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Revision as of 12:54, 27 October 2007
Hi, I'm Uncle Ed from Wikipedia. I'm one of the earliest remaining contributors there. I used to be a Developer and Bureaucrat - but I didn't scale well with the project. People said I was throwing my weight around too much, so I resigned bureaucrat and was later de-sysopped.
I was the driving force behind a few important software features and social innovations at Wikipedia:
- The ability of bureaucrats to promote sysops with a mouse click (instead of needing a developer to write a SQL query each time)
- The ability of "blocked" users to post to their own user talk page.
- The convention of "transcluding" text in AFD discussions, et al.
- Tim Starling credits my extensive use of date-calculating templates as the impetus for his decision to write ParserFunctions.
There's more, but you guys hate it when I brag. ;-)
My support for this project
I suppose I should submit a writing plan:
- I'm interested in analyzing the anti-science movement, particularly ideas which attract support from powerful organizations or are widely held by laymen without any evidence - or even in despite contradictory evidence.
- I'm curious about crank ideas, but actually sympathetic to cranks (the people who espouse them. Every once in a while a crank turns out to be right, like that Viennese doctor who claimed an "invisible substance" was killing women with childbed fever.
- I despise what political authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism have done to retard scientific and social progress - but I'm inclined to respect authority in general and have strong religious beliefs. This might seem a bit contradictory to some.
Please feel free to comment, but I'll see your replies more quickly on my user talk page.
Don't tase, me bro!
I enjoy being teased; the worst thing you could do to me would be to ignore me. --Uncle Ed bug me 08:54, 27 October 2007 (EDT)