User:Tobycat
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[edit] Edit milestones
- On June 4 I made my 500th edit at Freedom of Speech.
- On June 10 I made my 600th edit at Astronomy. Was that really just 6 days since 500? Uh oh.
- On June 12 I made my 700th edit at Poverty after spending an evening zapping typos.
- On July 6 I made my 1,000th edit at Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
- On August 6 I made my 1,500th edit at Two factor theory of emotion
[edit] Greetings!
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My name is Michael Santos and I live in San Jose, California. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to earn a Ph.D. in social psychology and teach at UC Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University, and UC Berkeley. I currently work for Apple Computer managing customer feedback research and live in San Francisco.
The first page I created in the Wikipedia was Santa Clara University, which has since received over 400 edits from others and is now a terrific entry.
I like how many Wikipedians approach this project with vision. Thinking about how the content will be used and relevant in the future is a useful filter through which to consider content creation, format, modification, and deletion. I also am pleased when I see Wikipedian comments related to "sum of all human knowledge" or that make "Library of Alexandria" analogies. These concepts are difficult to pin down and even more difficult to gain concensus on, but still they have a bold sense of vision to them.
I believe we must strive to create something more ambitious than an ordinary encyclopedia. I think Wikipedia has already done that, but am apprehensive that some would like to see so much structure added to the project that it would simply become an online version of what would otherwise be a massive print encyclopedia. Instead I think we need to push our creativity and vision. The default attitude should be how to include content rather than exclude or delete it. There are challenges with that which may require a new way of thinking about things or creative ways of organizing information. I think we need to focus on how to create something more flexible, content-rich, comprehensive, useful, enduring, and accessible.
[edit] Current Activity
- Zapping spelling errors, particularly "thier" and "neccessary"
- Monitoring recent changes for vandalism
- Monitoring and participating in the vfd pages
- Monitoring new article creation for nonsense
- Creating articles on topics / locations related to San Francisco
- Welcoming new users
- Fixing up articles in need of cleanup
- Wikifying new articles
[edit] My Showcase Articles...Ones I started or Refurbished
- Eureka (1890)
- Santa Clara University
- Diatomaceous earth
- U.S. House Committee on the Budget
- Corcovado
- Electric Fence
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