User:Noisy

Milestones
Born on Wikipedia 26 June 2004. Contributed anonymously before, but first signed contribution was to evolutionarily stable strategy.

Current count? Use Kate's Tool. Alternative: http://faleg.org/cgi-bin/wannabe_kate. Edit counters are down: see User talk:Interiot for explanation. Now that's old news, so watch the graph to see how far behind we are.

Alternative: Essjay's tool.

Attended London Wikimeet | pictures on 02DEC04.

Tables and general editing

 * Became annoyed with seeing text run right up against tables which are right-justified, and so eventually found some guidance. In Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numbers, Abigail recommends putting style = "margin-left: 0.5em;" in the table header. Now, I'm on a mission ... [03JUL04]
 * Now this is a useful link How to edit a page! [04JUL04]
 * And another useful one Template messages. [13JUL04]
 * Template:Lifetime  Some people recommend using subst:, but that destroys the whole purpose of a template.  I've saved it just in case Bluemoose takes unilateral action without seeking the wishes of the community.  [12DEC05]


 * Use Category:Year of birth missing and/or Category:Year of death missing.

 {{lifetime| 
 * Tables: what a pain in the neck. In desperation I went to a formal definition of HTML 4.01, specifically Section 11. Fine, so far as it went, but I couldn't find the really interesting stuff, which is what properties can be specified within style.  I'll keep looking (in a desultory fashion).  [18JUL04]
 * Think about EasyTimeline. [30MAR05]
 * Persondata. [22JAN06]
 * When using Category:Human name disambiguation Category:Lists of ambiguous human names, the format is {{hndis|name=surname, forename}} . [15MAR06] Update [11JUL06]
 * Wikipedia talk:Footnotes/Mixed citations and footnotes. I like this, but it seems confusing.  [11JUL06]

Table links:
 * m:Help:Table [23JUL04]
 * How to use tables [14AUG04]

[14AUG04] Centring thumbed images in tables takes a lot of doing. The way I achieved it was to create a table within a table, viz.

 

Evolution
Hmmm. A lot of good stuff in here about biological evolution, but a lot of confusion as well. How did Genetic drift get to be so crap? I'm not saying it's wrong, but it's not what I expect from an encyclopedia. [04JUL04]
 * Thanks to User:Graft for the rewrite. [17OCT04]

Wikipedia life

 * Useful link Goings-on. [10JUL04] (upd [06JAN06])
 * Did some RC patrol work on HUD Secretaries and Andrew Cuomo - boy was that hard to verify!. [10JUL04]
 * Started messing around with Categories. Boy, there's a lot of cleaning up to do!  Did you know there were 13,705 categories on 08AUG04?  No?  Shocking, isn't it.  [08AUG04]
 * 17167. I'll type that again. 17167.  That's the number of categories now. Depressing isn't it, considering that a lot of them have only a couple of entries. Sigh.  [29AUG04]
 * More useful pages: Community Portal and Revert. [02OCT04] (upd [06JAN06]) (upd [06MAY06])
 * Got very, very depressed with the actions of a robot that has buggered thousands upon thousands of articles. Don't know if I can take much more of this. [24OCT04]
 * Cool links I've just found: Requests for administrator attention and Administrators' noticeboard. [10DEC04] (upd [06JAN06])
 * More links: How to archive a talk page and Glossary.  [25FEB05]
 * Here's the Wikipedia Signpost! [30MAR05]
 * This strikes a chord: Jason Scott discussed "The Great Failure of Wikipedia" during a presentation at Notacon on April 8 (transcript). [23APR06]

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Welcome to Wikipedia! Please create a logon ID for yourself, and start editing!

If you are too timid to start a slash and burn campaign in your subject area of choice, then feel free to play around in the Sandbox. Other helpful pages are Tutorial and Annotated article.

There are many things to learn here: if you want a few pointers then come and visit me at User: Noisy, or leave a message on my talk page. Otherwise, the only tips I give are
 * that you sign your name with three tildes, and leave name and timestamp with four tildes.
 * around text will stop it being interpreted.
 * Play around with your 'preferences' to change the way that your screen is displayed.
 * And finally ... I recommend that you use the 'Show preview' button as a matter of habit before saving your edits.

Category:Industrial Revolution
Needed a lot more material, so I started playing around a few weeks ago. Started off in the main article, but found that I needed to fill out the supporting articles before the main section can be robustified. Here are the articles in question (n = newly created by me; m = major edits; r = redirect created by me) [08AUG04]:
 * Industrial Revolution
 * Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution
 * Metallurgy during the Industrial Revolution
 * Steam power during the Industrial Revolution
 * Transport during the Industrial Revolution

Resources
Revolutionary players Questia Toynbee lectures

Thornber on Arkwright Bartleby on spinning Essay by Clark 1911 on cotton manufacture Essay Keen on spinning and weaving British history online A history of the growth of the steam-engine Eckilson on Samuel Slater links Open Door

Echo?

Metallurgy document scans Historical Metallurgy Society