Tom-

This user should not be confused with User:Tom.

Paper encyclopedias have their uses

Hello, I'm Tom, from Northampton in England.

My interests include the BBC (who I used to work for), radio, television, web development (including HTML and CSS).

Timeline

• February 23 2004: First edited Wikipedia
• May 2 2004: 1000th edit
• May 28 2004: became an administrator
• January 12 2005: became a developer

Stuff I've done

Articles I started

• 78 Derngate
• BBC Local Radio and 38 station pages
• Broadcasting House
• Bush House
• Mark Thompson
• Wicksteed Park

Articles I've contributed to

• bbc.co.uk
• BBC World Service
• British Broadcasting Corporation
• Northampton
• Northamptonshire

Other stuff you can blame me for

• I came up with the idea for having a collaboration of the week, to try and have focused community editing. Help contribute!
• I originally designed Wikipedia:Introduction.
• Some of the Main Page design is my doing, especially the top intro section.
• Various MediaWiki things, especially XHTML compliance, as well as accessibility and usability improvements.
• Redesign of Contact us (see the old version)

Photos

Quotes

<jwales> "What is wikipedia?  Not as horrible as you've heard, not as good as you've hoped"