My name is David L Chandler. I am a science and technology journalist. I worked from 1980 to 2001 at the Boston Globe, writing about all areas of science and technology. I then was a freelance writer for various magazines, including New Scientist, Nature, Technology Review, Wired, Smithsonian, Astronomy, and Sky & Telescope. I am now a science writer in the MIT News Office, as well as an active freelancer. While MIT is my current employer, anything I write or edit for Wikipedia is strictly on my own and not for the interests of MIT. On the rare occasions that I do deal with MIT-related articles, I only do so in the interest of Wikipedia, by adding or correcting relevant and non-controversial factual information.
I have made occasional edits and contributions to Wikipedia starting back in (I think) 2002. I'm not exactly sure, since that was a time before users were registered, and so it's hard to find the changes I made back then. I did a lot of work on the main article on "astronomy" early on, when it was still rudimentary, and some other related articles. I use Wikipedia frequently, and when I find an error I fix it. I was a copy editor for a long time, so I catch some trivial things (grammar and spelling), and sometimes more substantive things relating to subjects that I know something about. I'm still learning some of the details of Wikipedia policies and formats.
