User:Theflyer

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[edit] Goals

My primary goals on Wikipedia are to fully develop the Lake George (Anoka County) page by engaging the residents of the lake and others with knowledge of the lake's history. Other than that, I generally flitter about the space. I'm particularly interested in improving linkages between articles.

• My sandbox: User:Theflyer/Sandbox
• User:Theflyer/helpful tips

[edit] Projects in which I participate (when I get the chance)

• Disambiguation project
  • disambiguated links related to catchment area. (completed 14 Jan 07)
• FSHD and related pages
  • created the Muscular Dystrophy template

[edit] To do

• Create an entry in, or linked to, East River about Verdant's underwater wind turbine project ([1], [2], [3], that leverages Tidal power
• Create an article about the Potomac River Generating Station (Potomac River Plant, Potomac River Generating Plant). Stack consolidation effort. City of Alexandria perusing legal action. See Mirant's press release and Alexandria City's press release from 21 August 2007.

[edit] Cool Pages

• List of company name etymologies

[edit] Energy

• Turby wind turbine

[edit] Singularity approaching?

[edit] Singularity pages

• Ray Kurzweil's knowledge base
• Mar 2007 Congressional Report on the Singularity
• see Technological singularity for differing views about Ray's projections.

[edit] Key graphics

Ray Kurzweil's "Countdown to Singularlity" plotted on a logarithmic scale.	Same plot of key events but on a linear scale.
When plotted on a logarithmic graph, 15 separate lists of paradigm shifts for key events in human history show an exponential trend. Lists prepared by, among others, Carl Sagan, Paul D. Boyer, Encyclopædia Britannica, American Museum of Natural History and University of Arizona, compiled by Ray Kurzweil. See also: Accelerating change.	Exponential growth in supercomputer power

[edit] Reference pages and tools

• Wikimedia mailing lists
  • Wikimedia foundation mailing list

[edit] Templates

• Template:Fact - for Citation needed

[edit] Tools

• Wikipedia:IRC tutorial

[edit] Users

• Counters (see: Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters)
  • http://www.math.ucla.edu/~aoleg/wp/rfa/edit_summary.html - determine how well someone is doing at adding their edit summaries. Part of User:Mathbot's efforts.
  • http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate - summarize editors contributions. Code is open source.
  • http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/ - database of edits by organization (tracking IP registries)

• Wikidashboard - Created by scientists in the Augmented Social Cognition Research Group at Xerox's PARC. Read the release blog. From the blog "The idea is that if we provide social transparency and enable attribution of work to individual workers in Wikipedia, then this will eventually result in increased credibility and trust in the page content, and therefore higher levels of trust in Wikipedia." PARC hopes that "We're curious of how the Web community will use this tool to surface social dynamics and editing patterns that might otherwise be difficult to find and analyze in Wikipedia.

[edit] Articles

• article edit history tools
• IBM's History flow visualizes an article's history.

[edit] Editors

• wikEd * Java-based WYSIWYG editor for MediaWiki

[edit] Wikipedia writ large

• Wikimedia site looking at the overall stats for the various wikis