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<div style="margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 4px; background: gold; text-align: left; color: black; border: solid white 2px">'''Click [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:wingspeed&action=edit&section=new <font color="#5a3696">here</font>] to leave a message on my talk page'''
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♥ ''A [[Social network|network]] is [[hierarchy|non-hierarchical]] . . .''


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I'm a former BBC journalist & producer now in book publishing.


''It is a [[World Wide Web|web]] of connections among [[Acephalous society|equals]]. What holds it together is [[Nonviolent resistance | not force]], obligation, material incentive, or [[social contract]], but rather [[Enthusiasm | shared values]] and the understanding that some [[collaboration|tasks can be accomplished together]] that could never be accomplished separately.''
My Wikipedia user page is at [[wikipedia:User:wingspeed]].
 
♥ ''' [[Donella Meadows |D. H. Meadows]], ''Beyond the Limits'''''.
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[http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html TRANSPARENCY]
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[[Image:Starved_girl.jpg|thumb|left|100px|A little girl with [[kwashiorkor]], a disease caused by severe lack of [[protein]]]]
 
[http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bob_thurman_says_we_can_be_buddhas.html COMPASSION]
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* [[Jimmy Wales|Wales]] on a [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html Wonder of the modern world]
 
* [http://www.euroinvestor.co.uk/News/ShowNewsStory.aspx?StoryID=10027336 Wikipedia statistics, 5 November 2008]
 
* [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/26/WMF_20072008_Annual_report._high_resolution.pdf  Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report, 2007-2008]
 
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♥ ''Nobody is as smart as everybody.''
 
♥ ''I am convinced that the full impact of the Wikipedia is still subterranean, and that its mind-changing power is working subconsciously on the global millennial generation, providing them with an existence proof of a beneficial hive mind, and an appreciation for believing in the impossible.''
 
♥ ''The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work.''
'''[[Kevin Kelly (editor) |Kevin Kelly]]''', quoted in the ''New York Times'', 6 January 2008
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[[0.999...|ONENESS of even ''non-oneness'' alert]]  ♥ [[Image:999 Perspective.png|300px|left]]  <br> [[Medical slang|Most entertaining article most likely to help you live longer]]    ♥ 
 
 
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===editing tools===
*{{fact}}
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*[[:Category:Stub_categories|Stub Categories]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Expansion Expansion tag]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Blatantvandal Vandalism template]
*[[WP:AIV|Report vandalism]]
*{{tl|sign}} - Template reminding users to sign their posts
*{{tl|talkheader}} - Template reminding users of talkpage guidelines
*{{tl|unsigned}} - Template to be added to unsigned posts
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion Speedy deletion info]
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup_resources Cleanup templates]
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*[[Template:Refq]] - template to invite users on the RD to check a wikilink themselves. Also <nowiki>{{refq|article name|optional message}}</nowiki>
*[[template:test-self]] - Vandal warning template for people who self-revert.
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*[[WP:CITET]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace#Usual_warnings User Warning templates - new family]
*{{tl|userlinks}}
*[[WP:RFPP|Request for page protection]]
*[[WP:CHEAT]]
*[[Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout|Wikipedia layout guide]]
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Right_to_vanish WP:Right to vanish]
*[[User:Tony1/How_to_satisfy_Criterion_2a|FA tips]]
*[[Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide]]
*[[ Wikipedia:Non-free content]]
*[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC licence 3.0]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Infoboxes]]
*[[WP:MOS#Wikilinks]]
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===image uploading===
*[http://toolserver.org/~magnus/flickr2commons.php Device to upload to Commons CC-licensed Flickr images]
*[http://toolserver.org/~magnus/tusc.php Sign-up for the device]
*[http://flickr.com/search/advanced/ Advanced search feature to identify Flickr images with CC-licensing template]
 
===miscellaneous===
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:wingspeed Check someone's block log - insert + in place of spaces in usernames (if any)]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page Deletion log]
*For an interesting stat tool click [http://stats.grok.se/en/200806/anarchism here]
*and [http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=wingspeed&dbname=enwiki_p here]
* '''[[Wikipedia:Community Portal|Community Portal]]'''
 
===pages to watch===
*[[WP:PR|WP Peer Review]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page= Deletion log]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Linksearch&target=http%3A%2F%2Fmembers.comteche.com&limit=500&offset=0 googlebomb attempt?]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism_Unit Wikipedia Counter-Vandalism Unit]
*[[WP:RFF|Wikipedia Requests for Feedback]]
*[[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates|Featured article candidates]]
*[[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship]]
*[[WP:RA|Requested Articles]]
*[[Wikipedia:List_of_administrators|List of Administrators]]
 
==personal pages==
* [[User: wingspeed/personal sandbox]]
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[[Image:MoonEclipse By VampBea.png|thumb|left|780px|Lunar eclipse, recorded from [[Oslo]], 16 August 2008]]

Latest revision as of 02:31, 12 January 2011

I'm a former BBC journalist & producer now in book publishing.

My Wikipedia user page is at wikipedia:User:wingspeed.

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