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| Name | K0D3R |
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| Current location | United States |
| Languages | English |
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TODO: Write the lead section of this user page.
About Me edit
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I'm a software developer. Things I know how use in no particular order: Things I need to learn in no particular order:
My hobbies include reading books on programming, particularly those published by O'Reilly Media, playing the piano, and recreational gymnastics. When it come to the piano, I find the question that interests me most is, "why is music?" The piano is a broad field with many areas include theory, performance, and history. I'm sure that as I advance as a musician I will find subjects I want to learn about but can't find sufficient information on Wikipedia, which will provide me the opportunity to research and better enhance the site's knowledge base.
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As for gymnastics, I find the articles to be lacking or incomplete. It seems like whenever I try to look up basic information I get a one-line definition of something, but no clarification on requirements, or historical context. I want to know things like:
I also feel the sport has a gender bias. As an example USA Gymnastics has a section on Women's Artistic Programs but not one for Men's. I find this lack of information unsurprising because, in America at least, gymnastics doesn't really exist. In the United States, the olympics focuses on swimming, and when they do cover gymnastics it is focused on the female teams. Additionally, I find there to be a lack of proper gyms in the United states, due to insurance concerns and lack of qualified trainers. I also use this page for testing Wikipedia's markup language. For example:
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My Interests edit
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To Do List edit
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Add things to my user page (See WikiMgt):
Interesting: My current to do list:
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Other things I need to do:
Work on these things:
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Internal articles that I need to read edit
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Finding things to work on: Personalizing Wikipedia:
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Pages I need to read:
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Useful Articles edit
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Recommended reading from the welcome template:
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- ^ A commentary or reference appended to a text.
References edit
- ^ A reference, a relation between objects.
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Taken from the Wikipedia article:
- Ayers, Phoebe; Matthews, Charles; Yates, Ben (September 2008). How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It. San Francisco: No Starch Press. ISBN 978-1-59327-176-3.
- Broughton, John (2008). Wikipedia – The Missing Manual. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51516-4. (See book review by Baker, as listed hereafter.)
Brochures[1] edit
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Beginner | Welcome to Wikipedia is a reference guide to help you get started to contributing to Wikipedia. Using the guide, you will be able to create a Wikipedia user account, start editing, and communicate with other Wikipedia contributors. You will also learn how articles evolve on Wikipedia and how you can assess the quality of an existing Wikipedia article. Welcome to Wikipedia consists of 17 pages including a quick reference to help you to remember frequently used wiki markup commands. | PDF (12 MB) | |
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Beginner | Illustrating Wikipedia: A guide to contributing content to Wikimedia Commons shows newcomers the basics of contributing to Wikimedia Commons and adding images to Wikipedia and other wikis. | PDF (3.8 MB) | |
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Beginner | Evaluating Wikipedia article quality is a reference guide with specific steps you can take to get the most out of Wikipedia, as well as a look at how its quality system works. | PDF; 2-page condensed version |