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(∃x) If you are viewing this page somewhere other than on the Wikipedia, it is because someone has decided to mirror my Wiki page in order to drive traffic to their ad-revenue site. This helps them collect "view" money via some of the ridiculous ads that you are probably seeing in the <-- left or right --> margins or up there ^^ in the banner area. E.g., right *now* "www.ireference.ca" is using my collection of interesting pages to sell detox pills, 9mm handguns, and anti-cancer soft gels. Personally I couldn't care less if this information is appropriated; I'm pretty Copyleft as a rule, but I think that most of the stuff in those ads is bogus and shady and you should not click on the links or buy anything from a page that features this list. I have seen sites in Russian and sites from Nigeria mirroring my silly page. The Internet is really fascinating. Last time I counted (yesterday) I was watching 3505 pages on here so I imagine that I do help with the traffic! (∃x)
I have determined that my first edit was made to the Natural Science page on November 7, 2002. I added the MIT link at the bottom of the page, a link that is now defunct. Look at that page as it was then and think about how much the Wikipedia has grown!!!
I also wrote a very long entry on Sonya Rapoport an artist whose studio I visited in Berkeley and who I thought deserved a page. I am an art historian and I used materials from her archives to create all the sections and linked each with verifiable citations. In working on the page I got to know her, so what was not COI when I began writing the page might have become COI a year or so later, (though she has since died). I only used information from articles to write the entry, was strictly POV etc. I did not receive payment. I'm just putting this here to be transparent in case there is a question.
I also wrote an entire article on the artist Nick Fudge whose work I learned about in England. We do have mutual friends in common but I relied wholly on articles and published interviews and did not receive payment. I simply thought his work and story warranted an entry.
I was also a Wikipedia Campus Ambassador at the University of California, Berkeley for three separate classes.
- Wiktionary
- Wikipedia Commons
- Wikimedia strategy
- Using Wikipedia as a teaching tool
- Wikimedia Bookshelf
- Public Policy Initiative Memorandum of Understanding Spring 2011
- Politics of Piracy Class Page
- Leaderboard
Note: This page looks a little empty, but if you highlight it, you will find brief definitions for each entry / (or else, in the case of seemingly dull things, the thing about that dull thing that interested me.) At least in the beginning...I just haven't had time in the last six years to keep up with the maintenance as I should. Ahahaha I've been on here like 20 years now, so...