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Rye 212

Joined 10 October 2004

Mike, not living in Dublin

Wikipedia life

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First visited at 15:45PST Fri Oct 8, 2004 via Google result #6 for Australian PM John Howard when Alexa ranked the site as approx the 250th most popular. Voting had just started in the Australian 2004 elections, and Howard was seeking a record 4th term. I wanted more info on his terms of office - and found it on WP. Twenty-four hours later Howard had won the election, and was featured on the WP home-page.

I was surprised to find the Oct 1st re-election of Irish President Mary McAleese already recorded, which demonstrated the accuracy of the site. I made my first contributions to pages on Irish politicians John O'Donoghue and Mary Harney to reflect the recent cabinet reshuffle.

Next day, to test WP, I researched my favourite topic - What is the formal date of Irish independence? The answers were there on Irish Republic. I added to that info, made a few more contributions and joined WikiPedia on Sun 10th October, 2004. EnjoyLooking fwd to being a constructive member. - Rye1967 20:57, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Made my 1500th logged-in contribution with a new page on Eddie Wade on 1st Dec 2005 and 2000th on March 20, 2006 with a change to Esera Tuaolo, 2500 on 16 May, 2006, change to Gerald Boland, 4600 on 26 March 2007 change to Ian Paisley (Impending First Min Nom.), 6621 edits by Mar 2011, 7588 as of 25 Sep 2023. Slowed down! Most recent was on Merab Sharikadze Georgian Rugby International.

Made some anon contributions as follows:

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23 Apr 2013: My first view of anon-IP contributions logged with an IPv6 address. [1]. Vandalism, sadly.

When were topics 'born' Wikipedia

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Some famous (to me) old people from WP

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Created Feb 2006, Last update Sep 2024, Last extension Sep 2024

1889 to 1914

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1915

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1916

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1917

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1918

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1919

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1920

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1921

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1922

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1923

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1924

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1925

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1926

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1927

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1928

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1929

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1930

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1931

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Nonsense

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I am responsible for including the following in the Robert Marjolin article in 2006:

...he was head of State Department responsible for producing the Pineau aperitif...

which was later corrected to

...he was a member of the staff of the socialist minister of foreign affairs, Christian Pineau...

That nonsense was a consequence of applying Google translate to the German wikipedia page! Four years later it translates the same sentence correctly:

...he...was...Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Pineau ...

Mobile Phones

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  • Nokia 1610 Dec 1996-2000 (end: needed to get an Irish account, got phone that could send txt messages)
  • ? 2000-2001 (end: Wanted more modern phone)
  • Siemens SL42 2001-2003 (end: Wanted more modern phone)
  • Nokia 6310i 2003-Dec 2007 (end: got given new phone for birthday)
  • Motorola v400 2004-Dec 2006 (first camera phone, end:Moved back to Ireland from USA)
  • Nokia E65 Apr-Aug 2007 (end: Lost in pub)
  • Nokia N70 Dec 2007-Jan 2010 (end: wanted more modern phone)
  • Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Jan 2010-July 2011 (end: Screen was broken, couldn't read)
  • HTC Desire S July 2011-Jan 2012 (end: Lost in taxi)
  • HTC Wildfire S Jan 2012-Feb 2013 (end: Qualified for an upgrade to faster phone)
  • Sony Xperia T Feb 2013-July 2014 (end: Camera focus damaged by car)
  • Sony Xperia Z1 Compact July 2014 - May 2016 (end: Touchscreen failure due to broken glass)
  • Sony Xperia Z5 Compact May 2016 - Dec 2016 (end: iPhone gift)
  • iPhone 6 Dec 2016 - Dec 2017 (end: iPhone 7 gift)
  • iPhone 7 Dec 2017 - Aug 2018 (end: iPhone X gift)
  • iPhone X Aug 2018 - Dec 2019 (end: iPhone 11 gift)
  • iPhone 11 Dec 2019 - Dec 2021 (end: iPhone 13 gift)
  • iPhone 13 Dec 2021 -

To do

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