User:Joe Quick
The bulk of my contributions to Citizendium have been in the social sciences. I mostly focus on articles related to my academic pursuits, which involve Mesoamerica past and present, indigeneity and portrayals of indigeneity in the Americas.
I earned a B.A. from Carleton College in 2007, where I majored in Sociology/Anthropology with a concentration in Latin American Studies. I got my M.A. from the University of Chicago in Latin American and Caribbean Studies in 2008.
| A CZimerick |
| We've developed a new wiki project, and it operates with actual logic. Our usernames are true, our vandals are few, and our solutions are not demagogic.
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| Notes to myself to be acted on... eventually. |
| Status: 20:01, 16 December 2008 (UTC) Ph.D. Applications mostly. Will be finally free to pursue my hobbies around mid-January. |
Me and CZ
| Obviously, my eventual goal for Citizendium is to upload all of my knowledge (or at least the non-primary research parts). The following is what I've worked on so far: | |
| These I've put some significant work into | And these are just stubs so far |
Articles that are likely to emerge from work on my MA thesis
I find that writing something for others' consumption goes a long way in helping me to understand the subject better for myself. I expect that a lot of my work on CZ over the next year will address issues that I need to understand for my thesis. The following is a list of what I think might emerge, though there will probably be a number of other topics that pop up as well. Expect well written articles, since I will need to know these topics inside and out and please add your comments and questions to the article talk pages or to my User_talk. Be as harsh as you like - I really need to know if I'm getting things across clearly.
- Constructivism (anthropology)
- Essentialism (anthropology)
- Strategic essentialism
Indigenous peoples or Indigeneity- Cultural activism
- Pan-Maya Movement
- Ethnicity
Planned work
- Rigoberta Menchú
- Turing test
- Victor Turner
- Maya (peoples)
- Mesoamerica
- Mata Ortíz
- Paquimé
- Casas Grandes
- Juan Quezada
Projects with which I'd like us to develop close relationships
These include sites that are committed to promoting the dissemination of accurate information free. Some are fully copyrighted, some release their work into the public domain, and others are somewhere in between. For one reason or another, I would like to develop close relationships with these projects and I believe that all parties would benefit from such relationships.
- Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg uses Wikipedia content in a few different places to introduce things. I think we should encourage them to use our content, when available. We should also encourage ourselves to link to publications that are hosted by PG. But we should make the relationship an official one - think of the publicity we (and they) could get out of it!
- The Tree of Life Web Project - Mainly, I think we should encourage this site to make use of our content, especially approved articles about species, families, kingdoms, etc.
- United Fruit Historical Society - has a much smaller scope than other sites listed here but the site contains a lot of good material that I'd like to copy and improve here. The best case scenario would be their release of their content under whatever license we adopt so that we can develop it further. They would obviously be free to copy it back. There are also a few content experts that we can probably recruit this way.
My Style
A guide to what others will have to deal with if they collaborate with me.
- My factual writing isn't all that I would like. I can be very compelling when I push a thesis, but I tend to have trouble with making encyclopedic writing not-boring.
- I prefer books for my sources. I find books easier to read than computer screens, so I tend to rely more heavily on printed resources. In some cases, others will be compelled to find internet resources that accomplish the same things that my book provide. I encourage this.
- I like to have all of the details when I write or learn something. This means that my contributions might tend toward the long side, but I feel that nuance and detail adds to the quality and comprehensibility of learning resources. This also means that I will probably be critical of others' work; I will try to be constructive in my criticism as much as possible.
Licensing of my contributions
Except where noted specifically in the text or the edit summary, all text contributions to Citizendium made under the username "Joe Quick" are the original work of Joseph R. Quick. They are submitted under any current or future license that Citizendium adopts for text in the article space. After two years from their initial appearance on Citizendium, all original contributions of text in the article space (excluding user pages, talk pages, non-article namespaces, forum posts, and all other text not appearing within the article cluster) is released into the public domain. Note that this applies to contributions by User:Joe Quick only and may not apply to contributions to an article by any other Citizendium user; see the article history to determine which contributions were made by User:Joe Quick. It is strongly recommended that reusers document the provenance of any text released to the public domain by the present statement so as to avoid confusion in the event that the content has been released under license to a third party by the author or by the Citizendium Foundation.
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CZ favorites
My favorite edits...
- http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?diff=100148511
- http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?diff=100194427
- http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?diff=100207195
- http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?diff=100229968
- The entire exchange between Catherine Woodgold and Matt Innis on the Ibn Sina article on Aug. 3 and Aug 4, 2008.
- http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?diff=100411557
...and my new favorite quotes
If meat-space people negotiated contracts in the same way as Wiki users negotiate article wording, someone would write a contract, the other party would change it, and then they'd start philosophizing violently about contracts and forget about the task at hand of agreeing on one. -Warren Schudy
This may simply reflect the fact that wikipedia has pissed off every known form of sentience, three out of four forces of nature, a water-born fungus in Australia and sixty four species of birds. -Christopher J. Reiss