User:Sbwoodside

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This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth". This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 10 months and 27 days.

Basic information

• My name is Simon Woodside
• My home page is simonwoodside.com

Topics I created

(most recent at the top) (I left out stubs that I made)

• Flying disc games - catching all of the games and sports like Ultimate (sport)
• History of computer science - amazing that this topic didn't exist...
• Definition of computer science - trying to move the argument away from Computer Science
• Category:Charts
• Isotype (pictograms)
• Cathedral of St Vincent de Paul
• Transect (urban)
• Albert Dubout - translation from french
• DIKW
• Cetacean Conservation Center
• Al Qa'qaa
• Al Qa'qaa high explosives timeline
• Willson Woodside
• Medina quarter
• Pierre Pelot - translation from french
• Falu red
• Information graphic

Major contributions

• Angela Beesley - this was an interesting one, I accidentally got caught in some internal Wikipedia politics after voting and getting curious about why she resigned. Well, score one for persistence and a thick skin...
• Ultimate (sport)
• Computer science (and related articles) - I discovered this page with a weak summary and very little substantive content. I added substantial content and did a lot of mediation around the highly contentious summary. Eventually I managed to get the ball rolling on dispute resolution in part by forcing a 3RR and waving a flag at the mediation forces, before I took off for XMas 2005. Now it seems that things have been settled excellently by various people.
• Information graphics (and related articles) - a pet project for quite some time
• Tunis - beefed it up through translation and research/images, prior to the WSIS Tunis event
• Chart - enhanced coverage of all the myriad kinds of charts people use
• Hurricane_Katrina#Media_involvement
• Wisdom
• Tram - translated major portions from french - much of it still survives