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August 03, 2005

Oliver Brown, Wikipedian, singer-songwriter...

Yesterday I got to catch up a bit with Oliver Brown, Wikipedian and singer, a family friend all of his life and almost all of mine. (I've got a few years on him.)

Olive Brown
Oliver Brown

Among Oliver's many many contributions to Wikipedia: He started the "Father/Mother of..." page. About becoming an "admin" he writes:

I became an admin 16:15 May 12, 2003 (UTC); at that point I had 3,944 edits and 75 days experience. Before being an admin, I averaged 55 edits a day. After becoming an admin, that average dropped to 28 a day. Fabiform says the decline is because of IRC. I became a Bureaucrat February 28, 2004.

His songs have become family favorites.

Great to see him... [Technorati tags: OliverBrown wikipedia ukelele]

Posted by D. Weinberger at August 3, 2005 08:41 AM

Comments

it was terrific spending time with you talking shop, although you can't tell from the photo - because i look asleep. i assure you, i wasn't.

i've started my first blog. it's a ukulele gossip column - something i've tried to put together for years, but never found the right way to do it.

http://ukuleleblue.blogspot.com/

say hello to the family,

oliver

Posted by: Oliver | August 8, 2005 11:44 AM

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