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Friday 1 November 2024
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~Personal Details~
Full Name:Neil McKenzie Cameron
Previous Moniker:Neilinoz
Date of Birth25 July 1969
Date registered as Wiki User:4 February 2004 (as Neilinoz)
Abode:Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Wife:Anna Vanessa (DOB 1 April 1970)
Son:Aiden Sean (DOB 8 December 2000)
Church:Charlestown Presbyterian Church
MBTI:INTJ [1] [2]
Nolan chart:Centrist

Personal Issues 50%

Economic Issues 40%
Linux User Number311559
Nerd Rating:27%

Qualifications

Interests

Mandrake Linux
Mandrake Linux

Current PC Setup

Tux
Tux

Scene from Millennium, Episode #1

Man: "I'm Peter Watts, from the Group." [He hands Frank an envelope.]

Watts: "I would have faxed you, but I wanted to introduce myself."

Frank: "I heard you were down looking at the body. Did you find anything?"

Watts: "A few things slipped by. One salient oversight... "

Why I like contributing to Wikipedia

Ever since 1998 when I went online, I found that I was engaging in all sorts of intellectual debate in message boards. Too many times the debates ended up being trolled and I dreaded going back to debates. I also found that I spent a huge amount of time researching and preparing these responses - and then realising after 2-3 weeks that no one read them and that they were lost forever.

Wikipedia allows me to create articles and modify articles without having to bump into direct conflict. Because I have to be NPOV it means that I have to be reasonable in my prose which is less likely to cause offense.

Wikipedia also allows me to work on it whenever I feel like it. There are no deadlines. I do not have to contribute on one particular day if I don't want to. It is always there for me to go to whenever I feel like it.

And finally the work I do on Wikipedia is meaningful. I am creating text that people can use and think about. Even if my work gets modified, the fact is that it has been used to build something better. Moreover, the work seems likely to endure. It could be that in 20-30 years my work on Wikipedia will still be available and accessed by many.

Pages created or started

The average Wiki article is 2396 bytes (2.34kb) in size.
I am aiming to have at least three and a half times the average - say around 8386 bytes (8.19kb) per article.
The Adolf Hitler article is 40305 bytes (39.36kb). This gives an idea of how complete a particular article can be.

Reformed Topics

Charismatic and Pentecostal Topics

Other Topics

Significant Contributions

Favourite Pages (not mine)

Useful areas of / for Wikipedia

Greek Characters

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ
Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν
Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ
Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

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Descriptions of MBTI

Derived from http://keirsey.com/

  • ISTJ Robot
  • ISTP Frat Boy
  • ESTP Show Pony
  • ESTJ Pawn
  • ISFJ Sheep Dog
  • ISFP Poonce
  • ESFP Drama Queen
  • ESFJ Cannon Fodder
  • INFJ Sticky Beak
  • INFP Back-seat driver
  • ENFP Loser
  • ENFJ Drill Sergeant
  • INTJ Smartass
  • INTP Little Hitler
  • ENTP Weirdo
  • ENTJ Arsehole

Why don't they have this?

  1. A web browser that has the time in UTC in the bottom right hand corner of the screen so that all of us with slow clocks can adjust them, as well as interpret UTC times we meet on the internet. (Mozilla Firefox developers take note)
  2. A Web Browser that allows you to adjust things like the text font for individual web sites.
  3. Why is it that many web pages have "open on new page" links? And why can't a web browser have an adjustment so that when you click on it, it opens a new tab?
  4. Larger Fonts in Wikipedia?
  5. Strict news reporting laws that levy damaging fines to media organisations for reporting falsehoods under the banner of "facts"
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