User:Verne Equinox

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Verne Equinox

I find the Wikipedia Project tremendously empowering. It reminds me of the small army of volunteers who contributed to of the original Oxford English Dictionary, an effort chronicled in Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman. By the way, the OED once again (since 1999) relies on volunteers - you can contact them at www.oed.com/readers/.

Well, with 1,490,182 entries in Wikipedia at the moment, and dozens more every minute (actually, it's more like 4 or 5 (see Special:Newpages)), I must imagine something much bigger than a small army is at work on this juggernaut. And all since 2001.

Nearly a century after the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia too threatens to become "the sum of human knowledge" for modern times. I believe that through the dedicated efforts that I see everywhere through the Project pages, it will someday be relied on as a standard reference. To be part of this is fantastic.

My methods are completely random. Many of my contributions have been initiated by finding empty entries or stubs during 'Random Article' searches. I tend to focus on biographical matters rather than technical ones. I am also interested in connections. Many of my minor edits have been to trace connections between articles and to fix links.

If you're new to Wikipedia (or you've been here too long and need to come up for air), take a look at the Wikipedia Signpost. If you really need a break, read this, then follow the link.

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Fort Beausejour	Fort Edward	Bank building	Deadman's Island Park
Dorchester Penitentiary	Dorchester Gate	Fort Folly 1, New Brunswick	Mount Allison University
Emmerson Hall, Acadia University	Monument Lefebvre	Université Sainte-Anne	St. Joseph
Bell Inn, Dorchester, New Brunswick	St. Anselme Church	First Baptist Church, Amherst, Nova Scotia	Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Sackville founders monument	St. John's Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia	H. R. Emmerson	Chatham, Medway, Kent
Hythe, Kent	Lympne Castle, Kent	Saltwood Castle, Kent	Queenborough
Minster-in-Sheppey, Kent County	Westerham, Kent County	The Hydrostone	St. John the Baptist Church in Miscouche, Prince Edward Island
Via Rail - station at Amherst, Nova Scotia	Home of John Clarence Webster - Shediac, New Brunswick	Credit union - Shediac, New Brunswick	Owens-Illinois glass recycling plant
New Brunswick Route 106	New Brunswick Route 15	Street in Saint-Pierre	Saint-Pierre, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon