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Wikipedia editor (n.) Someone who will not leave a burning building until you show them the newspaper article documenting how many people were killed by the fire.
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The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth".
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28% | This user has been a Wikipedian for 27.7% of his life. |
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Info box | This user believes that all articles should have an infobox. |
{{t|3}} | This user contributes to the template namespace with confidence. |
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This user is polite and expects others to act accordingly. |
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This user wants to be your friend. |
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This user realizes one needs to have rhino skin to edit Wikipedia. And it makes them sad. |
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This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality in all articles. |
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This user often uses the command line when operating his computer. |
USage decline | This user uses American English, but is appalled at its rapid and continuing deterioration. |
YOU | This user dies a little inside whenever they see the word you in an article. |
your you're | This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help. |
their there they're | This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling! |
to too two | This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two. |
than then | This user understands the difference between using "than" and "then." |
its | This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has). |
its & it's | This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you. |
its it's | It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner. |
ain't nobody | This user hates seeing double negatives clutter up the English language. He wants to stomp it out no matter what it takes. |
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This user mourns the apparent death of the adverb, a loss that this user feels most serious. |
Pickyness Pickiness | This user changes the adjective ending "y" to "i" to form nouns with "-ness". |
…in. | Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with. |
who | This user prefers using who for both the object and subject case. Who does it hurt to simplify things? |
’s | Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. |
’s | This user understands that apostrophe's apostrophes are for possession and contraction, not pluralization. |
, | This user's favorite punctuation is commas, guys, not exclamation points or whatever. |
; | This user knows how to use a semicolon correctly. |
: | This user has a favorite punctuation you might not have: colons. |
"…" | This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones. |
"…"!
US vs. UK | This user uses "logical quotation marks". Forcing internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a nationalistic style issue! |
10 | This user realizes that there are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who do not. |
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3R | This user believes that you should Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. |
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2024-09-02 | This user uses ISO-8601 to express dates. |
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This user is an autodidact in a wide range of subjects that they never took in school or college. |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Sciences_exactes.svg/40px-Sciences_exactes.svg.png) | This user is interested in science. | ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Nuvola_apps_edu_science.svg/36px-Nuvola_apps_edu_science.svg.png) |
![Fx](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Neutronstar_Light_Deflection.png/70px-Neutronstar_Light_Deflection.png) | This user is interested in physics. |
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This user believes the world would be a better place if everyone had access to a quality, free education. |
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This user believes in logic. |
Hanlon's Razor | This user never attributes to malice that which is best explained by stupidity. † |
Grossman Misquote | This user is aware that complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers. |
Majority ≠ right |
This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake. |
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This user has set foot in 1 continents of the world. |
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I am not an expert in software, programming, astronomy, or any other topic on which I edit or contribute. I make no such claim(s) anywhere that I am aware of. If you find any text that can be (mis)interpreted to seem as if I make any such claim(s), then notify me immediately, and I will alter such text to be far clearer and harder to misinterpret. I am an enthusiastic autodidact, and former part-time newspaper reporter, and low-hour volunteer teacher, who can think, read, write, and edit. That is all. When I make errors, notify me, and I will fix them.
Starting in the late 1990s, for several years, I edited articles on a few open content websites, including Ward Cunningham's original WikiWikiWeb, some webrings on WebRing.com (before and during the Yahoo! years), and then the Open Directory Project (ODP or DMOZ, renamed Curlie in late 2017). Then I discovered Wikipedia, and edited anonymously for a few years before registering a username (if only there were means to get credit for anonymous edits!). On Wikipedia, I pursue mostly WikiGnome-ish activities. Sometimes I do a bit more. I hope that what I have done is of value to more than a few.
Almost all of my work is informed directly by the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (MoS). If I change something in an article, then it is usually backed by some rule, or at least principle, found therein. One could say that mostly I enforce the MoS, but such phrasing sounds too punitive. I prefer to think that I am teaching or educating other editors, while gently weeding and cultivating a garden a bit. If I am feeling a bit testy, than I view myself in a more janitorial role, as cleaning up a mess. On occasion, when grouchy, I encounter work which at first impression, moves me to interpret it as evidence of mental retardation or mild derangement.
Example: Internal Wiki links that are piped with identical text (a pet peeve of mine), of the form:
[[Title words|Title words]]
When I find myself being so uncharitable, I deliberately stop myself, and try to reinterpret the strangeness, perhaps as the effort of someone whose skills in English are vastly superior to my skills in their language. That usually puts me back in my place.
Wikipedia editors have a great privilege: we are stewards and guardians of an incredibly valuable treasure. Millions (!) of people have contributed to, and spent countless hours working on, this project. This creates a weighty responsibility on us. When we edit an article, in our hands lies the fate of all prior work on that article, and sometimes the records and reputations of highly accomplished, greatly admired, or dearly loved people (featured in articles, or Wikipedia editors), who may be gone but not forgotten, yet. I try to bear this in mind whenever I edit, and work hard to ensure, and hope, that I am a worthy caretaker.
Intermittently, from 1979, through the early and middle 1980s, and a few times in the mid-1990s, I worked as a part-time newspaper reporter, termed a stringer, at the then Milwaukee Sentinel, now Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. My beat (specialty) was technology, science, defense, and an occasional light feature. Among many things I learned was to write very tersely. At a newspaper, more so before electronic media grew common, there was a ferocious emphasis on word count and article length. Failure to write compactly meant that lots of text might be deleted by copy editors. At times, accuracy suffered thereby.
During this time, I also edited the work of some college students, mostly term papers, and one Master's degree thesis. Two of the students told me that my work raised their grades routinely by one increment, e.g., from a C to B.
In the early 1990s, for a few years, I was a member of the American Society for Quality Control (ASQC), now American Society for Quality (ASQ). I highly recommend this truly fine organization for anyone interested in any similar or related issues. I still remember some of the basics of quality control, and try to apply my knowledge to Wiki work.
Low quality reverts
Sometimes an edit will have many (10, 20, 50, 100, or more) small changes, which seem correct, uncontroversial, conservative, responsible, precise, carefully thought-out and executed, and which seem to follow exactly the Manual of Style. Yet, some other editor may disagree with one or two points, and will then revert the whole edit.
Reverting such edits wholly is clearly incorrect, inconsistent with accuracy, and bad manners. Each such reversion is one more example of a low quality, thoughtless, hasty, sloppy, knee jerk, drive-by, shoot-from-the-hip revert. Sadly, these are far too common on Wikipedia. It is hard to sympathize or agree with, or sometimes even understand, the mindset of anyone reverting such an edit, or behaving in such a manner. If you disagree with a point or two, then revert that point, or those few points, and no others. It is common sense, good manners, and Wikipedia official policy: WP:REVONLY.
Of many things I consider very seriously, one is objectivity, or neutrality in Wikipedia nomenclature. I try very hard to be neutral. This is mostly due to my basic personality, but was also further informed and refined by my newspaper experiences. But, no one can be fully neutral in all ways, no matter how great our efforts; for some insights on this see Wikipedia:Systemic bias. At least two kinds of neutrality clearly exist: attitudinal and functional. We all have many biases, of many types, and these effect our thoughts and actions. Attitude biases are the easiest to counter, mostly by consciously monitoring ourselves and working to be deliberately neutral in our actions. Functional biases are much harder to counter. We all have varied strengths and weaknesses, areas of knowledge and ignorance. Thus we work in areas we know, and perform actions we understand, and tend to perform less well outside that range. Where I do this, and accidentally harm or confuse anyone, I apologize. Tell me and I will act to improve my results.
Systemic bias example
A too-common type of unfair systemic bias occurs when Wikipedia's standards and practices for determining notability are applied to covering some types of software. The sad reality is that academic software, and open-source software, both, even when widely used, usually receive far less attention, such as reviews and awards, than more commercial forms of software. This contributes to some promising articles being deleted due to lack of third-party sources for references. Given Wikipedia's methods as of 2017, this bias cannot be avoided or even reduced. Software which is both academic, and open-source, suffers from both sources of inattention, and is doubly vulnerable.
Edit summary notes are highly useful for documenting work, to explicate processes and motives for others to understand. I have devised many for my use, which also may be useful for others. So, I have listed them on an edit summaries page. These notes are never a form of attack. They exist to inform others of exactly what I have done and why, and to help them find useful and germane parts of the Wikipedia:Manual of Style from which they may learn and become better editors.
One problem which some edits cause, which is needless, and thus especially irksome, is links with needless pipes which redirect.
For example, after the name of many programming languages, there is the string " (programming language)". Often this creates a direct link, but often it creates a needless pipe (per WP:NOPIPE) which points to a redirect.
Examples of links that are piped and direct, thus correct:
- [[C (programming language)|C]]
- [[Python (programming language)|Python]]
Examples of links that are needlessly piped and redirecting, thus incorrect:
- [[C++ (programming language)|C++]]. Instead, the unpiped direct link is [[C++]].
- [[Perl (programming language)|Perl]]. Instead, the unpiped direct link is [[Perl]].
If you don't know for sure if a link is optimal, why not check it first? It is easy and fast, taking only several seconds! Check links after making them, via the Show preview
function, but before saving edits, via the Save page
function. On the article edit page, simply use the Show preview
function to display the links in their published form, and then WP:TESTLINK (click on) them, before saving. Then, you can use the Show changes
function to see all changes that you made up to that preview.
Only then, after confirming that everything is correct, should you save.
Some words are all too easy to overuse, and sadly, are overused routinely, and usually incorrectly, to the extent that many or most instances of their use become useless linguistic junk. For example, most common uses of the words "actual", "itself", "himself", "herself", and "themselves" are vague, imprecise, ambiguous, and almost meaningless; some type of strange needless intensifier when occurring immediately after a referred-to term. Such words can almost always be cut from a sentence with no change in the meaning. Here are some examples:
- They can almost always actually be cut from an actual sentence with no change in the actual meaning.
- They can almost always be cut from a sentence itself with no change in the meaning itself.
- They can almost always be cut from sentences themselves with no change in the meanings themselves.
Proofread! Try it! Communication begs for clearer terms. Readers need clear semantic guidance as to what an author's references are about.
I have created a few userboxes. As with all I do, if you like one, or more, please feel free to use it-them.
I have worked extensively on a few non-technical articles, a few about Music groups which I know and enjoy, and of which I am a fan: Cyberchump and Palm Ghosts. Disclosures: For the Palm Ghosts article, the first version was written mostly by band founder Joseph Lekkas, with encouraging, and extensive coaching and technical edits (templating, WP:LINKs, WP:CATEGORYs), and some WP:REFerence WP:CITations and text edits, by me.
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- Software Wikia is a wiki specialised on software using semantic extras. If a nice article does not have the required Wikipedia:Notability, simply export it and ask an admin for an import there.
- WikiProject Free Software is now merged with WikiProject Software. The link to WikiProject Free Software is Wikipedia:WikiProject Software/Free Software.
- To better serve Wikipedia, WikiProject Malware is now under the parent of WikiProject Computer Security. All Malware articles are currently being transferred over to the new project. In any case, you are welcome to join at WikiProject Computer Security!
- All members of WikiProject Software are urged to install the Centralized Announcement System on their talk page.
- I have changed the participant (members) table by replacing the Task column with Area of Expertise. I also introduced a new template based status system so as to "arrange" the members according to whether they are active, semi-active, inactive, or retired. Please update your entry accordingly.
- New IRC server! The old channel on Freenode is not used anymore. See See here. Manual for using IRC can be found here for why. Find us at:
Tasks to finish
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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
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WikiProject Software to do list
- The following topics are missing an article; calling all enthusiasts to start these articles urgently. [Read the Talk page]
- Gordian Knot (software), AutoGK, a bit obsolete, but still worth an article, or two (see also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BeSweet)
- Topaz Labs (software), photo editing software in the same vein as Photoshop or NIK software. The company has expanded and is used by many various fine art and photography professionals. www.topazlabs.com. Deserves an article.
- (please feel free to add more)
- The following articles need some updating and cleanup (please feel free to add more):
- BlueSpice for MediaWiki
- Cabri Geometry, article too short but of significant importance
- Defraggler
- EmEditor, needs notability references, and general improvements
- Ext4
- Flowtracer
- Google File System, tagged with {{Expert-subject|Software|date=November 2008}}
- Home Assistant (seems to be consensus that this needs cleanup from uninvolved editors after its 2nd AfD, as of 2021-04-02)
- Hypervisor, the PCs and desktop systems section needs attention
- Jv16 powertools
- KVIrc
- Light (web browser), just created, it's decently written but still really short, and it's not part of this project yet
- mdadm, mostly non-encyclopedic content (HOWTO/manual)
- Micro Transport Protocol, widely used since uTorrent 2.0 released
- Ntfsprogs
- Norton 360
- Recuva
- Presentation Manager, requesting screenshot of GUI, also needs references
- Program Information File
- Software as a service
- Windows library files
- XNUMBERS
- Zamzar
- Zero Install, a bit confusing article, needs to be explained more clearly
- Autodesk Media and Entertainment, major content deletion happened for cleanup on 17 March 2008 (11,000K to 2,000K), and now it's so outdated & stub-like it needs a total rebuild
- List of web application frameworks, go through the articles of listed frameworks and nominate for deletion the non-notable ones, clean the list from non-notable ones, clean Template:Application frameworks
- Aviary (application suite) Needs major updating, referencing, and clean up.
- Scrumban article reads like a sales brochure and I don't have the subject knowledge to fix it.
- The following page lists articles that need expert attention from WikiProject Software and have been tagged by {{Expert-subject|Software}}: