User:Drocj

About
Hi, in my precious & scarce spare time I'll try and make some positive contributions to Wikipedia. As an architectural designer, my skills lend to organizing information for efficiency, readability, clarity & consistency.

Donating time as an editor is a constructive way to contribute to this vital internet tool I believe is too often taken for granted. I'm new to editing wikipedia and am likely to make mistakes. Please be patient with me and I'll try to extend every courteous civility I can.

Articles that interest me:
 * UFO related topics
 * Occupational burnout
 * Futures studies

Links for newcomers
welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:


 * Introductory tutorial
 * Writing an article
 * Community portal
 * Tutorial
 * The Teahouse (newcomer help)
 * Main help desk

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How to write better articles

 * Copyediting:
 * Tony1's redundancy exercises have helped me write easier sentences
 * Drop the howevers: User:John/however
 * Avoid WP:SENSATIONALism
 * Quick and ugly check to see if your writing is too difficult: The Hemingway App. A readability score (Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease) over >45 is fairly okay. Another rule of thumb: 4S: short words, short sentences, short paragraphs, short articles.
 * Identifying reliable sources (science): use reviews, don't write them.

Useful templates

 * Neutrality templates, in particular,
 * Fringe theories
 * POV—There is a current dispute about the article's neutrality.
 * Unbalanced
 * Undue-inline—Inline citation to tag a source which might have been given more prominence than justifiable.
 * Template messages/Sources of articles, in particular,
 * Unreliable fringe source—Inline citation to tag a specific sentence that may use a fringe source inappropriately.
 * Verify credibility—Inline citation for a source that may be unreliable
 * Third-party-inline—Inline citation to tag a specific sentence that may use a non-independent source inappropriately.

Little Kids
 * Getting started
 * Intro to Wikipedia
 * Welcome to Wikipedia
 * Help page
 * Help desk
 * New contributor's help page
 * Wikipedia tutorial
 * Five pillars
 * Help site map
 * LIVE help chat
 * WP:Trifecta
 * Wikipedia, briefly
 * Wikipedia Questions
 * FAQ
 * Intro to policies and guidelines
 * Simplified ruleset
 * Why was my page deleted?
 * Wikitext cheatsheet
 * Avoiding common mistakes
 * Replies to common objections
 * Tips
 * Community portal
 * Quick Directory
 * Wikipedia in Brief
 * Wiki statistics

Big Kids
 * List of policies
 * List of guidelines
 * Manual of style
 * Wiki markup
 * Hatnote redirects
 * Inline templates
 * Cleanup templates
 * UserTalk templates
 * Backlog
 * Wiki check
 * Deletion process
 * Editor's index
 * Shortcuts
 * Abbreviation index
 * Wikipedia: the missing manual
 * Department directory
 * Resources for collaboration
 * Citation
 * Reliable source noticeboard
 * Original research noticeboard
 * Neutrality noticeboard
 * BLP noticeboard
 * Admin incident noticeboard
 * Noticeboard dashboard
 * Requests for undeletion
 * Files for upload
 * Resource Exchange: Shared resources
 * Resource Exchange: Resource request

Bigger Kids
 * Vandalism tools
 * Rollback
 * Request for permissions
 * Requests
 * Tools
 * Javascript user scripts
 * Oversight
 * Non-free content criteria
 * Non-free content review
 * Media copyright questions noticeboard
 * Deletion arguments and responses
 * Admin noticeboard
 * Arbitration committee
 * Dashboard
 * Oversight/Suppression
 * OTRS
 * Declaration of consent (permissions)
 * AfC reviewing instructions
 * AfC reviewing cheatsheet
 * Non-free use rationale and tag for logo
 * IRC ops instructions
 * Freenode instructions
 * Non-free copyright tags
 * Prefix Search
 * Party and person
 * Uncle G on notability
 * Guide to image deletion
 * EmailUser
 * Close paraphrasing
 * External links issues with common sites
 * Special:Logs
 * Product, Process, Policy (essay)

Janitors
 * ADMIN
 * Advice for new administrators
 * What adminship is not
 * New admin school: Blocking
 * New admin school: Dealing with disputes
 * New admin school: Deleting
 * New admin school: Protecting
 * New admin school: SALTING
 * New admin school: Granting rollback
 * New admin school: Viewing deleted pages
 * Banning policy
 * Blocking policy
 * Blocking IP addresses
 * Protection policy
 * Deletion guide for admins
 * List of controversial issues
 * Administrator's noticeboard
 * Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents
 * Administrators intervening against vandalism
 * Editing restrictions
 * Requests for page protection
 * Requested moves
 * OTRS noticeboard
 * Copyright problems
 * Contributor copyright investigations
 * Edit warring noticeboard
 * Recent changes to pages needing admin attention
 * Request for comment/All
 * Deletion review
 * Usernames for admin attention
 * Sockpuppet investigations
 * AfD common outcomes
 * Non-criteria for speedy deletion
 * Revision deletion
 * Fixing cut and paste moves
 * Admins willing to make difficult blocks
 * List of admins
 * List of administrators with dates
 * Admin dashboard


 * reflinks
 * Citation bot
 * watchlist
 * contribution surveyor
 * pages created
 * wikichecker
 * edit counter
 * Top contributors to a page
 * duplication detector
 * Article text blamer
 * WebCite archiving and search
 * Wayback machine (internet archive)
 * Dablink check
 * Dab solver
 * Dablink watchlist check
 * check links
 * Stats
 * article history stats
 * page editing statistics
 * Jarry's page view aggregator
 * WikiDashboard (who worked on articles)
 * WikiProject article lists
 * Reference generator
 * XKCD Philosophy race
 * Excel to wiki converter
 * Google custom search engine. Search references and wikilinks for any article!
 * Category cleanup/to-do finder
 * Real time cluster with social media (amazing!)
 * GLAM tools
 * Realtime global recent changes map
 * Global recent changes map and feed
 * Wikimedia edit counter
 * EdwardsBot recipients
 * Manypedia language comparison
 * Global rollbackers
 * Global stewards

"Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it could never work."
 * WP:ABOUT
 * WP:INTRODUCTION
 * Wikipedia
 * Reliability of Wikipedia
 * Criticism of Wikipedia
 * WP:PLAINSIMPLE
 * WP:The Missing Manual
 * How Wikipedia Works
 * Wikipedia Research Paper
 * Wikimedia Strategy Product Whitepaper
 * Wikimedia Contribution Taxonomy
 * Wikimedia Content Scope
 * Wikimedia Feature Map (documentation)
 * Wikimedia Movement Priorities
 * Wikimedia Strategic Plan
 * Washington Post expose
 * Antandrus' observations
 * 9 reasons why women don't edit Wikipedia great read
 * Why do people edit Wikipedia?
 * Wikipedia and political disputes
 * Who Reads Wikipedia?
 * NY Review of Books essay great read
 * New Republic essay great read
 * Wikipedia is not therapy great read
 * One woman's brilliant fuck you to Wikipedia trolls great read
 * One Woman's Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia great read

Understanding the vandal-fighting web
Wikipedia works because of how many people participate in creating and checking its pages. All changes go through a virtual filter--a gauntlet--of intelligent computer and human review. Thousands of people are constantly scouring new changes, and millions of readers keep an eye out for anything that seems off.

Because of this process, research studies have shown that Wikipedia is just as accurate as traditional encyclopedias, but its errors get fixed faster. We are living proof of the coders' motto that "With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". In other words, many hands make anything possible!

1. Edit filter (automatic pattern rejection)

2. CBNG (machine-learning artificial neural network bot)

3. Huggle, Igloo, Lupin's filtered list (human assisted regex/badwords)

4. STiki (cbng residual feed, missed vandalism, subtle vandalism--human assisted metadata and pattern based review)

5. Article watchlists, selective page and topic monitoring by users

6. Pending changes, live version delay, reviewed by autoconfirmed users

7. Semi-protection, prevents non-autoconfirmed users from editing

8. Full protection, prevents non-admins from editing

9. Official readers, journalists and subjects of articles who report mistakes in the news (not good!)

10. Random readers, millions of individuals who fix errors when they come upon them

Articles Contributed to

 * Roswell Incident

Wikipedians for reference:
Jake Orlowitz

Ser Amantio di Nicolao

Sturmvogel_66

Wikipedia articles for reference:
Guidance for younger editors

Featured articles

Vital articles

Wiki Project Architecture

Timeline of architectural styles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Architecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Architectural_styles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Architectural_design

Art and architecture

Aesthetics articles

Wikipedia Process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_assessment#Grades

Good article nominations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_by_alma_mater:_New_York_(state) (Add alma mater)