User:RJFJR
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29 March 2024 |
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Intro
Date of my first edit: 26 NOV 2004
Really, Really Important things I've learned about Wikipedia
These are my notes:
Write to the target audience
- Audience: A related question, is who should the pages be written for? Most writers are in college or past college. However, there is evidence that most readers are high-school students, or other people who are not familar with a topic. What is obvious and irrelevant to a CS student or grad, may be very unclear and important to a high-school student or someone who is thinking of returning to college. Of course, Wikipedia has yet to define its target audience very well. The lists make it accessible to a much broader audience. excerpted from a comment by an anon who signed his message: The Phantom Avenger for SE
Summary:
- K.I.S.S. - Keep It Sweet and Simple.
- Write first for the Educated Layperson (that's hard)...
- ...then try to do it better and write for the beginner (that's harder)
- If an educated layperson can't figure it out by following the wikilinks, then it's too hard.
- Yes, we're experts (more or less) but we're writing for a general audience. We could write a clever, concise, deep sentence to explain something...but it's useless if it isn't easy to understand.
- Eschew argot, technicality and cant.
Spelling/Grammar checking
'Whenever doing anything but minor editing, copy and paste to a word-processor with real time spelling/grammar checking!
That and that I can't spell. I also can't capitalize, but that's a different matter.
Very useful wiki pages that I use a lot
- Wikipedia:Requested articles
- Wikipedia:Glossary
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Cleanup resources Clean up templates
Cute
- monthly statistics
- 'Evolution of Heavy Metal Umlaut' video
- techblog
Cleanup Projects
We seem to have briefly caught up with stub sorting so I think I'll spend some time working on:
- Category:Articles needing cleanup
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia
- Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup
- Category:Articles with ibid
- Category:Articles needing sections
- wikiblame (tool)
- Category:All articles needing copy edit --> Wikipedia:WikiProject_League_of_Copyeditors/proofreading#Ready_for_final_proofread
- category:Category needed (maybe someday, when I catch up...)
- Wikipedia:Uncategorized pages
- m:Transwiki transwiki instructions
Tools
With the default rules, a link to a redirect like foo will appear in green as foo, a link to a disambiguation page like bar will appear with a yellow background as bar, and all the pages in Category:Articles for deletion should appear in a pinkish color.
I made admin
We all know admin is "no big deal" (in fact the quote is here, Jimbo Wales said it), but it's really nice to be asked.
The vote is/was at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/RJFJR. (I put this link here so I could watch while I was fretting over whether I'd get it).
here is the admin's reading list that I'm still trying to absorb and will keep handy as a reference.
Images
I've uploaded these images to commons:
- image:togglesw2.jpg
- image:corkborer2.jpg
- image:ICEPICK2.jpg
- Image:KentFalls.JPG
- Media:ThistleTube.jpg
- Media:CorrosionHazard2.jpg
- Media:44EdgeConnector.jpg
- Media:Sharpeningstone1.jpg
- Media:Nibbler1.jpg
- Media:nibblerdetail1.jpg
- media:Fannypack1a.jpg
- media:Fannypack2a.jpg
Awards
Service ribbon
45,000 edits (I'm not really counting) and 6 years (where does the time go).
Now over 11 years. Aaaack!
Reference desk entries
to do
User:Dsp13/Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science
- "Why all the hate for Wikipedia?" – Greg Stevens – The Kernel. Nov 4, 2013.
- Centre for Environment Education cleanup?
- Wikipedia:Spoken articles
- clean up
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout
- Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 504 dump
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section headings
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dispenser/Dab_solver
- http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/view/Dab_solver
- citer
- ~dispenser Reflinks
- Camera interface
- Self-report study