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- Top 200 editor as of May 5, 2023.
- Secret to winning the Race Against the Machine: become an expert bot programmer, and hope that the bots don't learn to program themselves. HAL?
It currently has 6,889,239 articles.
The Technical Barnstar | ||
Thanks for creating RMCD bot and bringing the requested moves process back on its feet! |
The Original Barnstar | |
For your contribution over at Requested Moves. Great work! Tiggerjay (talk) 03:32, 3 January 2013 (UTC) |
The Special Barnstar | ||
For your tireless (and often-times, tedious) work at Wikipedia:WikiProject Merge and surrounding environs. It is well appreciated! GenQuest "Talk to Me" 23:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC) |
The Technical Barnstar | ||
For operating Merge bot._ Marvellous Spider-Man 15:23, 16 August 2017 (UTC) |
The Working Man's Barnstar | |
For completing a significant part of the large merger relating to the Timeline of the Syrian Civil War. Your hard work is very much appreciated. Tradediatalk 06:14, 1 February 2018 (UTC) |
The Hard Worker's Barnstar | |
For your work on maintaining and improving RMCD bot, which has made itself indispensable to the Requested Move process. You are highly appreciated for your flexibility and dedication! Aervanath (talk) 23:40, 13 March 2018 (UTC) |
The Rosetta Barnstar | ||
for cracking the code and saving the day. ty amigo. Gregkaye ✍♪ 15:26, 6 October 2014 (UTC) |
bot help
Thank you, user who knows the secret to winning the Race Against The Machine, for helpful bots and for cleaning up yourself ("removing WP:OVERLINK to an everyday word"), for redirects and templates such as {{Forms of energy}}, for detailed analysis and offering to serve as arbitrator: "Don't underestimate how far I'm willing to go to read the background", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:06, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | |
For your diligence toward getting Template:NRHP Focus working again. Awesome. ―Mandruss ☎ 21:08, 6 August 2015 (UTC) |
The Barnstar of Diligence | ||
For your fine contribution to Talk:Self-balancing scooter regarding the article's title and the usage of the word "hoverboard." X4n6 (talk) 22:22, 4 May 2016 (UTC) |
The Special Barnstar | |
A thousand thanks for today's improvement of the RMCD bot notification rule. That will be a big help to the Wikpedia community. —BarrelProof (talk) |
The Working Man's Barnstar | |
Just wnted to ad-gnomish you for doing what you do! Special thanks for relentlessly working on the Merge Project backlog. Well done. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 03:52, 10 October 2020 (UTC) |
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Did you know
[edit]- Martin Luther King's final Sunday sermon referenced the thesis of "The Triple Revolution", which primarily discussed the cybernation revolution of increasing automation, whereby machines would continue reducing the need for manual labor, while increasing the skill needed to work, thereby producing greater unemployment
- The Eureqa software tool used genetic programming to discover the law of conservation of energy on its own
- Much of the work I've done for Wikipedia could be offshored to anywhere, or automated (indeed much is already semi-automated; run my edit history through some machine learning algorithms to automate more)
- Here come the robots: Davos bosses brace for big technology shocks
Important historical events that don't get their due
[edit]- The fourteenth and fifteenth British colonies, East Florida and West Florida, remained loyal to the Brits during the American Revolution
- The 1863 New York City draft riots remain the largest civil and racial insurrection in American history, aside from the Civil War itself
- The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire led to labor reforms that became the template for the New Deal
- It followed the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 (by the way, the building still stands)
- Luckily the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion did not release any radioactive material from its 9-megaton nuclear warhead
- Related opinion piece by Michael Lewis
Mindboggling facts
[edit]- The total length of expressways in China increased from zero in 1988 to 69,560 miles (111,950 km) at the end of 2014, the world's largest controlled-access highway system by length. The US has 64,352 miles (103,565 km) total – the 47,856 miles (77,017 km) Interstate Highway System plus 16,496 miles of other freeways and expressways (as of 2013, including Puerto Rico).[1]
- And although the London Underground had over a century head-start on the Shanghai Metro, which first opened in 1993, the latter now has the world's longest metro system, at 334 miles. The New York City Subway has 232 miles, but if you add the Staten Island Railway (14 mi.), Long Island Rail Road (319 mi.) and Metro-North Railroad (385 mi.), Shanghai has a way to go yet—seems they're just getting started though.
- US public spending on transport and water infrastructure has fallen steadily since the 1960s, and is now at 2.4% of GDP. Europe invests 5% of GDP in infrastructure; China's racing into the future at 9%.[2]
- China Spends More on Infrastructure Than the U.S. and Europe Combined! Western countries put less money into roads and bridges now than they did before the global financial crisis. Bloomberg Businessweek.
- In 1995, the US was tied for first in the world in the percentage of the population with a college degree. Now the US ranks fourteenth.[3]
References
- ^ Public Road Length - 2013. Federal Highway Administration.
- ^ "Life in the slow lane". The Economist. April 28, 2011.
- ^ Madland, David (2015). Hollowed Out: Why the Economy Doesn't Work without a Strong Middle Class. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-520-28652-8.
‘We Need an Energy Miracle’
[edit]Bill Gates nails it: Interview by The Atlantic. Something on the order of the Drake Well or Chicago Pile-1. Maybe some computers running genetic programming algorithms will help us find it, before "time runs out". A breakthrough in stellarator or tokamak research could be a game-changer.
- Vast shale oil field in Texas could yield 20 billion barrels It seems that "peak oil" has been superseded by "peak unconventional oil", so we will be running "climate experiments" for a while longer...
- Vivek Wadhwa thinks Perovskite solar cells could be the solution, along with rapidly improving battery technologies. I highly recommend his book about the near future (ISBN 978-1626569713, it covers a lot more than just cars).
Women On $20s
[edit]The non-profit organization "Women On $20s" conducted a poll to choose a woman to put on a newly designed US twenty-dollar bill (to replace Andrew Jackson). The two leading vote-getters were Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Tubman. Others on the ballot were Rosa Parks, Wilma Mankiller, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Rachel Carson, Shirley Chisholm, Alice Paul, Frances Perkins, Barbara Jordan, Patsy Mink and Betty Friedan. As I was not familiar with some of these names, I looked them up and linked to them here. I think Jeannette Rankin should have been included on this ballot.
- “I hope we can convince the next treasurer to print an equal number of $20 bills with both Jackson and Tubman.” Sounds like a great idea to me. NPOV and all. The last president to pay off our national debt in 1835.
Wikipedia peaked in 2008?
[edit]A ten-year update of Google Ngram data would help answer that question. By the way, for more on Culturomics and the Google Ngram Viewer, I highly recommend ISBN 978-1-59448-745-3.
- UPDATE: Google has updated data to 2019! The answer is NO! Check back in 10 years to see whether Wikipedia peaked in 2019; its growth curve does seem to be flattening.
Issues I've patrolled
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Errors
[edit]- Pages transcluding {{error}}s
- Category:ParserFunction errors (30)
- Category:Pages with template loops (14)
- Category:Pages with bad rounding precision (3)
- Category:Pages with incorrectly transcluded templates (7)
Redirects
[edit]- Category:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review (13)
- Category:Missing redirects (11)
- Category:Unsynchronized talk page redirects (6)
- partially cleared by User:Bot1058 (task 4)
- Category:Articles with talk page redirects (2)
- Category:Articles with unsynchronized talk page redirects (6)
- Self redirects (Quarry query)
- Talk-to-mainspace redirects, except subpages (Quarry query)
- Talk subpage-to-mainspace redirects (Quarry query)
- Category:Redirects to former names (291)
- Category:Redirects for convenience (168)
- Inconsistent similar redirects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect/Inconsistent targets
- also User:RussBot/Similar titles report/01 (old)
- Garry Newman targeted a different page than Garry newman (talk)
- Userspace redirects
- Broken talk pages Done
- Category:Possible cut-and-paste moves Done
- User:RussBot/Non-disambiguation redirects/001
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken section anchors
MediaWiki software limits
[edit]- Category:Pages where post-expand include size is exceeded (1,757)
- Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls (269)
- Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded (4)
- Category:Pages where node count is exceeded (5)
Short pages
[edit]Magic words
[edit]- Behavior switches usually placed by VisualEditors, in error (archived discussion)
- Articles using the INDEX magic word
- Drafts using the INDEX magic word
- Pages transcluding {{INDEX}}
- Articles using the NEWSECTIONLINK magic word
- Articles using the NONEWSECTIONLINK magic word
- Articles using the DISAMBIG magic word
- Articles using the STATICREDIRECT magic word
- default sort
- title
Disambiguation
[edit]- Malplaced disambiguation pages
- Incomplete disambiguations
- Category:Articles with hatnote templates targeting a nonexistent page (8,814)
- Category:Pages with incorrectly transcluded disambiguation templates (0)
- Redirects to disambiguation pages that are not dab pages (Quarry query)
- Links to Hardware requiring disambiguation, using the What links here tool
- See User talk:Wbm1058/Archive 6 § Number redirects
Miscellaneous
[edit]- Category:Fulfilled page move requests (0)
- Category:Articles for merging with no partner (0)
- Category:Wikipedia non-free files lacking article backlink (0)
- Category:Wikipedia non-free files with red backlink (35)
- Diffusion of Category:Computer hardware (34)
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked misspellings
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations
- Linked incorrect names
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Orphaned talk subpages
- Category:Infobox person using numbered parameter (0)
- Category:Marriage template errors (10)
- Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Holding cell
- Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template (2)
- Category:Shortcut templates with missing parameters (17)
- Category:Documentation subpages without corresponding pages (0)
- Category:Pages with syntax highlighting errors (10)
- Category:Wikipedia edit requests (2)
- Category:Administrative backlog (19)
- Category:Wikipedians looking for help (1)
Administrators' newsletter
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).
- Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which
applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past
. - A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
- Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
- Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
- The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
- Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
Bots newsletter
[edit]Latest tech news
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.
Updates for editors
- Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
- The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
- It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within
<syntaxhighlight>
tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax{{…}}
are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [1] - Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [2][3]
- View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- From Wikimedia Enterprise:
- The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
- The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.
In depth
- The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.
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[edit]Copyright
[edit]Wikipedia editors are somehow expected to know a lot of stuff about this topic. I find it a bit overwhelming. I checked out ISBN 978-0199941162 from my local library, but confess it's been a struggle to put down my keyboard & mouse long enough to read it. Taking notes and posting links to terms as I come across them.
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History
[edit]Editor engagement experiments
[edit]Every now and then I run into something interesting over the course of editing.
- Wikipedia:Editor engagement experiments
- m:Editor engagement experiments
- mw:Editor engagement experiments
Newer experiments
- Growth experiments log
- Started slowly in 2021, without fanfare that I noticed
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