Dazzpedian

About me

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

• 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

Web comics that amuse me and, in particular:

• Questionable Content, which makes me appreciate music and relationship complexity, and
• Octopus Pie, which makes me want to travel to New York.

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

“ The viewer, or reader, is compelled to participate in completing and interpreting the few hints provided by the bounding lines. ”

People that are on the Wikipedia trek with me

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

• Carolyn
• Sylvia
• Marc
• Dianne
• Linda
• YuJia
• Trish
• Greg
• Elizabeth

Goals and helpful links

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:

• The Wikipedia manual of style, which should be compared to,
• The manual of style for the WikiProject Comics!

Useful tools

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

/Sandbox_togm

/sandbox_DYK

/sandbox_photo_upload_test

References

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