User:Marjan Tomki SI/To do

Monday


 * local time is one hour off real local time (should show an hour more; possibly stuck in summer daylight saving time, or wrong time zone).

Still the same problem in January; showing 12:13 when my comp watch and mobi (taking time form GPS sat) show 13:13. Intend to look into where WP page takes my geo location from.

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 * Marjan Tomki SI/WP help etc. links
 * Marjan Tomki SI/Open problems
 * User:Marjan Tomki SI/OR or no OR?
 * Marjan Tomki SI/Verifiability
 * Marjan Tomki SI/CompOS-etc
 * Marjan Tomki SI/Wikimedia technical problems detected

To Do Subpage

Concise To Do list

 * Learn translation with tools doing Air Tractor en->sl and Josef and Franz Grafenauer de->sl (translated OK several parts of articles manually, but tried several articles with tools for translation, unsuccessfully up to now)
 * See if term Cisleithania (during it's existence an informal name) can be renamed Austrian Crown lands.
 * I first encountered it here in WM projects, first in WikiData - where I was not allowed to assign Austrian-Hungarian citizenship to some persons of that time from Slovenia, Carinthia, Styria, Trieste etc., but had never encountered word Cisleithania before (neither with my elders when discussing past, even when several of them were historians of renown, nor in schoolbooks on history). WD required citizenship to be Cisleithanian, but I couldn't see how official citizenship should be called by an informal name of a part of empire.
 * Besides, as far as I see the term Cisleithania is almost completely unknown outside of historian's community (will investigate a bit around that). I have encountered Austrian Crown lands (Slovenian: Dežele avstrijske krone) used regularly for that area and period in the history in Slovenia and neighbouring lands mentioned above.


 * See if IMO good, but not encyclopedia fitting, text removed from an article can fit somewhere else, possibly to still be accessible from that article (e.g. from see also section). Some places to check if suitable: Wikisource, wikibook, etc. Similar problem is frequent, and Grafenauer persuaded me (and his now notable students, and colleagues) to mandatory include context with any historical data, which is here often seen as un-encyclopaedic, but but I'll address that elsewhere.
 * See if Stainless_steel types of corrosion could be better as independent articles (better shown relevant info than when linked to sections - here and with other similar elsewhere). Or, maybe the better solution could be if Wikipedia mechanism of previewing linked content could (and should?) preferringly show the section start info than article lead, when link is to a section.
 * Translate Pat Moss to sl:WP (and possible cro, bs, lat), also to learn, compare and test the tools and procedures)
 * ref on what was already tried
 * Follow-up to Talk:Six-Day War and Talk:Battle of Abu-Ageila (1967). One of those talk pages mentions the Liberty incident - and I found a recent Israeli source (but which refers to others too), that should be usefull there. Problem: I couldn't find it's date of publication on the JVL web site. Second (also recent) source doesn't contradict that first. More so - NSA seems to try to prevent knowledge that they did (and do) spy on everyone they can, not about Israel's plot to destroy Liberty.
 * Add info to Eric Flint - including what happened before he become a labor union organizer, and politically left oriented
 * Already added several sources on his talk page - will see if more than one agree on that subject
 * Kent State shootings - the event mentioned above
 * If appropriate I'll use additional sources referring to that.
 * I see the second source has relevant data presented in a nonbiased way, and that aggree with other sources I checked, but A@E TV Network didn't provide author names. That is IMO bad science, but a TV network is not a scientific institution, it's a for profit enterprise, whose managing staff seem to have decided not to disclose actual authors. Also, cite web reports appropriate error; the link to history.com authors lists three of their team, but not necessarily actual authors of cited article.

Learn about interlanguage and interwiki mechanisms
Here are to come links to Wikidata refs and other stuff about that. See below about examples to study (where things should be already done correctly). Expected more of this shall eventually be at WikiData here (link to be updated to subpage later).
 * wikidata:Help:Contents
 * My subpage on part of that - also on some templates, and some links (related parts of MoS, moss project...)

Examples where this mechanisms should work

 * en: Robert F. Kennedy (about education, relatives etc.); Wales;

Learn translation support mechanisms

 * Good candidate is translation of en Offshore Racing Congress article to sl, where sailing is active, but that whole subsphere of itnerest is not represented in sl Wikipedia.

I am reasonbly knowleable in the field (Slo sailing org - JZS - licenced instructor for sailing, with reasonable knowledge of general and special nautical terminology in Slovenian, Croat (including dialects of Adriatic area) and reasonable in Italian and German, but don't have free online (or paper at hand) sources on terminology, to support what I can write (WP admins in sl don't sail and rely on general, and old, dictionaries for that, and some texts are drastically wrong, and currently humorously useless, but not dangerous, so there is no real urgency for quick change). With translation from English, this can hopefully be temporary circumvented, till I find, or incite creation, of sources.

Declutter main user page

 * Declutter main user page
 * Move/consider-moving necessary/useful stuff to meaningfull subpages
 * Move stuff about what's already done to archive

✅ (for now). --Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 10:32, 15 December 2020 (UTC) tested; template exists and works. Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 12:26, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Learn to understand wikicode

 * Help:Transclusion - templates, syntax and function explained
 * Help:CS1 errors - errors reported by citation related templates
 * Babel - about adding proficiences, and about adding computer/other languages, if need arises
 * Missing manual - on TOC and levels of Manual of style, can't find or remember exact link. I'd also like to create subTOC at (at least some) sections. I have seen articles that could greatly benefit from it (List of Language families, for instance, where list members were numbered as a solution, not subtitled), and also seen something like that somewhere, but don't remember where.
 * Categorization of people

TOC limit works differently in some of the WP languages
There is an interesting difference in working of which here (in en:BP) works as documented, but doesn't on sl or bs wikipedia. On sl wikpedia it works as dokumented, if written as I have yet to try in bs (there is an article at bs:WP, about language families and languages of the world, that would benefit from it.)

I suppose here there is a redirection from TOClimit to "TOC limit" that doesn't exist in sl and bs wikispaces.
 * Some of that I tested in previous year; conclusions summary (before I use that piece of Sandbox for next task):
 * en:↔sl: difference: ✅ confirmed en: WP has a redirect page TOClimit to TOC limit template pages, which sl: has not.
 * en:,sl:↔bs difference hypothesis: it seems a CSS (cascading style sheet), which supports and is necessary for that functionality, is (or to be exact, was when I tested) unavailable, or different, at bs: WP project. I shall recheck when I find time, and advise people there where to look into, if they think the feature useful and have resources to do it.

Thoughts on WikiMedia Philosophy
Needs a subpage User:Marjan Tomki SI/WikiMedia Philosophy. Definitely.

Intergender gap
Was already working on that. Know of people - including female - that lack articles, or lack data in articles, and know of data about inequality, including historical. Much of it was from what relatives and their colegues and friends told me, or each other, in my earshot, and I have a vast relatives base (20 uncles and aunts, many already passed from this life, and over 50 nieces and nephews - and mom had over 50 too, and we knew each other and communicated, and were/are spread all over the world).

Between these relatives and their friends (and between my school classmates and teachers) are several tens and more of notable people, many of them already have WP articles (at least stub level).

But much of that data was not seen as notable (and some things were thought of being reason to be ashamed of, or not to be discussed or made available to uninitiated, or to potential victims - e.g. the abilities to read and write to the slaves in USA, etc. etc.), and I suspect there is a lack of even primary sources.

Problem is sources, including sources inequality
I can write inequality stories from memory (how grandpa, a gimnasium professor in KuK and in Kingdom of Jugoslavia, had to "fight" for his daughters to be alowed to be schooled at classical gimnasium. How my grandma, his wife, was schooled to become a (virgin, by rules of the time) teacher, and how it happened they met and married at all. His life is partly researched and documented (he was seen as notable), her part (about schooling etc.) is not, and people who I could ask (primary sources), already passed away too, and by wikipedia rules of verifiability I couldn't use that data anyway.

And I shall pass away too in a decade or three, so a lot of that data shall probably be lost altogether.

I worked for statistical office of my country (including a lot of troubleshooting) and am aware of influences regarding registering some cathegories of (statistically significant) events, and a lot of same influences and relations apply generaly, incuding to both legal and historical registering of some types of facts.

But in WP, (if these parts of methodologies were published, I am not sure if it survived, and can't find them in digital), whole previous paragraph is seen as original research and can't be used.

It seems there is a pattern of gender inequality in sources, and I currently don't know of any short term way to equalize that.

That doesn't mean I won't keep trying. Helping others get aware of this side of gender inequality is also one of the ways to go.

The long way (and not easy) is (at least) two ways
 * 1) mind creating reliable sources, that shall be gender fair
 * 2) educate next generation both
 * 3) of the problem (gender in-equality), and
 * 4) possibilities of (much better) coexistence where/when it is successfuly transcended, and motivate them to do both.

Similar problem is with any marginal/different part of population, or ecosphere in general, not female/male human only (including all kinds of disabled, of children, of coloured, of low income... a very long story - or a kosmos of shorter stories - could and should be written about that).

For both listed above, information source - also in WP is needed (sine qua non). I'll help, but my primary goal will stay with education of next generation, secondary with contribution.

Climate change
Climate change is one of the articles proposed in Incubator (for new language WP projects), and en: seems a good article (IMO). Seems well sourced, shows where conclusions come from, and differences between (and incompleteness of) the models used, and the way models get modified with feedback from comparing their results against current and historical changes, which also looks well according to WP:NPOV. Need to study WikiData of that too (and see what can be improved on that article in languages I know well enough).

Miscelaneous
Don't yet have enough data and sources to create it myself, but google Donald Goldsmith could be good starting point
 * Donald Goldsmith: article should IMO be created. Donald William Goldsmith, astronomer, writer (also seem to be trained in law) seem to be notable by writing, cowriting or editing several books on science and philosophy (astronomy, beginning and end of universe etc.) and seem to have cooperated with both Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson with their projects. Several awards for that work.