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This user runs a bot, RMCD bot (contribs). It performs tasks that are extremely tedious to do manually.	This user runs a bot, Merge bot (contribs). It performs tasks that are extremely tedious to do manually.
This user runs a bot, Bot1058 (contribs). It performs tasks that are extremely tedious to do manually.	This user has bicycled in all 50 of the 50 States. 50
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Top 250 editor as of November 1, 2021.

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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30 January 2022
Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in" Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month? Deletion report: Ringing in the new year: Subject notability guideline under discussion WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021 Gallery: No Spanish municipality without a photograph Obituary: Twofingered Typist Op-Ed: Identifying and rooting out climate change denial Essay: The prime directive Opinion: Should the Wikimedia Foundation continue to accept cryptocurrency donations? In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps" Serendipity: Pooh entered the Public Domain – but Tigger has to wait two more years Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword
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		The Technical Barnstar
		Thanks for creating RMCD bot and bringing the requested moves process back on its feet! Favonian (talk) 15:56, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

	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 current time is[edit]

• 02:18, February 18, 2022 AEDT [refresh] in eastern Australia
• 01:48, February 18, 2022 ACDT [refresh] in South Australia
• 00:18, February 18, 2022 JST [refresh] in Japan
• 23:18, February 17, 2022 AWST [refresh] in Western Australia
• 20:48, February 17, 2022 IST [refresh] in India
• 15:18, February 17, 2022 GMT [refresh] in Great Britain
• 10:18, February 17, 2022 EST [refresh] in Ohio

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)
  • Thoughts on Wikipedia Editing and Digital Labor
• 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]

‘We Need an Energy Miracle’[edit]

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[edit]

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?[edit]

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[edit]

Admin statistics Action Count Edits 197535 Edits+Deleted 207081 Pages deleted 7593 Revisions deleted 55 Logs/Events deleted 4 Pages restored 2768 Pages protected 85 Pages unprotected 9 Protections modified 17 Users blocked 27 Users reblocked 1 Users unblocked 3 User rights modified 2 Users created 4 Pages merged 3358

This user is a member of WikiProject History Merge.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

Administrators' newsletter[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
• The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

• Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
• The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
• A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

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Bots newsletter[edit]

• Wikipedia:Bots/News

Latest tech news[edit]

Technical help links[edit]

• {{NUMBEROFPAGES}}: 55,242,115
• {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}: 6,454,655
• Tech News weekly summaries
• /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 [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. Wikimedia code review

    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.

• 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
• mw:Extension:TemplateStyles
• 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:Manual:Parameters to index.php
• mw:API
  • mw:Manual:Api.php
• mw:API:Recent changes stream
  • mw:API:RecentChanges
• mw:How to become a MediaWiki hacker
• Special:ApiSandbox
• Unicode Code Converter

Archive search boxes[edit]

Copyright[edit]

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[edit]

• Nostalgia
• WikiWikiWeb
• c2:WikiPedia

Editor engagement experiments[edit]

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

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