User:Jaydiem/Notes

Wikipedia resources and meta-articles

 * User pages (WP:UP)
 * Subpages (WP:SP)
 * Help:My sandbox
 * Village pump (WP:VP)
 * Manual of Style (WP:MOS or MOS:)
 * What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)
 * Manual of Style/Layout (WP:LAYOUT or MOS:LAYOUT)
 * Authority control
 * Article title grep tool (what I like to call "Wikigrep")
 * Help:Interwikimedia links (H:IW)
 * Wikipedia is a community (WP:COMMUNITY)

And this is cool...
 * WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors (WP:GUILD)

...and this is super-cool!
 * Comprehensive statistical analysis of a user's Wiki contributions

Examples of stylized names ("trademarks")
This is a list of examples that are useful in evaluating the appropriateness, and analyzing the interplay, of Wikipedia editing policies and guidelines concerning how stylized names are to be rendered in article titles and in the text of articles. The relevant policies are MOS:TM and WP:AT (particularly WP:UCN and WP:TITLETM).


 * Deadmau5 ~ Deadmaus
 * TeX ~ Tex? Tech?
 * Face/Off ~ Face Off? FaceOff? Faceoff?
 * TidBITS ~ Tidbits
 * Se7en ~ Seven
 * Numb3rs ~ Numbers
 * InterTAN ~ InterTan?

Thoughts on the "Lightweight markup language" article
It seems to me that in this article, we aren't distinguishing sufficiently between markup languages per se and the software tools that parse and make use of them. Some of the MLs featured in this article are relatively independent, while others are all-but-unused outside of one particular software tool, making them seem more like a file format.

Q: What's the difference between the descriptions file format and markup language? Certainly not all FFs are MLs, but are all MLs also FFs? (In other words, are MLs a subset of FFs?) Are there (or could there be) MLs which are not also FFs? Consider FFs in which the (uncompressed and unencrypted) data is stored in plaintext — are they necessarily MLs? Examples/counterexamples?

Italicization of article titles
What exactly determines (from a technical standpoint) whether an article title is displayed in italics? It not based on markup within the title text itself.


 * Example article: Condition of Farm Labour in Eastern Germany — The title should be displayed in italics on the article page, but it isn't.

Aha, here's the answer! Article titles (WP:ITALICTITLE)

Distance from Canada to Europe
The great-circle distance from Canada (as calculated by Google Maps) is: (* I know Africa is not Europe, but what the heck?)
 * 1019 mi from Cape Dyer to Iceland (Bjargtangar)
 * 1198 mi from Cape Spear to Corvo Island, Azores, Portugal
 * 1594 mi from Cape Spear to Iceland (Reykjanes peninsula)
 * 1880 mi from Cape Spear to Ireland (Dingle peninsula)
 * 2103 mi from Cape Spear to Spain (Cabo Touriñán, near Cabo Vilán)
 * 2178 mi from Cape Spear to France (near Pointe de Corsen)
 * 2478 mi from Cape Spear to Africa* (el-Beddouza Beach, Safi Province, Morocco)

Westernmost point of Iceland
The following articles should probably be merged: By way of analogy, these article topics equate to the longest finger, the tip of the longest finger, and the fingernail at the tip of the longest finger. A useful source that explains all this is here.
 * Látrabjarg
 * Bjargtangar
 * Bjargtangar lighthouse

Interesting: According to Google Translate, Icelandic bjarg = 'cliff' or 'rock'; tangar = 'rod' or 'middle finger'; látra = 'false' or 'incorrect'.

Disambiguation pages and redirection
I just noticed that the article Lyme is a (pure) disambiguation page, and that Lyme (disambiguation) redirects to it. This puzzles me; it seems that the reverse should be true (and usually is, in my experience). I need to check the existing WP guidelines to see if this type of situation is addressed.

A little prehistory
In the week or so just before I became registered user "Jaydiem", I made a few edits as unregistered IP user "70.248.169.61" (talk).

Quote attributed to Masahiko Kimura (bonsai artist)
I came across the following attributed quotation today:

I tried very hard to find any corroborating evidence of this quotation on the Web, but I was unsuccessful. It's a cool quote, and if I could find a reliable source to authenticate it, I'd be happy to post it to Wikiquote, and perhaps add it to the Wikipedia article about Mr. Kimura as well.

I'm going to post this to the talk page of Mr. Kimura's article in the hope of getting help with finding a reliable source for the quotation. — Jaydiem (talk) 04:06, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Inconsistencies among Coreidae-related articles
I've noted a number of inconsistencies in article naming, redirects, and common names given—and a possibly misidentified photo—among various articles on insects in the family Coreidae. (I have the details recorded off-Wiki.)

A good place to go for assistance with getting this cleaned up may be Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Insects.

Requests for permissions (July 2014)
Here are links to my recent requests to be granted the "Reviewer" and "Rollback" permissions:

Reviewer

 * WP:Requests for permissions/Reviewer (approved by Xaosflux)

Rollback

 * WP:Requests for permissions/Rollback (denied by DeltaQuad)

The Yogurt Principle
I just discovered User:Born2cycle's interesting—and apparently, very controversial—essay entitled, "The Yogurt Principle". I'd like to give it a careful reading and analysis when I have time.

AddPortletLink vs. mw.util.AddPortletLink
I need to read up on the documentation for the older, deprecated  statement as well as the newer, favored   statement. How do they differ? Will syntax used with the former still work properly with the latter?

Related discussion: WP:Village pump (technical)/Archive 128

Links to the documentation for both the old and new statements were provided in the above discussion:


 * [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Default_modules#addPortletLink Documentation] for
 * [//doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/js/#!/api/mw.util-method-addPortletLink Documentation] for

Redrose64 points out that the "mySandbox" gadget uses  to do what it does. Tangentially related to this is the beta "Compact Personal Bar" gadget currently in development at MediaWiki. The project's discussion page is here: MW:Talk:Compact Personal Bar; a couple of particularly relevant threads are here and here.

2014 Wikipedia Workshop Facilitator Training coming up soon
Just saw this bulletin on my Watchlist page: There's a 2014 Workshop Facilitator Training coming up a month from now in Washington, DC. There are ten slots and, assuming funding is granted by the Wikimedia Foundation, all travel and lodging expenses will be paid for! You just have to apply; see the linked article for details.

Spanish-language translation/learning websites that lack WP articles
Wikipedia presently has no article on either of the following websites:
 * [//www.spanishdict.com SpanishDict.com]
 * [//www.fluencia.com Fluencia.com]