surreal

today i made a small edit to a wikipedia page. it’s become a hobby that i’m enjoying, and feels like my contributions will benefit many over a long time. a very simple way to spend 20 minutes now and then and add lasting value to the world.

but it brings people together that would otherwise be so far apart. the article i helped today was about a piece of historical trivia about world war 2, just added today. i noticed it in the recent changes summary, and found a small formatting error as well as an improper citation. so i removed the citation; left a super nice note on the article’s discussion page about it; and thanked the person for adding a piece of history to the wikipedia.

then i looked at the user’s profile, and found that he or she purports to be a card carrying nazi and also believes that war is better than peace. this person might be as far apart politically and philosophically as one could get from me, and yet here is a forum where we actually worked together. it’s a small, minor kind of collaboration. but how amazing is that, we could unexpectedly work together?! what is this world coming to? <grin>

If you're new here, thanks for visiting! Please subscribe to my RSS feed and consider visiting my design-related blog and my meditation-related blog.