User:BotheredByBees

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Hi, Peter Shanks here - also known as botheredByBees, shaggy, and the beekeeper.

I'm not sure what prompted me to create a user ID on wikipedia after all these years, it just felt like the right time. I've been contributing on and off since nearly the very beginning of the wikipedia. I think my first addition was the creation of a page on the cello, back in 2000 or so.

In the intrevening years I've caused some angst for the wikipedia folk, having the dubious honour of being one of the first to incorrectly cite wikipedia, and prompting them to create the Standard GFDL violation letter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MyRedDice/Abacci_Letter . Note the URL, which refers to my Abacci Books website. Abacci is still running, although the referencing has long since been fixed up.

I got much better at GFDL, copyleft and OSI, and subsequently created the first mobile phone capable version of the 'pedia: wapipedia.org and a couple of other sites which use wikipedia content too (Abacci eBooks and Abacci annotated books)

Nowadays I'm quieter on the webdev front, studying to be a teacher and maintaining a sourceforge project which lists learning outcomes for IT subjects.