User:Here

whoami
 It's really pretty simple: - mind NPOV - - don't be a dick - - ignore all rules -

Hello from here. My interests lie primarily with:
 * wikipedia community ( opinion of best direction, Share watchlists )
 * research about wikipedia ( Wikimedia Research Network )
 * furthering the evolution of wiki interface/procedure ( WikiProject_Usability and Deletion reform ).

Years worth of blogging to be found at herebox.org. Formerly involved with the odp.


 * web: herebox.org
 * im: most of the time // email first.
 * irc: here ; occasionally ; EFnet ; freenode #wikipedia-en, #wikipedia-de, #wikimedia, #mediawiki, etc.

contributions



 * See here/pov for biases and AfDs.
 * See here/box for related changes trees. (stale)
 * See here/delete for thoughts on deletion process.
 * See here/watchlist for my full watchlist. (share yours!)
 * See here/monobook.js for javascript customization.
 * See here/monobook.css for css customization.

Areas I'm watching...

071120 . 3 years since first edit, yet recently but one edit in months. Fortunately?, the rise continues:
 * Wikipedia hits #8 (!) on alexa, might it someday even surpass other socials?

061023 . Watchlist slowly morphing topically, todo: League of Automatic Music Composers, Jim Horton, more.. Learned to use CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter with its regex rc filter to help monitor a dynamic IP user. The longer I am here, the more amazed I am that vandalism is remotely under control. Will need to find a quicker or more effective way to scan diffs.

060817 . Turns out one now needs verification to gain access to the rc patrol irc channels such as #vandalism-en-wp (ed: though not for #wikipedia-en-vandalism2). I am astonished at the greeting: Posting Logs = Banned from VCN!. The Vandalism Control Network - countervandalism.org - is an off-site wiki holding the keys to a top layer of defense on wikipedia. Further, I find that wikipedia-en-admins returns unable to join channel (invite only), and this opt-in requirement for (detailed) individual edit statistics. There is more and more seperation between the admins, the users, and the viewers. This is nomic at work!

060504 . very few edits due to travelling and successful move to Berlin. uploaded first image, Image:Cavellini-sticker.jpg, to commons. watching bureaucracy more than the articles themselves. perhaps I can write a few papers dazu.

060301 . en.wikipedia.org hits one millionth article, meanwhile the daily Alexa global traffic ranking was seen as low as #13 (Jan 29th), down from the 120s a year ago. Watching wikipedia grow is way more fun than sea monkeys.

060201 . 1000th edit (385/245/324 main/user/proj; 664/351 article/talk). started Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, shared full watchlist at user:here/watchlist. also Drop Bass, Electronic music, Snowboarding -- would like to work on collaborative instructional progressions -- see also American_Association_of_Snowboard_Instructors.

051105 . Green Tortoise, Burning Man, Church of the SubGenius, LambdaMOO, Backpacking (travel) Signed on over at Wikimedia Research Network and WikiProject Wikidemia, both partially focused on facilitating interaction with academia. Semantic MediaWiki has potential; similarly, lets make watchlists optionally public for network analysis (interest clouds, user-webs). Support Pure wiki deletion system. ( edits edits en:264/m:29, pride in efficiency)

051013 . I've been greatly enjoying myself here, but simply cannot believe that watchlist RSS feeds are not already a reality. Please stop by m:Syndication feeds and add a comment if you'd like to see watchlist RSS feeds, and lets figure out how to make it happen. // Also added Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Carleton College, anybody else out there?

050826 . meta, tresor, berlin, mail art, Guglielmo_Achille_Cavellini, Genesis_P-Orridge, rojo (deletion threatened!); we need more syndication feeds! thanks wiki_alf

050120 . Nothing major here yet, nomic, tetris (maybe expand quadra), Solar eclipse (maybe expand on 1999, 2009, or 2010 eclipses) // all already exist so far. Should be fun to fill in details.

041118 . first edit

worth seeing

 * http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ - aggregated wikimedia related blogs, see Planet_Wikimedia
 * irc://irc.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia - live changes from en:, easy source for script parsing info.
 * simple:Wikipedia:Simple English Wikipedia - simple english wikipedia
 * WikiXRay - extended statistics efforts.
 * wp:stats - ongoing stats

bugzilla votes

 * 208: API for external access ( SOAP, XML-RPC, REST... ) (resolved!)
 * See API


 * 424: Should be able to remove articles from regular watchlist view
 * 471: Basic XML Feed support for watchlist (implementation idea: token)
 * See Syndication_feeds


 * 472: Basic XML Feed support for history (resolved!)
 * 550: Blocks on anonymous users only (resolved!)
 * See Blocking_policy_proposal


 * 943: RSS feed for category updates
 * 3646: Make MediaWiki more RSS friendly
 * 1572: Add diff link to "You have new messages" (resolved!)
 * 2313: diff should provide anchors to start or related paragraphs
 * 3843: Implement the Pure Wiki Deletion System
 * See Pure wiki deletion system


 * 5997: Greater flexibility with references
 * See cite.php, get full ref info out of the text.


 * 9213: New-messages bar not coming up and/or getting stuck up for anons

useful shortcuts

 * rc patrol (1 week old)
 * Special:Newpages&limit=500&offset=20000 - new pages 20,000 old, usually at least a week. (Search is broken, but click on "1 day")
 * WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types - stub types to sort into.

elsewhere

 * herebox.org - home
 * meta:user:here - meta
 * codex.wordpress.org - wordpress mediawiki documentation (codex)

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