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- 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?
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28 February 2021 |
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) |
The current time is
- 06:18, March 2, 2021 AEDT [refresh] in eastern Australia
- 05:48, March 2, 2021 ACDT [refresh] in South Australia
- 04:18, March 2, 2021 JST [refresh] in Japan
- 03:18, March 2, 2021 AWST [refresh] in Western Australia
- 00:48, March 2, 2021 IST [refresh] in India
- 19:18, March 1, 2021 GMT [refresh] in Great Britain
- 14:18, March 1, 2021 EST [refresh] in Ohio
Did you know
- 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
- There is a jobs crisis brewing that the Trump administration should not ignore
Important historical events that don't get their due
- 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
- 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’
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
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?
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
- Pages transcluding {{error}}s
- in main namespace
- in draft namespace
- in talk namespace
- in Wikipedia talk namespace
- in file namespace
- in file talk namespace
- in category namespace
- in category talk namespace
- Category:ParserFunction errors (24)
- Category:Pages with template loops (10)
- Category:Pages with bad rounding precision (0)
Redirects
- Category:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review (5)
- Category:Missing redirects (0)
- Category:Unsynchronized talk page redirects (14)
- partially cleared by User:Bot1058 (task 4)
- Talk-to-mainspace redirects
- 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
- Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded (1,228)
- Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls (1,039)
- Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded (1,063)
- Category:Pages where node count is exceeded (14)
Disambiguation
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Malplaced disambiguation pages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Incomplete disambiguations
- Category:Pages with incorrectly transcluded disambiguation templates (1)
- To do: Check these 200,000+ pages tagged "{{R to disambiguation page}}" to make sure they actually do redirect to disambiguation pages.
- Links to Hardware requiring disambiguation, using the What links here tool
- See User talk:Wbm1058/Archive 6 § Number redirects
Magic words
- usually placed by VisualEditors, in error
- Articles using the INDEX magic word
- Drafts using the INDEX magic word
- Pages transcluding {{INDEX}}
- in main namespace
- in draft namespace
- 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
- Category:Pages with DISPLAYTITLE conflicts (8)
- Category:Pages with disallowed DISPLAYTITLE modifications (6,207)
Short pages
- Special:ShortPages
- Category:Long monitored short pages (0)
Miscellaneous
- Category:Fulfilled page move requests (0)
- Category:Articles for merging with no partner (0)
- Category:Wikipedia non-free files lacking article backlink (4)
- Category:Wikipedia non-free files with red backlink (77)
- Diffusion of Category:Computer hardware (33)
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked misspellings
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Orphaned talk subpages
- Category:Infobox person using numbered parameter (1)
- Category:Marriage template errors (0)
- Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Holding cell
- Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template (17)
- Category:Shortcut templates with missing parameters (14)
- Category:Documentation subpages without corresponding pages (9)
- Category:Pages with syntax highlighting errors (0)
- Category:Wikipedia edit requests (2)
- Category:Administrative backlog (19)
- Category:Wikipedians looking for help (0)
- {{Raw backlog status}} – that's a lotsa backlog cats!
Administrators' newsletter
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
- TJMSmith
- Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley
Interface administrator changes
- A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
- A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect. - A request for comment asks if sysops may
place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions
? - There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.
- When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
- When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
- There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).
- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.
Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions. - The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed
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- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
- Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.
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- /Hyphen-minus, En dash and Em dash – my first user essay
- Special:SpecialPages
- Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 108#How to edit—or request an edit—of Special:SpecialPages
- Ask and eventually you may receive Per m:Tech/News/2014/06:
- You can now link to diffs using
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and similar links. Wikimedia code review
- You can now link to diffs using
- Now I see movement on another aspect of this, apparently a reaction to another village pump "ping": see T47221 and Wikimedia code review
- Yay! Finally done. Administrators can edit MediaWiki:Specialpages-summary.
- Ask and eventually you may receive Per m:Tech/News/2014/06:
- Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 108#How to edit—or request an edit—of Special:SpecialPages
- m:Wikimedia Resource Center (new)
- m:Help:Introduction
- m:MediaWiki Handbook
- Help:HTML in wikitext
- Help:Substitution
- Help:Template
- mw:Help:Templates
- m:Help:Template
- Help:Labeled section transclusion
- Help:Magic words
- mw:Help:Magic words
- m:Help:Magic words
- m:Help:Variable
- m:Help:Parser function
- mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
- mw:Help:Parser functions in templates
- mw:Manual:Index.php
- mw:API
- mw:API:Recent changes stream
- mw:How to become a MediaWiki hacker
- Special:ApiSandbox
- Unicode Code Converter
Archive search boxes
Copyright
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.
- Wikipedia:Copyrights
- Copyright
- Copyright Clause
- Copyright Act of 1976
- Copyright Royalty Board
- United States Copyright Office
- Register of Copyrights
- Copyright Catalog
History
Editor engagement experiments
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
Subpages
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