User:Sven Manguard

• Chinese Dynastic Period Article Improvement: I've decided that I'm going to get a bit more serious about branching out from the File namespace into the article namespace. I have a few articles on a to do list, and am currently working on the article Liao Dynasty.

Ongoing Tasks

• File Renaming: I used to work very heavily in renaming files, as there several thousand images with non-descriptive names. If you have filemover and want to help, the most current lists are at User:Chzz/img0511 and User:Chzz/pic0511.
• Backlog Elimination: Perpetual source of back end gnome work. I work mostly in the two sections dealing with images.

• WikiProject North America: Co-founded (with the IP editor known as 76.66) in October of 2010.
• WikiProject East Asia: Co-founded (with the same IP) in October of 2010.
• File mover: I proposed the idea of making it a user right in February 2011, it was approved and implemented in March.
• Svenbot: In August of 2011 I became the proud operator of an approved bot account. Mind you, Fastily was the one that coded all of the programs I have run thus far, but I'm still quite proud to be a bot operator.
• File namespace noticeboard: I proposed the establishment of a centralized page for file namespace issues to be discussed by the file worker community, and after a discussion at the Village Pump, it was formally established in December 2011.

Content

• Faery: Legends of Avalon: This is the first article I wrote from scratch. It isn't an outstanding literary work for the ages, but it made DYK.
• Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012: I took this from a redirect to a respectable, if not especially fantastic, standalone article.
• Architecture of the Song Dynasty: My first Good Article. Previously a GA, the article was delisted in March of 2010. NickDupree, wctaiwan, and I did a good deal of work getting it back up to GA level, which it re-obtained on 15 October 2011. Re-obtaining GA level allowed the whole Song Dynasty to re-obtain Featured Topic status, which it did on November 29, 2011.
• Death By Cube: The third article I've written from scratch, and the second that made DYK.
• Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon: The fourth article I've written from scratch, and owing to a dearth of sources, the hardest of the four to write.
• Patricia Buckley Ebrey: The first non-video game article I wrote from scratch. It was sitting in my userspace for a long time, I decided to move it live during Simmons GSLIS Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon!.
• I have compiled eight Wikipedia books.

Essays

• Failed RfA Advice: After a few users that I worked with went through unsuccessful RfAs and kinda lost their sense of direction, I created this essay to both encourage them and to give them tips so that their next RfA might be more successful.
• The monster under the rug: An essay published in the Signpost on 31 October 2011. It was covered by two external blogs and generated 70,000 bytes of talk page commentary.

• Sandbox: My sandboxes. I have four, plus talk pages if I need them (I usually do). Click on the link to get to the sandbox directory.
• Admin Reading List: A useful grouping of policies and instructional manuals regarding Wikipeda. My personal belief is that just like people go to law school before becoming lawyers and people go to medical school before becoming doctors, people need to go to admin school before becoming admins. I would be in favor of making the reading of the entire collection a prerequisite to running for RfA.
• Antandrus's observations on Wikipedia behavior: This essay both prompts refection on one's own behavior and contextualizes the behaviors of others. I recognize in it the seeds of some of the best advice I have received from some of the users whom I have come to trust the judgement of the most. Certainly an important read for just about anyone.

Tools

• X!'s Counter: For those suffering editcountitis, use once daily. Also of interest to fans of colorful graphs.
• Noommos' Media Tool: A tremendously useful tool for quickly generating a list of images on a given page. It even sorts them into free use and fair use for you. It's a bit sensitive to overtaxing, so don't use it on pages with more than two dozen or so images, but otherwise it's just awesome.
• Nikola's File Detector Tool: Great for file movers, this tool generates lists of files using regular expression patterns, making it easy to find files that badly need renaming. If you follow the link, the most useful regular expression is preloaded, just replace PICT with any camera generated prefix and you're good to go.
• TTO's For the Common Good: A godsend for anyone who wants to help with the massive backlog of files that need to be transferred to Wikimedia Commons.