User:Jtneill

Wikipedia Work

I became active on Wikipedia in 2005 with 500 edits to date mostly on articles relating to outdoor education, experiential education, psychology and my local geographical area (Tharwa). For more detail, see my contributions.

I've had a love of encyclopedias ever since hearing about an autodidact who read the whole set of World Book Encyclopedia's cover to cover whilst living in a tent in remote North-Western Australia in the 1960's. Now I have visions of millions of people in developing countries creating a revolution by accessing and writing in places like Wikipedia on $100 laptops. I also use my own installs of DokuWiki - there's something about a flat database I like - portability perhaps.

Biography - James Thomas Neill - maybe looks like vanity but I am generally accepted as a leading academic in the field of outdoor education and have constructed an open source academic resource website which has a readership of 8000/day and an Alexa ranking of 22,000. (Wilderdom). Whether this article meets the criteria for inclusion in Wikipedia is currently under examination.

(these pages still need considerable work - ranked in order from most to least significant contribution)

(roughly in order of priority)

I hope when all the animals have gone, that robots will have electronic fur.
When we recognise ourselves as capable scientists, theorists and practitioners in our own lives, research can be wrested from academics in ivory towers and the control taken out of the hands of corporations. Have an idea, experiment, and discover something new!
Currently, we have pseudoeducation; what we need is psychoeducation.