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
[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
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