User:Barefootguru

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Notes which may one day become a proper home page:

I tend to hang out on the New Zealand pages and Mac pages. Guess where I’m from and one of my hobbies ;-)

English is my second language; my primary being grunting.

Wikipedia's an amazing testimony of an enabling technology and group collaboration effort: in four years volunteers from around the world have recreated and surpassed the Encyclopedia Britannica, and growth is exponential.—Barefootguru, 2005-07

On the quality of Wikipedia: (as in genealogy) this isn't a primary source, but as a secondary source and collator of data, I think it’s great.

Saddest page on Wikipedia: Category:Failed Apple initiatives.

I really enjoy Wikipedia and if it paid the bills I’d spend a lot more time here. However it’s a hobby, so I limit myself—hard as it may be to pass up a good edit. I scored 79 on the Wikipedia:Are You a Wikipediholic Test (2005-12).

I tend toward copy-editing, fact checking, and collating rather than verbose prose.

[edit] Pages created

• IBM 3179G
• McGillicuddy Highland Army

[edit] Significant contributions

• Brooklyn, New Zealand
• Caesar III
• Cathedral (board game)
• Cockney rhyming slang (an 'anti-contribution'. Sometimes simpler is better)
• Crash reporter
• Deverry cycle
• Exchangeable image file format
• GEDCOM
• iPod
• iTunes
• Job Control Language
• Kapiti Island
• Lambton Quay, Wellington
• List of artists who have covered ABBA songs
• List of New Zealand feature films
• List of IBM products
• Macintosh 128K
• Māori language
• Maruia Society
• McGillicuddy Serious Party
• Motorola ROKR E1 (in its early days)
• OpenDocument
  • Comparison of OpenDocument with Microsoft XML formats
  • List of applications supporting OpenDocument
  • Microsoft position on OpenDocument support
• Runaway and many linked pages
• SAS System
• Shona Laing
• Spike Milligan
• List of teletext services (a basic research addition turned into a string of edits)
• Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
• TRS-80
• Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
• Wellington
• Wikipedia:Vandalism
• Category:E-mail
• Category:iPods

[edit] Images I've contributed

Alf's Imperial Army presents for a photo during the PISS campaign, 1989-04.jpeg	(Caesar III on Apple Mac.png)
(SAS 8 on IBM Mainframe.png)	(SAS 9 on Microsoft Windows.png)