User:StarryGrandma/Useful things

Advice for editors

 * User:DESiegel/Test - detailed advice at Tearoom, tailored to article topic (7 July 2017)
 * Administrators' noticeboard - for academics learning to edit Wikipedia (Dec 2021)
 * User talk:KnowItGirl67 - DoubleGrazing to an editor determined to create an article about herself (4/11/23)
 * GLAM/University of Toronto Libraries/Resources/MOS checklist - October 2021

Articles about books

 * WikiProject Books
 * WikiProject Books/Non-fiction article

Articles for Creation

 * Category:AfC comment templates for useful comments to leave

Bots

 * User:Novem Linguae/Essays/Toolforge bot tutorial - talks about cron

CC BY-SA 4.0
The issue with CC BY-SA 4.0 for Wikipedia is not with the copyright parts. 4.0 adds sui generis database rights, something which Europeans have but Americans don't, to the license. This would affect reusing facts from Wikipedia in some ways. (Facts themselves are not covered by copyright in the US). WMF proposed switching to 4.0 with a waiver of database rights, but Creative Commons said that was not possible. CC BY 4.0 is fine even with database rights because it doesn't have the share-alike clause for downstream use. CC BY-SA 4.0 is fine for images. The WMF would like to do this but will involve a significant amount of complicated work on the database. This is original research on my part. As far as I know there isn't a WMF explanation available to serve as a reference for this.

Copyright and plagiarism

 * meta:CopyPatrol - has link to CopyPatrol
 * Earwig's Copyvio Detector
 * Template:Copyvio-revdel
 * Editing Wikipedia, page 5, Copyright and plagiarism section
 * https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editing-wikipedia/plagiarism

Creating articles

 * Help:Your first article - great compilation of info but we need a short, simple, source-focused introduction for brand new editors
 * Ten Simple Rules for Creating Women's Biographies - concise, most of this would apply to any topic

Data
See mw:Help:Tabular Data for infomation on storing tabular data at Commons. Wikidata is a knowledge base that can store numerical data but retrieving it for use in tables and graphs is not working at the moment. See Template:Graph:Lines

Deletion
January 2023
 * A discussion at ANI which included how aggressively to revert uncited additions resulted in  on the the great debate: "delete-uncited-on-sight" versus "if-it's-probably-true-it's-disruptive-to-delete".
 * An RfA that turned into a referendum on WP:BEFORE, Prod and Draftifying

Diffs

 * Help:Diff
 * diff
 * - page name omitted

Drafts
Finding science drafts to review
 * User:AlexNewArtBot/AstroSearchResult
 * User:AlexNewArtBot/PhysicsSearchResult

Inappropriate drafts - how to treat/remove
 * Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion - ask for oversight for students writing things about themselves, classmates, teachers, etc
 * Requests for oversight

Pending submissions
 * tool at wmflabs

Reviewing articles
Just redirect draft if article has been copy-pasted into mainspace - keeps history, merge anything needed Or if an article has been created in mainspace in the interim
 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Fluorodeoxyglycosylamine - a 2015 draft copied to mainspace solution

Editing

 * Special:ExpandTemplates - expands recursively to show rendered html, see Help page for details
 * How to create charts for Wikipedia articles
 * mw:Help:Paragraph-based Edit Conflict Interface

Graphs
One of the graph modules has software problems that may not be fixed. See mw:Extension:Graph/Plans and its discussion page. As of 9/15/23 the plan is to migrate to Vega 5.

"The Graph extension uses the older Vega 1 & Vega 2 libraries, which had a number of security vulnerabilities. In the interest of the security of the people who use Wikipedia, the Graph extension was disabled on all Wikimedia wikis in April 2023."

This affects
 * Template:Graph:Chart - 6,550 uses as of 9/16/23
 * Template:Graph:Lines - 1,494 uses as of 9/16/23
 * Template:Graph:PageViews - 5,312 as of 9/16/23
 * Template:Graph:Stacked - 25 as of 9/16/23
 * Template:Graph:Weather monthly history - 115 as of 9/16/23

Category:Pages using the Graph extension says it has 19,065 members, as does Category:Pages with disabled graphs.

International Phonetic Alphabet

 * Help:IPA/Introduction
 * Help:IPA
 * Can cut and paste the IPA coded words into IPA Reader

ISBNs

 * Template:Format ISBN with proper hyphens; will either set it up for AnomieBOT to do it or can use subst

MediaWiki software

 * mw:MediaWiki architecture
 * mw:Manual:Database layout - the relational database, diagram of database schema
 * mw:Manual:page table
 * mw:Manual:text table

Move history

 * User:Nardog/MoveHistory

New editors
There is a WMF guide at Growth/Communities/How to interact with newcomers. This was originally titled "How to work with newcomers on help desks".

Useful things to tell newcomers about:
 * Help:Introduction
 * Task Center
 * Teahouse - responses May 2023

Notability
See User:StarryGrandma/Example articles.

Criteria
 * WP:NBASIC - part of Notability (people), better than WP:GNG when considering people

Policies and guidelines

 * Template:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
 * Using diffs: Template:3-tier diff and Help:Diff

Professor T
Professor T, season 1, episode 10


 * "Doubt is the motor of failure."
 * "Accept that you don't know enough about some things to have a well-founded opinion about them."

Public relations

 * Public relations and marketing - useful, but a bit harsh, essay for PR people

Bare references

 * Village pump (policy) - Jan 2023 discussion, bare are reliable and not punish draft writers for using them

Fixing references
General
 * Citation Hunt - brings up snippets of articles with citation missing templates

Problems with templates that export named references, see Category:Templates that generate named references.

These exported references are changed periodically:
 * Canada census
 * Infobox language
 * British universities - annual changes in Template:Infobox UK university rankings

Merging templates or creating wrappers and losing fields with references
 * Russian inhabited locality

Reference formats

 * Deprecate parenthetical citations (2020) - articles should not be declined at AfC solely on the grounds of using parenthetical citations.
 * Template:Cite Q and WP:CITEVAR (2022) - opposition to converting article citations to cite Q.
 * Template talk:Cite doi (2015) - similar issues with Cite Q
 * Templates for discussion/Log/2017 September 15 - I supported keeping, with issues
 * WikiText layout of reference templates: some prefer horizontal, some vertical though it makes paragraphs very hard to read in the text editor
 * Visual Editor by default seems to remove all spaces and newlines between parameters in the reference templates
 * The template data for cite journal specifies one space before each pipe using "format": ""

Visual Editor

 * VEFriendly - adds button to enable Visual Editor anywhere, useful for tables that aren't in articles
 * m:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Results - came in 5th, see, . One ticket is about trying to automatically generate sensible reference names. Instead, stop generating names and ask the user for a name.
 * mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide
 * mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide/Citations-Full
 * Visual Editor project at phab
 * State of desktop VE work Sept 2019
 * Named references issue, compromise proposed but community did not follow up?
 * m:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Citations/VisualEditor: Allow references to be named
 * Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Results - came in 5th, but rejected with compromise proposal
 * Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Status report 1
 * m:Community Wishlist Survey - 2023 survey starts Jan 23, next one in 2 years - user named refs?
 * VisualEditor/Named references = local project to address the problems, many links

Converting VE reference names
Visual Editor automatically generated names of the for ":0", ":1", etc. for references used more than once. As of Feb 2023 there is a script to clean up after this problem.
 * User:Nardog/RefRenamer - how to install, instructions

Wikidata, references in
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 * - [2.11] Integrate Citoid in Wikidata - went up on beta wikidata July 16, 2019. The test cases work nicely there, some issues with ISBN's with hyphens. Update: the task stalled thereafter.

RfA

 * Requests for adminship/Floquenbeam 2/Bureaucrat chat - re Useight on very short support votes

Searching Wikipedia

 * Help:Searching
 * PetScan - can combine categories
 * Quarry, a browser based query tool for wikimedia databases.
 * See Request a query for examples and and https://quarry.wmflabs.org/

Special pages

 * Help:Special page
 * Help:Permanent link - how to reach a page given by "oldid", example Special:Permalink/427131276

Tables

 * Help:Table
 * Template:Static row numbers - for automatically numbering table rows

Template problems

 * Template:Infobox language exporting ethnologue references: replace a broken reference such as   with   or

Template data monthly reports
There is a monthly analysis of template use here which tells how many articles use each template, and how many use each parameter.

Time

 * Current date and time

Who Wrote That?

 * Who Wrote That? - beta, installs in browser, displays authorship information

To install in common.js

 * User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates - formats dates. (Citation templates will automatically display following Use mdy dates and Use dmy dates at the top of the page.)

Transclusion

 * Putting a ':' in front of the name lets one transclude from article space. See WP:Transclusion. Example from The Big Bang Theory (noinclude tags let only the first table be transcluded):
 * Excerpt - for reusing parts of pages in other pages, can choose not to transclude the references

Visual Editor

 * mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide
 * mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide/Citation templates
 * mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide/Citations-Full - currently marked draft, last edit ~March 2019

Watchlist

 * Category changes are helpful for watching AfC now that drafts are categorized in various ways.
 * Adding category changes to the watchlist shortens it to a few hours or a day. See.

Welcome

 * Welcoming committee/Welcome templates
 * {{subst:Welcome screen}} - gives an easy to read display with lots of information, but uses outdated Wikipedia Adventure
 * {{subst:Welcoming}} - has evolved into a nice, informative welcome
 * {{subst:Welcome}} - reworked in April 2020 into a good simplified introduction, is first choice in Twinkle
 * Is there a good template for a brand new editor who has came here to create a specific article?

Wikidata

 * Queries to Wikidata from templates loads the entire entry into memory. See Village pump (technical) (May 2021)
 * Interwiki extra produces extra wikidata links when a subject has one enwiki article and wikidata splits it into several topics. (Oct 2021)
 * Wikidata redirect can be used to link redirects and other pages to a wikidata entry. (Oct 2021)
 * d:Wikidata:Properties for deletion/Archive/2019 - speaks to data quality issues on Wikidata

Useful Wiki Ed course materials

 * Wiki Education site
 * Editing Wikipedia A guide for student editors (2017 brochure)
 * Evaluating Wikipedia How an article develops and looking at quality
 * Training modules For students and instructors
 * Wikimedia Foundation's Education team
 * Education/Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom/Modules

Guides for writing articles in topic areas
List of subject specific handouts is here. These are now on Commons; see c:Category:Wiki Education Foundation subject-specific handouts.
 * Biographies, has a section on living scientists and academics
 * Books
 * Chemistry
 * Films
 * Genes and Proteins
 * History
 * LGBT+ Studies
 * Medicine
 * Political Science
 * Psychology
 * Science Communication
 * Sociology
 * Women's Studies

Wikipedia Library
"The Wikipedia Library allows active editors to access a wide range of collections of paywalled reliable sources for free!"
 * The Wikipedia Library
 * https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/ - organizations giving access