Mike, not living inDublin
First visited at 15:45PST Fri Oct 8, 2004 viaGoogle result #6 for Australian PMJohn Howard when Alexaranked the site as approx the 250th most popular. Voting had just started in theAustralian 2004 elections, and Howard was seeking a record 4th term. I wanted more info on his terms of office - and found it on WP. Twenty-four hours later Howard had won the election, and was featured on the WP home-page.
I was surprised to find the Oct 1st re-election of Irish PresidentMary McAleese already recorded, which demonstrated the accuracy of the site. I mademy first contributions to pages on Irish politiciansJohn O'Donoghue andMary Harney to reflect the recent cabinet reshuffle.
Next day, to test WP, I researched my favourite topic - What is the formal date of Irish independence? The answers were there onIrish Republic. I added to that info, madea few more contributions and joined WikiPedia on Sun 10th October, 2004. EnjoyLooking fwd to being a constructive member. -Rye1967 20:57, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
Made my 1500th logged-in contribution with a new page onEddie Wade on 1st Dec 2005 and 2000th on March 20, 2006 with a change toEsera Tuaolo, 2500 on 16 May, 2006, change toGerald Boland, 4600 on 26 March 2007 change toIan Paisley (Impending First Min Nom.), 6621 edits by Mar 2011, 7588 as of 25 Sep 2023. Slowed down! Most recent was onMerab Sharikadze Georgian Rugby International.
Made some anon contributions as follows:
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23 Apr 2013: My first view of anon-IP contributions logged with anIPv6 address.[1]. Vandalism, sadly.
When were topics 'born' Wikipedia
[edit]Some famous (to me) old people from WP
[edit]Created Feb 2006, Last update Nov 2025, Last extension Nov 2025
- January 12Pieter Willem Botha (d. October 31 2006, aged 90)
- May 8João Havelange (d. August 16, 2016 , aged 100)
- June 9Robert Mcnamara (d. July 6 2009, aged 93)
- July 11Gough Whitlam (d. October 21 2014, aged 98)
- November 4Walter Cronkite (d. July 17 2009, aged 92)
- November 10Louis le Brocquy (d. April 25 2012, aged 95)
- December 8T. K. Whitaker (d. January 9, 2017, aged 100)
- December 9Kirk Douglas (d.February 5, 2020, aged 103)
- January 5Jane Wyman (d. September 10 2007, aged 90)
- February 2Đỗ Mười (d. October 1, 2018, aged 101)
- February 6Zsa Zsa Gabor (d. December 18, 2016, aged 99)
- March 20Vera Lynn (d. 18 June 2020, aged 103)
- August 18Caspar Weinberger (d. March 28 2006, aged 88)
- August 30Denis Healey (d. October 30 2015, aged 98
- October 1Cahal Cardinal Daly (d. December 31 2009, aged 92)
- November 3Conor Cruise O'Brien (d. December 18 2008, aged 91)
- November 20Robert Byrd (d. June 28 2010, aged 92)
- December 16Arthur C. Clarke (d. March 19 2008, aged 90)
- January 19Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (d. March 4, 2020, aged 100)
- April 13Liam Cosgrave (d. October 4, 2017, aged 97)
- April 20John Paul Stevens (d. July 16, 2019, aged 99)
- August 4Helen Thomas (d. July 20, 2013, aged 92)
- August 17Maureen O'Hara (d. October 24 2015, aged 95)
- September 23Mickey Rooney (d. April 6, 2014 aged 93)
- December 9Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (d. September 16, 2016, aged 95)
- December 13George P. Shultz (d. February 6, 2021, aged 100)
- April 21Tiede Herrema (d. 24 April 2020, aged 99)
- June 10Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (d. April 9, 2021, aged 99)
- July 10Nancy Davis Reagan (d. March 6, 2016, aged 95)
- July 18John Glenn (d. December 8, 2016, aged 95)
- November 29Jackie Stallone (d. September 21, 2020, aged 98)
- January 17Betty White (d. December 31, 2021, aged 99)
- February 6Denis Norden (d. September 18, 2018, aged 96)
- April 3Doris Day (d. May 13, 2019, aged 97)
- April 4Máire Mhac an tSaoi (d. October 16, 2021, aged 99)
- July 2Pierre Cardin (d. December 29, 2020, aged 98)
- November 14Boutros Boutros-Ghali (d. February 16, 2016, aged 93)
- May 27Henry Kissinger (d. November 29, 2023, aged 100)
- May 27Sumner Redstone (d. August 11, 2020, aged 97)
- July 22Bob Dole (d. December 5, 2021, aged 98)
- August 2Shimon Peres (d. September 28, 2016, aged 93)
- September 16Lee Kuan Yew (d. March 23, 2015, aged 91)
- October 10Murray Walker (d. March 13, 2021, aged 97)
- October 10Nicholas Parsons (d. 28 January 2020, aged 96)
- December 12Bob Barker (d. 26 August 2023, aged 99)
- February 20Gloria Vanderbilt (d. June 17, 2019, aged 95)
- February 21Robert Mugabe (d. 6 September 2019, aged 95)
- April 28Kenneth Kaunda (d. 17 June 2021, aged 97)
- June 12George H. W. Bush (d. November 30, 2018, aged 94)
- September 2Daniel arap Moi (d. 4 February 2020, aged 95)
- October 1Jimmy Carter (d. December 29, 2024, aged 100)
- October 15Lee Iacocca (d. July 2, 2019, aged 94)
- December 7Mário Soares (d. January 7, 2017, aged 92)
- December 25Atal Bihari Vajpayee (d. August 16, 2018, aged 93)
- January 17John A. Murphy (d. February 28, 2022, aged 95)
- February 20Sidney Poitier (d. January 6, 2022, aged 94)
- March 1Harry Belafonte (d. April 25, 2023, aged 96)
- April 16Pope Benedict XVI (d. December 31, 2022, aged 95)
- August 18Rosalynn Carter (d. November 19, 2023, aged 96)
- October 28Cleo Laine (d. July 24, 2025, aged 97)
- UnknownImogen Stuart (d. March 24, 2024, aged 96)
- January 24Desmond Morris
- March 18Fidel V. Ramos (d. July 31, 2022, aged 94)
- April 6James Watson (d. November 6, 2025, aged 97)
- April 11Ethel Kennedy (d. October 10, 2024, aged 96)
- May 4Thomas Kinsella (d. December 22, 2021, aged 93)
- May 12Burt Bacharach (d. February 8, 2023, aged 94)
- June 4Ruth Westheimer (d. July 12, 1924, aged 96)
- June 7James Ivory
- June 20Jean-Marie Le Pen (d. January 7, 2025, aged 96)
- June 28Hans Blix
- December 7Noam Chomsky
- January 4Tras Honan (d. November 25, 2023, aged 93)
- January 12Jennifer Johnston (novelist) (d. February 25, 2025, aged 95)
- January 20Buzz Aldrin
- January 30Gene Hackman (d. February 18, 2025, aged 95)
- February 10Robert Wagner
- February 27Joanne Woodward
- March 3Ion Iliescu (d. August 5 2025 aged 95)
- March 8Douglas Hurd
- March 22Pat Robertson (d. March 22, 2023, aged 93)
- March 26Sandra Day O'Connor (d. December 1, 2023, aged 93)
- March 30Rolf Harris (d. May 10, 2023, aged 93)
- April 15Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
- April 28James Baker
- May 20Betty DeGeneres
- May 31Clint Eastwood
- July 7Theodore McCarrick (d. April 3, 2025, aged 94)
- August 12George Soros
- August 20Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh (d. June 25, 2024, aged 93)
- August 30Warren Buffet
- October 28Bernie Ecclestone
- December 15Edna O'Brien (d. July 27, 2024, aged 93)
I am responsible for including the following in theRobert Marjolin article in 2006:
- ...he was head of State Department responsible for producing thePineau aperitif...
which was later corrected to
- ...he was a member of the staff of the socialist minister of foreign affairs,Christian Pineau...
That nonsense was a consequence of applyingGoogle translate to the German wikipedia page! Four years later it translates the same sentence correctly:
- ...he...was...Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Pineau ...
- Nokia 1610 Dec 1996-2000 (end: needed to get an Irish account, got phone that could send txt messages)
- ? 2000-2001 (end: Wanted more modern phone)
- Siemens SL42 2001-2003 (end: Wanted more modern phone)
- Nokia 6310i 2003-Dec 2007 (end: got given new phone for birthday)
- Motorola v400 2004-Dec 2006 (first camera phone, end:Moved back to Ireland from USA)
- Nokia E65 Apr-Aug 2007 (end: Lost in pub)
- Nokia N70 Dec 2007-Jan 2010 (end: wanted more modern phone)
- Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Jan 2010-July 2011 (end: Screen was broken, couldn't read)
- HTC Desire S July 2011-Jan 2012 (end: Lost in taxi)
- HTC Wildfire S Jan 2012-Feb 2013 (end: Qualified for an upgrade to faster phone)
- Sony Xperia T Feb 2013-July 2014 (end: Camera focus damaged by car)
- Sony Xperia Z1 Compact July 2014 - May 2016 (end: Touchscreen failure due to broken glass)
- Sony Xperia Z5 Compact May 2016 - Dec 2016 (end: iPhone gift)
- iPhone 6 Dec 2016 - Dec 2017 (end: iPhone 7 gift)
- iPhone 7 Dec 2017 - Aug 2018 (end: iPhone X gift)
- iPhone X Aug 2018 - Dec 2019 (end: iPhone 11 gift)
- iPhone 11 Dec 2019 - Dec 2021 (end: iPhone 13 gift)
- iPhone 13 Dec 2021 -
