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The Technical Barnstar | |
Thanks for creating RMCD bot and bringing the requested moves process back on its feet! |
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The Original Barnstar |
For your contribution over at Requested Moves. Great work! Tiggerjay (talk) 03:32, 3 January 2013 (UTC) |
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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) |
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The Technical Barnstar | |
For operating Merge bot._ Marvellous Spider-Man 15:23, 16 August 2017 (UTC) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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)
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The Original Barnstar |
For your diligence toward getting Template:NRHP Focus working again. Awesome. ―Mandruss ☎ 21:08, 6 August 2015 (UTC) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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
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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’
editBill 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
editThe 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?
editA 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 (33)
- Category:Pages with template loops (11)
- Category:Pages with bad rounding precision (1)
- Category:Pages with incorrectly transcluded templates (1)
Redirects
edit- Category:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review (6)
- Category:Missing redirects (4)
- Category:Unsynchronized talk page redirects (8)
- partially cleared by User:Bot1058 (task 4)
- Category:Articles with talk page redirects (5)
- Category:Articles with unsynchronized talk page redirects (3)
- Self redirects (Quarry query)
- Talk-to-mainspace redirects, except subpages (Quarry query)
- Talk subpage-to-mainspace redirects (Quarry query)
- Category:Redirects for convenience (165)
- 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 (1,731)
- Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls (285)
- Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded (6)
- Category:Pages where node count is exceeded (5)
Short pages
editMagic 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
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Disambiguation
edit- Malplaced disambiguation pages
- Incomplete disambiguations
- Category:Articles with hatnote templates targeting a nonexistent page (8,684)
- 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 (28)
- 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 (6)
- Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Holding cell
- Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template (13)
- Category:Shortcut templates with missing parameters (17)
- Category:Documentation subpages without corresponding pages (10)
- Category:Pages with syntax highlighting errors (6)
- Category:Wikipedia edit requests (2)
- Category:Administrative backlog (20)
- Category:Wikipedians looking for help (0)
Administrators' newsletter
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).
- Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
- Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.
- Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ
Bots newsletter
editLatest tech news
editLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
- Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [1]
- Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the
categories
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Bugs status
- Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with
Talk:WP:
so that their titles start withWikipedia talk:
), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388. - Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
Learn more
- The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.
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editCopyright
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History
editEditor engagement experiments
editEvery 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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