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My name is Jeff, I live on Kent Island, Maryland and am an information systems major at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (aka UMBC) and if all goes well I should be out of there in December :).
Since I forget to log in sometimes and edited before I joined, my anonymous contributions can be found here.
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[edit] How I'm Helping Wikipedia
I had already made a few edits here from the time I first discovered Wikipedia to the time I decided to join.
I've noticed that I don't have quite as high an edit count as most people who have been members as long as I have. My philosophy is that a high edit count doesn't make you better than anyone else, it just means you don't know how to use the preview button.
Most of my edits here have involved creating and fixing up articles about important places and things in my home state, Maryland, particularly the Eastern Shore region. My first ever edit was making the word Annapolis into a link in the Chesapeake Bay Bridge article (this has since been edited over), this edit can be found here. Another edit I was pretty proud of in my earlier days was fixing two broken external links in the Flag of Maryland article. My first full article, which I created after joining, was for Kent Island, Maryland, where I live. I have also worked on creating articles for Maryland state highways. Though a lot of them are either stubs or pretty short, the way I see it, even if an article is just a stub, it's still worth creating since it is likely to get expanded by someone. I've found highway articles pretty easy to create, since it is pretty easy to find alot of factual information on them.
[edit] Some of My Major Contributions
Some pages I have made major contributions to:
[edit] Planned Contributions
- Kent Fort, Maryland
- Cross Island Trail
- Kent Island South Trail
- Matapeake State Park
- Sandy Point State Park
- John F. Kennedy Hwy, Key Bridge, and Capital Beltway route markers uploaded to commons (if anyone knows where I can get the official specs, that would be great!)
[edit] Interests
[edit] Programming
One of my favorite hobbies is programming, As far as programming languages go, I only know C, C++, D, and Java (but I wouldn't claim fluency in Java though). I've done some research to start learning some other languages (mostly here at Wikipedia), but haven't experimented with them.
[edit] Video games
I'm also a fan of video games, especially Pokémon games. Yes, I am a proud 22 year old Pokémon fan! I am a member of the Pokémon online community, where I go by simply as Jeff. I am a member of both TPM and the Bulbagarden forums.
[edit] Roads
One time, on one of my usual trips to UMBC (thankfully, it wasn't for a class), I accidentally missed the exit from Maryland Route 295 onto I-195. Since I hadn't been going to the school that long I didn't realize anything was wrong for a while, but when I did notice I was off course I panicked and just kept driving. I eventually wound up in Baltimore and got as far as M&T Bank Stadium when I finally pulled myself together and found somewhere to turn around. After that, I began studying maps of the area to make sure that I didn't get lost again, this is likely what sparked my interest in highways. I'm still a "Google Earth enthusiast" as I like to call myself and have started the Roads in Maryland WikiProject. One of my largest contributions to that project is the uploading of SVGs of road signs that are used in Maryland.
[edit] My Online History
My online history can be summed up as one big chain reaction. I started out posting at the PokeMasters forums in November 2004. Later on, on those forums, I was basically invited to join Bulbapedia by Bulbagarden's webmaster, Archaic (after I made a complaint about a couple of mistakes on the 'pedia). Shortly thereafter, I joined the Bulbagarden Forums (which are the forums whose members started Bulbapedia), and eventually, my work on Bulbapedia inspired me to join Wikipedia.
[edit] Cool/Humorous Stuff
- Pretty much anything in Cat:Wikipedia humor
- http://uncyclopedia.org/ A parody of Wikipedia, or are we a parody of them? :P
[edit] The stranger side of Wikipedia
Here's a list of some odd article titles I've found here, enjoy
- Every time you masturbate… God kills a kitten
- Exploding whale
- Flying Spaghetti Monster
- Invisible Pink Unicorn
- Toilets in Japan
Most of these are Internet memes, but the titles are still entertaining.
[edit] Links Placed Here for My Convenience
- /test page
- /Maryland route list
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/kentisland (unfortunately many of the good ones aren't WMC-compatible yet) :(
[edit] Sites I'm A Member of
- Wikipedia as Jeff02
- Wikimedia Commons as Jeff02
- Wikitravel as Jeff02
- Bulbapedia as Jeff
- Xanga as Jeff_02
- And some others
