JJFord BHL

Sea Spider

About Me

Hi, I'm JJ. I'm and Massachusetts resident transplanted from San Francisco, California. My main wikimedia interest is to disseminate digitized books, photos, and data from projects I have worked on for the GLAM community. I'm a librarian, dog mama, and nature lover. Drop by any time to leave me a message on my talk page!

Blogging

Two missions collide: Free, Open, and Global! Wikipedia we love you.

Bookmarks

• Wikimedia Tools Directory
• User stats
• Patty Pan Bulk Image Uploader

Barnstars

A real-life barnstar given to me by Mindspillage. (an anchor plate; the real-world model for wiki-style barnstars)

Barnstar for participants in Wikipedia Loves Libraries at the Smithsonian 2012 Edit-a-thon and Backstage Pass Event

Neutrality

Researcher

Verifiability

Verifiability

Sourcer

Tip of the day...

What are templates used for?

Templates are pages that you can include on another page. They are usually used to insert boilerplate messages that need to be displayed on more than one page. Templates are quite versatile and can be used to accomplish many things. For example, some specialized uses for templates are:

• Displaying a different page each day (like the Tip of the day, Pic of the day, etc.)
• Infoboxes (e.g., Template:Infobox philosopher). To see Socrates in this infobox, click here.
• Displaying a random page (see this implemented at Wikipedia:Featured content).
• Navigation bars (e.g., Template:Portals browsebar).
• Navigation boxes (e.g., Template:Greek myth).
• WikiProject task boxes (e.g., Template:PhilosophyTasksBox).
• Page headers, like the header at the top of the Help Desk

To include a template on a page, enclose it in double curly brackets, leaving out the prefix "Template:", like this: {{In the news}}

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Become a Wikipedia tipster

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}