User:Karen Johnson

Hi honey, I'm home... I'm far too jetlagged to try to do any contributing as yet but I'll be getting back to things soon - it doesn't even feel as if I went anywhere! KJ 09:04 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I am temporarily withdrawing from this project because it has obviously failed in fundamental respects. If the database is not even searchable, then there is no point in having it at all. You CAN'T have a hundred-thousand page book without an index and expect people to use an outside index to find information in it... I'll be back from America at the end of June and hopefully matters will have improved considerably by then, so that the wikipedia will be properly usable. KJ 01:14 Apr 4, 2003 (UTC)

March 2003 - Busy busy busy!!!!!!!! I'm off to the US of A and Canada in three weeks time, and I won't be back (or have net access) until the end of June 2003. This is my first overseas trip, and I'm looking forward to it! See you all much later :) KJ 11:45 Mar 21, 2003 (UTC)

November 26th 2002 - I'm off again. Canberra this time. I'll be back next week... December 7, 2002 - I'm back! This is the first moment I've had to open the wikipedia since I got home... Canberra was surprisingly interesting, and I took lots of rolls of film and will hopefully be able to scan in some pics of my nation's capital for the wikipedia once they're developed...

I'll apologise in advance for my typoes - the fingers move quicker than the brain and I don't always notice, especially since I'm mildly dyslexic. There are some words esp. with double letters, that I can NEVER remember how to spell correctly. I hope I'm not leaving too long a trail of misspelt headers behind me...

I'd like to write articles for the mental health, Australian and Cookery portions of the Wikipedia, and I steer clear of science/mathematics - my eyes glaze over when I even see those headers ;P

I was quite a keen photographer in the past, but I have boxes and boxes of photos of Australian plants, animals and scenery in my cupboard and I'm going through some of them and finding illustrations suitable for wikipedia articles. These are the articles I have illustrated with my own images thusfar:

• banksia; black swan; beach; bear; blossom; boulder; correa; daffodil, dingo, eagle; emu; fairy penguin; fig; fur seal; hydrangea; Jack Russell terrier; kangaroo; koala; Melbourne; magpie; monsteria[?]; nectarine, otter; peahen; pelican; pentomino; pink heath; plum; rainbow; rhododendron; Tasmanian devil; wallaby; wandering jew; wattle

Articles I have contributed substantial content to [usually by starting from scratch or adding to a stub article] Because I've started them from scratch they still need a lot of work, so if you have any information to add please do! Note - this list is kinda old now... I haven't been keeping it updated. It should probably be twice as long by now:

Books and Writing

• David Eddings; James White; Lawrence Durrell; Marion Zimmer Bradley; Mercedes Lackey; Steven Brust; Susan Cooper; The Belgariad; The Mallorean

Arts and Crafts

• Arts and Crafts; cotton; cotton gin; embroidery; origami; sampler (needlework); pottery; textile;

Australiana

• eucalyptus; tree fern;
• ANZAC Day;
• Play School; Sesame Street; Young Talent Time; Skippy the bush kangaroo; Judith Durham; The Seekers
• National Parks (Tasmania, Australia); Dandenong Ranges National Park; Australian cuisine
• Australian native animals; Australian native plants;

Health Issues

• allergen; allergy; cyclothymia; dysthymia; ectopic pregnancy; emphysema; insomnia; MCS; melanin; menopause; Mental illness; mole (skin marking); MSG;panic attack; PCOS; pelvic ultrasound; pneumonia; psychosomatic illness; rabies; Seasonal Affective Disorder; social phobia;

Cooking/Food

• cake; cardamom; cashew; citrus; custard; egg; enchilada; fructose; fruitmince; ice cream; Lime; milk bar; MSG; pastry; sago; sauce; soy sauce; sugar beet; tapioca; trifle;

Animals'

• Bengal cat; bicolor cat; black swan; butterfly; cat breeds; caterpillar; Difference between a butterfly and a moth; frog; koala; lyrebird; moggy; persian cat; ragdoll cat; show cat; Siamese cat; sparrow; swallow; swift; tabby cat

Other

• Backstreet Boys; blossom; cornett; Demosthenes; detonator; Eddie Murphy; Great red spot; plum; Robin Williams; sailing ship; schooner; seed; sloop;

Plus a whole lot of administrative shuffling, copy-editing and link/title-correcting... boring but necessary!

If you would like to see more of my [other] work, visit my homepage http://kajikit.netfirms.com

Please leave any comments/queries on my talk page - http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/User_talk:Karen_Johnson otherwise known as User talk:Karen Johnson

Karen Johnson, last modified Friday 1 November 2002