User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox130

Contributions

 * Developed the article Meaning of life from this to this.
 * Main Page redesign project - In late 2005/early 2006, I resurrected a draft development project that had fizzed out, and pushed and promoted development of a draft that became the current main page design. This is what the Main Page looked like before that.
 * I modified the procedure by which the Picture of the Day is maintained and built the safety margin to a queue of 2 months of pictures, and was instrumental in getting it added to the Main Page redesign. (The previous Main Page had no picture of the day).
 * Community Portal - In the Spring of 2006, I stirred up the commotion that resulted in the Community Portal redesign. My overall design was rejected by the team that formed, though a key element was retained:  the Community Bulletin Board.
 * I turned the rejected design into the Department directory, and added a link to it to the top of the Community Portal.
 * Community Bulletin Board. It immediately became the central location for posting announcements and notices. The first major notices were announcements of the Main Page redesign project and the election between the Main Page draft and the current Main Page at that time.  Over 1000 editors showed up to vote.  It was the largest discussion turn out of Wikipedians up until that time.
 * Help system. I formed another team and together we revamped the help page. The page grew so large as to be unwieldy, so I split it up into its current menu and subpage structure. Before, during, after.
 * I resurrected the Tip of the Day project. It had been discontinued and delinked from the Community Portal about a year before I found it gathering dust while searching for links during the help system redesign.  My team expanded it from a few weeks worth of tips to a collection spanning the entire year (366 tips).  One of our participants dreamed up the "yearless year", which allows the set to be automatically repeated year after year without the need to copy or rename the tip pages.  I got it reinstalled on the Community Portal, then added it to the main Help Page, and made it available in various template styles that can be placed on editors' user pages.
 * I changed my username several times in 2006, eventually settling on The Transhumanist. Most of my previous edits were under the username User:Go for it!.
 * I created and developed the User Page Design Center to help people with their user pages.
 * I helped refine the design of Wikipedia's navigation system. Expanding the navbar approach to the Help and Project namespaces.
 * Led the revamp of the nav system, and the standardization of page formats used for the contents pages, the main community pages, and help/assistance pages.
 * I got "Contents" added to Wikipedia's main menu on the side bar that is displayed in the left margin on every page of Wikipedia.

redesigned the encyclopedia's navigation system, bar system, the encyclopedia's navigation bar, and then designed similar bars for the Help namespace and Community pages.

Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Sidebar redesign

about a year before)., and made it available on the main Help Page, the Community Portal, and as templates that anyone can place on their user pages.