Hi! I'm David Palfrey, and as Beth says have just started (it's been a week now) at True Knowledge. Although I'd been fascinated by True Knowledge for a while, and had been a beta user, I hardly knew what to expect. I rather liked the sound of my job title, Junior Knowledge Engineer... it vaguely made me imagine I might be taking up my place in a vast and fabulous hierarchy of underlabouring mechanical elves, proudly trotting about their tasks as the cogs and gears ground around them to dispense verdicts upon what's known and knowable.
Rather disappointingly, I've found that the True Knowledge employees are all full-sized human beings, and the only mechanical incident of my first week was the coffee machine going AWOL. Yet everyone here is very smart, enthusiastic and friendly, and there's clearly a load of knowledge engineering to be getting on with. I'm a pretty experienced and active wikipedia editor, and have been able to put some of that experience to practical use. But I've had to spend much of my time learning the ropes, being shown how to do things which (as a beta user) I'd largely left alone. As Beth says, True Knowledge is getting to know more about manufactured items at the moment, and I'm working to classify some of those.
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