User:Zippy

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Patrick Tufts - zippy AT cs.brandeis.edu
simple homepage: www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy
weblog: ptufts.blogspot.com
photos: flickr.com/photos/zippy/

On my weblog, I wrote about a talk that Jimmy Wales gave at UC Berkeley in November, 2005.

[edit] What I do here

At this point (18 Oct 2006) I have made 1291 edits of over 488 unique pages. 739 of these edits are of articles, and another 264 are of the parallel talk pages. My first edit with a username was on August 13, 2002, though I edited from an IP address for weeks or months before creating an account. Some of these early unregistered edits are here.

This is the most time and effort I have put into a free (as in speech) project.

Most of my activity here is either creating small entries where there are none, or else correcting entries that I am interested in. I created the first Wikipedia entries for Zeev Almog, Asteroid (3163) Randi (since renamed 3163 Randi), Jeff Bezos, Julian Bigelow, Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Brandeis University, Susan Buffett, Chumley's, the Connection Machine, Gato class submarine, Glenn B. Hamm, the Internet Archive, Yojiro Ishizaka, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Momson lung, Alexander Nequam (entry since renamed Alexander Neckam), RobotGenius, Route 128 (since renamed Massachusetts Route 128), Thinking Machines, Tokyo-Ga, James Walker Tufts, Sonny Tufts, Tufts University, Misa Uehara, Walt Disney Imagineering, Waltham, Massachusetts, Gordon Warner, Alice Waters, Western Connecticut State University, and Oeda Yusuke.

As of October 2005, I have 230 articles on my watchlist. I regularly check updates to these articles, both to learn more and to maintain the quality of the entries.

[edit] Licensing

I prefer the Creative Commons license over the Gnu Free Documentation License used by the Wikipedia, so I dual-license my contributions.

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