Wikipedia editor (n.) Someone who will not leave a burning building until you show them the newspaper article documenting how many people were killed by the fire.
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Wikipedia editor
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Much of my Wikipedia editing is on mathematics articles, but I've also edited articles on computer science, academic biography, the arts, and California geography, among many other topics. I've also contributed many diagrams and photographs to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
As an employee of a public university I believe that public outreach is part of my job description, and in that sense that my edits here to subjects within my professional expertise are paid edits. However, the topics and content of my editing here are wide-ranging and entirely self-directed. I neither participate in, nor condone, paid edits for specific articles or specific content.
... that a photograph of an airplane propeller taken by a camera with a rolling shutter(pictured) may distort the propeller into curves resembling the quadratrix of Hippias? (26.02)
... that Euclid's Elements has been estimated to be second only to the Bible in its number of published editions? (25.10)
... that Pythagorean addition, available in many programming libraries as hypot, can compute distances, polar coordinates, and the relativistic energy of moving objects? (25.09)
... that boxing rings are square, despite their name? (25.08)
... that Leonardo da Vinci invented a device to solve Alhazen's problem, instead of finding a mathematical solution? (25.07)
... that Ewa Ligocka cooked another mathematician's goose? (24.11)