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About me
Hi, my name is Ed Poor and I'm a former developer, admin & bureaucrat from Wikipedia.
I know quite a bit about the internal workings of Wikipedia: the database structure, formatting, templates, dispute procedures, content and style guidelines; and, oh, yes, all the politics and gossip of the first few years.
Dpbsmith asked me to come over, so here I am. I'm finding the environment much more congenial.
My chief aim here is to facilitate the highest standards of encyclopedia development.
Wikipedia
I was one of the earliest members of the Wikipedia project (UserID #188). I helped institute the following practices or software features there:
- Marking edits as 'patrolled' (co-conceived with Maveric who in one marathon period personally checked every Wikipedia edit for vandalism!)
- Ability of blocked users to edit their own user talk page
- Community ban - i.e., increased authority for sysops to block a disruptive user
- The practice of bureaucrats "running" for office (I was the first one elected, when as a developer I could simply have granted myself the rights)
Pages I'm proud of there:
Favorite contributors
This is a partial list. Don't get all bent out of shape because I haven't placed your name here (yet). :-) And it's not in any particular order.
- TK (talk • contribs • count) - straight to the point
- MountainDew (talk • contribs • count) - refreshing, like a can of soda!
- RSchlafly (talk • contribs • count) - forthright
- Aschlafly (talk • contribs • count) - erudite
- Dpbsmith (talk • contribs • count) - out of sight!
- Hojimachong (talk • contribs • count) - all right!
- Sid 3050 (talk • contribs • count) - a big help
- Jaques (talk • contribs • count) - a lot of interesting stuff
A new role
To my surprise and pleasure, I was voted in as a sysop here - reportedly it was unanimous. Thank you for your support.
I believe that users who are here to contribute should get a helping hand, and those who cannot or will not make useful contributions should be shown to the door. But since, "His mercy is forever sure", I don't like applying infinite bans; it's always possible for a person to make up his mind to take a new direction.
I've unprotected a handful of pages and am watching them. I have hopes that eventually all content pages can be freely edited, once they reach a mature and stable state.
Welcome
Welcome, I'm Dan. I see that you have made many great article improvements in your week here. MountainDew 17:45, 26 March 2007 (EDT)
- Thanks, Dan. I try. And I've learned a lot from watching you. --Ed Poor 18:50, 28 March 2007 (EDT)
Ideas I'm looking at
- Popularity
- of certain articles
- of the project as a whole
- Are they just laughing at us out there? (See 'liberal bias' below)
- Standards of conduct:
- for sysops
- Not arbitrarily banning users
- for ordinary users
- for sysops
- Agreeing to disagree
- NPOV
- Compromise
- Collaboration
- Registration
- Registration is closed late at night and early morning (Eastern Time). It's open during the day and early evening. Also, you can email the webmaster or User:Aschlafly (he's at aol) for manual accounts.
- Basis for inclusion of material
- Must be well-cited
- Are alternative ideas being censored?
- Politicized Science as related to:
- Smear terms [2]
I hope this is the right way to respond to you
Ed, I was a Wiki-newbie when I got the boot, so I'm still fairly new to this whole process. I noticed your words of encouragement regarding Intelligent Design and I wanted to drop a quick reply. I hope I'm not vandalizing your page and I hope this is the proper way to reply to someone. I'm not an Intelligent Design expert. I am an editor and a nationally published writer. My comments at the Wikipedia ID page were primarily to point out logical/grammatical/fairness issues. I'm happy to help edit and I think the creation of this site is important for our children. If you need a minion to do some editing let me know. Everwill 07:22, 31 March 2007 (EDT)
- Many are the volunteers clamoring to become one of my teeming minions. ;-)
Irc
Science Classroom
I have a proposal to open a science classroom. The idea is to have experts in science (and I mean standard, practical science) answer basic science questions. It would not be a place for ideologues to leave their views or smear others. It would not be a place for non-mainstream science, e.g. creationism...as it is still not considered mainstream, it needs its own classroom. For example, someone could ask how scienice explains "x", and someone could give the standard answer. If anyone is interested in collaborating, especially wikigeeks who would have an idea how to set it up, let me know.--PalMDtalk 12:35, 31 March 2007 (EDT)
