User:Foomandoonian

Occasional Wikipedian. Brighton & Hove based.

How I contribute to Wikipedia
I only intend to be a casual Wikipedia editor, but I will help in three main ways:
 * 1) Some cleanup: I will fix typos on sight, and time permitting I will fix grammar, add relevant tags where a page needs improvements and work on formatting and layout problems.
 * 2) Photography: I am happy to be 'commissioned' (for free) to take any needed photographs in my local area. I will also attempt to keep an eye on Wikipedia's requested pictures and help out where I can.
 * 3) Graphic design: I am a competent amateur graphic designer, willing to be 'commissioned' for diagrams or illustrations. I have vector skills (Inkscape, Illustrator), image editing skills (Photoshop pro) and 3D skills (LightWave).

Contact me
The best way to contact me is via Twitter. Or my talk page, of course.

Resources, reference and reading
For my own benefit.

WikiProject Photography

Pages to check

 * Category:Files for cleanup
 * Category:Wikipedia requested architectural diagrams
 * Backlog
 * Backlog

Local

 * WikiProject_Brighton (inactive)
 * WikiProject_Sussex (Popular pages)
 * Portal:South_East_England
 * Portal:South_East_England

WikiProject Photography

 * Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the United Kingdom

Charts

 * Category:Wikipedia requested charts

Maps

 * WikiProject_Maps
 * Map_resources
 * Map_resources

OpenStreetMap

 * My OpenStreetMap profile
 * OSM Wiki: Collaboration with Wikipedia

Favourite Wikipedia pages

 * Book: Typographical symbols and other Typography content (especially Punctuation)
 * Books
 * Wikipedia's lamest edit wars
 * WikiSpeak
 * Unusual articles
 * Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
 * Most missed articles — the most popular pages on Wikipedia that do not exist. (See also: Most wanted articles)
 * If-by-whiskey

Lists of…

 * List of common misconceptions as featured on xkcd
 * List of unexplained sounds
 * List of Unicode characters / XML and HTML character entity references
 * List of cognitive biases
 * List of lists of lists

Help

 * Help / Help editing Wikipedia
 * Wiki markup guide and
 * Templates and template messages
 * Wikipedia User Page Design Center and Userboxes
 * Wikipedia's Manual of Style (Layouts)
 * Appendix and footer section presentation order
 * Citation templates
 * Basic copyediting
 * Obtaining geographic coordinates

Community

 * Village Pump — to discuss the technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia.

Graphics help

 * Graphics_Lab
 * Graphics_Lab/Map_workshop
 * Graphic_Lab

Writing help

 * Guardian and Observer style guide
 * BBC style guide
 * How to improve your writing

Resources

 * Wikipedia article traffic statistics
 * Wikipedia page history statistics
 * Another page history stats tool
 * Checklinks tool
 * MakeRef
 * Unofficial short URLs for English Wikipedia, use: http://enwp.org/…
 * Wikipeetia - The misspelled encyclopedia

Awesome external links

 * Halfblog.net My rantspace, wherein I talk about anything that interests me (for example, Wikipedia).
 * Decodering.com A linkblog, mostly featuring new HTML5/CSS3 stuff.
 * Flickr pics Mostly Creative Commons material.

Disclaimers
I was previously employed by BBC Cymru Wales. A small part of my role was adding relevant and high-quality links to Wikipedia. I am aware of Wikipedia's external links policy and conflict of interest guidance, and intend to uphold these standards and values. For transparency, I will keep a list of my BBC related edits.