Users/BradMandell

Nov 12th 2009

Brad Mandell My Info Index:

About - Focus - Milestones - Stats History - Comments - RocWiki Addiction - Archive Pages - Suggestion Box Page

Edits List: Latest, Mid 10, Mid 20, Mid 30, Mid 40, Mid 50, Mid 60, mid 70, Oldest 76 - July 2008

See me also on:


• Twitter MandellBrad - personal perspectives on life, positive thinking, and dealing with difficult times
  

• WikiSpot - participate at the provider site
  

• BufWiki - Helped get the Buffalo Wiki started, over 2900 contributions as of November 1, 2009 - created the 400th page, Pass the Cigars, on New Years Day 2009 and the 800th page on October 17, 2009 On_the_Web.
  

• Baton Rouge Wiki - a little startup help to TobinFricke on his new hometown Baton Rouge, LA.
  

• Pawtucket Wiki - a little startup help for Pawtucket, RI.
  

• Syracuse Wiki - a little work to integrate RocWiki and BufWiki with Syracuse
  

• Binghamton Wiki - a little work to integrate RocWiki, BufWiki and SyrWiki
  

• Ithaca Wiki - integrate RocWiki, BufWiki and SyrWiki
  

• Flickr Photo Sets - including Webster Places, Wiki Photos, Medina Dec 2007, Web Mapping
  

• RocWiki Addiction - been there, done that!!
  

• My RocWiki Photo Pages List
  

• FOR EDITOR REVIEW
  

• Work Page - My Work Page

About:

Entrepreneur, business consultant, software designer, retired military. Father of 5, grandfather of 8. MS, Statistics & Data Processing, Stanford; BA, Economics, Ohio State.


Lived or worked in:


• CA - Sunnyvale, Palo Alto -1968-69
  

• CO - Denver - 1969
  

• CT - New Haven - 1960
  

• FL - Riverview, Sebastian - 2001-present
  

• MA - Cohasset, Fairhaven, Mattapoisett, New Bedford - 1941-59
  

• NC - Greensboro - 1998-2000
  

• NY - Fairport, Webster - 2000-present
  

• OH - Columbus - 1965-67
  

• TX - San Antonio, San Angelo - 1959, 1960, 1962, 1967
  

• VA - Alexandria, Arlington, Newport News, Hampton, Sterling, Vienna, Reston, Fairfax, Smith Mountain Lake - 1970-2000
  

• France, Paris - 1995-96
  

• Germany -Darmstadt, Eberstadt - 1962-65 - various - 1995-96
  

• Korea - Osan - 1960-61
  

• Switzerland - Daellikon, Zurich - 1996-present
  

Focus:

Geographic:

As a Webster (and former Fairport) resident, my main focus will be with Rochester east areas - including Webster, Penfield, Perinton, Fairport, and Irondequoit. With relatives in Medina, I will provide some help there as well.

Subjects:

Parks and recreation, shopping, public facilities and attractions, and other things that tweak my curiosity. A particular focus on our grandchildren visitors. I am very interested in mapping, Google maps, etc.

Photos:

I will be adding from my existing photos, will keep RocWiki in mind when I have the camera along, and will edit in photo links from Flikr, Webshots, YouTube, etc as I find Rochester related photos and videos.

HelperBee:

• I will make contributions, where appropriate, to the pages I visit and try to find web links for the page.
  

• I will work on some Orphaned Pages, Needs Cleanup, Wanted Pages etc. each week

Activities:

I am trying my hand at cleanup, new entries, adding photos, and HelperBee tasks. I especially want to work the Routes pages (see Route 250), integrating them better with Wikipedia, which has lots of detail and interconnectedness. Also interesting to add the Google Maps Street View links to some pages (see Mt. Hope Cemetery and Herman's Farm Market).


• See also my Work In Progress

Milestones:

AS OF	EDITS	CREATED	FILES	TOTAL	Milestone Note
Oct 1, 2008	2462	226	343	3031	3000+ Total
Jan 03. 2009	3332	270	400	4002	4000+ Total
Mar 20. 2009	4197	347	456	5000	5000 Total
Mar 30. 2009	4767	467	500	5734	500th File Uploaded
Apr 5. 2009	5023	500	523	6046	500th Page Created, 5000+ Edits, 6000+ Total
July 16, 2009	6225	600	561	7386	600th Page, 7000+ Total
July 30, 2009	6764	665	578	8003	8000+ Total Contributions

Awarded coveted DamnHippy - doubly qualified because I was at Stanford University (not far from Hippy Heaven - aka Haight-Ashbury) in 1968-69.

STATS

• See Stats History for old details.

Current Total RocWiki Pages = 10009 - See also User Statistics

Bradmandell's Statistics

Edits	Pages Created	Files Contributed	First Edit Date	Last Edit	Last Page Edited
7571	757	610	2007-05-16 11:34:41	2009-11-17 08:45:50	On The Web

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GOALS NOTE:

The goals above are personal ones, not to be confused with any RocWiki statistics. As my metric, I use my Edits, Creations, and Files; for me they are each a separate contribution to measure my progress. It is not a very good metric, since some of the creations (and some of the edits) took a half-hour or more to complete.


As a professionally educated economist and statistician, I have a lot of concerns about the impacts of metrics. Russian nail factories, for example, switched from wire-brads to railroad spikes when their goal was changed from number of nails to nail tonnage. In the famous Westinghouse experiment (Hawthorne_effect), workers productivity increased as they turned down the lighting.


In RocWiki, for example, two wonderful contributors might each have different work styles. One contributor might like to do a lot of cleanup edits, making sure some standardization is maintained. Another contributor might like to research and contribute a lot of content and detail. Both contributors are very important to RocWiki - but one will have a much smaller number of Edits and Creates to count.

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About - Focus - Milestones - Stats History - Comments - Work In Progress Page - RocWiki Addiction

Comments:

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2008-07-06 01:42:04   Thanks for all the great additions to the wiki! —DaveMahon

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SEE 2008 Archive for 2008 messages.

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2009-03-10 12:18:00   Brad, I see you edited my first new entry on RocWiki. I hope that I made a decent first attempt. —WayneArthurton

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2009-03-14 23:00:24   I am living in Webster. I wanted to help a little, but really was thinking I would start with the stuff I can go see in person easily. —WayneArthurton

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2009-03-23 13:38:05   I'm curious. Is there any reason why interwiki logos don't seem to appear on this rocwiki. For instance when i do "Ithaca" i get the standard default logo, same for buffalo, its bizarre because I've never seen this before when editing other wikis. —MattHh

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2009-03-24 01:43:58   Interesting. Also this wiki is the only one that doesn't recognize my other wiki accounts (i.e. it made me sign up all over again, or else I wasn't able to edit, where as buffalo, davis, ithaca, woodland CA, Sacramento,... all allow me to login under my wikispot account). Wiki spot also does not recognize me as the same person as my other wiki accounts, even though i used the same email address to create the account. —MattHh

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2009-04-11 15:49:53   Thanks for the info, it's hard to stop making edits once you start. —DamianKumor

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2009-04-14 11:07:38   Hey Brad, I understand your concern with keeping this site clean. Are there any restrictions on what we put on our user pages? I just read most of the information about businesses posting on here and unfortunately I made this username before I saw suggestions on using my own name. Also, would it be considered okay for us to continue linking to our clients' websites in the way you listed them out? I'm interested in continuing to contribute to the community but I'd like to follow as many guidelines as possible so I'm not producing useless content. —AccelerateMedia

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2009-04-15 11:53:09   Congrats on the hitting the 500 page count record! —TravisOwens

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2009-04-15 14:32:46   I see the Orphaned Page list is pretty tiny, you obviously had your hand in that, great job there. I always though the large number of orphaned pages was a sore eye for any wiki, and there was alot of them on RocWiki for awhile. Nice trick linking my orphaned page via a comment, neat trick. Fortunately IthacaWiki is pretty small so I've been able to keep track on orphaned pages easily, but I'm sure it will explode sometime in the near future.

PS: my personal claim to fame here was that I was the first person to start adding location pictures on a mass scale, back in 2005 there was less than a dozen pics on the wiki and on some slow weekends I'd just drive and take pictures of everything then upload them later. —TravisOwens

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2009-07-09 18:00:34   Hey Brad. I'm heavily involved with West Coast Swing community here and am so excited to find something like RocWiki to post findings. I saw you moved the West Coast Swing pages around for better organization — good point that the "List" page isn't a list — fixed that. Really liked the "dance styles" tag at the bottom of a venue. Having never managed a wiki before (but spent a lot of time on Wikipedia, if that counts?), is it proper wiki etiquette to use a "LinksHere" tag and place any related comments on the host page? —jesse.decker

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2009-07-18 23:18:13   Thanks for your help again on the West Coast Swing page. We hope to make the venue list long enough to warrant it's own page, but I hadn't considered inclusion. Just opened up RocWCS for calendars and venue reviews, so maybe it'll be better to only post one-sentence blurbs back to RocWiki... —jesse.decker

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2009-07-24 22:26:50   Brad - John something or other deleted my page because he didn't like what I said about a golf course. Without me messing around - would you bring it back? —BigPun

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2009-07-31 11:47:11   No worries :) —AlexanderGartley

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2009-08-10 17:54:56   Brad - no worries on photo positioning, have at it all you want —DottieHoffmann

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2009-09-12 23:34:43   Thanks for the cleanup work you did to my recent addition of New Day Church, I was going back to it today to do some of the things you did, you did it much better than I would have, as I do not do Wiki editing but a few times a year. Now I have to figure the best way to add the festival to the festivals page - maybe you can do it or check if I did it properly. I will learn from the way you fixed the layout for the next place I add. —JackGreenky

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2009-09-22 22:09:09   Brad, we just met at the Gilda Club. I would like to send you my paper that needs to be converted to PDF. It also needs to cleaned up and reviewed. My Email is <dbreitfe AT rochester DOT rr DOT com>. If you want to make a difference in helping people with Melanoma, I could use your help. Jimmy b —jimBreitfeller

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2009-10-09 18:41:43   Hey Brad, the photos from RochesterDowntown.com for [grove_place] are at http://www.rochesterdowntown.com/living/fetchBuilding_r.php?138 — Some of the pics might be taken down. Also, I'm not sure about copyright issues, so if you can figure out how to properly attribute them to RochesterDowntown.com be my guest, otherwise I would be okay if you took the pics off RocWiki. There is a person that you can contact for permission, Sean Phelan; use his first initial and last name @ rddc.org —BenMargolis

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2009-11-12 14:41:41   Yeah, City Newspaper came out with their 2009 "Best of Rochester" awards, so I went on an updating spree.

More importantly, I wanted to say thanks for all your contributions to the wiki. I'm really sorry to hear the news of your cancer returning. I'll pray for you that God will comfort and bring peace to you and your family. Although only God knows what the outcome of your situation will be, if you look to Him, He will be there for you. :) —AlexanderGartley