My Wikipedia Manifesto
Some things I've worked on in Wikipedia:
Diderot, a Pebble watchface that shows you the nearest unillustrated Wikipedia article
WikiProject History of Science - Started January 15, 2006.
Haeckel Gallery - scanned plates from Haeckel's
Kunstformen der Natur (1904), completed March 25, 2006.
Portal:History of science - Promoted to featured portal status May 23, 2006.
Wikipedia assignment in HIST 236 - a Wikipedia term paper assignment, Fall 2006.
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Wikipedia Signpost articles
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Professors criticize, praise Wikipedia in listserv discussions", July 31, 2006
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Wikipedia classroom assignments on the rise", December 18, 2006
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Students in Western Civilization course find editing Wikipedia frustrating, rewarding", April 30, 2007
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Report on Citizendium", July 30, 2007
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WikiScanner tool creates 'minor public relations disasters' for scores of organizations", August 20, 2007
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Vatican claims out-of-context Wikipedia quote was used to attack Pope" (with
David Wilson), February 11, 2008
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Wikimedia Board to expand, restructure, May 2, 2008
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Explicit sexual content draws fire", May 12, 2008
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Update on Citizendium", May 14, 2008
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Pro-Israeli group's lobbying gets press, arbitration case", May 19, 2008
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Statistical model identifies potential RfA candidates", June 30, 2008
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Defamation case against Wikimedia dismissed" (with
Ral315), July 7, 2008
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Study: Wikipedia's growth may indicate unlimited potential", August 11, 2008
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Wikipedia in the news", August 25, 2008
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Editing frequency statistics show decline in participation", January 3, 2009
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Wikipedia drug coverage compared to Medscape, found wanting", January 3, 2009
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Large portion of articles are orphans", January 31, 2009
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Philosophers analyze Wikipedia as a knowledge source", February 23, 2009
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Wikipedia's coverage and conflicts quantified", April 20, 2009
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Review of The Wikipedia Revolution", April 20, 2009
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Review of Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia", April 27, 2009
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Review of Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes", June 15, 2009
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Review of The World and Wikipedia", May 3, 2010
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Making money with free photos", May 31, 2010
- *List excludes regular features like "In the news" and "News and notes" while I served as Signpost editor-in-chief from January 2009 through May 2010.
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Did you know...
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- ...that according to the controversial
Hockney-Falco thesis, the rise of
realism in
Renaissance art, such as
Jan Van Eyck's
Arnolfini Portrait, was largely due to the use of
curved mirrors and other
optical aids?
- ...that the
phage group was an informal network of biologists centered around
Max Delbrück that contributed heavily to the
origins of molecular biology?
- ...that the
nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution explains why the rates of
molecular clocks are generally independent of
population size?
- ...that American evolutionary biologist
Jack Lester King co-authored a provocative 1969 paper, "Non-Darwinian Evolution", on the
neutral theory of molecular evolution?
- ...that nutritionist-turned-molecular biologist
Thomas H. Jukes was one of the few scientists ever to have a regular column in the journal
Nature?
- ...that biologists
Emile Zuckerkandl and
Linus Pauling would intentionally avoid
peer review when publishing their most provocative works on
molecular evolution?
- ...that
Linus Pauling and
Emile Zuckerkandl proposed using protein sequences to estimate the time since
genetic divergence, early in the
history of molecular evolution research?
- ...that humans have lived near
Nevada's
Swan Lake Nature Study Area since 400 AD?
- ...that
John Y. Naka's
bonsai masterpiece
Goshin (
pictured) consists of eleven trees representing Naka's eleven grandchildren?
- ...that
molecular evolutionist
Morris Goodman used
protein sequence data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of
hemoglobin and called this the first "hard evidence of
Darwinian evolution"?
- ...that according to the
2R hypothesis, the
genomes of modern
vertebrates are the result of two rounds of
genome duplication hundreds of millions of years ago?
- ...that the
Journal of Molecular Evolution, founded in 1971, was the first
scientific journal dedicated to this
field?
- ...that in order to fight in the
Spanish Civil War, American biologist
Clement Markert stowed away aboard a freighter?
- ...that
Rachel Carson was so disappointed in the
Oscar-winning film adaptation of her 1951 bestseller
The Sea Around Us that she never again sold film rights to her work?
- ...that English
biochemist
Ernest Baldwin (1909 – 1969) was a pioneer in the field of
comparative biochemistry?
- ...that
science historians have done so much work related to
Charles Darwin that this area of research is often called the
Darwin Industry?
- ...that Canadian biochemist
Archibald Macallum used measurements of ionic concentrations in
blood sera to argue for the ancient marine origin of all
vertebrates?
- ...that the
Great Phenol Plot of 1915 was to divert
phenol from U.S.
explosives production to prop up German
Bayer's
aspirin business?
- ...that the
history of aspirin has been marked by fierce competition, patent and trademark battles, and even an international conspiracy known as the
Great Phenol Plot?
- ...that
anthropologist
John Buettner-Janusch sent a batch of poisoned candy to Judge
Charles L. Brieant Jr. after he was convicted of running an
illegal drug lab?
- ...that
Richard Lenski's
long-term evolution experiment with E. coli has been tracking
genetic changes in
bacteria for over 20 years?
- ...that the
origins of chromatography can be traced to the work of
Russian botanist
Mikhail Tsvet (
pictured), but his work saw little use until the 1930s?
- ... that
biochemist
Harvey Itano, who worked with
Linus Pauling to determine the molecular basis of
sickle cell disease, was the first
Japanese American admitted to the
National Academy of Sciences?
- ... that
biochemist
Rollin Hotchkiss, a pioneer in
bacterial transformation and
molecular genetics, helped to popularize the term "
genetic engineering"?
- ... that the 1944
Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment, later celebrated for showing that
DNA is the
genetic material, challenged the prevailing wisdom that genes were made of
protein?
- ... that the
Barack Obama "HOPE" poster designed by artist
Shepard Fairey was based on a photograph from before
Obama officially launched
his presidential campaign?
- ... that the
one gene-one enzyme hypothesis is often considered the first significant result in what came to be called
molecular biology?
- ... that during the
Darwin Centennial Celebration of 1959,
religious humanist
Julian Huxley delivered a controversial "secular sermon" arguing that traditional religion was no longer needed?
- ... that the numerous
photographs of Charles Darwin—at least 53 (
example pictured)—may have helped secure the singular connection between Darwin and the theory of evolution in popular thought?
- ... that in his 1970 book
Vitamin C and the Common Cold,
Linus Pauling explains
primates' inability to synthesize
vitamin C as a result of
evolution?
- ... that the idea that
molecular evolution is dominated by
genetic drift originally took its name from the 1969 paper "
Non-Darwinian Evolution"?
- ... that the
T4 rII experimental system enabled
biologist
Seymour Benzer to map a
gene down to the level of one or two
base pairs before the invention of
DNA sequencing?
- ... that the concept of "molecular disease" from the 1949 paper "
Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease" became the basis for
Linus Pauling's later views on
molecular evolution and
eugenics?
- ... that the sculpture
Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science (
pictured) depicts what historians have described as "the modern fantasy of (female) nature willingly revealing herself to the (male) scientist"?
- ... that the historical novel
Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist, about the rise of
modern physics, inspired a lecture by
Steven Weinberg called "Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist"? (with
User:Sadads)
- ... that scholars estimate that it takes two or three
generations for a
tradition to emerge? (with
User:Piotrus and others)
- ... that sociologist Ben Aggers has described the trend of
selfies as "the male gaze gone viral"?
- ... that biochemist
Sofia Simmonds, despite her scientific accomplishments, was not promoted to
full professor at
Yale until nearly 30 years after she started there?
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Bigger projects:
Favorites:
Shoutouts:
- To
Ral315, who kindly chose my fake biography of him (Rachelle Anne "Chesty" LaRue) to adorn his user page.
- To
Gmaxwell, who took
this picture, which I would like placed atop my user page if I die in the service of Wikipedia.
- To
Awadewit, whose skillful copy-editing graced my prose on more than one occasion.
- To
Phaedriel, who designed this page.
- To
Duncharris, who welcomed me to Wikipedia.
- To
Rock drum, who made me a cool bonsai 'Ragesoss' logo.
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