User:Paradoxsociety/Projects

I use this page to list and organize current projects and goals that I am (maybe) working on. I returned from a long Wikipedia hiatus in April 2020 and am still working on cleaning up my excessive list of ideas. Your thoughts and feedback are always welcomed on my talk page.

Things I'm (probably) currently focusing on

 * I have noticed that pages about data warehousing, data lake, and other data management related topics seem to be not well-curated or organized enough. Since 2020 I have been considering starting a brand new WikiProject around data management / data engineering / data warehousing.
 * I have started a draft proposal here: User:Paradoxsociety/Projects/Wikiproject proposal: Data management
 * I am targeting January 2023 to formally publish this proposal to the community.
 * Potentially searching for contributors to the data warehouse template as a starting point.
 * New Pages Patrol - Occasionally active.
 * WikiProject Notability - Interested in clearing the backlog with AfD nominations.

Links

 * User:Paradoxsociety/Policies

Tools, Gadgets, and Work Queues

 * WP:CXT (Content Translation Tool)
 * WP:TW (Twinkle)
 * WP:XFDC (XFDcloser)
 * WP:UCB (Citation Bot) (haven't tried it yet)

Anti-Vandalism

 * Battlefield
 * WP:Huggle (I now prefer this over Battlefield)

Work Queues

 * Pending Changes Review Queue Special:PendingChanges
 * New Pages Queue Special:NewPagesFeed
 * My Page Curation Log

Ancient Tools List
(copied from old userpage section of mine, not even sure what's relevant anymore)
 * Wiki Reference Generator
 * wikEd - enhanced editing for Firefox users
 * WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types

Icon Set
Exquisite Icon Set on Wikimedia Commons

Current Goals

 * January 2023: launch WikiProject proposal
 * 2023: consider starting an entry for WP:ORCP

Old Goals

 * April 2020: getting back into editing (done)
 * May 2020: be active 15+ days out of the month (done)
 * June 2020: reach 1,000 mainspace edits (done May 2020)
 * August 2020: reach 8% large edits (done May 2020)
 * May 21, 2020: have 10-20 new articles reviewed w/ new page reviewer permission (done June 2020)
 * July 2020: reach 2,000 total edits (done June 2020)
 * July 2020: reach 65% mainspace edits (arbitrary target abandoned July 2020)
 * July 2020: have reviewed a total of 50 articles for WP:NPP (done)
 * August 2020: reach 12% large edits (arbitrary target abandoned)
 * be on the 90-day "top 100" list for WP:NPP (I think I did make it on here briefly at one point)
 * Get Wrigley Field to GA status (currently C-class) (inspired by User:Barkeep49's goal to do the same) (too much work right now)

Reading Queue

 * User:Rosguill/New pages patrol is racist
 * WP:RFAADVICE
 * User:Kudpung/RfA_criteria
 * User:Barkeep49/RfA
 * Article series
 * Why is Wikipedia losing contributors - Thinking about remedies

General Queue

 * Determine how I can participate in current anti-vandalism efforts, figure out what has changed since last time I tried (done)
 * Handle WP:MTR and general rewrite of Elk Grove Village, Illinois
 * use Naperville, Illinois as a model of how to improve
 * comment on the extinction of native northern illinois elk that elk grove was originally named for (https://www.elkgrove.org/about/history) (https://www.inhs.illinois.edu/resources/inhsreports/sep-oct96/elk/)
 * split up the lead section? move the elk commentary out of the lead maybe
 * find a better photo than the boring aerial view of the industrial park
 * disambig w/ Elk Grove Township?
 * Translate https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Rats_and_Wolves
 * WP:AWB Assess AutoWikiBrowser, see if it's still something I should/would use.
 * Dig into Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool to see if it's still working. If it's not, decide whether to abandon it entirely, or see if there's a unique use case not provided by other actively-maintained tools. Contribute to active development of the tool if needed.
 * Review my ancient editing queue and photo queue below, decide what to actually do or abandon
 * User:Paradoxsociety/sandbox/Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon/TODO
 * Several Chicago architecture pages need help including Chicago Stock Exchange, Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse. Check on other adjacent buildings. Federal Plaza may need its own article or redirect.
 * Rewrite this article / run it through copyvio check William 'Eternity' Tipping
 * Improve Italian beef - get it to GA status??
 * I have drafts scattered across my userspace and I need to clean them up / put them in the same spot
 * Rename and get to GA status Roads and expressways in Chicago
 * Revise OnDeck Capital to reflect 2020 acquisition by Enova International

New Pages Patrol Queue

 * Follow up on this thread by verifying that the documentation on the NPP training pages clarify this point.

Things I'm wondering about
(if you have any thoughts on these, please feel free to open a discussion on my talk page. this is just me thinking out loud.)
 * As a software developer, I'm a big fan of git for version control. Coming back to actively editing Wikipedia has made me think about this quite a bit. Wikipedia has its own version control system which seems to be approximately the same it was ~15 years ago when I started editing. There's a page I want to make major edits on right now, but there's no way (that I know of) to check out a "branch" or something along those lines and work on the content alone, so that I don't have to worry about a "merge conflict" (edit conflict) until I'm ready to deploy (publish) my changes to production (the live version of the article). Is there some way to automatically pull the live version of the article down onto my local computer to make edits and then deal with any merge conflicts in a git-like fashion? Would such a tool be widely useful if I invested the time into building it? Is anyone else working on a tool like this? Any and all comments appreciated (again, please leave those on my talk page).


 * Another software development related thing: articles that are clearly self-promotional autobiographies should be easily caught or flagged at a decent rate based on some sort of NLP / textual analysis. Is there a bot that already does this sort of flagging focused on new articles? Can I get notified by this bot any time someone creates a biographical page that has this giveaway style of self-promotion? (thought inspired by Articles_for_deletion/Kryss_Shane)


 * When vandals edit from a mobile device, does the interface adequately notify them when they get warned on their talk page?

Mysteries from French Wikipedia
French Wikipedia has a large page called "Vigne" that does not appear to have a direct English Wikipedia equivalent, despite the fact that it translates to "Vine" in English. The English Wikipedia page Vine has the equivalent article Plante grimpante], which literally translates to "climbing plant" but auto-translates to "vine". I am having a hard time determining if there could be an English Wikipedia page to link Vigne back to. It seems like it should either be linked or translated given the fact that the French article is so huge. (Noted when copyediting Nissan-lez-Enserune.)

Things I've learned from French Wikipedia
Someone just replied to a question I asked on a talk page there, and I noticed the indented replies have this really nice formatting with some light coloration to help distinguish the level of indentation for each subsequent reply. Why don't we do this on English Wikipedia or at least make it an option?

Communal Patrols

 * WP:RCP (Recent Changes Patrol)
 * WP:NPP (New Pages Patrol)
 * AfD Patrol

WikiProjects

 * WP:GOCE (Guild of Copy Editors, successor to the League of Copyeditors)
 * WP:CVU (Counter-Vandalism Unit)
 * Wikipedia Typo Team
 * WikiProject Intertranswiki/French, joined May 2020
 * WikiProject Notability, joined May 2020 - 11+ year backlog, YIKES

Mainspace

 * Priest - band of former Ghost members. check for notability first
 * "online food ordering" template:
 * make sure DH, PC, freshly, other competitors are all shown
 * User:Paradoxsociety/sandbox/Daily Harvest
 * User:Paradoxsociety/sandbox/Oisix ra daichi Inc.
 * User:Paradoxsociety/sandbox/The Cumin Club
 * User:Paradoxsociety/sandbox/Hungryroot
 * User:Paradoxsociety/sandbox/Thistle (company)
 * User:Paradoxsociety/sandbox/James Clear
 * User:Paradoxsociety/sandbox/Atomic Habits
 * User:Paradoxsociety/Drafts/Maurice Lenell Cooky Company - easy sigcov proof
 * Giant Pumpkin - do a major overhaul, add sources and sections, consider merging Big Max into it. Add back deleted content mentioned on its talk page. Mention GPC, weight estimation methods, details about competitions, etc.
 * List of world records held by plants
 * Search for other articles that mention "atlantic giant" or "giant pumpkin" or "pumpkin contest"
 * List of business intelligence software tools - compile a list, maybe with some metrics about each
 * Add a "main article" link to Performance indicator on Lean Startup / Actionable Metrics header
 * fix NPOV on performance indicator page
 * Cohort_analysis
 * Domain_driven_data_mining
 * Hunter-gatherer algorithm - seen on WP:RA - academic paper - need to confirm whether notable or not
 * Conversion pixel - also from WP:RA - redirect to Conversion tracking may suffice
 * LookML
 * use YAML as ref?
 * Sheepherder bread?
 * Kaos megayacht?
 * Major internet infrastructure outages
 * 2021 Facebook outage
 * increase coverage of other major internet outages that meet the standard of an "event"
 * Create Sekumpul, Sawan, Buleleng - translate from Indonesian Wikipedia
 * Create English WP page for three-country marker: https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremenec_(vrch_v_Bukovsk%C3%BDch_vrchoch)
 * if Three-Country Cairn has a page then this one probably should too?

Commons/Photographs

 * The Thacher School
 * Thacher School Historic District
 * REI Denver flagship store
 * Bandimere Speedway
 * Other photo ideas 1

Areas of Administrative Interest

 * WP:AIV
 * WP:AN
 * WP:AN/I
 * WP:TFD/CI (Templates for discussion/closing instructions)
 * WP:UAA

WikiProjects I am not currently active on

 * WikiProject Economics

My Editing Queue

 * Atchison Village, Richmond, California
 * Chicago Stock Exchange
 * Genentech
 * Jeremy Moulton
 * Evidence based nursing
 * Maine North High School - add references
 * Hedge fund
 * Q-ratio - write formula in a more intuitive way, using the average
 * Two-point conversion - comment on merging with Convert and perhaps perform the merge?
 * Tax incidence - needs cleanup - use math formulas / LaTeX or whatever they use these days, make it easier to follow? Maybe a complete restructure?
 * addressed May 2020. should still revisit and try to read start to finish to see if it's easy enough to follow

My Photo Queue
If you'd like to suggest an article for me to take photographs for, feel free to add it here ask me on my talk page.


 * Rainy Lake
 * Expected by August 12, 2008; I travel past the lake on my annual fishing trip to Canada.
 * Dryden, Ontario
 * Expected by August 12, 2008; I travel through this town on the aforementioned trip.
 * Elk Grove Village, Illinois
 * Expected some time this summer... bad weather has not allowed for any good photo opportunities recently.
 * List of Northwestern University buildings
 * Ongoing; first set of pictures was uploaded April 23, 2008 - more coming later.