User:Wbm1058


 * Top 200 editor as of May 5, 2023.
 * Secret to winning the Race Against the Machine: become an expert bot programmer, and hope that the bots don't learn to program themselves. HAL?

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Thank you, user who knows the secret to winning the Race Against The Machine, for helpful bots and for cleaning up yourself ("removing WP:OVERLINK to an everyday word"), for redirects and templates such as Forms of energy, for and offering to serve as arbitrator: "Don't underestimate how far I'm willing to go to read the background", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:06, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

The current time is

 * June 29, 2024 in eastern Australia
 * June 29, 2024 in South Australia
 * June 29, 2024 in Japan
 * June 29, 2024 in Western Australia
 * June 29, 2024 in Singapore
 * June 29, 2024 in India
 * June 29, 2024 in Great Britain
 * June 29, 2024 in Ohio

Did you know

 * Martin Luther King's final Sunday sermon referenced the thesis of "The Triple Revolution", which primarily discussed the cybernation revolution of increasing automation, whereby machines would continue reducing the need for manual labor, while increasing the skill needed to work, thereby producing greater unemployment
 * The Eureqa software tool used genetic programming to discover the law of conservation of energy on its own
 * Much of the work I've done for Wikipedia could be offshored to anywhere, or automated (indeed much is already semi-automated; run my edit history through some machine learning algorithms to automate more)
 * Thoughts on Wikipedia Editing and Digital Labor
 * Here come the robots: Davos bosses brace for big technology shocks

Important historical events that don't get their due

 * The fourteenth and fifteenth British colonies, East Florida and West Florida, remained loyal to the Brits during the American Revolution
 * The 1863 New York City draft riots remain the largest civil and racial insurrection in American history, aside from the Civil War itself
 * The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire led to labor reforms that became the template for the New Deal
 * It followed the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 (by the way, the building still stands)
 * Luckily the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion did not release any radioactive material from its 9-megaton nuclear warhead
 * Related opinion piece by Michael Lewis

Mindboggling facts

 * The total length of expressways in China increased from zero in 1988 to 69,560 mi at the end of 2014, the world's largest controlled-access highway system by length. The US has 64,352 mi total – the 47,856 mi Interstate Highway System plus 16,496 miles of other freeways and expressways (as of 2013, including Puerto Rico).
 * And although the London Underground had over a century head-start on the Shanghai Metro, which first opened in 1993, the latter now has the world's longest metro system, at 334 miles. The New York City Subway has 232 miles, but if you add the Staten Island Railway (14 mi.), Long Island Rail Road (319 mi.) and Metro-North Railroad (385 mi.), Shanghai has a way to go yet—seems they're just getting started though.
 * US public spending on transport and water infrastructure has fallen steadily since the 1960s, and is now at 2.4% of GDP. Europe invests 5% of GDP in infrastructure; China's racing into the future at 9%.
 * China Spends More on Infrastructure Than the U.S. and Europe Combined! Western countries put less money into roads and bridges now than they did before the global financial crisis. Bloomberg Businessweek.
 * In 1995, the US was tied for first in the world in the percentage of the population with a college degree. Now the US ranks fourteenth.

‘We Need an Energy Miracle’
Bill Gates nails it: Interview by The Atlantic. Something on the order of the Drake Well or Chicago Pile-1. Maybe some computers running genetic programming algorithms will help us find it, before "time runs out". A breakthrough in stellarator or tokamak research could be a game-changer.
 * Vast shale oil field in Texas could yield 20 billion barrels It seems that "peak oil" has been superseded by "peak unconventional oil", so we will be running "climate experiments" for a while longer...
 * Vivek Wadhwa thinks Perovskite solar cells could be the solution, along with rapidly improving battery technologies. I highly recommend his book about the near future (ISBN 978-1626569713, it covers a lot more than just cars).

Women On $20s
The non-profit organization "Women On $20s" conducted a poll to choose a woman to put on a newly designed US twenty-dollar bill (to replace Andrew Jackson). The two leading vote-getters were Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Tubman. Others on the ballot were Rosa Parks, Wilma Mankiller, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Rachel Carson, Shirley Chisholm, Alice Paul, Frances Perkins, Barbara Jordan, Patsy Mink and Betty Friedan. As I was not familiar with some of these names, I looked them up and linked to them here. I think Jeannette Rankin should have been included on this ballot.
 * “I hope we can convince the next treasurer to print an equal number of $20 bills with both Jackson and Tubman.” Sounds like a great idea to me. NPOV and all. The last president to pay off our national debt in 1835.

Wikipedia peaked in 2008?
A ten-year update of Google Ngram data would help answer that question. By the way, for more on Culturomics and the Google Ngram Viewer, I highly recommend ISBN 978-1-59448-745-3.
 * UPDATE: Google has updated data to 2019! The answer is NO! Check back in 10 years to see whether Wikipedia peaked in 2019; its growth curve does seem to be flattening.

Errors

 * Pages transcluding errors
 * in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Error&namespace=0 main namespace]
 * in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Error&namespace=118 draft namespace]
 * in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Error&namespace=1&hidelinks=1 talk namespace]
 * in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Error&namespace=5&hidelinks=1 Wikipedia talk namespace]
 * in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Error&namespace=6 file namespace]
 * in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Error&namespace=7 file talk namespace]
 * in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Error&namespace=14 category namespace]
 * in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Error&namespace=15 category talk namespace]
 * Category:ParserFunction errors
 * Category:Pages with template loops
 * Category:Pages with bad rounding precision
 * Category:Pages with incorrectly transcluded templates

Redirects

 * Category:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review
 * Category:Missing redirects
 * Category:Unsynchronized talk page redirects
 * partially cleared by User:Bot1058 (task 4)
 * Category:Articles with talk page redirects
 * (Quarry query)
 * Category:Articles with unsynchronized talk page redirects
 * Self redirects (Quarry query)
 * Talk-to-mainspace redirects, except subpages (Quarry query)
 * Talk subpage-to-mainspace redirects (Quarry query)
 * Category:Redirects for convenience
 * Inconsistent similar redirects
 * WikiProject Redirect/Inconsistent targets
 * also User:RussBot/Similar titles report/01 (old)
 * Garry Newman targeted a different page than Garry newman (talk)
 * Userspace redirects
 * Broken talk pages ✅
 * Category:Possible cut-and-paste moves ✅
 * User:RussBot/Non-disambiguation redirects/001
 * Database reports/Broken section anchors

MediaWiki software limits

 * Category:Pages where post-expand include size is exceeded
 * Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls
 * Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded
 * Category:Pages where node count is exceeded

Short pages

 * Special:ShortPages
 * Category:Long monitored short pages

Magic words

 * Behavior switches usually placed by VisualEditors, in error (archived discussion)
 * Articles using the INDEX magic word
 * Drafts using the INDEX magic word
 * Pages transcluding INDEX
 * in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:INDEX&namespace=0 main namespace]
 * in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:INDEX&namespace=118 draft namespace]
 * Articles using the NEWSECTIONLINK magic word
 * Articles using the NONEWSECTIONLINK magic word
 * Articles using the DISAMBIG magic word
 * Articles using the STATICREDIRECT magic word
 * default sort
 * Category:Pages with DEFAULTSORT conflicts
 * title
 * Category:Pages with DISPLAYTITLE conflicts
 * Category:Pages with disallowed DISPLAYTITLE modifications

Disambiguation
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 * Malplaced disambiguation pages
 * Incomplete disambiguations
 * Category:Articles with hatnote templates targeting a nonexistent page
 * Category:Pages with incorrectly transcluded disambiguation templates
 * Redirects to disambiguation pages that are not dab pages (Quarry query)
 * User:Certes/Reports/Redirects to dab where target is not a dab
 * Links to Hardware requiring disambiguation, using the What links here tool
 * See

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Miscellaneous

 * Category:Fulfilled page move requests
 * Category:Articles for merging with no partner
 * Category:Wikipedia non-free files lacking article backlink
 * Category:Wikipedia non-free files with red backlink
 * Diffusion of Category:Computer hardware
 * Database reports/Linked misspellings
 * Linked misspellings
 * Quarry query
 * Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations
 * Quarry query
 * Linked incorrect names
 * Quarry query
 * Database reports/Orphaned talk subpages
 * Category:Infobox person using numbered parameter
 * Category:Marriage template errors
 * Templates for discussion/Holding cell
 * Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template
 * Category:Shortcut templates with missing parameters
 * Category:Documentation subpages without corresponding pages
 * Category:Pages with syntax highlighting errors
 * Category:Wikipedia edit requests
 * Category:Administrative backlog
 * Category:Wikipedians looking for help

Bots newsletter

 * Bots/News

Technical help links

 * Tech News weekly summaries
 * The Wikipedia Library
 * /Hyphen-minus, En dash and Em dash – my first user essay
 * Special:SpecialPages
 * Village pump (technical)/Archive 108
 * Ask and eventually you may receive Per Tech/News/2014/06:
 * You can now link to diffs using  and similar links. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/63395/ Wikimedia code review]
 * Now I see movement on another aspect of this, apparently a reaction to another village pump "ping": see and [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/129095/ Wikimedia code review]
 * Yay! Finally ✔️ done. Administrators can edit MediaWiki:Specialpages-summary.
 * Wikimedia Resource Center (new) [July 2017] – comes with edit button and talk (actually started by Rogol Domedonfors August 2016‎)
 * Wikimedia Developer Portal (newer) [June 2022] – no edit button or talk
 * m:Help:Introduction
 * MediaWiki Handbook (moved to m:Help:Contents)
 * Help:HTML in wikitext
 * Help:Substitution
 * Help:Template
 * mw:Help:Templates
 * m:Help:Template
 * mw:Extension:TemplateStyles
 * Help:Labeled section transclusion
 * Help:Magic words
 * mw:Help:Magic words
 * mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
 * mw:Help:Parser functions in templates
 * mw:Manual:Index.php
 * mw:Manual:Parameters to index.php
 * API
 * mw:Manual:Api.php
 * mw:API:Recent changes stream
 * mw:API:RecentChanges
 * Special:ApiSandbox
 * mw:API:RecentChanges
 * Special:ApiSandbox

Database

 * mw:Manual:Database layout
 * mw:Manual:page table
 * mw:Manual:redirect table
 * mw:Manual:pagelinks table
 * mw:Manual:categorylinks table
 * mw:Manual:templatelinks table
 * mw:Manual:linktarget table

MediaWiki core

 * How to become a MediaWiki hacker
 * MediaWiki (master) on Phabricator (source code)
 * MediaWiki Codesearch
 * mw:Manual:MediaWiki architecture
 * Unicode Code Converter

Toolforge

 * wikitech:Portal:Toolforge
 * Toolforge admin console
 * wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Jobs framework

Archive search boxes
Example: search for "Simpsons" in my talk/archives

Copyright
Wikipedia editors are somehow expected to know a lot of stuff about this topic. I find it a bit overwhelming. I checked out ISBN 978-0199941162 from my local library, but confess it's been a struggle to put down my keyboard & mouse long enough to read it. Taking notes and posting links to terms as I come across them.
 * Copyrights
 * Copyright
 * Copyright Clause
 * Copyright Act of 1976
 * Copyright Royalty Board
 * United States Copyright Office
 * Register of Copyrights
 * Copyright Catalog

History

 * Nostalgia
 * WikiWikiWeb
 * WikiPedia

Editor engagement experiments
Every now and then I run into something interesting over the course of editing.

Newer experiments
 * Editor engagement experiments
 * Editor engagement experiments
 * Editor engagement experiments
 * Growth experiments log
 * Started slowly in 2021, without fanfare that I noticed

Subpages

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