User:Waldyrious

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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 :)

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Who Am I

This user comes from Cape Verde.

This user is in Portugal.

This user is male.

38YThis Wikipedian was born on 16 February 1986 and is 38 years, 2 months, and 4 days old.

Me@Wikipedia

This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This user has been an admin for
13 years, 10 months and 20 days.

This user is an administrator on the MediaWiki.org. (verify mw)

This user is a former administrator on the Portuguese Wikipedia (verify pt).

This user is a former administrator on the Wikimedia Commons (verify c).

This user has been a Wikipedian since 2 February, 2005.

19Y

This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on February 2, 2005 (19 years, 2 months, 2 weeks and 4 days ago).

20,000+This user has made 20,000+ edits to Wikipedia.

100,000+This user has made over 100,000 contributions to Wikimedia projects.

This user has averaged one edit each ~6.4 hours, since joining Wikipedia on 5 February 2005.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

This user is a WikiOgre.

This user is a WikiFairy.

This user is a WikiSloth.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Cape Verde.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Basic Income.

This administrator will consider reasonable requests to provide copies of deleted articles.

Contact Me

@This user can be reached by email.

This user has a website.

It is approximately 04:32 where this user lives (Braga, Portugal).

Languages

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kea-N Es uzuáriu se língua maternu e kriolu. pt-5 Este utilizador tem um nível profissional de português. en-4 This user has near native speaker knowledge of English. es-1 Este usuario tiene un conocimiento básico del español. Cyrl-1 ДThis user has a basic understanding of the Cyrillic script. ipa-1 əThis user has a basic understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Articles to watch

• /Creations (watchlist)
• /Contributions (watchlist)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cape Verde/Watchlist

To do

• Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Criteria#Importance of topic 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#International recognition 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 [1]). 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 Wikipedia:Observer effect (see WT:OR; {{Neologism}}; Observer effect (physics); Observer effect (information technology); Wikiality; truthiness; History is written by the victors; Truth by consensus; Wikipedia:Truth; Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth; Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Miscellaneous to more specific pages, and organize the rest. See also Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Views and affiliations vs. Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Views vs. Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Editing philosophy.
• Natalie Dylan AfD (see User talk:Spartaz and User talk:Milowent)
• {{IPAc-en}} (see [2], also Wikipedia:IPA for Spanish)
• Standardize pages for individual days, see User:Waldyrious/16 February 1986
• map2 in infobox country
• Template:Openness (see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 6#Template:Openness)
• Apply the table/matrix approach to ccTLDs^{[​list/exceptions]} and ISO 639-1
• Help development and simplification (or at least code readability) of {{charmap}}. Examples of target usage: Ç#Computer, Â#Character mappings, É#Character mappings, Yer#Computing codes, A#Computing codes.
• Make a calendar filled with International observance#Days 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}}
  • Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages aren't articles
• Category:Orphaned articles and Special:Lonelypages
• Categories starting at "Cape Verde". Look for red links and fix them.

admin tasks

• [2] edit requests on protected pages
• [1] history merges (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

• [2] G1-nonsense
• [4] G2-test pages
• [2] G6-technical cleanup/housekeeping (db-g6 | db-move | db-disambig | db-copypaste)
• [0] G8-broken redirects
• R3-implausible typos
• F10-bad format
• [1] U1-user request

Files

• Duplicate Wikipedia files on Wikimedia Commons (probably {{db-f8}} should be merged into {{Now Commons}}):
  • with the same name, from:
    • [0] three days ago
    • [0] two days ago
    • [0] one day ago
    • [0] today
    • [1] unknown date
  • with a different name, from:
    • [0] three days ago
    • [0] two days ago
    • [0] one day ago
    • [0] today
    • [1] unknown date
• Duplicate Wikipedia files on Wikipedia (the two templates / categories below should probably be merged):
  • [0] F1-dupes (added by {{db-f1}})
  • [0] Duplicate Wikipedia files (added by {{duplicate}})
• [0] F2-corrupt files

tools and links

• {{Lifetime}} — template to be substituted as {{subst:Lifetime|year of birth|year of death|sort key}}, 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#List-defined references & 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)
  • {{rp|12,34}} —Lorem ipsum^[1]— and {{rp|at=12:34}} —Lorem ipsum^[1]— for appending page numbers, timestamps, etc. to individual instances of an existing general reference (which can then be reused)
  • meta: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}}
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request
• Wikipedia:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change/Bug reports
• How to fix bunched-up edit links: {{FixBunching|beg}}, {{FixBunching|mid}}, {{FixBunching|end}}.
• {{Plain image with caption}}

• {{div col|colwidth=10em|cols=3}} ... {{div col end}}
• {{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#Using the current date and {{Timeline openSUSE}} for an example.
• test sorting order of various characters: Help:Sorting#Alphabetic sorting order
• IMO WP:CLUE should actually point to Wikipedia:WikiProject on Adminship/Goals of the adminship process#Discernment, possibly also linking to Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship, Wikipedia:Miniguide to requests for adminship, Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, and Wikipedia:Administrators#Expectations of adminship (as listed on this discussion)
• Javascript Wiki Browser (JWB)
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Order of article elements (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

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Slow discussions - check now and then

• User talk:Nickj/Link Suggester#Step 5
• User talk:SergioGeorgini#Euro sign vs. Euro logo
• Talk:Legion (demon)#original research?
• User talk:Magnus Manske#less edit clutter.js
• Talk:LL Cool J#loungin' remix
• Talk:Obscurantism#obscurantism as method to retain consumers
• Talk:Cântico da Liberdade#Translation
• Template talk:Infobox Country#Largest cities
• Talk:Great Seal of the United States/Archive 1#Step pyramid and frustum
• Procrastination#Physiological
• Portal talk:Current events/Sidebar#Conflicts: Africa/Middle East
• MediaWiki talk:Gadget-popups.js#New feature proposal: lead only (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 mw:ResourceLoader/Legacy JavaScript)

Waldyrious/16 February 1986 Waldyrious/16 February 1986/CE Waldyrious/16 February 1986/google Waldyrious/3D Waldyrious/3D/bubble Waldyrious/3D/vertical Waldyrious/Beings of light Waldyrious/Contributions Waldyrious/Creations Waldyrious/CurrentEventsCalendar Waldyrious/CurrentEventsYear Waldyrious/CurrentEventsYear2 Waldyrious/DateMatrix Waldyrious/Devanagari Waldyrious/Editcounter Waldyrious/Fictional Black US Presidents Waldyrious/HabPlanetScore Waldyrious/LinkSets Waldyrious/Music Waldyrious/Music mood classification Waldyrious/Phonemes Waldyrious/Phonemes/lang-row Waldyrious/Phonemes/table Waldyrious/Powers of two Waldyrious/Standards Waldyrious/TLDs Waldyrious/Tau Waldyrious/Tau/Double turn Waldyrious/Tau/Lambda Waldyrious/Tau/Right angle Waldyrious/Temp Waldyrious/UFBIR Waldyrious/UFBIR/cell Waldyrious/VTK version history Waldyrious/WatchedCategories.js Waldyrious/Wikipedias without physical counterparts Waldyrious/admintask Waldyrious/common.js Waldyrious/formatcitations Waldyrious/formatcitations.js Waldyrious/modern.css Waldyrious/modern.js Waldyrious/monobook.js Waldyrious/myskin.css Waldyrious/myskin.js Waldyrious/nay Waldyrious/sandbox Waldyrious/sinceContribs.js Waldyrious/stats Waldyrious/vector-2022.css Waldyrious/vector.css Waldyrious/way Waldyrious/whitespacefixer.js Waldyrious/yay

Anonymous Edits

• 212.13.33.178: Some of these are mine -- the IP's from where I currently live, anyway (Viana do Castelo, Portugal): [3]. 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, it worked properly.

Links

Recommended reading for critics of Wikipedia in academia:

• User:Jbmurray/Madness
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-14/2000th FA
• http://howwikipediaworks.com/apb.html

Improving Wikipedia/MediaWiki

• Category:Wikipedia feature requests
• m:MediaWiki Ideal
• http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/infobox
• Wikipedia: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#MEG and MRI. Cognitive neuroscience. Statistical parametric mapping. fMRI (and more generally, Functional neuroimaging). History of neuroimaging. Mind transfer#Brain imaging. Computational neuroscience#Cognition, discrimination and learning. 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.