Asa Winstanley

Hello I am Asa. I am a Christian youth minister at Wembley church of Christ and I live in London, UK. I discovered Wikipedia when it was listed on Slashdot in July 2001. I then started tinkering with various bits. I continue to do so when I have a bit of time. Recently, I have taken to writing some articles as a way to revise some of the stuff on early church history I have been studying with the minsiter of my church, John Griffiths.

Here on Wikiepedia, I sign myself: aw or AW (both redirect to this page). My user name used to be just Asa, but that was needed for an article (should have thought more before i used that user name really!).

Some articles I have contributed to

Computers

• The GIMP one of the first things I did on Wikipedia!
• GNOME gave birth to
• GNU/Linux uh oh. gave birth to
• Famous Programmers
• Programmer

Arts

• Poets just listed R. S. Thomas
• Little Nemo did 99% of this. yay for Nemo!
• Comic books and strips started
• Comic book someone else split this off from the above. good job too
• Film history/China was disgusted at the lack of Hong Kong people. Needs loads of work!
• Martial arts film
• Miyazaki Hayao A good start. cheers for the unicode and Romaji!
• The Matrix stupid overated rip-off film!
• Princess Mononoke love this film
• My Neighbor Totoro mmm... CatBus

Religion

• Biblical canon comprehensive, but confusing at the mo
• Allah I brought up the moon god origins stuff
• Yahweh this has developed quite nicely. The first versions were just plain wrong. Now its pretty acurate
• Jehovah still doesn't feel right. perhaps merge with Yahweh?
• Pope Damasus I very happy with this. 99% is my work
• John Chrysostom under development, but largely done
• History of Christianity ...gaining momentum... could be good...
• Theodosius I "Catholic" -> "catholic"
• Pope link to papacy
• Papacy started
• Saint original meaning

Misc

• European languages just listed Welsh
• Welsh language gave birth to. but needs significant work by a Welsh scholar
• Wales need to say more about my own country!
• Cultural imperialism sigh... i give up
• Rupert Murdoch corperate censorship!
• History of Malaysia just a few tweaks
• Wade-Giles started

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/Todo - stuff I have (vaugely) lined up to do at some point
/Talk - if you want to talk to me, put it on this page

My page on meta.wikipedia.com.

Here is my web site.

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Musings and Projects

• Early September 2001: searched for "Linux" and modified most references to "Linux" the OS to read "GNU/Linux". Exceptions: personal opinion (Wikipedian's personal pages, /Talk pages and general reporting of opinion), quotes (book and essay names) and titles (e.g Mandrake Linux).

So someone put the Linuxs back annonymously after a bit of a row in the Talk on GNU/Linux. It was certainly an interesting experiment anyway  :)

• 5th Dec. 2001 - Searched for all instances of Papacy and made sure they were linked to the article i started. :) I was seeking distraction, ok?!

• Wikipedia Religion and Mythology standards