User talk:Triddle

Any sufficiently popular wiki is bound to devolve exactly the way that Usenet has since the 80s. -- Triddle

Making wiki better
In your view, how would you improve this wiki, Wikipedia? Even though I don't agree with you on some issues, I think you are a good contributor, and hope that you continue to provide feedback on how to make this place a better one. Coccyx Bloccyx (talk) 18:37, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I disagree with the entire "wiki philsophy" at this point. I'm fed up with watching not just my work (which i know is far from perfect) but the work of others get stomped all over by amateurs or people who otherwise have good intent but are just ignorant. The rules say to love and coddle them which definitely helps attract and keep users to the site but that is not in the best interest of the Wikipedia. Wikipedia had been in a few very strong drives to secure resource allocation, those resources being information, editors, and eyeballs. The drive for information has been scaled back somewhat by more stringent rules on citations which is a good thing but eyeballs and editors is still running rampant.


 * Wikipedia has the eyeballs, brand name recognition, and stature to complete it's mission at this point. The drive for such should be over but is not - wikipedia also has a huge mass of editors and this drive should be slowed but as well is not. The fundamental problem of scaling is that it's hard to find good people. Scaling in this manner is not inherently attracting the quality people that such an open editing process needs. The wiki process is supposed to compensate for this through the community process however the community process itself is also failing. In much the same way that democracies tend to evolve and die I believe that the wikipedia community is going through the same process. Both are an emergent behavior of people unfortunately and I think it is silly to assume this trend will not continue.


 * I don't necessarily have any solution as I believe the problem is with humanity and not so much technology. This is why after I attempted to act in what I believe are Wikipedia's policies and in the best interest of the project only to have the community as a whole undo the work and tell me I'm wrong I've decided to just excuse myself from the community. Triddle (talk) 00:48, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * To say that this all saddens me is a massive understatement. You are a very valued "janitor" around here and I'll miss you. --WoohookittyWoohoo! 09:43, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * One way I have found to avoid burnout is to answer questions on the Help desk, and focus on other people's problems. Plus there's a lot of internal tool-building work where the technical difficulty tends to screen out the kind of people who ruined Usenet. --Teratornis (talk) 03:19, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Stub sensor
Just a thought. As User:Triddle/stubsensor/20070716 gets older the number of works that still have the stub tag get less. Maybe rerun it at the next data dump and stop the old one even if it is not completed? Jeepday (talk) 01:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Jeepday, I respect you a lot because I throughly enjoyed working with you on the stubsensor project so I didn't want to leave you hanging. Unfortunately Wikipedia has let the quality of the process that generates the dumps slip making it difficult to get up-to-date ones and right now I don't have the time or the inkling to go through a lot of effort to do something to increase the quality of the product the people produce that I'm working around (this is also why I rather dislike Red Hat but I digress). Wikipedia has turned into a celebrity including driving around drunk with their baby in their lap and it's time for me to move on. If you would be interested in running the software that produces the reports I would not mind sharing but at this time I don't see myself doing another stubsensor run any time soon.Triddle (talk) 14:56, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks Triddle, I understand. I can't see myself building the Stub sensor, so after this one I will put it to bed until you return to it.  Good luck in the future, I look forward to seeing your concerns addressed and to your return to stubsensor. Jeepday (talk) 15:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Done, Jeepday (talk) 03:34, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

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 * By all means please delete the entire encyclopedia while you are at it. Then have Jimmy buy everyone a huge $1200 steak. Triddle (talk) 12:59, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

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stubsensor code request
Can I have the source code for the stub sensor? --Ipatrol (talk) 19:10, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Stubsensor
As a previous volunteer at WikiProject Stubsensor I though you might like to know there is a new set available for work at WikiProject Stubsensor/20100826. Hope to see you there. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 10:55, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

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Miller spot welder photo
Hello Triddle,

Mindless of the value of my time yesterday, I procrastinated another job by fiddling around with an excellent photo of yours,, because I had been working on the Spot welding and Electric resistance welding articles. The problem as I saw it was that the copper tongs and electrodes had as their background a copper-colored curtain, making it difficult to interpret, so I extended the light brickwork background leftwards, which contrasted with the components.

Of course I did not amend your photo, but instead uploaded the photo I modified as a different file:.

I noticed that your photo appears in a huge number of articles, and today it occurred to me to contact you to see whether you saw any benefit in replacing your original photo with the new version, in the interests of clarity. What do you think? I can assure you I have no interest in doing that other than to illustrate the components more clearly on these other pages – so if you don't like the idea I will not be at all bothered. Cheers, Simon – SCHolar44 🇦🇺 💬 at 04:33, 10 January 2024 (UTC)