User:Vadmium

Firefox CSS hacks I use to remove some of the skinning of Wikipedia and other Media Wiki sites: https://github.com/vadmium/etc/blob/master/firefox/chrome-userContent.css. It retains the browser’s default font, and also removes the giant left-hand margin.

Quick reference

 * mw:Manual:Parameters to index.php
 * title
 * oldid=revision
 * diff=prev
 * action=edit
 * editintro=title
 * section=0 / 1 / . ..
 * section=new
 * preload=title
 * preloadtitle
 * last(1–9), first(1–9); editor; author(2–9)- and editor-link
 * date (authorship when publication-date also given); edition=ordinal
 * title (book, article)
 * chapter or contribution; page, pages or at
 * journal, periodical, newspaper, magazine, or work; series; volume; issue
 * publisher; place or location (authorship when publication-place also given)
 * language
 * id, isbn, issn, doi, oclc, pmid, pmc, bibcode
 * url; accessdate; format; archiveurl and archivedate
 * Citation templates
 * Template:Hatnote templates documentation: Other uses For About
 * Layout: hat notes; maintenance; lead; body; see also; references; further reading; categories; inter-language
 * Template:Hatnote templates documentation: Other uses For About
 * Layout: hat notes; maintenance; lead; body; see also; references; further reading; categories; inter-language
 * Template:Hatnote templates documentation: Other uses For About
 * Layout: hat notes; maintenance; lead; body; see also; references; further reading; categories; inter-language
 * Layout: hat notes; maintenance; lead; body; see also; references; further reading; categories; inter-language
 * Layout: hat notes; maintenance; lead; body; see also; references; further reading; categories; inter-language

More links

 * commons:User:Vadmium
 * User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia
 * WP:Ambiguous link = Disambiguation pages with links
 * MOS: = Manual of Style
 * mos:dab = Manual of Style (disambiguation pages): MOS:PIPING
 * WP:Categorising user pages
 * ~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py/page
 * ~dispenser/cgi-bin/dablinks.py/page
 * ~jason/disambigs_in_an_article.php?title=
 * Redirect classification: /Redirect templates
 * Interwiki conflicts
 * Help:Using colours
 * Interwiki link prefixes:
 * /[/api.php api.php]?action=[/api.php?action=sitematrix sitematrix]
 * /api.php?action=query&meta=[/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo siteinfo]&siprop=[/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap interwikimap]

TODO

 * Hyena chase (pic), Nyout, Game of the Goose, Snakes and ladders, Alleyway (board game), Horseshoe (board game) (?)
 * charge-line pulser and avalanche transistor
 * discrete-time Fourier series
 * Electronic noise: measuring with dual-trace CRO/square wave
 * Willah (look at From London to Willah)
 * Matheson (band)
 * Nassella neesiana = Chilean needle grass
 * Fix Talk:Comparison of file systems: use binary SI units (verified) or cite ambiguity; explain the binary SI units
 * Talk:Signed number representations: ones’ (plural) vs two’s (singular) certainly should be added to article
 * Hunger (disambiguation) primary topic blessing (Talk:Hunger)
 * Task scheduler dab → Task Scheduler (Windows) / Job scheduler (general)
 * ELF file format
 * Talk:Library (computing)
 * /Man pages after Talk:C standard library
 * Talk:GTK+
 * Template talk:Welcomeg
 * Handy links for quick response to vandalism, protection, blocking
 * Reference links for Easter egg links, WP:Do not fix links to redirects that are not broken, . . .
 * CSI2/CSI-2, Camera Serial Interface, Camera Link, Compact Camera Port 2 (CCP2), Camera interface, MIPI CSI, CPI, Camera parallel interface
 * Galvanic coupling: Is this a fancy word for electrical conduction or something else, maybe related to galvanic isolation?
 * Relationship of Character entity reference with XML’s “predefined entities”: Talk:XML

Done

 * Royal Exhibition Building
 * Pachisi, Ashte kashte, Ludo (board game), Hyena chase
 * vectors going into and out of page (in 3D) in Vector (spatial)
 * hole through the earth: actually Gravity train
 * GraphEdit
 * merging for Direct Connect (file sharing)
 * Cue sheet (computing)
 * Question mark

Overdone

 * Macromantics (back again!)

Wikipedia

 * camelCase → Camel case. It’s just a styling, not really a new word or spelling. The camelCase style stands out too much in ordinary text. The article title certainly shouldn’t specially begin with a lower case C for camel. Camel case is just as common in a Google search [13:24, 19 March 2011 (UTC)]. (Talk:CamelCase, 2010)
 * HarperCollins → Harper Collins. Styled as HarperCollinsPublishers.
 * make (software) → Make (software). I don’t think the name was originally set specifically in lower case in its own documentation, and I doubt third parties would have used lower case either. It’s just the recent shorthand obsession of morphing Unix commands and computer strings in general into pseudo-words. (Talk:Make (software), 2005)
 * Sentence capitalisation: WP:Capitals, WP:Numbers, WP:Trademarks, WP:Manual of Style/Mathematics.

Media Wiki

 * Help:Diffs. They often miss comparing the most similar paragraphs and just compare the first two that are different. It is impossible hard to see changes of spacing characters. The deficiencies make it very hard to resolve edit conflicts. (2011)
 * Help:Tables. It is too hard to review changes to a large table (such as Comparison of file systems) with a diff that shows the neighbouring column entries but no column heading context. 10:44, 20 July 2011 (UTC).
 * Help:Redirects. The need for extra text in a redirect, and the bug when the text includes links. (7304, 2006; WT:Template messages/Redirect pages, 2011)
 * Help:Categorisation:
 * Sorting special entries under special characters (space, *, +, ~, µ, other Greek letters, mathematical symbols); see WP:Sort key. 10:44, 20 July 2011 (UTC).
 * A better way of providing better display text for entries; not than the little-used technique of WP:categorising redirects. For example, World Trade Center (New York) in Category:World Trade Centers. 10:44, 20 July 2011 (UTC).
 * Help:Edit summaries. Nowiki tags don’t work, leaving certain things that are hard or impossible to type out. (Help talk:Edit summary, 2011; a Word Joiner U+2060 is probably an even better null character)
 * Help:Files. Image sizes must be specified in pixels; there’s no way to specify in terms of text size. 10:44, 20 July 2011 (UTC).
 * Nostalgia skin on [//en.wikipedia.org?useskin=nostalgia English] and [//de.wikipedia.org?useskin=nostalgia German] Wikipedias: $wgOut->isArticleRelated in SkinLegacy.php always seems to return false, which inhibits links from page headers and footers. (WP:Village pump (technical)/Archive 107, 2013)
 * Hidden Quickbar a.k.a. Sidebar setting only available at Special:Preferences after meta:Help:preferences are saved and re-opened. 06:01, 31 January 2013 (UTC).