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thanks for links edithi. this is just a note, to say thanks for the great links above, to tools for wikipedia. these are great resources!! thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 18:26, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
Transclude files as random slideshow template editThe images slideshow using {{Transclude files as random slideshow}} is not working on portals such as Portal:Drink (see the General images section) and others that I have spot checked. The images load, but then instantly disappear. It does not appear to be a lua timeout. I wonder what the problem is; perhaps you can offer some insight on how to fix this. North America1000 18:06, 20 February 2020 (UTC) Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13 editNews and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (February 2019). Hello everyone and welcome to the 13th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
I hope everyone is having a great year so far! --DannyS712 (talk) 15:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC) This Month in Education: February 2020 edit
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14 editNews and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020). Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC) "Help:Editor's cheat sheet" listed at Redirects for discussion editAn editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Help:Editor's cheat sheet. Since you had some involvement with the Help:Editor's cheat sheet redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Bsherr (talk) 17:38, 18 April 2020 (UTC) Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 15 editNews and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020). Hello everyone and welcome to the 15th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Hope everyone stays safe. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC) This Month in Education: April 2020 editAbout This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 10:45, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 16 editNews and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (May and June 2020). Hello everyone and welcome to the 16th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
If anyone else would like to contribute to future issues, please comment at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
"History of Venus" listed at Redirects for discussion editA discussion is taking place to address the redirect History of Venus. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 20#History of Venus until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 11:23, 20 July 2020 (UTC) How is things editHello, User:The Transhumanist, it's been some time now and no moves have been made from me on this tree. Well, I feel like I've had a fresh argument somewhere on the site every week and contributed little in material terms, sort of the opposite of encouraging to lead essentially a project-wide initiative. But that's not exactly what is on my mind. I've been thinking about the relationship of Wikipedia to Britannica. You know, Britannica hasn't gone anywhere. They continue to aspire to out-qualifying Wikipedia one day, and any time that crosses my mind I am reminded of the depreciation of the portals, because that is an element of navigation on the site. If you were to plan for a hostile take over of Wikipedias business, how would you do it. Some sort of sabotage would be relevant, but you couldn't just vandalise. That could easily wash out in such a way that it would bolster commitment and Wikipedia has vandalism well covered. One thing, however, that might cripple the value of Wikipedia... would be to depopularise navigation tools. Oh, I could rattle on about the implications, but needless to say, I will not stop thinking about bringing that idea to you here, until I do. Portals are not the only depreciated navigation tool. The "see also" section itself has quietly been depreciated. Imagine that... All best, ~ R.T.G 07:50, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
"List of Middle-earth articles by category" listed at Redirects for discussion editA discussion is taking place to address the redirect List of Middle-earth articles by category. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 25#List of Middle-earth articles by category until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hog Farm Bacon 01:33, 25 July 2020 (UTC) What happened between 22:29 and 22:30 on September 18, 2017? editYou changed, Transhumanist. One minute you create a new redirect, the next you're setting a different target and politely advising it never change, lest the doomed redirect not work! I'm not mad at you, or even disappointed, just letting you know it's OK. I fixed the paradox and everything should return to normal shortly, at least in theatres. Just try to be more careful screwing with the future next time, maybe? InedibleHulk (talk) 10:32, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 17 editNews and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (July and August 2020). Hello everyone and welcome to the 17th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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My apologies for the delayed issue. As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC) This Month in Education: November 2020 editAbout This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 07:14, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 19 editNews and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2020). Hello everyone and welcome to the 19th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy holidays! --DannyS712 (talk) 00:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC) Category:Administrative divisions has been nominated for merging to Category:Types of country subdivisions editCategory:Administrative divisions has been nominated for merging to Category:Types of country subdivisions. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Place Clichy (talk) 17:01, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
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--12:57, 1 February 2021 (UTC) Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20 editNews and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021). Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC) Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20 editNews and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021). Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:Wikibarphilo editTemplate:Wikibarphilo has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Izno (talk) 21:25, 14 February 2021 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:Round corners editTemplate:Round corners has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Izno (talk) 19:31, 22 February 2021 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:Dp cadj editTemplate:Dp cadj has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Elli (talk | contribs) 06:38, 14 March 2021 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:Dp cadj2 editTemplate:Dp cadj2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Elli (talk | contribs) 06:38, 14 March 2021 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:Announcements/Current collaborations editTemplate:Announcements/Current collaborations has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --Trialpears (talk) 23:23, 21 May 2021 (UTC) Precious anniversary edit
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21 editNews and updates associated with user scripts from the past four months (February through May 2021). Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts. History of lists of lists of topics editDear TH, I was thinking today of how valuable it would be to have a written history of the role of lists, classifications, catalogs, and portals in the development of Wikimedia. Starting with WP: with lists of towns --> mav's dotmaps, early lists of topics (10k? to a page) --> stubs + redirects, and later WikiProjects once those came into being. Of course some of the lists of lists were themselves topical: categories, portals, and more. List of lists of lists didn't crop up right away. I thought you might already have started on something like this, or that it might spark your interest. – SJ + 21:03, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines&oldid=338370795
Round 2 edit@Sj: Thank you. I'm fully vaccinated, yes. It intrigues me that the fact -- that almost all deaths caused by the virus are within the non-vaccinated population -- isn't incentive enough for everyone to get jabbed. Getting vaccinated isn't just following the science, it's pragmatically survivalist. Not doing so smacks of suicidal tendencies, and is just asking to be naturally selected out of the gene pool and into the Darwin Awards. Hopefully, that will make the next generation smarter. Here's another question for further clarification: Are you interested primarily in the history of lists of lists, or in the history of Wikimedia's various list systems? (By "list system", I mean any set of lists regardless of title, which would include categories, for example, which are a type of lists). Each list system, by virtue of its linked entries, is a navigation system. The lists of lists in those systems are merely the upper "levels" or core nodes. "Nodes" is more accurate, as each of these systems is a network, rather than a hierarchy. I'm still not clear if you are seeking a history of the development of list systems, or a history of how such list systems were applied to the development of Wikimedia projects. Your suggested title "Lists on Wikipedia" hints at the former rather than the latter.
Speaking of clarification, I'm curious as to what you envision in general... You mentioned that you thought such a history would be valuable. Valuable in what way?
What are the main themes you are thinking of?
What do you see as the main contributions or benefits of lists in the development of Wikimedia projects?
What are you hoping people will learn from the history?
There are a few suggestions I can offer concerning the building of list systems for navigation. The main one is: "don't!". Building list systems manually, let alone maintaining them, is not scalable. Getting enough people on board to make such an endeavor scalable is highly unlikely, and would distract editors from building needed content. Automation is the only plausible way forward, and it is coming soon (in years or perhaps just months), in the form of flexible AI machine learning applications. Once those arrive, they will be able to do in minutes what an army of list editors would take centuries to accomplish. That being said, if someone wants to build a list on a particular subject because they really need a conceptual map to help them find their way around or see the big picture in their field of interest, that could be well worth it. But, trying to manually build a map of all knowledge would be a major waste of time, in light of the technological advances that are happening right now. Automated document classification applied to articles is just around the corner. It's worth waiting for. Kind of like George Lucas waiting for technology to progress to the level needed to film the second Star Wars trilogy. Concerning the discussions on the development of categories, I was not directly involved. Where I have been involved was in protecting lists from the deletionist tendencies of those who favor categories over lists to the point that they believed that lists were pointless. The main place that lists and categories have clashed is in deletion discussions. Not just at AfD and MfD, but also at the Village Pump and via deletion proposals presented as RfCs. Some epic battles have been waged between the categorists and list makers, over proposals to nuke entire list systems. So far, the conflict remains a stalemate, with fire still smoldering just beneath the surface, perhaps to ignite again at any moment. Some major stand-offs occurred in policy discussions too, especially those on the talk pages of the various list guidelines. Those also have the potential for flaring up again. But, for the same reason as mentioned above concerning manual building of list systems, spending any time arguing over which system is better is a waste of time, because automated systems will render all of these obsolete in the relatively near future. So, the status quo is fine, for now. Some editors like to work on decentralized categories, while others prefer centralized lists. We might as well let them. Each of the two list types has their strengths and weaknesses. Getting back to the history itself, and whether it should be named "Lists on Wikipedia" or "Wikipedia:A history of lists and categories", the latter seems more practical, simply because of the lack of coverage of lists in public media: there is a general lack of accounts in the news and other external sources about Wikipedia/Wikimedia lists, their development, and their roles. A referenced article that doesn't merely scratch the surface is simply not feasible due to lack of 3rd-party references. There is however a rich record of edits of and discussions about lists within the Wikipedia community. Therefore, your best bet is to use those, and to do so, the article will need to be restricted to the Wikipedia namespace. I hope you find my observations useful. I look forward to your replies to my additional questions. :) Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 07:38, 29 June 2021 (UTC) P.S.: List development by the Wikipedia community has been (and still is) far more extensive than first meets the eye. There are more than 30 list-based navigation systems (WP linkified classification systems) and list types on (or of) Wikipedia. Here are the ones I can track down at the moment:
Round 3 edit@Sj: I agree with your point as to where to publish: a page in both the Wikipedia and Main namespaces would be better than either one alone. In response to my question about value, you gave a partial yet highly impassioned summary of the potential content, apparently without answering my question. Your posting of historical observations could be interpreted to have implied that you wish the record to be set straight so that Wikipedia gets credit where credit is due, recording for prosperity in the world's historical record the contributions and influences of the Wikipedia community via advances to the technology and methodologies of lists. I apologize for this leading question, but: was that part of your motivation?
It would certainly be easier for people to learn from Wikipedia's example, if that example were quantified and qualified. I think you are right, that the writing of a historical account would be exploratory in nature. Who knows what we would discover about the impact of Wikipedia's lists, and advances in list development, it is responsible for developing? Such an article could uncover useful approaches for AI designers in the automation of list building. It would also be interesting to see what lists are in the Wikipedia graveyard. Over the years, some of Wikipedia's best navigation tools have been deleted.
Hopefully, there are enough list developers still around who have the time to recount their contributions and experiences concerning lists. Analyzing Wikipedia's historical record on lists (discussions, edit histories, deletion logs, etc.) could be a monumental task. Perhaps an AI should write the article. :) Thank you for the clarifications. You're idea is a worthy one, and there is only one thing left for you to do to turn it into reality... Create the two pages you mentioned, as stubs, and let the wikimagic begin! Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 10:38, 30 June 2021 (UTC) P.S.: If you have any questions about lists you would like to ask, feel free to do so. The vast majority of my manual editing has been upon lists, and so I might know the answer or be able to point you to useful resources. Who knows what memories you might trigger! —TT
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Hello, The Transhumanist, I just de-PROD'd this article you created that is, if you are Nexus Seven whose talk page directs to your talk page archive. I wanted to see if you had received notification, which you hadn't. The only edits of this IP editor were to nominate this article for proposed deletion so I had thought you might not have been notified. Just a head's up that it might go to AFD next. Liz Read! Talk! 21:19, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
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All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC) Nomination of Global issue for deletion editA discussion is taking place as to whether the article Global issue, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.
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Looking for tips on how to break out of one's filter bubble editI've become more aware lately that I'm not very aware. I've been trying to see on the web what I haven't seen, but search engines aren't very useful for that, because you can generally only search for what you know of. The search query "Show me what I don't know about" doesn't work. I encountered the same problem on Wikipedia. What haven't I read about? Though, Wikipedia does have a feature that helps with this... The random article item in the menu can help break out of one's sphere of awareness, especially if you use it en masse... I've started using it like this: ctrl-click (or wheel click) on it about a hundred times in rapid fashion, which opens a hundred tabs each with a random article in it, and then I explore the tabs using ctrl-tab or ctrl-w (which deletes them as you go). When there's a topic belonging to a class that I'm unfamiliar with, I explore the parent article too. Opening many tabs helps compensate for the drivel (because you can skip past them quickly), like sports articles, articles on tiny towns out in the middle of nowhere, insect species, articles on non-distinct roads, tropical storms, etc. Using "random article" en masse is kind of like browsing the book shelves at the library, or joining a book club. If you have any methods you use for breaking out of your own self-imposed filter bubble, or of expanding your awareness of topics, please share. Looking forward to any ideas you might have, — The Transhumanist 09:05, 24 June 2022 (UTC) P.S.: I've tried perusing "All pages", but that puts me to sleep real quick.
Am I on the right track here? editHi Transhumanist: Can you take a look at outline of lichens and tell me if I'm on the right track? MeegsC (talk) 09:23, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
Singularity University editHi The Transhumanist, my name is Valeria. I was hoping that, as a member of WikiProject Futures studies, you might be willing to check out my edit request at Talk:Singularity University. Looking forward to your thoughts, Valeria at SG (talk) 14:21, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
Ways to improve Alden Todd editHello, The Transhumanist, Thank you for creating Alden Todd. I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:
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