User:Saudade7
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Hola,
I guess I should say a little something here about my Wiki experience etc.
I have determined that my first edit was made to the Natural Science page on November 7, 2002. (I added the History of Science MIT link...whew hoo!) Since then, if I can remember, I have started three pages: One for the SETI Institute's science radio show "Are We Alone?" which I really enjoy listening to, and another one for Sand Tray Therapy which I know almost nothing about, but I thought "If I build it, someone else will think I did a bad job and fix it...and thus, I will learn the true nature of the thing I started." I also recently started a page for First Contact (documentary) - it's very stubby, but it is such a great film that I wanted it to be here. Starting a page is like placing a little piece of sand in an oyster, and then other editors come and accrete until it becomes a pearl!
I've done lots minor edits due to my OCD, many before I registered as Saudade7 (Saudade is a word I learned a year or so ago that suddenly explained what I have felt the whole of my life...I added to that page too), and to Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Warren Cup, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Seth Shostak, Phil Plait, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cindy Sherman, Situationist, Nietzsche, Thimerosal, Robert Longo, Firefly (television series), Gothic Lolita...that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
Okay, that's about it without getting personal, but I suppose you can tell alot about a person by the subjects they choose to edit. Then again, I'm peculiar in my interests and at times find myself editing things I know only one truth or fact about (e.g. Warren Cup).
I very much adore the Wiki as an experiment...I love the organic nature of its development--and the open source / "Information wants to be free"-ness of it. (Update: The Information wants to be free page was such a mess when I looked at it, that I just rewrote that one too). It is fascinating to compare pages from just a year ago to the ones available now and see the huge amount of growth and interconnectivity. Rhizomatic! And I especially enjoy when I can tell that an editor is ESL but also madly passionate about the subject on which they are writing...because it gives that page a different flavor. Sadly, that flavor and voice will no doubt be edited out in the final versions (because it is also important for the information to be clear and concise) but I then miss the awkwardness and the humanity it infuses the Wiki with when it happens, and am glad there is a "History" tab. God forbid I'd ever try to add to Wiki's French site! That would read like a remote viewed, encrypted-cuneiform, Pleiadian-Sumerian language-form sent via electromagnetic, Tesla-based semaphore.
Goodnight. xoxoxo
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