I first encountered Wikipedia on the web when I was doing some research. Wikipedia seemed to come up first on my Google searches, so I decided to check it out. I first posted on October 12, 2006. By December 2006, I realized that Consensus and Assume Good Faith were behind Wikipedia's success.
I really enjoy Wikipedia because I feel that bringing difficult to obtain information to the Internet will make this world better. Receiving Assume Good Faith responses to my goof-ups reminds me of the good all around us and consensus makes me feel like part of a team.
Like others on Wikipedia, I am your basic philomath. I practice a belief that if it is out there, it is your goal to learn/know about it. I particularly enjoy working with biographies. I get a lot of satisfaction from working with Wikipedia biography articles, particularly those of living people.