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 (see the Education Working Group/RfC about difficulties in giving formal university grades for Wikipedia editing).
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
[edit]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
[edit]- Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
- Tags to use on wiki commons for screenshots:
- 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)
- Web archive downtime logs
- {{cbignore}}
- stubs - Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
- useful templates:
- biography warning template on talk page: {{WPBiography|living=yes|class=|importance=}}
- USA-centric: {{globalize/USA}} - Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias - Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
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- Template:Refimprove - {{Template:Refimprove}} {{third-party inline}}
- Wikipedia:Template messages - general template messages | disambig etc. | vandalism warnings etc
- Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(Arabic)#Definite_article - al- vs Al-
- /TemplateSystemicBiasRefimprove - proposed new template Boud (talk) 21:23, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
- [commons upload https]
- Commons:Modelos_de_mensajes - Commons:Email_templates - Wikipedia:Example_requests_for_permission
- face placeholders (en.wikipedia) depending on stereotyped hair-styles - File:Replace_this_image_male.svg - File:Replace_this_image_female.svg
- useful version of expand section tag? - {{Expand section|but don't go beyond a short [[WP:Summary]] of the main article referenced above|date=whenever 20xx}}
- Commons:Modelos_de_mensajes - Commons:Email_templates - Wikipedia:Example_requests_for_permission
- Template:Infobox_non-profit - non-profit or NGO infobox, links to other organisation infobox templates
- WP:RELTIME - short cut for now-ism text that becomes outdated when editing frequency drops...
- WP:GS/RUSUKR - for 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related articles
- 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:
- Add more individual sources - consensus against
- Remove all individual news outlets - strong consensus in favour; implementation (removal of NYT + AP)
- 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.
- Wikipedia:Village_pump (proposals)/Archive 209#Modify Module:Find sources/templates/Find general sources concerning the template {{Find sources}} and its source module:
- alternative template: {{search for}} e.g.
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- 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/
- {{copyvio}} {{copyvio-revdel}}
- 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
- Wikipedia talk:List of web archives on Wikipedia - manual archive downtime log
- Wikipedia:Catalogue_of_CSS_classes - could be useful
- Wikipedia:All your bias are belong to us
Possible TODOs
[edit]- Commons:Commons:Wiki Science Competition 2019 in Poland
- Wikipedia:General_sanctions/Coronavirus_disease_2019 - might be necessary sooner or later
Peace process
[edit]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
[edit]- TODO Module:Find sources seems to be close to the core of the GAFAM recommendations used in {{Find sources}} and similar. This has to be sorted out to stop encouraging users to violate their own privacy: Searx (now SearXNG), startpage.com, DuckDuckGo would avoid providing free advertising for GAFAM.
Ethiopian names
[edit]- TODO Check if How to quote Ethiopian authors in linguistic publications, Meyer, Treis (2021) is integrated into Wikipedia MOS guidelines.
Meta-level work
[edit]- native_name:
- Template_talk:Infobox_person#Template-protected_edit_request_on_14_December_2019 (will sooner or later be archived)
- Village pump archive
- Template:Infobox person/testcases
Some stuff i worked on several years ago
[edit]- Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2006
- Timeline of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
- Muamar family detention incident
- List of killed, threatened or kidnapped Iraqi academics - quite amazingly, got deleted - i probably should have tacked on {{globalize/USA}} to the deletion debate - try to imagine a systematic campaign which assassinates 200 academics in the USA - what chance would the article listing those killed have of being deleted?
- Imad Sarsam
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel " بايد از صفحه روزگار محو شود " see[1]
- 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)
2004: indymedia, Nepal, Wikipedia--free-software |
- 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
[edit]DYK reviewing credits
[edit]unused DYK reviewing credits
- Template:Did you know nominations/Baalshillem II reviewed 18 Aug 2021 Boud (talk) 15:33, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
used DYK reviewing credits
Template:Did you know nominations/Lula Mysz-Gmeiner reviewed 1–2 Sep 2018- used for Template:Did you know nominations/2019 Saudi Arabia mass executionTemplate:Did you know nominations/Murder of April Tinsley reviewed 1–2 Sep 2018- used for Template:Did you know nominations/ALQSTTemplate:Did you know nominations/1981 General strike in Bielsko-Biała 6 February 2012
DYK stats
[edit]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/201203/Specialized_Criminal_Court 770
- http://stats.grok.se/en/201203/Mohammed_Saleh_al-Bejadi 339+233=572
- 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
[edit]- SARS-CoV-2 pandemic page views (oldest) (oldish) 'pandemic' in titles
Balancing some particular biases
[edit]Women in computing articles
[edit](to which I have not (yet) contributed...) - highlighted by https://womenrockscience.tumblr.com/ on the Fediverse
- Grace Hopper - pioneer in writing compilers/linkers
- Hedy Lamarr#Frequency-hopping spread spectrum - major contribution to bluetooth via proposing+patenting Frequency-hopping spread spectrum
- Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII - followup of Computer (job description)
- Ada Lovelace
EmpowerHer Editathon 2024-03-22 to 2024-04-22
[edit]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...
- National Autonomous Electoral Commission (Senegal) - probably doesn't count since no specific mention of women in the commission
- Feminism in Senegal - includes legislative achievements so should count as women in governance
About Wikipedia
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]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] of how not to falsify your inferences from checksummed data.[7][8]
- peertube software archive: swh:0bd9d8b...
References
[edit]- ^ Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud (2005-10-26). "(speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 26 October 2005)". The President's Office (Iran). Retrieved 2007-09-30.
- ^ "Diameter". 2011-03. Archived from the original on 2011-04-02. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
{{cite news}}
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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). - ^ 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).
- ^ "Circular argument". 2011-03. Archived from the original on 2011-04-02. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
{{cite news}}
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value (help); Check date values in:|date=
(help); Unknown parameter|deadurl=
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suggested) (help) Cite error: The named reference "WMAP" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). - ^ 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).
- ^ "Rev". 2011-03. Archived from the original on 2011-04-02. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
{{cite news}}
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value (help); Check date values in:|date=
(help) - ^ Samantha Schmidt; Steven Rich; Ana Vanessa Herrero; María Luisa Paúl (4 August 2024). "Maduro lost election, tallies collected by Venezuela's opposition show". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Wikidata Q128550264. Archived from the original on 5 August 2024.
- ^ Blogg, Jane (4 August 2024). "Wow". WaPo. d:Q128550264.
predatory journals
[edit]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 or better: WP:SPSLIST (self-publishing sources list)
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]by Abie the Fish Peddler 4 Oct 2009:
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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:
by Northamerica1000 on 16 Feb 2012:
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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) |
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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) |
by Pachu Kannan 08:47, 20 July 2024:
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
This is for your tireless contributions related to Arab-Israeli conflict. Pachu Kannan (talk) 08:47, 20 July 2024 (UTC) |
for the curious
[edit]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.