User:RJFJR

Intro
Date of my first edit: 26 NOV 2004

Really, Really Important things I've learned about Wikipedia
These are my notes:

Write to the target audience

 * Audience: A related question, is who should the pages be written for? Most writers are in college or past college. However, there is evidence that most readers are high-school students, or other people who are not familar with a topic. What is obvious and irrelevant to a CS student or grad, may be very unclear and important to a high-school student or someone who is thinking of returning to college. Of course, Wikipedia has yet to define its target audience very well. The lists make it accessible to a much broader audience. excerpted from a comment by an anon who signed his message: The Phantom Avenger for SE

Summary:
 * K.I.S.S. -  Keep It Sweet and Simple.
 * Write first for the Educated Layperson (that's hard)...
 * ...then try to do it better and write for the beginner (that's harder)
 * If an educated layperson can't figure it out by following the wikilinks, then it's too hard.
 * Yes, we're experts (more or less) but we're writing for a general audience. We could write a clever, concise, deep sentence to explain something...but it's useless if it isn't easy to understand.
 * Eschew argot, technicality and cant.

Spelling/Grammar checking
'Whenever doing anything but minor editing, copy and paste to a word-processor with real time spelling/grammar checking!

That and that I can't spell. I also can't capitalize, but that's a different matter.

Very useful wiki pages that I use a lot

 * Requested articles
 * Glossary


 * Manual of Style
 * Cleanup resources Clean up templates

Cute

 * monthly statistics
 * 'Evolution of Heavy Metal Umlaut' video


 * techblog

Cleanup Projects
We seem to have briefly caught up with stub sorting so I think I'll spend some time working on:


 * Category:Articles needing cleanup
 * WikiProject Check Wikipedia


 * Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup
 * Category:Articles with ibid
 * Category:Articles needing sections
 * wikiblame (tool)
 * Category:All articles needing copy edit  -->  WikiProject_League_of_Copyeditors/proofreading
 * category:Category needed (maybe someday, when I catch up...)
 * Uncategorized pages


 * Transwiki transwiki instructions


 * Peer review

Tools

 * User:Anomie/linkclassifier

With the default rules, a link to a redirect like foo will appear in green as foo, a link to a disambiguation page like bar will appear with a yellow background as  bar , and all the pages in Category:Articles for deletion should appear in a pinkish color.

I made admin
We all know admin is "no big deal" (in fact the quote is here, Jimbo Wales said it), but it's really nice to be asked.

The vote is/was at Requests for adminship/RJFJR. (I put this link here so I could watch while I was fretting over whether I'd get it).

here is the admin's reading list that I'm still trying to absorb and will keep handy as a reference.

Images
I've uploaded these images to commons:
 * [[Media:togglesw2.jpg|image:togglesw2.jpg]]
 * [[Media:corkborer2.jpg|image:corkborer2.jpg]]
 * [[Media:ICEPICK2.jpg|image:ICEPICK2.jpg]]
 * [[Media:KentFalls.JPG|Image:KentFalls.JPG]]
 * [[Media:ThistleTube.jpg]]
 * [[Media:CorrosionHazard2.jpg]]
 * [[Media:44EdgeConnector.jpg]]
 * [[Media:Sharpeningstone1.jpg]]
 * [[Media:Nibbler1.jpg]]
 * [[Media:nibblerdetail1.jpg]]
 * [[media:Fannypack1a.jpg ]]
 * [[media:Fannypack2a.jpg ]]

Awards


Service ribbon
45,000 edits (I'm not really counting) and 6 years (where does the time go).

Now over 11 years. Aaaack!

Reference desk entries
User:RJFJR/referencedesknotes

to do
User:Dsp13/Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science


 * Meetup/Connecticut


 * signpost template


 * Newsroom
 * Single-page


 * "Why all the hate for Wikipedia?" – Greg Stevens – The Kernel. Nov 4, 2013.


 * Centre for Environment Education cleanup?


 * Spoken articles
 * clean up


 * Template:Committed identity


 * Pictures_in_alumni_sections
 * User:Citation bot/use
 * Reliable sources/Perennial sources


 * Stern–Gerlach experiment


 * Manual of Style/Layout
 * CHECKWIKI/WPC 504 dump
 * Manual of Style


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dispenser/Dab_solver
 * http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/view/Dab_solver


 * citer
 * ~dispenser Reflinks
 * Camera interface
 * Self-report study