User:Waldyrious

I'm Waldir Pimenta, a Cape Verdean born in Russia and currently living in Portugal.

On Wikipedia, I tend to do mostly maintenance work. Besides random fixes to articles I stumble upon daily, I enjoy:
 * Creating/improving disambiguation pages and redirects, adding disambiguation hatnotes to articles and sections, and adding useful links, in order to make information more easily findable
 * Creating new articles in somewhat obscure yet encyclopedic topics
 * Improving templates, mediawiki messages and scripts to make the interface more user-friendly
 * Cleaning up and standardizing the articles' wikicode to make it more readable and easier to edit
 * Copyediting and formatting articles to conform to encyclopedic standards
 * Improving help and project pages to ease Wikipedia editors' learning curve, by reducing text ambiguity, providing specific examples and linking to more specific guidance or resources whenever appropriate
 * Improving coverage of Cape Verde-related topics
 * Cleaning up talk pages to better preserve the history and evolution of a topic's collaborative development

If there's anything I can help you with (especially if it involves tasks related to the above), drop me a message in my talk page :)

Articles to watch

 * /Creations
 * /Contributions
 * WikiProject Cape Verde/Watchlist

To do

 * WikiProject Cape Verde
 * Add content to (or create) articles in the category:American politicians of Cape Verdean descent from material stored in my computer (see also this)
 * Create a dedicated importance scale, like WP Saints', and link Template:WikiProject Cape Verde to it rather than to Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Criteria as currently it does. Maybe a custom one for the Quality scale too.
 * Recheck the stats table to make sure the numbers are correct. Might need to tweak the banner template's categorization scheme.
 * Add more entries to Cape Verde from Lists of countries and territories and List of international rankings. See also: International rankings of Hong Kong
 * Add a MassViews traffic report to the WikiProject page, and maybe use that data to inform/validate against/help fill the importance ratings.
 * bring data from The University of Florida Book of Insect Records (see also ). details at /UFBIR
 * Move useful/encyclopedic content from Exploding head to the Scanners article and/or back to the disambig page.
 * Properly format the articles titled after each of the Nereids.
 * Try to illustrate Mammal articles without images with images from http://animalphotos.info
 * Rewrite Temporal paradox
 * Albert Hammond's "I'm a Train" seems to have some similarity to the Hawaiian War Chant at least as performed by Timon and Pumbaa. Check this and make links if appropriate.
 * Write essay Observer effect (see WT:OR; Neologism; Observer effect (physics); Observer effect (information technology); Wikiality; truthiness; History is written by the victors; Truth by consensus; Truth; Verifiability, not truth; The Truth; WP:CIRCULAR; Circular reporting)
 * fix uses of ? so that it can be used as a regular table cell template
 * Can Infobox OS be recoded as a specialized Infobox software?
 * Move some entries from Userboxes/Wikipedia/Miscellaneous to more specific pages, and organize the rest. See also Userboxes/Wikipedia/Views and affiliations vs. Userboxes/Wikipedia/Views vs. Userboxes/Wikipedia/Editing philosophy.
 * Natalie Dylan AfD (see and User talk:Milowent)
 * IPAc-en (see, also IPA for Spanish)
 * Standardize pages for individual days, see User:Waldyrious/16 February 1986
 * Template:Openness (see Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 6)
 * Apply the table/matrix approach to ccTLDs[&#8203;list/exceptions] and ISO 639-1
 * Help development and simplification (or at least code readability) of charmap. Examples of target usage: Ç, Â, É, Yer, A.
 * Make a calendar filled with International observance and possibly List of commemorative days (if they're not specific to a nation or subset thereof), using calendar
 * Make a calendar filled with International observance and possibly List of commemorative days (if they're not specific to a nation or subset thereof), using calendar

recurring tasks

 * Category:Dead-end pages vs. Can We Link It?
 * Disambiguation
 * Disambiguation pages with links vs. dab fixers / Suggestions for disambiguation repair
 * Lookfrom (prefixindex) and intitle (intitle search)
 * refer
 * Disambiguation pages aren't articles
 * Category:Orphaned articles and Special:Lonelypages
 * . Look for red links and fix them.

admin tasks

 * on protected pages
 * (howto)
 * Unprotection requests
 * see Category:Wikipedia requests related to admins and Category:Request templates

Deletion

 * todo: make templates below add specific categories, so that backlog can be counted



Files

 * Duplicate Wikipedia files on Wikimedia Commons (probably db-f8 should be merged into Now Commons):
 * with the same name, from:
 * with a different name, from:
 * Duplicate Wikipedia files on Wikipedia (the two templates / categories below should probably be merged):
 * (added by db-f1)
 * (added by duplicate)
 * with a different name, from:
 * Duplicate Wikipedia files on Wikipedia (the two templates / categories below should probably be merged):
 * (added by db-f1)
 * (added by duplicate)
 * Duplicate Wikipedia files on Wikipedia (the two templates / categories below should probably be merged):
 * (added by db-f1)
 * (added by duplicate)
 * Duplicate Wikipedia files on Wikipedia (the two templates / categories below should probably be merged):
 * (added by db-f1)
 * (added by duplicate)

tools and links

 * Lifetime — template to be substituted as, to automatically generate "XXXX births" and "XXXX deaths" categories (and optionally DEFAULTSORT) for new articles about people
 * Wikipedia uses the logical quotation style (thank god!)
 * Dates (January 01, 2024 → 01 January 2024): find ([a-zA-Z]+) (\d\d?), (19|20)(\d\d), replace $2 $1 $3$4
 * Notes and references:
 * Help:Footnotes & Help:List-defined references (references defined in a list at the end of the page, rather than inline)
 * WP:REFNEST (nesting references, e.g. a footnote with a reference of its own).
 * Help:Shortened footnotes (named references with split sections for the short notes and the full references)
 * —Lorem ipsum[1]— and —Lorem ipsum[1]— for appending page numbers, timestamps, etc. to individual instances of an existing general reference (which can then be reused)
 * WMDE Technical Wishes/Book referencing does the same but natively
 * retrieve DOI of a document given its title and other data
 * Several tools for references and external links
 * References and punctuation: WP:REFPUNCT and WP:PAIC
 * Citation needed span
 * xsign
 * WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request
 * Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change/Bug reports
 * How to fix bunched-up edit links:.
 * Plain image with caption


 * ql & diff2
 * Check out the age counter at User:Wikitanvir/userboxes (and also the user age userbox)
 * flatlist
 * auto-updating timelines! See mw:Extension:EasyTimeline and Timeline openSUSE for an example.
 * test sorting order of various characters: Help:Sorting
 * IMO WP:CLUE should actually point to WikiProject on Adminship/Goals of the adminship process, possibly also linking to Guide to requests for adminship, Miniguide to requests for adminship, Advice for RfA candidates, and Administrators (as listed on this discussion)
 * Javascript Wiki Browser (JWB)
 * Manual of Style/Layout (e.g. section headings, templates...)
 * Quick cheatsheet: "See also" > "Notes and references" (one or two sections) > "Further reading" > "External links" > templates (navboxes, commonscat, etc.)
 * For revision history search, an alternative to WikiBlame is WikiRever (example)
 * Annotated link → produces a link to an article followed by its short description; very useful for "See also" sections
 * Annotated link → produces a link to an article followed by its short description; very useful for "See also" sections


 * This page was by     :  on //. Revision ID:

Slow discussions - check now and then

 * User talk:Nickj/Link Suggester
 * User talk:SergioGeorgini
 * Talk:Legion (demon)
 * User talk:Magnus Manske
 * Talk:LL Cool J
 * Talk:Obscurantism
 * Talk:Cântico da Liberdade
 * Template talk:Infobox Country
 * Talk:Great Seal of the United States/Archive 1
 * Procrastination
 * Portal talk:Current events/Sidebar
 * MediaWiki talk:Gadget-popups.js (a single user responded, with strong support. TODO: try with a user test page, then edit the global js page if it works)

Subpages
Note: for user scripts, see User:Waldyrious/common.js and meta:User:Waldyrious/global.js (they might need some adjustment per ResourceLoader/Legacy JavaScript)

Anonymous Edits

 * 212.13.33.178: Some of these are mine -- the IP's from where I currently live, anyway (Viana do Castelo, Portugal): . I am not sure all of them are mine, though. The ones about Utopia certainly are. I definitely hope the others are not =P. But the only one I can firmly assure wasnt me, is the first one, since I wasn't in Viana do Castelo prior to September 2004.
 * 194.79.75.114: I didnt realise I wasnt logged in until I had made several edits. The contributions of that IP are mine or from someone at my university (I think most of them are mine but I haven't checked them all). See also wikiscanner's entry on this IP.


 * 82.155.122.172 (as of today, 11 dec 2008, a single edit -- the system somehow logged me off moments before I clicked the save button)


 * 85.244.8.13 on 6 May 2009. I was too lazy to login.


 * 188.82.193.82, 7 April 2011. Same as above.


 * 188.82.108.42, 16 April 2011


 * Contributions/188.82.72.82, 8 February 2014. Using the Android mobile app, apparently my login had expired or something, but the interface still showed me as logged in. After a log-out/log-in,.

Links
Recommended reading for critics of Wikipedia in academia:
 * User:Jbmurray/Madness
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-14/2000th FA
 * http://howwikipediaworks.com/apb.html


 * Improving Wikipedia/MediaWiki
 * Category:Wikipedia feature requests
 * MediaWiki Ideal
 * http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/infobox
 * Tools
 * Tim starling on the two barriers to new editors: the technical one (user-unfriendly wiki software/interface/syntax, and the social one (overzealous/noob-biting admins)
 * Distributed Wikipedia (Wikia-style, but with a shared DB):
 * User:HaeB/Timeline of distributed Wikipedia proposals
 * possible extension to implement that, here: New extension: Include WP (by Jeroen de Dauw)
 * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3098029/is-there-any-distributed-revision-control-system-that-supports-partial-checkout
 * meta:Research:Oral Citations
 * http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Action_paths


 * Topics of interest
 * Open source governance, Grassroots democracy, Deliberative democracy, Consensus democracy and others. Need to clarify what exactly are the differences between them
 * Mind reading: Brain–computer interface. Cognitive neuroscience. Statistical parametric mapping. fMRI (and more generally, Functional neuroimaging). History of neuroimaging. Mind transfer. Computational neuroscience. Dramatized in Black Hole (House) –relevant scenes compiled here– (and probably many others). Nature: Identifying natural images from human brain activity, Nature: http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v12/n3/full/nn0309-245.html, and associated links. An interesting comment. Maybe create a template?
 * Technological unemployment refers many interesting sources about automation and its effects on a capitalist market system.