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= Fabrice =
 
= Fabrice =
  
We've been eager observers and participants of the project. I have met it online when it was still marginal and widely unknown. At my earliest encounters, I was fascinated by the concept, but did not believe it would take off (who would have? Even Jimmy Wales seems to have been warry.) I was also confused with other similar projects, like Nupedia that at this time seemed to hold a stronger status than Wikipedia (it later felt into disuse), or the [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/Browse h2g2] website following from [[Adams]]' insights, but that I could never take seriously. It wasn't obvious Wikipedia was having any lead. I remembered lamenting to a friend the lack of support of images, mathematics, etc. Actually, images were already very much supported but it was rare to find them in an article. The style was much less polished than today. Really a work in progress... but what progress!
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We've been eager observers and participants of the project. I have met it online when it was still marginal and widely unknown. At my earliest encounters, I was fascinated by the concept, but did not believe it would take off (who would have? Even Jimmy Wales seems to have been warry.) I was also confused with other similar projects, like Nupedia that at this time seemed to hold a stronger status than Wikipedia (it later felt into disuse), or the [[h2g2]] website following from [[Adams]]' insights, but that I could never take seriously. It wasn't obvious Wikipedia was having any lead. I remembered lamenting to a friend the lack of support of images, mathematics, etc. Actually, images were already very much supported but it was rare to find them in an article. The style was much less polished than today. Really a work in progress... but what progress!
  
 
My first contribution was on [[24 July|24]] [[July (2003)|July]] [[2003|(2003)]] at 16:23, on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_(waves) phase] page, that still remain a modest article as of today.
 
My first contribution was on [[24 July|24]] [[July (2003)|July]] [[2003|(2003)]] at 16:23, on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_(waves) phase] page, that still remain a modest article as of today.

Revision as of 14:36, 22 November 2009

Our most notable contributions to the Wikipedia are listed here.

Fabrice

We've been eager observers and participants of the project. I have met it online when it was still marginal and widely unknown. At my earliest encounters, I was fascinated by the concept, but did not believe it would take off (who would have? Even Jimmy Wales seems to have been warry.) I was also confused with other similar projects, like Nupedia that at this time seemed to hold a stronger status than Wikipedia (it later felt into disuse), or the h2g2 website following from Adams' insights, but that I could never take seriously. It wasn't obvious Wikipedia was having any lead. I remembered lamenting to a friend the lack of support of images, mathematics, etc. Actually, images were already very much supported but it was rare to find them in an article. The style was much less polished than today. Really a work in progress... but what progress!

My first contribution was on 24 July (2003) at 16:23, on the phase page, that still remain a modest article as of today.

My only contribution in 2005 was on the disambiguation page of Cornell, adding the Nobel prize physicist Eric Allin Cornell (so it was a slow Wikipedia year for me, in this language). I otherwise kept a small but nonzero rythm of participations, from minor edits to more substantial inputs.

I have created the following pages in the English Wikipedia:

  1. Polariton, July 2003.
  2. Quantum state, Id.
  3. Coherent state, Id.
  4. Lindblad equation, March 2004.
  5. Center of mass coordinates, Id.
  6. Edmund Germer, August 2004.
  7. Heinrich Geißler, Id.
  8. Martirio, June 2006.
  9. Evgeni Gross, April 2006.
  10. TeX Live, February 2007.
  11. The Cut (play), November 2008.

and in the French Wikipedia:

  1. Louis Bourdaloue, July 2004.
  2. Fourme de Rochefort, April 2005.