Patrick Barkham is a journalist working for the "Guardian" newspaper in the United Kingdom. He writes articles on a variety of topics, including technology, film and television. Barkham became a temporary Wikipedian on 9 February 2006 when he made edits to both the "The Guardian" entry and to the article on Tony Blair, as part of research into an article published in the paper on 10 February.

Steve Badera is currently a senior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, majoring in computer and systems engineering. Steve´s area of expertise are software engineering, computer and network security, and IT/Networking. Steve also has an extensive background in Biomedical engineering and Polymer and Materials Science.

Denny (actually Zdenko) Vrandečić studied computer science and philosophy in Stuttgart, Germany, and has dalmatian ancestry. Today he is at the University of Karlsruhe, working on the semantic web and ontologies. He is one of the developers of Semantic MediaWiki.

:) life in d' tropics

I've stopped trying to be witty.

My name is Tomo. I am a twenty two year old student at University College London, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. I am an aspiring globe trotter, internationalist, art aficionado, and humble humanitarian (and please do not dismiss the ‘aspiring’ preceding all the aforementioned). A sporadic dilettante of writing, acting, surfing, and gastronomy, I dabble in many spheres, and to my own dismay, I master none.

My pseudonym is Laurel Yeung because I really hate my name that I have now and hope one day I'll change it to Laurel. I will be 20 on January 27. I don't support alternative schools at all. They are bad and they send the wrong message to children.

I am a proactive technical consultant with 3 years of experience in the Siebel CRM space. I specialization in Siebel Customer Data Integration - more specifically in areas involving the use of XML and Java related technologies. My current project has given me a 8 month long exposure to integration with SAP as well. Apart from that, I possess a strong SQL and some PL/SQL skills. My entire database experience has been on Oracle, but have had exposure to open source ones like MySQL and . . .

Cookie "Chainsaw" Randolph (DOB unknown) is a popular radio personality in San Diego, California. He is a member of the Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw morning show currently on KGB-FM. Mr Randolph has been doing radio in San Diego for a number of years prior to the formation of the before mentioned, hosting a radio show with current co-player Chris Boyer in the late 1980s, and before then, working in the Bay Area market.

Stanisław Zbigniew Czachorowski is a Polish hydrobiologist and entomologist. Associate professor of the Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, he is a noted trichopterologist. In 2001 he received Krzyż Zasługi (Cross of Merit) for his scientific achievements. Professor Czachorowski is a well know Polish Wikipedian.

David Lary is a scientist working at NASA GSFC. He is the author of AutoChem, NASA release software that constitutes an automatic computer code generator and documentor for chemically reactive systems. It was designed primarily for modeling atmospheric chemistry, and in particular, for chemical data assimilation.

Long-time free software developer involved in the creation of the GIF, JPEG and PNG image formats; initial developer of the current Wikipedia software; currently earning a living at the poker table.

As an experienced teacher and technology advocate, I'm setting goals for what technology in schools will look like three years from now, then making plans for my school to get there. I'm setting up the infrastructure for students to become 21st century learners.