User:Maxwell's Demon
About Me
[edit]According to the description given by the countering systemic bias project, I am part of the bias that afflicts the Wikipedia - I'm a European, english-speaking male with a strong interest in physics and computers.
I have been using Wikipedia for about 2 years, after discovering it via Slashdot. At first I wasn't sure what to make of it, but now I see it as a real gem of the Internet - it is definately one of the "life enhancing" things people promised the Internet would deliver.
"Maxwell's Demon"
[edit]The name "Maxwell's Demon" comes from my background in physics. The Demon is an imaginary character invented by Scottish physicist James Clark Maxwell to demonstrate a possible violation of the Second law of thermodynamics.
Strangely, although I studied thermodynamics as part of my degree, "Maxwell's Demon" was never mentioned in any of the lectures. Actually, I shouldn't be surprised by this, given that the lectures were of a very poor quality.
My Contributions
[edit]Here are the articles I've contributed to. The nature of the contribution varies from correcting minor typographical errors to adding significant new information or significant re-writing.
I tend to edit articles I have read for my own interest and not because they fall within my skills profile, hobbies, etc. So, while I'm a qualified physicist and work as a software engineer, I don't contribute in those areas, but instead in areas I just happen to be interested in at the time. Hence the eclectic mix below.
Articles I Created
[edit]Articles I've Edited
[edit]- Bob Hoskins
- Charles Fort
- Don Muraco
- Dragons' Den
- Encrypting File System
- Esther Rantzen
- Everybody Hurts
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Induced coma
- Jack the Ripper
- John Lennon
- Kim Medcalf
- Leonard Rossiter
- Liz Smith
- MafiaBoy
- Maria Bello
- Kevin Michael Richardson
- Myra Hindley
- Peter Sutcliffe (Yorkshire Ripper)
- Repository for Germinal Choice
- Robert Black
- Rod Serling
- Rootkit
- Star Trek: TNG episodes
- The Thing
- Topological map
- Twilight Zone episodes
- Valles Marineris
- William Rowan Hamilton
- Windows Installer
- Windows XP Media Center Edition
- The Wright Stuff
Anonymous Contributions
[edit]Before creating the "Maxwell's Demon" account, I edited many articles, most of which I don't remember now, but here are some I do recall contributing to anonymously: