User:Boud

Committed identity: 13eba3a2f9558e471774b91be5723a4f6f900c28ad54fb1e662daf8c5e4565a83f5e5abd31b7b6dda5f66118373df9a9a6fae55f28f086322fcdd07beb0a35f3 is a SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

The Wikipedia is cool and should be is used and developed in universities and schools everywhere, IMHO. Closed documentation on encyclopedic type knowledge has no moral justification, IMHO. But the Wikipedia should be used with an understanding of what it is, as justified by academic studies of Wikipedia.

Moreover, there are many aspects of research and universities where the ethical principles in practice at Wikipedia should be the norm but are not (yet, as of 2023) the norm; by seeing how they work in the "real-world" case of Wikipedia (the world's biggest and often most reliable encyclopedia), pressure to move up to these standards in research practice and university governance - especially including transparent, rational, structured decision-making (the ideal of "collegial" decision-making and governance) - will continue to increase.

Gender pronouns

If you need to refer to me in Wikipedia discussions, then he/him/his are appropriate. If you really want to use they/them/their about me, go ahead, since it seems like those pronoun-related words may win the popularity contest against s/he, him/her, his/her.

A few useful links and tools

To the uploader: If possible, do not use this tag; please replace it with one of {{tv-screenshot}}, {{film-screenshot}}, {{musicpromo-screenshot}}, {{game-screenshot}}, {{software-screenshot}}, or {{web-screenshot}}.
  • citation stuff
    • Wikipedia:Footnotes
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Generic citations
    • <ref name="...">{{cite news | last1= | first1= | last2= | first2= | pages= | language =| title= |trans-title = {{void| trans-title is the English translation}}| date= | publisher= |newspaper= | url= |access-date=2021- |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live {{void| live|dead|unfit|usurped}} |url-access = {{void| (subscription/registration/limited) default=free}} }}</ref>
    • <ref name="...">{{cite web| last1 =| first1 =| last2= | first2= | authorlink =| language =| title= |trans-title = {{void| trans-title is the English translation}} | work =| publisher =| website= |date =| url = |format =| doi =| access-date = |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live {{void| live|dead|unfit|usurped }} |url-access = {{void| (subscription/registration/limited) default=free}} }}</ref>
    • shorter: <ref name="...">{{cite news | last1= | first1= | last2= | first2= |author1-link= | language =| title= |trans-title =| date= |newspaper= | url= |access-date=2021- |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live |url-access = }}</ref>
    • shorter: <ref name="...">{{cite web| last1 =| first1 =| last2= | first2= | author1-link =| language =| title= |trans-title = | website= |date =| url = | access-date = |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live |url-access = }}</ref>
    • <ref name="...">{{cite journal | last1 = | first1 = | last2 = | first2 = | author1-link = | title = | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = | publisher = | location = | date = | url = | url-access = <!-- (subscription/registration/limited) default=free --> | issn = | doi = | id = | arxiv=YYMM.NNNNNa | access-date = | archive-url= | archive-date= |url-status=live <!-- live|dead|unfit|usurped -->}}</ref>
    • |display-authors=etal
    • for volatile, mainstream newspapers like NYT? Wikipedia:List of web archives on Wikipedia + use |archiveurl= |archivedate=
      • if one of archive-url, archive-date is present, then the other must be present too, and title and url must also be present
      • Template:Webarchive - {{webarchive |format=addlarchives |url= |date= |url2= |date2= }} (max 10 addl (additional) archives)
    • {{cbignore}}
  • avoiding totalitarianism: alternatives to google:
    • open source
    • semantic:
    • Nov/Dec 2023 proposal to avoid non-mainspace advocacy for Alphabet/Google:
      • Wikipedia:Village_pump (proposals)/Archive 209#Modify Module:Find sources/templates/Find general sources concerning the template {{Find sources}} and its source module:
        1. Add more individual sources - consensus against
        2. Remove all individual news outlets - strong consensus in favour; implementation (removal of NYT + AP)
        3. Replace the generic link - rough consensus against, but with acknowledgement that Participants who supported replacing it cited concerns about user privacy, potential systemic bias of Google's search engine, and some alternative websites were suggested.
    • alternative template: {{search for}} e.g.
Advanced search for: 
"topology"
In books/documents 
Google Books  · Questia
Internet Archive  · WorldCat
In the news 
Google News: recent  · archives

Questia  · New York Times
Los Angeles Times
Wall Street Journal · Washington Post
Financial Times · BBC News
The Age · The Hindu
News Limited · Fairfax Media

In academic/legal journals 
and reference works 
Google Scholar: academic  · legal

Microsoft Academic: new  · original
Oxford Reference  · JSTOR
PUBMED Central  · Questia
HighBeam  · Internet Archive

World Wide Web pages 
Google Web Search  · Advanced Search
Searx 1  · 2  · 3  · 4
Bing  · DuckDuckGo  · Startpage
Yahoo · Yandex · Gigablast
Images (free) 
Google  · Flickr
More 
Wikipedia Free English newspaper sources
The Wikipedia Library


  • march 2011 message from Sue Gardner: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/March_2011_Update
  • substantial-text-overlap detector http://toolserver.org/~dcoetzee/duplicationdetector/
    • substantial-text-overlap detector for an arbitrary Wikipedia page https://copyvios.toolforge.org/
  • redirect to section example
 #REDIRECT[[Gaafar Nimeiry#1985 Revolution]]
 {{Rcat shell|
  {{R to section}}
 }}
  • example of a page editnotice: Template:Editnotices/Page/2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Possible TODOs

Peace process

Battles get huge amounts of Wikipedia attention, while peace actions get much less. This is not Wikipedians' fault alone - killing is "sexy" for the media, while negotiations and the creation of networks and organised groups and healthier human relationships are boring and unprofitable. We need to create more peace process structures, since pedants don't want information on battles to be corrupted by "unencyclopedic" information such as elements of peace processes that inevitably accompany battles since (at least) a century ago: see this removal, for example.

Degafamise the recommended search

Ethiopian names

  • TODO Check if How to quote Ethiopian authors in linguistic publications, Meyer, Treis (2021) is integrated into Wikipedia MOS guidelines.

Meta-level work

Some stuff i worked on several years ago

  • Benjamin Bloom sources noted on talk page in 2009: http://www.csus.edu/design/gphd/faculty/syllabus/yuki/GPHD30_Syllabus.pdf = http://www.webcitation.org/5zSX6gnd0 reproduced with attribution on page 8 top line from http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/bloome.pdf = http://www.webcitation.org/5zSX7PhZt by Elliot W. Eisner. The UNESCO/Eisner text is distributed under a copying-allowed-at-zero-cost, attribution-required licence. Boud (talk) 13:15, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
  • Protests of 2019 - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Protests of 2019 (2nd nomination) - deleted in June 2020 without notification of a major contributor
    • Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2020 June 15 - not overturned
    • archives: 30 Dec 2019; history; edit statistics; talk page.
    • Erica Chenoweth, July 2020, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-future-of-nonviolent-resistance-2/#f1, "The year 2019 saw what may have been the largest wave of mass, nonviolent antigovernment movements in recorded history.1" cites themself "1. Erica Chenoweth et al., 'This May Be the Largest Wave of Nonviolent Mass Movements in World History. What Comes Next?' Washington Post, Monkey Cage blog, 16 November 2019." - original research by a Wikipedian?
    • protests of 2019, Wikidata Q76753469

DYK

DYK reviewing credits

unused DYK reviewing credits

used DYK reviewing credits

DYK stats

How interested were random en.wikipedia readers in these DYK'd topics? (pre- and post- stats not subtracted; time of day of appearance may affect N. American vs European/African vs South Asian vs East Asian/Australasian likeliness of reading):

  • http://stats.grok.se/en/200812/Dheyaa_al-Saadi 323
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201104/Iman_al-Obeidi 3753
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201106/Manal_al-Sharif 3366
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201106/Hatoon_al-Fassi 3011
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201106/%60Ulaysha_Prison 828 (bolded DYK article)
    • http://stats.grok.se/en/201106/Khaled_al-Johani 2079 (part of hook but not DYK article)
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201201/Society_for_Development_and_Change 573+116=689
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201201/Women_to_drive_movement 7844+1079= 8923
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/Samar_Badawi 1433
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/Hamza_Kashgari 4622
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/Lawyers_for_Liberty 594
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/Local_Coordination_Committees_of_Syria 1020+72=1092
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/Nimr_al-Nimr 1267
    • http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/2011%E2%80%932012_Saudi_Arabian_protests 697
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201203/Specialized_Criminal_Court 770
    • http://stats.grok.se/en/201203/Khaled_al-Johani 7411
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201203/Mohammed_Saleh_al-Bejadi 339+233=572
    • http://stats.grok.se/en/201203/Saudi_Civil_and_Political_Rights_Association 162+145=307
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201207/Syria_Files 1302
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201207/Timeline_of_the_2011%E2%80%932012_Saudi_Arabian_protests_%28from_July_2012%29 1030+313=1343
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201207/Mohammad_Fahad_al-Qahtani 1944
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201208/Alexander_Barankov 1697
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201510/Ali_Mohammed_Baqir_al-Nimr 9864
  • 201806 Saudi anti male-guardianship campaign 1085
  • 201809 Israa al-Ghomgham 6300
  • 201812 ALQST 2079
  • 201906 2019 Saudi Arabia mass execution 15115-(306+62)/2 = 14931
  • 202106 People's Peace Movement (Afghanistan) 1788-12=1776
  • 202108 Rukhshana media (4067-(44+61)/2)=4014

Other statistics

  • SARS-CoV-2 pandemic page views (oldest) (oldish) 'pandemic' in titles

Balancing some particular biases

Women in computing articles

(to which I have not (yet) contributed...) - highlighted by https://womenrockscience.tumblr.com/ on the Fediverse

EmpowerHer Editathon 2024-03-22 to 2024-04-22

m:Event:EmpowerHer Editathon 2024 - related articles - unclear if the scope is "women in politics, democracy, elections and governance within AU states" or "women in politics, in democracy, in elections and in governance within AU states" - probably the latter is the intended meaning...

About Wikipedia

  • wikimania 2005 - meta:Transwiki:Wikimania05/Paper-BO1
  • http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171774 "Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia", Milena Tsvetkova, Ruth García-Gavilanes, Luciano Floridi, Taha Yasseri, 2017, PLOS One
  • Wikipedia quality - what's needed? Commons:File:Wikipedia’s_poor_treatment_of_its_most_important_articles.pdf
  • arXiv:1610.08914 (green open access) = doi:10.1145/3038912.3052591 (non-open-access, peer-reviewed): research paper about toxic comments on Wikipedia and an AI trained on human-classification of comments - "Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale", Ellery Wulczyn, Nithum Thain, Lucas Dixon
  • internal vs externally peer-reviewed handling of a long-term highly contentious topic: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II and the history of Jews in Poland - arbitration starting around March 2023

Rants

  • On the question of how much compression should be done in the long term, I've only just discovered that en.Wikipedia has a whole set of Category:Lists of diplomatic visits by heads of state. Given that almost all of these are opaque meetings with at best press conferences following the meetings, the useful information content is about as much as that of a 'Miss' competition. Famous powerful person A meets powerful person B. Great! and what does that have to do with transparent, rational, informed decision-making representing the interests of citizens of A and B's countries? If I were dictator of en.Wikipedia, I would probably delete the whole set. Boud (talk) 15:48, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Other wikis: Wikidot

  • Wikidot got deleted: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikidot - see especially archiveteam's overview of Wikidot and a link there to a plan to sell Wikidot, which could lead to notability if the price were high enough and it hit the mainstream press. I don't understand how a wiki community, of apparently a million users, could fail to get the attention of at least the internet/software geeky press.

refs experiment

The world is round[2]:   and orbits another world[3]: 3, 14, 15 , yet some[4] claim that it's flat. Mikołaja also says it's roundish with a reference duplicating biblio info contained in the refs= list.[3] and don't forget a subpage list of references.[5] Maybe also see ref.[6]

  • peertube software archive: swh:0bd9d8b...

References

  1. ^ Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud (2005-10-26). "(speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 26 October 2005)". The President's Office (Iran). Retrieved 2007-09-30.
  2. ^ "Diameter". 2011-03. Archived from the original on 2011-04-02. Retrieved 2011-04-02. {{cite news}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help) Cite error: The named reference "Eratosthenes" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b this.version.is.ignored if it comes second, i guess, and does not override the first. Cite error: The named reference "Copernicus" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Circular argument". 2011-03. Archived from the original on 2011-04-02. Retrieved 2011-04-02. {{cite news}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help) Cite error: The named reference "WMAP" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ The World of Subpages. Mod U. Larity Cite error: The named reference "from the subpage" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Rev". 2011-03. Archived from the original on 2011-04-02. Retrieved 2011-04-02. {{cite news}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)

predatory journals

A semi-centralised place at GAFAM to look for lists of predatory journals and publishers, currently not updated since 2017, is:

  • predatory journals: https://github.com/stop-predatory-journals/stop-predatory-journals.github.io/blob/master/_data/journals.csv
  • predatory publishers: https://github.com/stop-predatory-journals/stop-predatory-journals.github.io/blob/master/_data/publishers.csv
  • Discussion = "issues" - with currently (2020-12-06) nobody handling these seriously: https://github.com/stop-predatory-journals/stop-predatory-journals.github.io/issues

Reference section bots/parsers

  • Whether or not bots or parsers should ignore <!-- ... --> or rather {{void| ... }} comments seems to be disputed between different people. TODO: See this discussion and find the (early 2021?) bot owner discussions about this, and get the different people to chat directly and decide what's best.

Barnstars

by Abie the Fish Peddler 4 Oct 2009:

The Rosetta Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded for making the farsi language accessible on Talk:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Abie the Fish Peddler (talk) 20:27, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

by Philippe (WMF) 21 Jan 2012:

The Original Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation.

by Northamerica1000 on 16 Feb 2012:

The Barnstar of Liberty
Thanks for creating the new article Lawyers for Liberty and helping to improve Wikipedia's coverage of human-rights related organizations. Your work is appreciated. Northamerica1000(talk) 19:18, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

by Mohamed CJ 22 July 2012:

The Barnstar of Liberty
For your coverage of the ongoing protest movement in Saudi Arabia. You've done some excellent work there, many times all by yourself! Mohamed CJ (talk)

by AntonSamuel 19:30, 21 October 2020:

The Editor's Barnstar
Thank you for your contributions in improving the neutrality and quality of the Ilham Aliyev article! AntonSamuel (talk) 19:30, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
  • According to another volunteer, I have recently been scrupulously pretending [my]self to be "neutral" in Wikipedia editing. Sounds like a compliment to me. Boud (talk) 02:37, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

by WomenArtistUpdates 00:51, 1 April 2021:

Women in Red Women in Africa contest
Boud Thank you for your additions March 2021! - WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:43, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

by Gerda Arendt, 06:51, 24 August 2021:

peace process

Thank you for quality articles about protests for peace and human rights, and news about them in Afghanistan and elsewhere, such as Rukhshana Media,Geneva II Middle East peace conference, 2019 Iraqi protests, 2020 Polish protests and People's Peace Movement (Afghanistan), for "Battles get huge amounts of Wikipedia attention, while peace actions get much less." - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2644 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:51, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

by Sennecaster 13:16, 16 November 2021:

The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
I've seen you around WP:CP with a lot of helpful comments and listings. Thank you for your work there! Sennecaster (Chat) 13:16, 16 November 2021 (UTC)


for the curious

If you're curious enough to have scrolled down this far and want to see a popular-level, possibly frequently updated account of original research that I've been involved in or find interesting, and other things of interest, then feel free to check out my blog. It's CC-BY, so in terms of copyright, material could be used in the Wikipedia, but for Wikipedia purposes, better would be to go to the research-level material that some of it points to. Just as other Wikipedians whose real-life role is in the search for knowledge tend to do, I'm trying to keep these roles separate.

scratch

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Boud&oldid=1220757087"