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I reject the custom here that encourages anonymity. Own Your Words™! #f62367d '''See [https://timchambersusa.com/now my Now page], and from that page explore the rest of my personal website.'''

I was in intellectual nirvana after discovering Wikipedia (WP) in 2001. ([http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-August/000297.html My first wikipedia-l posting] was August 8 of that year.) I was sad to see [[Larry Sanger]] leave the project. I followed him to [[Citizendium]]. In 2019 I joined the [[Encyclosphere]] project. In 2023 I became a [https://justapedia.org/wiki/User:Tim_Chambers Justapedian], but I am earnestly trying not to burn any bridges here.

[[Special:Contributions/Tim_Chambers|My contributions]] here speak for themselves. Compare with [http://toolserver.org/~tparis/pcount/index.php?name=Tim+Chambers&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia my edit count].

A decade ago I described how WP then fit into my blogging process at [http://purl.org/net/tbc/blog/about purl.org/net/tbc/blog/about]. (Summary: I believed that WP was the most important blogging tool that existed.) That post is out of date. The important change is my new belief that [https://justapedia.org Justapedia] (JP) is the future. I continue to maintain my account here, but it's taken a backseat to JP. I'm jaded because it's hard to feel welcomed here anymore if you don't have hours and hours to spend writing, defending yourself, etc. Now I occasionally pop into JP to refresh a JP article or to drop in a factoid or two. Watch [https://justapedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Tim_Chambers my contributions at JP] grow.

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*[[Meta:User:Tim Chambers|My Metapedia user page]] — I '''[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-November/000812.html proposed]''' the name! [[User:Graham87|Graham]] / [[User:Nemo bis|Nemo]], thank you '''so much''' for restoring my page!
*[[User:Tim Chambers/Todo|Todo]] (woefully out of date; sigh)
*[[User:Tim Chambers/Bookmarks|Bookmarks]] (ditto)
*[[User:Tim Chambers/Interests|Interests]] (ditto)
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== Project Comments ==

'''12 November 2023''' Updated first paragraph to clarify my involvement in other encyclopedic projects. Don't feel like creating [[Justapedia]]. I don't want to hear [[Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia|deletionists]] tell me that it's not notable. Oh, but check out Justapedia's articles that I wrote: [https://justapedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Standards_Foundation Knowledge Standards Foundation] and [https://justapedia.org/wiki/HandWiki HandWiki].

'''13 Jul 2023''' I can't believe Wikipedia didn't have an article on [[William Clark]] for '''over two years!''' I created [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Clark&oldid=860062 the stub] on 24 April 2003. Follow the development from the beginning, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:History/William_Clark&offset=200501010000 the first edits on the history page].

'''7 July 2023''' Anyone interested in developing [[/ChannelPoint]]?

'''29 June 2023''' I've been reading [[All the Knowledge in the World|''All the Knowledge in the World'']] and felt compelled to button up [[Simon Garfield]]'s work on [[Talk:Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo|People of Banana]].

'''22 Jan 2023''' Just popping in to say I'm now working on the [https://encyclosphere.org/ encyclosphere] and to note that I cut my wiki teeth on [[Ward Cunningham]]'s original Wiki Wiki Web: https://wiki.c2.com/?TimChambers

'''11 Aug 2022''' Milestone. Scooped the news of [[Connor Fields]]' retirement.

'''7 Feb 2021''' It seems all I do here anymore is pop in to drop a sentence or two in this section. I red "[https://theamericanscholar.org/injured-merit/ Injured Merit: How a righteous sense of grievance can lead to a better world]" by Paula Marantz Cohen, Thursday, January 28, 2021. Then I Ducksearched and found [https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/cohen-paula-marantz-1953 her page at encyclopedia.com] ([https://paulamarantzcohen.wordpress.com/ she also blogs]!) and thought about creating [[Paula Marantz Cohen]]. She's notable! No, I have found that Wikipedians are no longer tolerant of stubs. It stopped being enjoyable to contribute here years ago. Sigh.

'''14 Nov 19''' TIL I possess the 10th oldest account here! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers?username=&group=&creationSort=1&wpsubmit=&wpFormIdentifier=mw-listusers-form&limit=10]

'''06 Jul 19''' I'm getting too much pushback on the humble '''Ellipsis button.''' It is a [[Button (computing)|button]] placed typically in a top corner of a [[graphical user interface]]. It takes the form of an [[Icon (computing)|icon]] that consists of three dots (displayed as '''⋮'''). ''[Compare to and contrast with the [[Hamburger button]].]'' It is also known as a Kebab menu. Kudos Graeme Bartlett for recovering the text. Ref. [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#Draft%3AEllipsis_button|my request]]. More history on my Talk page. I need to flesh it out before trying to create the article again. Someday it will have as much content as the Hamburger button article.

'''09 May 19''' Popped in because I met [[Shawn Milne]] today. Already met [[Derek Bouchard-Hall]], [[Tim Johnson (cyclist)|Tim Johnson]], [[Jeff Pierce (cyclist)|Jeff Pierce]], [[Jamie Staff]], and [[Gary Sutton]]. And speaking of cycling, I like to imagine that [[Lucien Choury]] is a distant relative.

'''29 Jul 14''' Popped in to improve the [[Irvine Dataflow]] article. [[Arvind (computer scientist)|Arvind]] was my Bachelor's thesis advisor at the 'Tute. I never wrote a line of Id, FWIW.

'''3 Jan 13''' I found a couple articles that Wikipedians have not yet squashed with picky standards. I added comments: Talk:In the Beginning... Was the Command Line ([[Talk:In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Command_Line#Garrett_Birkel.27s_rebuttal|Garrett Birkel's rebuttal]], [[Talk:In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Command_Line#On_Bug_Tracking|On Bug Tracking]]), and [[Talk:List of email subject abbreviations#Netiquette is not encyclopedic]].

''' 1 Aug 12''' [[MCR]] = Master of Corporate Real Estate. Someone signed their email with the MCR designation and it made me curious. WP blacklisted [http://www.webcitation.org/69b2ULxCN EzineArticles dot com slash 3044073]. I know, I know, WP doesn't cite original research. And I'm betting that domain is blacklisted because it doesn't archive properly at WebCite (something to do with the frame).

'''20 Feb 12''' Raised this issue: [[Talk:Main Page/Archive 165#John Glenn]]. Learned that I need to plan ahead and spruce up pages I want to see showcased.

'''18 Feb 12''' Joined the lively discussion following publication of "The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia," by [[Timothy Messer-Kruse]] in ''[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]].'' See [http://disqus.com/tbchambers/ my DISQUS profile] and click on Activity.

'''2 Dec 11''' Who is this [[philosopher]] [[Timothy Chambers]] and how has his page managed to survive the dreaded test of noteworthiness all these years? Not that I'm complaining. I'm simply impressed. Link for [https://plus.google.com/115438303265712377685/posts/95U3h6kcKCK public discussion].

'''15 Aug 11''' After notification by [[User:Inks.LWC]], I see that Paparazzi the project was speedily deleted by [[User:RHaworth]]. And [[User:Satori Son]] eliminated it from [[Paparazzi (disambiguation)]]. Sigh. This project has changed so much in ten years. On one hand, I understand that googling will turn up [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Main_Page the Paparazzi project MediaWiki], but on the other hand, my philosophy of this project when I was most active defined it as a way to vet and catalog search results so that people could more easily find the information they sought. Notability was much more loosely defined. I wish I could have made time to stay engaged and argue on the side of article inclusion when it counted.

I'm in this for the long-term, though. The pendulum can swing the other way again. I hold out hope that I'll have more time for WP in the future.

'''29 Jan 11''' added comments to [[Talk:Disabled veteran street vendors]], [[Talk:Jamshied Sharifi]], and [[User talk:Accounting4Taste]]. And updated this page and answered wiki mail. Sigh. That's all I have time for right now.

'''10 Sep 10''' I like [[Template:fancruft]]! Just discovered it used at [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Public_Broadcasting_Service&oldid=383299946 Public_Broadcasting_Service oldid=383299946]

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