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Keepstherainoff

Joined 2 August 2009
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Wikipedia:Babel

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
...This user would like to be able to speak some more languages.

Wiki stuff

This user contributes to the Neuroscience WikiProject.
~~~~This user often forgets to sign their talk posts. Sorry.
<ref>This user cites articles like academic writing, which some may consider overciting. But if the proof is out there, why not link to it?

5 		This user has created 5 of Wikipedia's 6,816,423 articles.
This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians.

The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth".
This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

AIW

Work

This user is a postdoctoral researcher.
This user is an academic.
This user is a scientist.
This user appreciates the need to have some understanding of the statistics they are using

Skills

Spike2-2This user is an intermediate Spike2 programmer.
R-1This user is a beginner R programmer.
MAT-1This user is a beginner MATLAB programmer.
Guitar-1This user is a beginner guitar player.
mnd-1This user is a novice mandolinist.
This user plays the tin whistle.
This user plays the harmonica.
jhThis user plays the Jew's harp.

Other things about me

This user is from Sheffield.
This user likes the taste of coffee, not cream / sugar /
hazelnut / what have you.
This user drinks Single malt whisky. Ahh...malt.
This user believes in freedom of all types of information for all.
This user posts on X as @NeuroCraig.
This user enjoys a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit.
id1This user has donated blood 1 time.A+

List of WikiProject Neuroscience articles (mostly stubs) to work on edit

My 'dear diary' moment as a young wikipedian edit

Trying to figure out what to edit on wikipedia has made me realise how I really, really do know just a little bit about lots of things. I can't seem to figure out what articles I could add content to - everything I know something about seems to already have more detail than I know already. How much do people research when they're writing? I feel like I should start by contributing to articles where I already know what content to add. Having to do research to update and article doesn't feel right, but maybe that's stupid...

User's editing philosophy (here to remind myself) edit

You don't have to know everything about a topic to be able to contribute to an article. You don't even need to know a topic in more depth and detail than the article currently appears to be. You just need to be good at reading an article and spotting the times where you go "but what about...". The distinction between contributing stuff you know and having to go away and find stuff out to contribute (see above) is pretty meaningless. If you've read something 5 minutes before finding an article about it, it's not any more or less valid than something you've gone away to find out about having read an article and found it out afterwards. Most of the time on the internet is spent satisfying curiosity. Yes, reading about topics in sufficient depth to add to an article might take a little more time than glancing at it long enough to satisfy the sense of curiosity, but:

  1. It might not take that much longer
  2. It will probably stick in your head better if you have to write about it
  3. If you have to explain it, you will know whether you've understood it
  4. Other people will benefit from it.

As long as it doesn't get radically out of hand, then reading, wondering, researching then editing is as good, if not better than contributing things you already think you know.

Articles to read edit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_Brain To dispel the idea of a 'reptillian brain', or at least insert some caveats.

WikiProjects edit

This user hopes to contribute to the following projects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Neuroscience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Psychology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sheffield http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire

And would have liked to contribute to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Warhammer_40,000 but was disillusioned by seeing that someone had left because they were sick of putting effort into articles WP doesn't want...

This user would like to improve his userpage, but doesn't know enough wikicode to do it without copying other people's pages.

This user is in favour of open educational resources such as http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page

To check out later edit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Delayed_notice
http://ask.metafilter.com/113970/Math-basics-need-be-strengthening
http://ask.metafilter.com/116463/Brain-Blog-Breakdown

R wikibooks http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/R_Programming

.Some neuroscience about bees/insects. http://www.neurobiologie.fu-berlin.de/menzel/Pub_AGmenzel/GiurfaMenzel_Biology%20of%20Adaptat_72dpi.pdf
http://www.neurobiologie.fu-berlin.de/menzel/Pub_AGmenzel/MenzelGiurfa_TICS_2001.pdf
http://www.neurobiologie.fu-berlin.de/menzel/Pub_AGmenzel/Gil%20et%20al%20PLoSone%202008.pdf

Bee vision ebook http://epress.anu.edu.au/honeybee/pdf_instructions.html

http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/

Thunder - In a Broken Dream http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroethology

http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/4/688.full In support of the underused unequal variances t-test

User:Keepstherainoff/Thoughts about thesis

Reference pages that I want to keep track of but don't keep on the "watchlist" edit

Stolen from User:Rossami - needs reviewing.

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