User:Apachegila/Edit Log

06/10/18 WP article “Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity” Edit summary: Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity: Difference between revisions Whether a contraction or indicative of possession, the use of an apostrophe is incompressible here, quote or no quote. Even if the speaker slurred his speech, once transcribed, the reader is ill-served by hiding the verb inside a contraction. 05/07/20 On WP page Talk:Space Shuttle program: Revision history, User:Drmies explains, “whatever.” 07/27/20 UBX AG loves WP {{Userbox | border-c = #999 | border-s = 1 | id-c = black| id-s = 14 | id-fc = white| info-c = #EEE | info-s = 8 | info-fc = black | id =  | info = Apachegila appreciates Wikipedia. | float = right }

Participant discussion: Apachegila Welcome ( debate ) 30 May 2020, at 14.24 (EEST) https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dal%C4%ABbnieka_diskusija:Apachegila 07/28/20 Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizard 07/29/20 Extension:MP3MediaHandler https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MP3MediaHandler 07/31/20 Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_reading_list 08/02/20 While visiting Wikimedia Commons to review its filename conventions, I was dismayed to discover that user:Apachegila carried no link (in red – “Your user page (page does not exist) [Alt-Shift-.]). Does that mean every Wikimedia projects has a separate user namespace? After editing the aforementioned article, I had to confirm my Edit Summary (Contribs), not in Wikipedia, but in the Commons. Note however, that on the Commons Contrib page I a link to Global Contribs, which provides searching and filtering to aggregate such results.

While editing WM Commons page Coommons:File naming, I used Revision History to compare my page to the previous edit session. To listen to Windows pronounce (Magnifier > Ctrl + Alt + left-click) “e.g.” unabbreviated. That’s when I noticed the name of another Commons user named Abdo Zalha. But where is he on Wikipedia?

WP audio file summary page File:Maurice Ravel - Thérèse Dussaut - Pavane pour une infante défunte.ogg includes description attributes, licensing, and even a reference. And yes, the filename even sports spaces. 09/10/20 WP webpage “View source for Donald Trump” (Submit an edit request) WP page “Talk:Donald Trump” Editing Talk:Donald Trump (new section) Section “Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 10 September 2020” (posted 09/10/20 at 11:00 AM) When an adjective is comprised of two words, a hyphen in between them is required to show the pairing. In the article copy (section “False statements”) that reads, “far reaching effects,” the adjective, far-reaching, has been misspelled. Its entry in Wiktionary proves as much. [1] Citation: Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/far-reaching

When an adjective is comprised of two words, a hyphen in between them is required to show the pairing. In the article copy (section “False statements”) that reads, “far reaching effects,” the adjective, far-reaching, has been misspelled. Its entry in Wiktionary proves as much.

 Apachegila  (Talk) 18:31, 24 May 2021 (UTC) 09/17/20 File Wikipedia To You 2a.ogg was uploaded to Wikimeida Commons to use on user page AG. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_To_You.ogg Replaced (original file in WP media player):

File Wikipedia To You 2b.ogg was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons to use on webpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Apachegila

An instance of the WP media player was added to user page AG to play file Wikipedia To You.ogg

Template was added webpage user:AG  as a  superior alternative on Talk and User pages to the manual insertion of a References section.

The Wikimedia Commons user page was updated to mirror the one found on Wikipedia. 09/19/20 Wikipedia page User:OgreBot/gallery-opt-out was edited to correct a grammatical error found therein: A grammatical error was corrected: the preposition “at” was replaced by the indefinite article "a." Also, the page was revised for the reason it was visited in the first place. The username, AG, was added to the list of those wishing to opt out of OgreBot galleries User:OgreBot/Uploads by new users and User:OgreBot/Notable uploads (the Ogrebot tool is used to flag for examination possible Wikimedia Commons “problematic” file uploads. Automatic flagging ceases after 150 uploads, a limit most certainly never to be attained). 09/21/20 File Shave and a Haircut Door Knock.ogg was uploaded to Wikimedia commons to use in WP article “Shave and a Haircut.”

On WP article “Shave and a Haircut,” an instance of the audio player was embedded in order to play sound file Shave and a Haircut.ogg. Follows is the wikitext:

Edit summary: An instance of the audio player was inserted to showcase the door knock, which nowadays is far more popular than the ditty it was derived from.

On WMC, after spotting yet another problem with links on page User:Apachegila, the wikitext for userbox EN was reordered: Revision as of 23:33, 21 September 2020 by Apachegila (talk | contribs) (Internal links on Wikipedia don’t exist on Wikimedia Commons. Therefore, userbox EN (English language) was refashioned with an external link to Wikipedia article “English language.” Integration, anyone?) 09/27/20 While searching for a way to change the background color of page User:AG, I made a startling discovery:  in addition to wikis Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, there is a wik named Simple English Wikipedia. It has been around since 2001. Anyway, after discovering the wiki, I noticed that, once again, the page for User:Apachegila hadn’t been created yet (it’s a shame MWF wikis don’t a common User space). At present, I have User and User Talk pages on WP, WMC, and SEW. 09/28/20 On SEW, article List of Colors contained a link in red about the web browser named Mosaic… 09/29/20 WP article Help:Template was edited, changing copy “mark up” to “markup.”  https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Template&oldid=981062663 10/02/20 WP article “Donald Trump”

Subsection “Positive COVID-19 test” grammar cleanup
The copy that reads “Later, the First Lady stated on Twitter that both her and her husband were ‘feeling well.’” should read “both she and her husband.” To test this in the usual fashion, disregard the conjunction “and” and its accompaniment, “husband” to arrive at “she was feeling well,” not “her was feeling well.’  Apachegila  (Talk) 18:31, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Edit summary: Section "Subsection “Positive COVID-19 test” grammar cleanup" was added to page Talk:Donald Trump.

Mandruss beat me to the punch 09:36, October 2, 2020‎ Mandruss talk contribs‎ 494,911 bytes -5‎  →‎Positive COVID-19 test: grammar, MOS:LQ thanked

Editing User talk:Mandruss

Good Work
Thanks for revising subsection “Positive COVID-19 test” in article “Donald Trump” I was trying to get around to that very matter, at least on Talk:Donald Trump, when Google Chrome crashed on me. Here is what I planned to publish:

==Subsection “Positive COVID-19 test” grammar cleanup==

The copy that reads “Later, the First Lady stated on Twitter that both her and her husband were ‘feeling well.’” should read “both she and her husband.” To test this in the usual fashion, disregard the conjunction “and” and its accompaniment, “husband” to arrive at “she was feeling well,” not “her was feeling well.”

Edit summary: Section "Subsection “Positive COVID-19 test” grammar cleanup" was added to page Talk:Donald Trump.

You beat me to the punch!  Apachegila  (Talk) 18:31, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Edit summary Section “Good Work” was added to User talk:Mandruss. 10/11/20 File Clockwork Azteca (Time Bridge).png was uploaded to WMC to use on WP User:AG. Since the composition incorporated several WMC images that were manipulated before inclusion, credit was given to the original photographers per WMC guidelines:

Credits:

File:Piedra del Sol en MNA.jpg Attribution: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

File:Choeronycteris mexicana, Mexican long-tongued bat (7371567444).jpg Attribution: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters / Public domain

File:Monarch butterfly in BBG (84685).jpg Attribution: Rhododendrites / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

Page URL https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clockwork_Azteca_(Time_Bridge).png File URL https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Clockwork_Azteca_%28Time_Bridge%29.png Attribution DKA / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

After uploading file Clockwork Azteca 5.png to WMC, the picture was added to WP page User:AG using the Image Frame template.

10/28/20 File Clockwork Azteca (Time Span).jpg was uploaded to WMC to use on WP User:AG. Since the composition incorporated several WMC images that were manipulated before inclusion, credit was given to the original photographers per WMC guidelines:

To use the file in a wiki, copy this text into a page: To link to it in HTML, copy this URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clockwork_Azteca_(Time_Span).jpg 10/29/20 Edit summary for WP article “Lead Guita” The indefinite article (a, an) is “used before singular nouns when the referent is unspecified” (m-w.com). “Guitarist” must be singular here. Therefore, the apostrophe was placed before the “s.” 10/31/20 WP article “Nationwide opinion polling for the 2016 United States presidential election” was revised in order to insert a citation, in section “Post-election analysis” to bolster the claim that the “USC/Los Angeles Times Daybreak tracking poll” came under fire for showing Trump ahead of HRC in the presidential race. See footnote 633 for the handywork.

Edit summary: A citation to a news source corroborating the claim that the Daybreak LA Times poll came under fire was added.

View revision on “Nationwide opinion polling for the 2016 United States presidential election: Difference between revisions.”

When Winword’s grammar checker flagged section title “Post election analysis” as being remiss in its lack of a hyphen, WP article “Nationwide opinion polling for the 2016 United States presidential election” was revised again to remedy the malady.

Edit summary: Two-word adjectives require a hyphen to prove that, not just the latter, but both act as one in modifying the trailing noun. 11/01/20 After discovering that I had a user page on wiki MediaWiki, much less automatic login access (not just with Wikipedia, but globally), I created my WM user page, User:Apachegila. However, when I tired to add the copy I wanted to display, I was turned down, purportedly because of spam or vandalism controls (“We apologise” – chiefly UK). See file Tech\MediaWiki User Page Revision Error.jpg for the sordid tale. Edit summary: MW user page User:Apachegila was created.

Wiki MediaWiki (first edit) Edit summary for WM page Help: Navigation: Webpage Help: Navigation is on wiki MediaWiki. That would be “this wiki.” Using “that wiki” instead, refers to any wiki utilizing the MediaWiki software. Precisely. 12/12/20 First, I registered as an attendee to the WikiConference North America/2020. Then, I created a user page on wiki Mediawiki Meta-Wiki. Then, I placed a notice on User talk:Apachegila (the page was already created!). Last, but not least, I signed the attendees’ list on WikiConference page. For the wiki markup, see file WikiMedia Meta-Wiki User Apachegila.docx. Addendum PS: Thanks to User:Imzadi1979, I discovered template Interwiki Redirect. Now, rather than having to maintain a separate user page whenever I discover a new WF interwiki, all I have to do is use the IR template to point to my Wikipedia user page. Brilliant! 12/14/20 After discovering WP template Interwiki Redirect, I set about applying it to all of my user pages on the various wikis newly discovered recently. My first stop was on Wiktionary. Did I ever even set up a page there in the first place? Never mind revising it though, because, by dint of its establishing it on Meta-Wiki first, the Wiktionary user page, User:Apachegila was already refashioned (or created). What a wonderful service it is! Addendum PS: Actually, no matter the wiki (at least on Wiktionary), a user page isn’t being created, my user name in blue (not red), notwithstanding. The page that opens after clicking on my user name is summed up thusly: “What you see on this page was copied from https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Apachegila..” Oh, I see. 01/14/21 On 01/10/21 at 06:01, I edited WP article “2021 storming of the United States Capitol” (Edit summary:  An internal hyperlink was supplied for char string "QAnon."). Unfortunately, my work was undone in Revision 18:24, January 10, 2021. apparently by User:ArsenalAtletico2017, who stated “Trump also said to make yheir voices heard "peacfully and patriotically"; please don't delete without discussion.” (he didn’t bother to include the delinking in his edit summary). That’s OK. At least char string “Qanon” is linked to article “QAnon” elsewhere in the article. 01/99/21 Some minor edits to the copy of WP article TikTok were effected. TikTok has occasionally been blocked for various reasons, including Indonesia and Bangladesh. Edit summary (Indonesia and Bangladesh): Strike “intermittently” and “on different bases.” “became the next country” Edit summary (Pakistan): A mention of  chronology (tick tock) is neither here nor there. 01/29/21 In the very first sentence of WP info page Wikipedia:Statistics, the copy reads, “A number of analysis of wiki metrics like edits...”  According to the dictionary, the idiom, a number of refers to “more than two but fewer than many : several.”  Therefore, any inflection of the subsequent noun must be plural, e.g. no one would say, “a number of house,” “a number of dog,” or “a number of” anything singular. For years, this mistake in the prominent copy remained unaddressed. Why? Edit summery: Any noun that follows the idiom “a number of” must be inflected in the plural. 01/31/21 Blockbuster news:  Mathew Stafford and Jared Goff are trading places as QBs of the Detroit Lions and LA Rams, respectively.

Talk:Matthew Stafford Talk:Jared Goff

QBs Trading Places
Matthew Stafford trade: Winners and losers after Lions, Rams strike blockbuster quarterback deal - CBSSports.com Edit summary: /* QBs Trading Places */ A citation for the Mathew Stafford trade to the LA Rams was supplied. 03/06/21 American Megatrends - Wikipedia Edit summary: The noun, let alone the reader, enjoys the support of the definite article. Also, in the copy, “at the same time” was replaced with “simultaneously.” A redundancy was addressed as well. 03/22/21 WP information page Wikipedia:Statistics, section Statistics > Analysis was edited:  “A breakdown of wiki metrics such as  edits, page creation, visits and links are presented using lists, tables and rankings.”  Edit summary:  A complete sentence replaced sentence fragments for presentation’s sake. 04/03/21 On WP page Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, OGG file “Tchaikowsky [sic] & Anton Rubinstein & friends(1890).ogg” is presented. Unfortunately however, User:Dear W.A.Mozart uploaded it to Wikimedia Commons without removing the first 13 seconds of silence. After doing so myself, in file “Tchaikovsky, Anton Rubinstein & Friends (1890).ogg,” the nuisance no longer exists. Easier said than done though, because the file is used in numerous PIT articles across the globe, including some that detail the erstwhile timeline. Indeed, the one on the Armenian Turkish (?) Wikipedia even spells out, in seconds, the various speakers involved. Woe is me.

Follows is the portion of the wiki markup that undergirds the file’s playback. Note the Type parameter that displays a microphone icon instead of a speaker:

Tchaikovsky's voice
The following recording was made in Moscow in January 1890, by Julius Block (entrepreneur) on behalf of Thomas Edison. The voices begin at 13 seconds from the start of the recording in the sequence listed below:

On the Wikimedia Commons pager for the file, I used the “Upload a new version of the file” feature (instead of uploading an entirely separate file – “Tchaikovsky, Anton Rubinstein & Friends (1890).ogg”) to upload its edited version. The comment reads, “The dead interval at the beginning of the recording was removed.”

After the OGG file was clipped and uploaded as a new version, the copy on article Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky had to be edited as well. Especially since it gave a tick tock of the voices in the recording that included the 13 second dead space. The edit summary reads, “The description of the audio file was altered to reflect its modification.” 05/24/21 In Armenian WP article “Պյոտր Չայկովսկի,”  the timeline for the various voices in recording “Tchaikowsky [sic] & Anton Rubinstein & friends(1890).ogg” was altered (x - 13 seconds each) to reflect their appearance in the audio tract. Edit summary: The timeline for the speakers was altered to reflect each entrant’s appearance in the edited audio file (the first 13 silent seconds were removed).