User:Inyuki/About

Thoughts on project

 * I think this project could make people free, as it is the encyclpaedia, of what you can (do with things), and freedom is defined as the ability to do something.
 * In the school, we are mostly learning to create something, like calculation methods devised long time ago. We are trained to make the calculations, but people not so frequently realize what the knowledge can actually be used for to get something. I think this project might change that.
 * Curiosity disappears because people don't get anything out of knowledge. Getting is what reinforces repeat doing something expecting repetitive good results. I think this also applies to repeating the process of learning. If a person tries to learn and doesn't get any use out of it, he or she might eventually lose the wish to repeat it, learning. Therefore I think this project could make people curious, willing to repeat learning, as it might stimulate this wish to learn new things by making knowledge directly applicable.
 * I think we should write howtos on things that many people want to get. For example, many people in Africa want to get food, so maybe we could write a howto on agriculture, or howtos machines, that they could use to process their natural resources (as recently, as far as I know, they only sell the natural resources cheaply to ther countries). How to build infrastructure, and so on.
 * Imagine that using this knowledge computer could automatically tell you, what you can do with what you have, and give instructions just like you can find the road from point A to B in Google Maps.
 * When you look at the objects, it looks a lot like programming. But programming the programs that will be executed not by computers, but by people. Still, I think that we should maybe have some kind of programming language similarity.
 * I think this project could allow to objectively (quantatively) estimate what is the most practical knowledge, even in dollars some day I think.
 * Just like we have open software for computers, maybe some day will have such self-updated software for our society to run.

Contact

 * Wiki: Wikipedia talk page
 * Email: [mailto:4ioijf102@sneakemail.com 4ioijf102@sneakemail.com]
 * IRC: Inyuki in #wikicities on freenode
 * Phone: +81 (0)80 6520 2345
 * Skype: Inyuki
 * Google Talk: inyuki@g...com

About me
I'm 22 and living in Japan. I'm a student of mathematics in VDU. I'm familiar with Wikipedia and it's projects for about 3 years from Wed, 4 Jun 2003, and have been contributing its Japanese, English, and Lithuanian versions. More details about me can be found on my website.

Recently

 * 2006-04-15 I am back again. The new semester has just started, but because of recent contributions of my Wikihowto friends, especially now ZyMOS, I feel very happy to believe that this project will become the Wikimedia Foundation project. Mr. X, Mr. Y, and Mr. Z, representing impressions on the first page, are perhaps moa3333, ZyMOS and Inyuki. Cheers.
 * 2006-01-15 I find the project very useful to myself when I want to explain other people, how to do something. For example, how to post a message to a community blog on LiveJournal. The thing is, you can write tasks on different pages, and so you can make the thing very concise.
 * 2006-01-09 I am back in Japan now, and with the new ideas, I am continuing to contribute the project. Thanks to moa3333's contributions, I started thinking again, and this time I think was more succesful. You can read about the project in the discussion page and the idea's page. :)
 * 2005-05-07 Still, can't find enough time to bring this exciting project on its self-development. I'm just writing to inform that I'm still here. The summer is comming, and I hope to have more time by then. Cheers! The spring season has come here in Lithuania.
 * 2005-04-17 Recently having many tests in university. Today updated the site a little, instead of list of projects made a list of inventions. I expect this will help people be more concentrated on the tools which are essential, rather than the products, as with one tool it is usually possible to manufacture a great number of products...
 * 2005-02-23 I am continuing studies, but my computer is offline, and I have not much time for participating due to intensive studies. Now I am collecting the necessary documents for studies in another university (Japan), as I am planning to go back to study in Japan from the September, 2005. I am still trying to find the ways to represent the knowledge, and try to consult with mathematicians to make the best model. So, that is for now.
 * 2005-02-02 New semester has begun, so I had to go to Kaunas, and also, as university gave me some tasks, I have less time for How To Engineer It. But I'm planning to get back as soon as I have my PC in Kaunas.

To-do list
＊ I think it is meaningful to write more on the page: http://en.howto.wikicities.com/wiki/HowTo_create_a_new_howto_page ( I think it is important to write on the executing and debugging the howtos) .. There are a lot of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages in Wikipedia to appear on articles to standartize them. We should have such to standartize the CODE of Howtos too. ＊ if you have a product or service you would like to write the usage about, please, contribute the project on http://howto.wikicities.com <-- this kind of proposal could promote the project. ＊ User:Inyuki/Notes ＊ To REwrite the Beginner's Guide in HowTo style, just like Uncyclopedia writes about it in it's style. ＊ To write the Help ＊ To write a paragraph on mailing list
 * See movie "The Corporation", http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/
 * Add templates directly to Editing help page. Make the code appear in textboxes, or maybe some other way.

Think of structure..


 * => Object: Wikihowto
 * => Howto write a new Howto page on WikiHowto
 * => Guide to using Wikihowto

Memories

 * When I was in the secondary school, I remember, one time one classmate asked me, how do you learn mathematics. I answered "I don't learn mathematics. Mathematics is not for learning. It is for using."
 * I remember sometimes my mother or relatives were asking, what am I doing with the computer, and why so much time I spend on something. Usually, I was searching how can I do something, or reading. But sometimes when you are reading, you cannot tell if it is useful, and how you could used. This is not the case with the HowTo.