About me

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Having spent the better part of my working life involved in the communications business using a variety of communications medium (television, print, and just a little web) I am now working towards a Master of Arts in Communications in Technology degree from the University of Alberta. As part of that work, and to explore social media and current technologies, I am a now a beginner Wikipedian. Aside from these studies, I spend my day working as an administrator with in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan. Collectively I now cheer for Bears, Pandas, and Huskies (unless, of course, they are competing against each other).

Professional interests

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  • Parliamentary procedure (which needs some mutually agreeable...disambiguation...with other similar pages)
  • the relationship between Internet usage and plagiarism (cause and effect, or is that only correlation?)

Personal interests

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Web comics that amuse me and, in particular:

Although Marshall McLuhan felt that the traditional comic book was being supplanted by television, he did note that that through this cool medium:

People that are on the Wikipedia trek with me

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An incomplete list of colleagues studying Wikipedia as part of our educational pursuits (please add your name if I have missed you!)

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In the short term I am hoping to find my way through the complexities of Wikipedia!
To do that I am pulling together some frequently accessed links:

Useful tools

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I am trying out the following tools:

 This user watches over Wikipedia with the help of Twinkle!


An interesting (and powerful) edit assist tool

This user edits with the gadget wikEd.


A useful enhancement to assist with text editing

Projects and testing

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/Sandbox_togm

/sandbox_DYK

/sandbox_photo_upload_test

References

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  1. ^ McLuhan, M: "Understanding Media: The Extensions of man", page 160. McGraw-Hill, 1964.


As well I am hoping that I might find a mentor as I begin this journey