User:John Abbe
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home page: http://ourpla.net/
Welcome to Wikipedia, John! Not meaning to dog your steps, it's just that everything you've been editing has been interesting. :)
Thanks, Stephen! What have i written here? I don't track everything (i don't always log in), but i was very happy to add the first link to Meditation to the Buddhism page (! - and later added it to the List of Buddhist topics), and wrote something on the deeper aspects of Nonviolence. (then noticed there are several such pages; someday i may take on merging them)
Occasionally i add bits to the Paleolithic era on the Timeline of invention.
In a fit of up-to-the-momentness, i updated the Pluto page on March 15, 2004 to reflect the announced discovery of Sedna.
I also have participated (not so much recently) in the development of, and slow-motion edit "wars" in, the Sri Lanka pages.
Hadn't logged in for a couple years until early 2004, and in the old days it was as JohnAbbe - see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=JohnAbbe
Articles to write:
- interdependence (someone else got there first)
- transformational movement
- World Undomination (just kidding, probably, but related writing/editing has and will appear on the appropriate pages)
I would write about science fiction here, but [Bookshelved] wiki provides much more of a community feel, and the rest of my SF writing goes on in my own wiki - [[1]]. I'll probably bring some over here eventually.
I'm not related to Ernst Abbe, but Clifford Stoll once gave me an Abbe prism.
I am related to the Robert Abbe who pioneered radiation therapy in the United States of America and founded the Abbe Museum. Cleveland Abbe, "father" of the U.S. weather bureau, was my great-great-grandfather. I never met either of them though.
Some useful pages for working in Wikipedia:
- Wikipedia:MediaWiki_custom_messages (custom msg:xxx items)
- Wikipedia:Boilerplate text (built-in msg:xxx items)
- Wikipedia:Utilities
- Wikipedia:Public domain resources
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
