User:Epachamo
Hello, welcome to my page! I love Wikipedia and am a huge believer in its mission to provide free information to everyone. It requires humility and working with people you don't always agree with to make an article as NPOV as possible. Learning these conflict resolution techniques, assuming good faith, working towards a goal has made me better as a human, and I try to take these techniques with me in my daily life.
Working on articles is like being in a rock tumbler. Wikipedia has helped smooth rough edges which I'm grateful for. You will read my edit history and there are moments and comments I'm not proud of. I have made comments in anger. I have bitten the newcomer. I am sorry. I look forward to chipping off more rough edges!
Wikipedia Commitments
- I am committed to assuming good faith.
- I am committed to being approachable, particularly to new editors. I want to help if you are confused by something!
- I am committed to seeking solutions that both sides agree are fair.
- I am committed to accurately representing reliable secondary sources, even when I disagree with them.
Please don't hesitate to call me out on my talk page if you feel I'm falling short of these commitments.
Favorite Article
My favorite article to write was Fukui cave. It was fascinating to learn about, and gratifying to plug a huge gap in human knowledge on Wikipedia.
Cool things
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JheGL6uSF-4 Neat visualization of Wikipedia]
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library Wikipedia Library]
- [https://xkcd.com/978/ xkcd on Wikipedia]
- [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-TabularImportExport.js XLS or CSV to Wiki Tabular format]
Gripe about AI
It really bothers me that Wikipedia is the backbone of Artificial Intelligence companies who are valued at billions and billions of dollars, and yet don't kick back anything.[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/magazine/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html source] We still have annual fund drives to keep Wikipedia afloat. I have donated countless hours to making Wikipedia a better place, to provide free information to everyone. It bothers me that AI companies create paywalls to information.
I am very concerned that as people use these AI tools, that fewer people will go to the source (Wikipedia). As fewer people actually visit Wikipedia, the fewer editors, the quality of content will go down and we will all be worse off because of it. AI is cannibalizing created content, killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
Favorite Quotes
- "You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something." - George Bernard Shaw
- "The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything." - Walter Bagehot
- "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." - Oscar Wilde
- "Knowledge is Power" -Francis Bacon
- "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss (probably falsely attributed)
- "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." - Michael Jordan
- "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt" - [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/ NOT Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain]
- "Prejudice against innovation is a typical characteristic of an Officer Corps which has grown up in a well-tried and proven system." —Field Marshal Erwin Romme
- "I went to sea in Destroyers as a young man and it was fun . . . then we got radios." -Admiral Arleigh Burke
- "[...] it is beneath the dignity of excellent men to waste their time in calculation when any peasant could do the work just as accurately with the aid of a machine." —Gottfried Leibniz
- "It's good to be uncomfortable." - Bruce Kittle to Kirk Cousins. From Quarterback_(TV_series) episode 8, time 18:50
- "People don't change behavior because they see the light, they change behavior because they feel the heat." Michele Mosca
- "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
- "A sincere and honourable woman, and no fraud ... [she] ... found in her texts what she wanted to find ... [and] was therefore at the mercy of the promptings of her expectant mind."- [https://archive.org/details/shakespeareancip0000will/page/264/mode/2up?q=expectant Elizabeth and William Friedman]
To Do List
=Misc=
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_broken_reference_names Pages with broken reference names]
- Bubble Matching Make the article
- Sheep Wagon Make the article
- Fix the Sons of Horus page with the cardinal directions.
- Add to List of lava tubes
- Add a useful, easy to understand diagram to Partially ordered set. Perhaps showing set of people, where some people are descended from others, but some are not related.
- Native American genocide in the United States
- Update Walkara
Disclosed Conflicts of Interest
User:MomosPenny is my daughter. She is not a sock puppet. Trying to teach my kids about service and sharing knowledge to the world.
User:Tambe is my wife. She is not a sock puppet. Just a great human being I somehow got lucky enough to be married to.
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