music. D This user likes disco music. This user does not like iPods. This user is interested in architecture. This user enjoys watching the weather. This user is a fan of Genesis in all of its forms. Supper's Ready! M This user adores the work and life of Madonna. Template:User Tears for Fears This user is a fan of Bruce Springsteen. {{Uncat}} This user is a member of the uncategorized task force

Hi everyone. I just joined Wikipedia June 2006, but have also been a major contributor to the Winnipedia project.

I'm known locally for my interest in a rapid transit system for Winnipeg, and maintain a resource website about Winnipeg Transit history. I've also had a strong interest for a long time about Canadian broadcasting history, and have collected much information about this since the early 1980s in the form of newspaper and magazine articles, pamphlets, etc...

I live in downtown Winnipeg and see all that happens there — the good and the bad. I read the Winnipeg Sun and Winnipeg Free Press on most days, but recently find more enjoyment reading BusinessWeek and USA Today.

I discovered that NBC Weather+ webcasts its network this summer and regularly watch the localized forecast for Minneapolis, MN, which is the closest large city to Winnipeg.

One of my favourite books is Knowlton Nash's The Microphone Wars (ISBN 0771067127), a history of the CBC.

In the future, I'd like to add greatly to the article on MTS, relating to its history and equipment, also to create the initial article about the Millennium Library in downtown Winnipeg. But this will wait until after I get bored writing about the other stuff I've done recently for Wikipedia.

Contents 1 Contributions 1.1 Broadcasting 1.2 Telecommunications 1.3 Publishing & Printing 1.4 Places 1.5 Urban Transportation 2 Researching for Wikipedia 3 Fellow Wikipedian Friends & Acquaintances

[edit] Contributions

[edit] Broadcasting

• Anik satellite system. Transponder programming detail
• Bravo! — History subsection
• C Channel — Programming subsection
• Cablecasting Ltd. — initial article
• CBC Parliamentary Television Network — initial article
• CBC Radio One Winnipeg — station history
• CBWT & added additional details to History subsection, 24Hours sub-sub
• CBWFT — History subsection and station logos
• CBLT - added some station history using broadcasting-history.ca, the Toronto Star, and the Globe and Mail as sources
• KCND-TV station history
• Réseau de l'information — current & former personalities. Simple translation from to English
• First Choice pay-tv — network history
• Teletext — Canadian & North American systems. I'm looking for screenshots of the CBC IRIS teletext service to add to this page.
• Videon Cable-tv — initial article

[edit] Telecommunications

• Manitoba Telecom Services

[edit] Publishing & Printing

• The Winnipeg Sun
• The Winnipeg Tribune

[edit] Places

• Glasston, North Dakota created initial article.
• Headingley, Manitoba added Suburban Rapid Transit Co. information
• Kitchener, Ontario Local media subsection
• Saint Boniface, Manitoba photo of St. Boniface City Hall
• Millennium Library - created initial article.
• Winnipeg Public Library - added infobox

[edit] Urban Transportation

• Winnipeg Transit History subsection by company name.

[edit] Researching for Wikipedia

I've been using the Access.NewspaperArchive.com website, accessible from any Winnipeg Public Library branch in the metro area to do all this research using old copies of the Winnipeg Free Press. It would have been much more difficult to do otherwise. You can find this website by going to a library terminal , and from the WPL main page select "Databases" from the top of the navigation bar. Then select the "Newspaper Archive" link near the top of the list. From there you can view a PDF image of the newspaper, and for 15 cents make a photocopy at the print station. However, they have only (so far) made available issues from 1874–1981. Finding material from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, requires the ProQuest database which is text only. To get to that, select "Databases" as before, and then "Canadian Newsstand - Major Dailies". Amazing technology. --Jimj wpg 06:25, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fellow Wikipedian Friends & Acquaintances

I have known fellow Wikipedian User:Wtshymanski for over 20 years — since the mid-1980s, going back to the Ariel II BBS in Winnipeg. I met Bill in the early-90s when I was into 2 metres amateur radio. Hi Bill.

Since editing Wikipedia & uploading videos to YouTube, I've also met a new acquaintance that I hope to meet soon — User:PsychoJason, also from Winnipeg. Jason and I share an interest in local broadcasting history.

I also work with User:Jdobbin on articles having to do with various suburbs within metropolitan Winnipeg.

--Jimj wpg 17:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)