User:Llywrch

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	Seattle meetup 4 occurred 9 Sept 2006

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Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

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Hic usor simplice latinitate contribuere potest.

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This user [1] an administrator on the English Wikipedia.

This user reserves the right to completely screw up his or her edits.

My home page is at http://www.rdrop.com/users/llywrch. I haven't been very good about updating it.

I encountered Wikipedia one evening while googling for mentions of Valentinian III. I had a look around, and decided that I could help out here.

I am a native Portlander; one of my ancestors on my mother's side was in one of the last wagon trains to Oregon. I am old enough to remember the promise of Tom McCall's governorship, which now appears endangered by the efforts of bottomfish like Lon Mabon and Bill Sizemore.

True nerd confession: when I was a kid, I used to enjoy reading the encyclopedia. (It was a Funk and Wagnells, for those of you old enough to remember the joke from Laugh-In.) I would spend hours going from one cross reference to another. Hmm: is there an experiment, akin to the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, to see if one can get from a given article in Wikipedia to any other article in 6 clicks or less?

Update: Since writing the above, I've learned of Six degrees of Wikipedia, part of Kate's Tools. Belated thanks to Asbestos, who told me about this almost one year ago!

Another update: I started a blog little more than a month ago, http://original-research.blogspot.com. Comments welcome.

1 Brag sheet (out-of-date)
2 Things I learned at the 2006 Wikimania
3 Some positive reinforcement
4 Internal Wikipedia Links:

[edit] Brag sheet (out-of-date)

Wikipedia Entries I have written, (beginning with the ones concerning Roman history):

Gordian I and Gordian II

Pupienus and Balbinus

I've contributed these concerning Arthur and the Saxon Conquest. Sometimes I think I have bitten off more than I can chew ;-)

I've also written the following two entries connected with Oregon history, but I consider them more of stub entries than complete ones:

Tom McCall

John Reed (journalist)

I spent a while adding content to Oregon's 36 existing (& one deceased) counties, only to discover that they need more work to conform to the proposed Wikipedia standard. :-(

(Note: the above is text is old -- last updated late February 2003. I'd rather work on content than update my user page -- but isn't that why all of us are here?)

[edit] Things I learned at the 2006 Wikimania

My user name is very memorable.
No one (including me) knows how to pronounce it correctly.
One way to meet attractive women in Cambridge, MA is to lose your cellphone on the T. (Do not try this at home.)
A Wikipediholic will meet a striking blonde woman in a short skirt in a bar, buy her a drink -- & then proceed to tell her all about Wikipedia. (Okay, I'm married, she's married -- & yet ...)
Mav believes the Are You a Wikipediholic Test has acquired too many questions & needs to be refactored. (The first time he took the test, he scored only 95 -- out of a maximum possible 130 points.)

[edit] Some positive reinforcement

Just wanted to say thanks for Gafat language, a lovely little article and a fine job of research. I keep coming across your contributions and always enjoy them. Keep up the good work! — mark ✎ 12:27, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Llywrch is awarded this Africa Award for exemplary work on Africa-related articles. Presented by Warofdreams from the Africa-related regional notice board

I thought that given your excellent work on in particular Ethiopia-related articles, you should have one of these. Best, Warofdreams talk 10:47, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Internal Wikipedia Links:

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