User:Rye1967

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Mike, living in Dublin

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[edit] Wikipedia life

First visited at 15:45PST Fri Oct 8, 2004 via Google result #6 for Australian PM John Howard when Alexa ranked the site as approx the 250th most popular. Voting had just started in the Australian 2004 elections, and Howard was seeking a record 4th term. I wanted more info on his terms of office - and found it on WP. Twenty-four hours later Howard had won the election, and was featured on the WP home-page.

I was surprised to find the Oct 1st re-election of Irish President Mary McAleese already recorded, which demonstrated the accuracy of the site. I made my first contributions to pages on Irish politicians John O'Donoghue and Mary Harney to reflect the recent cabinet reshuffle.

Next day, to test WP, I researched my favourite topic - What date is the best reflection of Irish independence? The answers were there on Irish Republic. I added to that info, made a few more contributions and joined WikiPedia on Sun 10th October, 2004. EnjoyLooking fwd to being a constructive member. - Rye1967 20:57, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Made my 1500th logged-in contribution with a new page on Eddie Wade on 1st Dec 2005 and 2000th on March 20, 2006 with a change to Esera Tuaolo, 2500 on 16 May, 2006, change to Gerald Boland, 4600 on 26 March 2007 change to Ian Paisley (Impending First Min Nom.)

Made a few contributions without being logged in on Dec 11, 2006 as 75.80.109.78. Made a few contributions in 2007 as 89.100.154.154 and 89.127.164.8 and in 2008 as 83.141.89.154

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[edit] When were topics 'born' Wikipedia

[edit] Some famous (to me) old people from WP

Created Feb 2006, Last yearly extension June 2007

1889 September 14 María Capovilla (d. August 27, 2006)
1902 January 2 Dan Keating (d. October 2, 2007)
1910 July 4 Gloria Stuart Titanic actress
1912 December 22 Lady Bird Johnson (d. July 11, 2007)
1913 July 14 Gerald Ford (d. December 26, 2006)
1913 July 23 Michael Foot
1913 August 17 W. Mark Felt
1914 October 16 Mohammed Zahir Shah (d. July 23, 2007)
1915 January 13 Kit Ahern (d. December 27, 2007)
1915 February 4 Norman Wisdom
1915 October 15 Yitzhak Shamir
1915 November 9 Sargent Shriver
1915 November 25 Augusto Pinochet (d. December 10, 2006)
1916 January 12 Pieter Willem Botha (d. October 31, 2006)
1916 May 8 João Havelange
1916 June 9 Robert Mcnamara
1916 July 11 Gough Whitlam
1916 November 4 Walter Cronkite
1916 November 10 Louis le Brocquy
1916 December 9 Kirk Douglas
1916 December T. K. Whitaker
1917 January 5 Jane Wyman (d. September 10, 2007)
1917 February 6 Zsa Zsa Gabor
1917 March 20 Vera Lynn
1917 August 18 Caspar Weinberger (d. March 28, 2006)
1917 October 1 Cahal Cardinal Daly
1917 November 3 Conor Cruise O'Brien
1917 November 20 Robert Byrd
1917 December 16 Arthur C. Clarke (d. March 19, 2008)
1918 March 12 Pádraig Faulkner
1918 April 8 Betty Ford
1918 July 18 Nelson Mandela
1918 November 7 Billy Graham
1918 December 21 Kurt Waldheim (d. June 14, 2007)
1918 December 23 Helmut Schmidt
1919 May 3 Pete Seeger
1919 July 20 Edmund Hillary (d. January 11, 2008)

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