User:Novem Linguae

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Mastodon: https://wikis.world/@NovemLinguae

Technical

 * 108 software patches for Twinkle
 * 91 software patches for PageTriage
 * 41 software patches for AFC helper script
 * mediawiki +2
 * 22 user scripts created, including CiteHighlighter, GANReviewTool, and VisualEditorEverywhere
 * NovemBot

Project

 * New page patrol - lead coordinator
 * NPP school graduate (trainer: Onel5969)
 * Articles for Creation
 * Gnoming species articles - adding short descriptions, stub tags, categories, taxonbars, speciesboxes
 * Copy editing
 * RFA nominations: Robertsky

Content

 * Good articles:
 * New articles: 2010 transatlantic aircraft bomb plot, Billion Dollar Heist, Demolition Ranch, Fake Famous, GIS Arta, Lily Gao, News Media Bargaining Code, No corporate PAC pledge, Online News Act, State government response to the opioid epidemic in the United States, Strangler fig pattern, United States v. Moalin, Zero-COVID
 * Rewrites: Robert "Say" McIntosh
 * DYK:
 * ITN:

Bling cabinet
A goat for you! Thanks for your global Visual Editor!

&#8213; Qwerfjkl &#124;&#9993;  21:06, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

 red team

 Thank you for quality articles such as Red team, News Media Bargaining Code and 2010 transatlantic aircraft bomb plot, for coordinating new page patrol and reviewing articles for creation, for your helpful NovemBot, for volunteering to do dirtier work, - you an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2860 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:08, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

 Thanks for signing my guestbook! My real namm (💬talk · ✏️contribs) at 12:42, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Wiki long-term goals
Having goals is motivating and provides focus.


 * ✅ - NPP: New page patrol school
 * ✅ - Technical: Become more involved in Wikipedia programming tasks
 * ✅ - Content: Write a good article
 * ✅ - Become an administrator
 * ✅ - Technical: mediawiki +2
 * ❌ - NPP: 500 patrols on xtools
 * ❌ - Content: Write a featured article

My userspace essays

 * Advanced permission holders connected to UPE
 * Backlog drive checklist
 * Disclosed paid editors
 * Don't be stubborn at ANI
 * List of bureaucrat chats
 * Nuances of blocking
 * Problems with quotes
 * There was no lab leak
 * Thoughts on RFA

Notability / AFC / NPP

 * Differences between AFC and NPP reviewing
 * NPP reform notes
 * Nuances of CSD
 * Nuances of GNG
 * Nuances of SNG
 * Thoughts on draftspace
 * Thoughts on notability and AFD

Sources / reliability

 * MEDRS simple explanation
 * Studies are not reliable
 * Thoughts on reliable sources
 * Types of sources by article topic

Technical

 * Copyvio detectors
 * Deployment notes
 * Docker tutorial for Windows (no WSL)
 * Docker tutorial for Windows (WSL)
 * Gadget learning curve
 * Linking GitHub to MediaWiki
 * MediaWiki extension cleanup checklist
 * Pros and cons of moving a gadget to a repo
 * Rewriting PageTriage is a bad idea
 * Rebasing and merge conflicts
 * Steps to reproduce
 * Submitting MediaWiki patches
 * Toolforge bot tutorial

Conferences
It's amazing to meet editors in person. Scholarships are available. Put the scholarship application deadlines in your calendar so you don't miss them.


 * Attended / Will attend
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 (Greece)
 * Wikimania 2023 (Singapore)
 * WikiConference North America 2023 (Toronto)
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 (Estonia)
 * Wikimania 2024 (Poland)

RFAs
(and other requests for permissions that I am proud of)
 * T324092: +2 for Novem_Linguae in mediawiki/extensions/PageTriage - Nov 2022
 * Requests for adminship/Novem Linguae - June 2023
 * T364531: +2 on mediawiki/* to Novem Linguae - May 2024

RFA family tree
Just for fun, let's trace the first nominator in each RFA, back as far as it will go.


 * Novem Linguae (2023) -> Femke (2022) -> Lee Vilenski (2020) -> Ritchie333 (2015) -> Kudpung (2011) -> HJ Mitchell (2010) -> Fastily (2009 self nom)

See also User:Theleekycauldron/fun/admin family tree/main

Logs

 * User:Novem Linguae/CSD log
 * User:Novem Linguae/Draftify log
 * User:Novem Linguae/PROD log
 * User:Novem Linguae/XfD log
 * User:Novem Linguae/RFC closing log
 * My page curation log
 * My AFC accepts/declines - not complete, some were G13'd
 * User:Novem Linguae/AfC log - not complete, gadget only started logging in late 2022
 * AFD stats

Navboxes

 * Template:Cyberwarfare by country
 * Template:Data structures and algorithms
 * Template:DOS system files
 * Template:National Defense Authorization Acts
 * Template:Software testing
 * Template:Types of societies
 * Template:Wikipedia biomedical editing

Templates and modules

 * Module:Tracked in
 * Template:BRFA filed - shortcut to Template:BOTREQ with the brfa parameter set
 * Template:Ds/topics.json - loaded by WP:TWINKLE
 * Template:Justify
 * Template:Tracked in

Wikipedia

 * New pages patrol/Disambiguation checklist
 * New pages patrol/Redirect checklist
 * New pages patrol/Template namespace checklist
 * Tips for pending changes reviewers

My useful links

 * User:Novem Linguae/common.js
 * meta:User:Novem Linguae/global.js
 * User:Novem Linguae/common.css
 * User talk:Novem Linguae/Newsletters
 * Most active AFC reviewers, last 30 days
 * Module:Sandbox/Novem Linguae

Species stuff

 * Wikipedia talk:Automated taxobox system

Lists

 * Main
 * Special:Search/species, sorted by creation date
 * Missing short descriptions - 2,000
 * Needs taxobox to speciesbox conversion - 55,000
 * Category:Taxobox cleanup


 * Other
 * User:AlexNewArtBot/SpeciesSearchResult - 12:30PM daily
 * User:AlexNewArtBot/PlantsSearchResult
 * Special:Search/"is a species of", sorted by creation date, mainspace and drafts - 5ish hours of lag
 * Special:Search/"is a species of", in draftspace
 * Special:Search/"is a species of", sorted by most recent edit
 * User:SDZeroBot/NPP sorting/STEM/Biology - also need NPP reviewing

External databases

 * Insects - https://www.inaturalist.org/
 * Marine species - https://www.marinespecies.org/index.php
 * Fungi - http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp

Sock drawer

 * User:NovemBot
 * User:NovemTest1
 * User:"NovemTest2"
 * I edited using a different account around 2005–2007. It had a couple thousand edits. I'd prefer not to disclose it as the username is googleable and can be tied to other parts of my online identity. The account was never blocked or sanctioned.

Typos

 * the populous