I’m anAussie who has lived in most states of Australia. I’ve worked in theprinting industry, as asoftware engineer, and intourism. I do a lot of travelling, usually for long periods of time. Most recently one year hitchhiking around Taiwan, mainland China, Mexico, Laos, Thailand, and Malaysia.
My first (logged-in) edit on Wiktionary was on10 December 2003 where I added translations to the English definite article,the. Prior to that I had just started playing withWikipedia after a few years onEverything2. I was very excited to find Wiktionary since I’d been thinking for years that the world needed a free dictionary of every language that could be contributed to by anybody and everybody over the Internet. I discussed the idea with some people at theGUADEC, theGNOME Users and Developers European Conference. At that time I was an active contributor toAbiWord, anopen sourceword processor.
My long term dream for Wiktionary is to make it queryable like a database. This requires much work on standardisation of formats and on parsing.
