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One interesting Wikimania session by Seth Anthony presented some research on contribution patterns. My notes: Only 10% of edits are high content edits. 30% of those are anonymous, none are by admins, 52% are by someone with a userpage, none have a barnstar. The people who are creating content are relatively new, not versed in style guides and bureaucracy. Their use of Wikipedia speeds up a little bit through use, but not much. Admins, on the other hand, are relatively efficient in their edits and have a consistent pace. They only edit within the article namespace 60% of the time. In other words, most edits are revisions of vandalism. But in the early days they edited less frequently, created more content (76% of the time) and edited less consistently. Content creators seem to be occasional and less frequent editors that may be specialists (subject matter knowledge). Admins are former content medical emergency reators, now janitors. One person in the audience volunteered that he just crossed over from subject expert to janitor to emphasize this point. In other words, the core community within the Power Law of Participation , the 500 people that do 50% of the edits, or 0.5% of the registered population -- does the heavy lifting for subject experts. Advances like Wikiwyg may increase the number and diversity of subject expert contributors. With 2 million edits per month and vandalism anecdotally scaling linearly with edits, janitors matter.

Amanda Prince is the girlfriend of NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Elliott Sadler . The new couple has been dating for just a few months, but both are Emporia, Va. natives and their families have known each other for many years. Amanda plays in a recreational softball league on the Sadler family team, along with Elliott's sister, Marion, and his sister-in-law, Angela. Several months ago, while Elliott was in his hometown taking in a game, the two became reacquainted. There was no denying the chemistry between them and they started hanging out together immediately. Elliott is smitten and admits that prior to meeting Amanda, his personal life had been on the back burner. Quoting this... Elliott: "Racing is still No. 1 to me and it's still very important, but now I have someone to share that with... She's just an amazing person. I'm not the most optimistic person in the world -- the glass has always been half-empty for me -- but for some reason it's half-full right now and I have canadian fly fishing er to thank for that. Things have been on an upswing and things have been a lot of fun. In fact, I didn't think life could be this much fun and man, it's been a blast." [ NASCAR.com , Feb. 20, 2007] Since August of 2005, Amanda has been a 4th grade elementary school teacher. Additionally, she teaches Water Aerobics for the YMCA and taught Elliott's nieces how to swim. She is also active in the Emporia Junior Woman's Club. And according to Elliott, she is a great mom to his 30+ hunting dogs.

Jerry Brown, who's running for California Attorney General, is probably the only Democrat I'll be voting for on Tuesday. A concerned Christian man had some words for Californians who are planning to vote for the zen fascist in the glorious and enlightening letter section of the OC Reg : One of the worst personal characteristics is hypocrisy. Enter Jerry Brown, who fights for the right to choose and at the same time declares that he is a Roman Catholic, whose church, along with our Baptist brothers and sisters, especially, and other Christian faiths, decries such a choice. That makes him a hypocrite. Please vote your sub prime loan onscience, Christians, and don't vote for this man . He hasn't changed his image since he was our governor, when he was labeled correctly as Gov. Moonbeam. Just ask all those Catholics engaging in pre-marital sex (a mortal sin) and practicing birth control (could be mortal but is probably venial) how many church teachings they violate every week. Hell must have a lot of room for these future guests. See, I would consider hypocrisy taking marching orders from a homophobic evangelical pastor who spends time away from his family banging male prostitutes . Or how about blindly supporting the war on IraqiIranSyraAbsurdistan while ignoring your church's teachings on "just war"? Oh yeah, my bad, Jesus always loved a good ass kicking and he was totally cool with his apostles molesting little children.

Now I know I've got to be ill with some exotic virus I've never been exposed to before. Whatever kind of weird bug it is, it is a potent one because ever since I opened that email from Mantis advertising this shed here on the right, building it is all I can think about for the moment. Mantis is offering this KIT for $89.95 and shipping is free but the offer is only good until January 27, 2007. I don't know what happens to it then. Maybe it changes into a pumpkin or something even more weird. The shed can be built in one of three sizes 7 x 8 8 x 14 or 8 x 22 And the ad says: Build a sturdy, long-lasting shed using your lumber at a fraction of the cost of typical sheds! Unique angle brackets make building the shed kit safe and simple. Requires only 90 degree cuts….no angles! Kit includes galvanized steel brackets, plans for 7’x8’, 8’x14’ and 10’x22’ shed, a cut list and materials list. Just add 2x4's to construct a complete shed. What one gets for their $89.95 is a bunch of galvanized steel angle brackets and the plans for constructing queen size ither of the shed sizes and a cut list for all three (as best I can tell by this ad.) That deadline date doesn't allow me a lot of time to mull it over or talk to the money person I MUST consult before making a major investment of any kind. I recall last year when I was trying to decide what to do in the back yard...build a wood deck, build a man-made wood substitute deck or go the concrete pad route.