User:RexxS

I live in the West Midlands, England and was born in 1952. Although I studied Natural Sciences and the Electrical Sciences Tripos, I only worked for a year in the Electronics industry before becoming a teacher. After 24 years of teaching in Secondary schools (11-18+), I spent my time since 1997 working on IT-related projects, before retiring in 2012.

My main hobby is Scuba diving and I've been involved in instruction of recreational diving for well over 25 years to date as an SAA National Instructor.

Having looked at the Wikipedia articles on Scuba and related topics, I felt obliged to create an account to take part in improving the topic to the best of my abilities.

Since then, I've taken some of the scuba articles through the GA process and written featured content, both article and list. I've had the benefit of being able to collaborate with a wonderful source for diving-related references, User:Gene Hobbs, who runs the Rubicon Foundation. Nowadays, I tend to find my wiki-time taken up mainly on technical matters, particularly my work for WP:WikiProject Accessibility and maintaining Module:Wikidata and Module:WikidataIB, which I have worked on developing over the last four years to enable information to be pulled from Wikidata into infoboxes on the English Wikipedia.

I am a Lead Trainer for WMUK and make use of the "vanilla" account for demonstration of editing and the unconfirmed account  to demonstrate how Wikipedia looks to a brand new editor. Since Summer 2019, I've been privileged to chair the new thematic organisation, "Wikimedia Medicine", as Wiki Project Med Foundation will now be known.

How many?
Wikipedia has articles and  active users. That represents articles per user.

This is why ...

 * This is why we ask for independent sources
 * This is why secondary schools are not automatically notable

Lua
Aware templates
 * Template:Infobox person/Wikidata
 * Template:Infobox book/Wikidata/Sandbox
 * Template:Infobox person/WD

Wikidata RfCs
 * Requests for comment/Wikidata Phase 2
 * Template talk:Infobox book/Archive 8
 * Village pump (policy)/Archive 128 (May 2016)
 * Wikidata/2018 Infobox RfC

Resources
 * https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html – Lua 5.3 Reference Manual
 * http://www.lua.org/cgi-bin/demo – online Lua interpreter
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua – Wikibase Client API for Lua
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual – Scribunto/Lua reference manual
 * https://wdcm.wmflabs.org/WD_percentUsageDashboard/ – Wikidata usage in projects

To do
 * 1) Lobby for exposing things like https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=description&titles=Alan_Turing to Scribunto

Useful links
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User:RexxS/BBC 100 Women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHI9BTpGkp8

Season to be merry
🎅 - my sole concession to this season's merriment. Bah humbug.

&#x1f384; - OK, maybe just one more.

&#x1f996; - can't wait for this one. I got first dibs on it (see https://web.archive.org/web/20170102221538/http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-candidates.html#1f996 ) --RexxS (talk) 18:24, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Helpful links
Citation templates

List of templates

List of formatting templates

(thanks to User:Keeper76 )

Grammar and Style Checklist

Manual of Style

Extended Image Syntax

How to fix bunched-up edit links

User:Shanes/Why tags are evil

Template:Uw-vandalism1

Awards

Welcome_template_table

WP:Administrator intervention against vandalism reason --~

Suppress infobox

The damage done at AFC:
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive931
 * Articles for deletion/Anthony Charles Robinson

Clarification request on hidden text:

The results for 14 hues of finding the darkest/lightest backgrounds that are AAA-compliant against black text, white text, linked text and visited linked text:
 * User:EvergreenFir/sandbox1

Resources

 * https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality – COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country
 * http://www.ivydene1.co.uk/demo/tab2wiki.php
 * Robert Wood's multi-lingual scuba dictionary
 * cite book
 * - Citation for Bennett and Elliott
 * - Citation for "Decompression Theory" in Bennett and Elliott
 * - Citation for "Ear, nose and throat disorders" in Bennett and Elliott
 * - Citation for "High Pressure Nervous Syndrome" in Bennett and Elliott
 * - Oxygen toxicity citation for Bennett and Elliott
 * - Citation for SAA Manual
 * - Citation for SAA Manual

WikiProject United States Public Policy/Assessment

IRC/Cloaks

Search for infobox sandboxes in articles:

Things to do

 * Recruit more active editors for WikiProject SCUBA
 * Diving regulator - still needs to distinguish between performance delta with depth and perf delta with cylinder press; ++ a lot more
 * Diving cylinder‎ - needs a US version of the breathing time calc
 * Nitrogen narcosis - may need to delete "acclimation" & "breathing techniques"
 * Scuba diving - proof-read again - there's a problem with organisation of sections
 * Find how to include pic without breaking the section in Diving cylinder‎
 * Ear clearing - expand - names of manoeuvres
 * Scuba set - Air cylinders
 * Diving suits - how they work
 * Ear clearing - sources
 * Isobaric counterdiffusion - fix the ambient pressure link when it arrives in Wiktionary as ambient pressure
 * Oxygen toxicity - revisit to copyedit as suggested by the GA review
 * Hyperoxia - rewrite in sub-page User:RexxS/Hyperoxia
 * Diving club - create over redirect
 * Diving center - create
 * Cold water diving - create
 * Investigate setting "ts_alternate_row_colors = true;" in skin.css
 * WikiProject United States Public Policy/Assessment/RexxS
 * WP:Manual of Style (accessibility) – Italic text
 * WP:MOS and WP:ACCESS "To avoid accessibility problems, headings should not normally contain links"
 * Help:Section: "An internal link in a section heading does not give complications in terms of section linking"

Subpages
Useful:


 * Subpage index
 * Google Code-In assignments
 * /Accessibility review
 * /Infobox factors
 * /Accessibility
 * /monobook.js
 * /monobook.css
 * Module sandbox index
 * /B-class assessment
 * /Cite multiple pages
 * /DateTest
 * /Sandbox
 * /AAAcolour
 * /Editcounter

Geogre
Geogre was among the finest editors Wikipedia has known.

It seems to me a real pity that we don't do more to celebrate his contributions.

Instead the system tends to eradicate them by erosion. To me it is as if we had decided to place Michelangelo's David outside a factory in the acid rain.

It is, in some ways, worse to see how the author himself is being turned into a 'non-person'. The damnatio memoriae of Geogre is no more apparent than in.

Phaedriel
User:Phaedriel was a Wikipedian from the early days, who stopped editing before I started. She made a huge impact on a lot of editors and I think it's important to celebrate those who made such a memorable contribution to our project. That's why I'd like to see something of hers kept, and not swept away into the collective amnesia that plagues Wikipedia. Phaedriel was very kind and thoughtful, which led her to make personalised "thank you" notices for those who participated in her RfA. This is one of them.