View from Gaviota Peak, southeast into Santa Barbara Channel; my house should be visible to the upper left, but it only takes up about a thousandth of a pixel.
So who is this guy, you ask, who spends all this time working on Wikipedia? I'm mainly a content contributor, although I do other things, including maintenance. Here's a list of articles I've written; as of 2022.
I first edited on Wikipedia in early 2004, and was immediately enthusiastic. The possibilities of the project for growth, for dissemination, for quality, and for just having fun, for any intellectual person who likes to write and happens to have some extra time, were enormous; indeed it was one of the first places I had ever found on the Internet that didn't feel like another few electronic acres of wasteland. I've been here now for almost a decade, and I'm still writing. I like it; it's a pleasure. Some may think I'm nuts for spending so much time writing an encyclopedia, but I tell you it's exciting to see one's articles shoot to the top of Google rankings shortly after their creation. Not only do I find it exciting, but I increasingly find it to be my duty, as someone having a specific expertise, to put accurate, readable, and well-sourced information into that top Google position.
My credentials and experience are real and verifiable, to those with a need to know, although at this time I prefer to edit anonymously.
