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* December 14, 2013: [[WP:Meetup/Boulder/December_2013|Wikipedia at the Museum]] at the [[University of Colorado Museum of Natural History]]. |
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* November 16, 2013: [[WP:Meetup/Boulder/November_2013|Wikipedia Loves Libraries]] at the [[Boulder Public Library]]. |
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* September 28, 2013: [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes America/2013/Denver|Wikipedia Takes Denver]]. |
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* December 22, 2012: [[WP:Meetup/Boulder/December_2012|Meetup at Southern Sun]]. |
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* November 1, 2012: [[WP:Meetup/Boulder/November_2012|Wikipedia Loves Libraries]] at Norlin. |
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* September 15, 2012: [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes America/Boulder/2012|Wikipedia Takes America in Boulder]]. |
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* June 30, 2012: [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Boulder/June_2012|Great American Wiknic at Boulder]], Scott Carpenter Park/Harpo's Sports Grill, [[Boulder]], [[Colorado]], [[USA]]. |
* June 30, 2012: [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Boulder/June_2012|Great American Wiknic at Boulder]], Scott Carpenter Park/Harpo's Sports Grill, [[Boulder]], [[Colorado]], [[USA]]. |
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* October 27, 2011: [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Boulder/October_2011|''Wikipedia Loves Libraries!'' at Norlin]], [[Norlin Library]], [[University of Colorado at Boulder]], Boulder, Colorado, USA. |
* October 27, 2011: [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Boulder/October_2011|''Wikipedia Loves Libraries!'' at Norlin]], [[Norlin Library]], [[University of Colorado at Boulder]], Boulder, Colorado, USA. |
Revision as of 19:18, 17 March 2014
Things about me
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Hi there! I'm Gaurav Vaidya. I potter around Wikipedia occasionally, fixing bits and pieces when it strikes my interest.
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The Day Job
I'm a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder , where I've been since August 22, 2011 (13 years, 4 months and 5 days so far!). I'm working on problems of biodiversity informatics, planning to specialize in biological classification. Sometimes I work with biodiversity databases.
My Wikipedia Life (or: Pages I'm Proud Of)
As somebody who doesn't edit Wikipedia as much as I'd like (or, perhaps, have the patience for), my favourite Wikipedia activity is taking an article which is coming apart at the seams and tidying it up. In particular, popular articles have a lot of people adding facts, photographs or sentences anywhere vaguely appropriate; as these changes accrue, the article can get pretty messy.
Which is where I like to come in: taking an existing article, I'll merge the accumulated cruft, reorganize the facts so they flow smoothly, pinch out coherent sections and otherwise try to polish the article off. This works great with my available time, too: apart from discussions and vandalism reverts, the only time I spend on Wikipedia is three-four hour binges where I try to get one of these articles polished off. I'm quite proud of my work on Pune, the Deccan plateau and the Battle of Pratapgad.
As I've been on Wikipedia for quite a while (since 2002!), there's articles I'm proud of just because I started them. I'm pleased that Indian independence movement still retains the name I gave it; I also created the original stub for The Catcher in the Rye and Artemis Fowl (series). One of the most exciting things about Wikipedia is starting off an article that you'd like to read yourself, waiting a few years, and voila, Wikipedians have fleshed it out to a level you couldn't imagine. I started Order of the Phoenix (organisation) and fleshed out a very early article on Lord Voldemort ([1]) with this intention, and it succeeded brilliantly. And, one lazy afternoon, while listening to a short documentary on Peter Handford on BBC Radio 7, I visited Wikipedia to find out more. Horrors! No entry! The article I wrote in a rush is still around, has been polished up by others, and is a reasonably decent introduction to the man if anybody were to look him up in this encyclopedia.
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Wikipedia events I've helped organize
- December 14, 2013: Wikipedia at the Museum at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.
- November 16, 2013: Wikipedia Loves Libraries at the Boulder Public Library.
- September 28, 2013: Wikipedia Takes Denver.
- December 22, 2012: Meetup at Southern Sun.
- November 1, 2012: Wikipedia Loves Libraries at Norlin.
- September 15, 2012: Wikipedia Takes America in Boulder.
- June 30, 2012: Great American Wiknic at Boulder, Scott Carpenter Park/Harpo's Sports Grill, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
- October 27, 2011: Wikipedia Loves Libraries! at Norlin, Norlin Library, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
- January 15, 2011: Wikipedia's Ten Year Birthday Celebration, Hackerspace.sg, Bugis, Singapore.
Wikipedia-related scientific papers I've worked on
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Things I'd like to do when I've got the time
- Polish up the biodiversity page.
- Clean up the biodiversity informatics page.
- Merge ecoinformatics into biodiversity informatics?
- Write an article about the Bulletin of the United States National Museum (these guys).
User subpages
I sometimes back up content which is being deleted elsewhere in the Wikipedia (inclusionist, remember?) to my user pages. You can look through this content with this handy link.
Committed identity
But really, I'm just the guy at http://www.ggvaidya.com/ - that'll hopefully be an easy way to find me for ages to come.
Old versions of this page
2012 | Mar 31 |
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2011 | May 2 |
2010 | June 17 |
Thing
WP:TWA 65.101.235.163 (talk) 05:09, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
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