User:Njyoder/Workspace

Help documentation

 * Five_pillars
 * How to edit a page
 * Editing, policy, conduct, and structure tutorial
 * Picture tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Naming conventions
 * Manual of Style
 * Village Pump
 * Help
 * Topical index

Useful areas of / for Wikipedia
(stolen from User:One_Salient_Oversight)
 * All about stubs
 * Merging
 * Boilerplate_text
 * Templates
 * Template:Custom_messages
 * Awareness_statistics
 * search en.wikipedia.org
 * WP
 * Categorization
 * Category:Wikipedia_statistics
 * Alexa Ranking
 * Software status
 * Public domain image resources
 * How_to_edit_a_page
 * List of images
 * Upload Images
 * RGB triplet colour chart
 * Special:Recentchanges
 * Special:Newpages
 * Votes_for_deletion

Projects and other work

 * WikiProject Cryptography
 * WikiProject Drugs

Larry Sanger

 * The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir (Slashdot)
 * The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia, Part II (Slashdot)
 * Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism (kuro5hin)
 * User:Larry Sanger
 * Larry Sanger

Other

 * Critical Views of Wikipedia (Wikinfo)
 * Problems with alexa ratings

Technical

 * Interwiki map
 * Interwiki bot
 * meta:Help:Export
 * Category:Wikipedia downloads
 * Database dumps
 * Wikipedia configuration wiki@wikidev.net

Usage

 * Statistics
 * Special:Statistics
 * Special pages
 * Kate's Wikipedia Stats tools (shows user edit counts) -- Anyone know how this works? Does it use the dumped copy of wikipedia's database?

Skins

 * Skins
 * meta:Help:User style
 * Gallery of user styles

Unsorted

 * WikiProjects
 * WikiLifeCycle
 * WikiPediaIsNotTypical
 * What Wikipedia is not
 * Requests for comment
 * Requests for arbitration
 * Votes for deletion
 * Copyrights
 * WikiTeX

You may comment on my TODO list if you please.

Hopelessly POV

 * Morality and legality of abortion
 * Chocolate and slavery
 * VfDs for Wikimedia Foundation Members This is probably the most hilarious example of insurmountable Wikipedia bias.  Despite the fact that these people are obviously non-notable and that next to no one outside of Wikipedia knows who they are, vanity articles on them were kept.  Nathan J. Yoder 22:11, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject_Drugs
I need to start a project that automates factual changes/insertions (like rambot). A lot of incorrect information exists in or basic factual information is missing from drug related articles. This is stuff that can be easily looked up online and are basic scientific facts for which there is no argument over. The information can be found from several online drug databases including rxlist.com, medlineplus.gov, the official websites of drug manufacturers (they have free, detailed information sheets) and other various websites.

I plan on writing a bot which can automatically 'rip' factual information (which is non-copyrightable due to its factual nature) and create an off-site database. I will offer this database for free for people to download, so both they and I can work on bots that can integrate the information in articles.

This would require considerable collaboration with the drugs wikiproject people to provide a standard format for all drugs articles beyond the simplistic efforts taken so far so that I can ensure the bot will behave properly and insert information only in a correct manner.

For clarity, this is information regarding side effects, [bio]chemistry, routes of administration, drug names (brand name and generic--my bot will autmoatically look up International Nonproprietary Name, USAN, BAN and other names) as well as other clearly factual things.

A question needs to be raised regarding drug pages, how should they be organized? The full information sheets on drugs are very large and rather complicated from a lay person's perspective, perhaps it would make sense to integrate full infomration (including the results of studies on it) on a separate "full information" page while keeping the main page a summary?

WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases
Some of the SCOTUS articles (Lawrence v. Texas, Bowers v. Hardwick) have caught my interest and I may decide to do some bot automation with them also, but I'm not sure what yet. There are various large legal database websites available which I can legally rip information from in the same manner as with the drug project above.

See also: Category:U.S. Supreme Court cases