User:Willsmith

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I'm William Smith. I previously lived in Malaysia, now I've moved back to UK.

My personal home page is at http://www.willsmith.org

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Mainly for my own satisfaction, I list below some of my contributions to Wikipedia-English:

Articles I started, and wrote a tiny bit:

• Fischer Black - stockmarket theory
• Myron S. Scholes - stockmarket theory
• short selling - stockmarket theory
• underlying instrument - stockmarket theory
• Alias|wavefront - graphics software
• Maxtor Corporation - computer hardware
• Ahmed H. Zewail - nobel winning Chemist, went to a presentation by him
• Pitcher plant - just 'cos I have a picture
• Carniverous plants - to link pitcher plant from!
• Masjid - another word for mosque

Articles I started, and wrote a reasonable amount of information:

• Kuala Lumpur International Airport - Malaysia information
• Mount Kinabalu - Malaysia information
• Technical analysis - stockmarket theory
• Fundamentals analysis - stockmarket theory
• Black-Scholes - stockmarket theory
• Risk free interest rate - stockmarket theory
• Maya (software) - graphics software
• Intrusion detection system - security software
• Shah Alam - Malaysia information
• Thaipusam festival - Malaysia information
• Batu Caves - Malaysia information.
• Petronas Twin Towers - Malaysia information.
• Tower block - British English for high rise.
• High-rise - everybody knows what it is, nobody defined it.
• Crore - Indian measurement.
• Lakh - Indian measurement.
• Mimos Berhad - my employer.
• Localization - what it is.
• Internationalization - what it is.
• G11n - abbreviation.
• I18n - abbreviation.
• L10n - abbreviation.
• Mark Rothko - famous artist.
• Kuala Lumpur Star Light Rail Transit - Malaysia info.
• Kuala Lumpur Putra Light Rail Transit - Malaysia info.
• Kuala Lumpur Monorail - Malaysia info.

Articles I modified, adding a significant amount of information or a picture:

• Sabah - Malaysia information.
• Kuala Lumpur - some pictures (badly formatted though).
• Camberwell, London, England - where I used to live.
• Floor - about floor numbering in different cultures, supersition related and otherwise.
• American and British English Differences - added some extra words.
• SMS - Famous historical events related to or influenced by SMS.
• Creative Commons - tidied up, headings, better explanation of icommons.
• OpenOffice.org

Articles I modified with minor changes (but not just formatting changes):

• Sarawak - Malaysia information.
• Malaysia - Malaysia information.
• Tim Berners-Lee - internet history.
• Lift - British usage, as in elevator.
• American and British English Differences
• many more ...