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October 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter
- October 2019—Issue 007
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Alphabet Soup: Explaining DYK, GA, FA, and More
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By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured: Did You Know (DYK)What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines:
The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page) Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK. Good Article (GA)What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets a set of criteria. This adds a How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article—you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article! Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you. Featured Article (FA)What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the criteria. This adds a How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted. Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC. Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA. How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT. Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life (5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA. |
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December 2019
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at WTJZ. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Please see the FCC database, which is what we go by, as the reliable source we go by. Your own input, which is original research is not necessary nor needed, per WP:OR. Stop now or be blocked. Neutralhomer • Talk • 04:12 on December 6, 2019 (UTC) 04:12, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
- It is your mindless insertion of zeroes past the decimal point that is laughable. My edits are constructive; yours are tendentious. Nobody else would ever support your nonsense. Abductive (reasoning) 04:20, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
- Mine follow the rules laid out by Wikipedia, yours do not. So, who's are laughable? Plus, you are actually arguing this point, which makes it even more laughable and yes, mindless. So, please continue. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 04:26 on December 6, 2019 (UTC)
- Nowhere on your guideline does it mention coordinates. So, you are just making it up, and bullying me thereby. Abductive (reasoning) 04:34, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
- Mine follow the rules laid out by Wikipedia, yours do not. So, who's are laughable? Plus, you are actually arguing this point, which makes it even more laughable and yes, mindless. So, please continue. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 04:26 on December 6, 2019 (UTC)
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December 2019
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at WTJZ, you may be blocked from editing. Neutralhomer • Talk • 16:55 on December 17, 2019 (UTC) 16:55, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
- You know full well that removing zeroes behind a decimal point is not vandalism. Abductive (reasoning) 19:34, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
- You know full well you have made up that reasoning to justify what you are doing. We go by the FCC documents (extra decimal points, zeros, and all), which is a highly reliable source, and not your original research for whatever the reason. When you understand I am operating within the rules and you are not, we'll get along just fine. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 03:24 on December 18, 2019 (UTC)
- My reasoning is sound. You want Wikipedia to parrot a primary source that reports an extra couple of zeroes. You are unique in this regard. Please reread WP:Ownership of content. Abductive (reasoning) 03:42, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
- To you your reasoning might be sound, but according to the rules of Wikipedia, your reasoning doesn't matter. You follow the rules or you get warned then blocked. It's as simple as that. You clearly aren't understanding that your reasoning doesn't fit into this equation. It's the Wikipedia way or the highway. Pure and simple. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 18:38 on December 18, 2019 (UTC)
- Routine calculations (WP:CALC) aren't original research. Abductive (reasoning) 18:54, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
- "...provided there is consensus among editors that the result of the calculation is obvious, correct, and a meaningful reflection of the sources." Don't cherry pick, if you are going to quote, quote the WHOLE thing. Your "reasoning" isn't a MEANINGFUL reflection of the sources and the Federal Communications Commission is the most reliable of sources. Your "reasoning" and your "calculations" aren't going to trump theirs by a longshot, nor will your anything be found to be better than a Federal Government source. Sorry, you aren't going to sway me here. Move on. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:06 on December 19, 2019 (UTC)
- You know you don't have consensus among editors at the Radio Wikiproject. Abductive (reasoning) 02:15, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
- For the use of FCC documents? Wanna bet? - Neutralhomer • Talk • 03:14 on December 19, 2019 (UTC)
- You might want to read the archives, where you were in the minority about rounding FCC coordinates. Nobody but you on Wikipedia will ever think that just because the FCC primary source database reports coordinates with two extra zeroes on their ends that Wikipedians have to do so too. They'll say, "have you heard of rounding?" and, "did you know that WP:CALC is a WP:Policy?" Abductive (reasoning) 04:43, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
- For the use of FCC documents? Wanna bet? - Neutralhomer • Talk • 03:14 on December 19, 2019 (UTC)
- You know you don't have consensus among editors at the Radio Wikiproject. Abductive (reasoning) 02:15, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
- "...provided there is consensus among editors that the result of the calculation is obvious, correct, and a meaningful reflection of the sources." Don't cherry pick, if you are going to quote, quote the WHOLE thing. Your "reasoning" isn't a MEANINGFUL reflection of the sources and the Federal Communications Commission is the most reliable of sources. Your "reasoning" and your "calculations" aren't going to trump theirs by a longshot, nor will your anything be found to be better than a Federal Government source. Sorry, you aren't going to sway me here. Move on. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:06 on December 19, 2019 (UTC)
- Routine calculations (WP:CALC) aren't original research. Abductive (reasoning) 18:54, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
- To you your reasoning might be sound, but according to the rules of Wikipedia, your reasoning doesn't matter. You follow the rules or you get warned then blocked. It's as simple as that. You clearly aren't understanding that your reasoning doesn't fit into this equation. It's the Wikipedia way or the highway. Pure and simple. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 18:38 on December 18, 2019 (UTC)
- My reasoning is sound. You want Wikipedia to parrot a primary source that reports an extra couple of zeroes. You are unique in this regard. Please reread WP:Ownership of content. Abductive (reasoning) 03:42, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
I just checked the archives on WPRS and there is no such discussion. So, do me a favor, spread your lies somewhere else. You officially bore me. Later. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 04:52 on December 19, 2019 (UTC)
- You are the one on my talk page. Abductive (reasoning) 04:58, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
Please see note on your DYK review. Yoninah (talk) 23:02, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
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DYK nomination of Acer diabolicum
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Death of Kobe Bryant
I've reverted the edit, but do not intent further revert. I have received consensus through editing that the template belongs on 2020 Island Express Sikorsky S-76B crash article not this article which is focused on Kobe. I'll ask Mjroots (talk · contribs) for further input. Valoem talk contrib 00:45, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
- You wrote I was being irrational, when I've given good reason why there should not be an infobox. I wrote a response on my page why an infobox should be held off until an article about the crash exists and exactly what I thought would happen, happened. Valoem talk contrib 02:47, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Couma utilis
On 29 January 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Couma utilis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that not only does Couma utilis have edible fruit, its latex is used as a base for chewing gum, caulking boats, and whitewashing houses? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Couma utilis. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Couma utilis), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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See sigfigs which explains about using excessive digits. Caltech is not a point, even though it is relatively small as schools go. I don't know about decimal vs. degrees, minutes, and seconds, but 15 arc seconds is about right. Caltech goes from about 34.136 to 34.140 latitude, and -118.127 to -118.124 longitude. If you want to point to a specific building, then maybe four decimal digits. Gah4 (talk) 08:53, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Acer diabolicum
On 5 February 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Acer diabolicum, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Acer diabolicum, the devil maple, gets its scientific and common names from the curly stigmas of its flowers (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Acer diabolicum. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Acer diabolicum), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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GPS precision
over precision is a rather obtuse problem when you just click here and then copy the results to show what you have. I've seem seconds displayed with a .5 precision which is way over precise, whereas a simple |format=dms gives the same result without losing anything Dave Rave (talk) 23:58, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
- Perhaps some of my improvements aren't much of a difference, but if you look through my contribs, you'll see that more often than not, the more precise coords miss the targets. Some miss by 100 km. Abductive (reasoning) 03:17, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
Nomination of East Anglia Medieval Fayre for deletion
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Hey, thanks for fixing the coords on the Little Cross article! Small change, but still appreciated! Puddleglum2.0 01:25, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
WikiCup 2020 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.
Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
Epicgenius, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with a featured article, five good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 895 points.
Gog the Mild came next with 464 points, from a featured article, two good articles and a number of reviews, the main theme being naval warfare.
Raymie was in third place with 419 points, garnered from one good article and an impressive 34 DYKs on radio and TV stations in the United States.
Harrias came next at 414, with a featured article and three good articles, an English civil war battle specialist.
CaptainEek was in fifth place with 405 points, mostly garnered from bringing Cactus wren to featured article status.- The top ten contestants at the end of Round 1 all scored over 200 points; they also included L293D,
Kingsif, 
Enwebb, 
Lee Vilenski and 
CAPTAIN MEDUSA. Seven of the top ten contestants in Round 1 are new to the WikiCup.
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These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. In Round 1 there were four featured articles, one featured list and two featured pictures, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. Between them, contestants completed 127 good article reviews, nearly a hundred more than the 43 good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Contestants also claimed for 40 featured article / featured list reviews, and most even remembered to mention their WikiCup participation in their reviews (a requirement).
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.
If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
WikiCup newsletter correction
There was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; 
L293D should not have been included in the list of top ten scorers in Round 1 (they led the list last year), instead, Dunkleosteus77 should have been included, having garnered 334 points from five good articles on animals, living or extinct, and various reviews. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:29, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
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Center of the city
Hi can you please provide a source for "the city itself choose to make this intersection the center", and for "Google is deprecated as a source for coordinates"? ɱ (talk) 04:34, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, by calling one section of a street north, and one section south, and then by dividing a street which intersects that street at that point into east and west at that same intersection, a unique intersection is created. No other intersection in a city can have that property. This is usually taken as the center of a city. In Japan, the City Hall is usually used due to the weirdness of the Japanese addressing system. As for Google, take a look at some random city and town articles on Wikipedia. Notice how they almost always express their coordinates in D°M′S″? This is no accident; Wikipedia editors long before my time decided that D°M′S″ was the best. Then check Google Maps and note where they randomly plunk down the marker. Google Maps is a primary source, and any Wikipedia editor can WP:CHALLENGE a primary source. Abductive (reasoning) 04:48, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- These aren't direct, clear sources stating that Columbus considers its center there, or that Google has, by a community discussion's consensus, been "deprecated". I'm tired of arguing this little point further and will just drop it, no wonder your signature is "abductive reasoning". ɱ (talk) 14:50, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Any input for Puddleglum's The Signpost article?
Hi Abductive, Tenryuu from Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19. A fellow collaborator, Puddleglum2.0, is looking for editors to answer some interview questions regarding editing and COVID-19. If you're interested, please leave your thoughts over at User:Puddleglum2.0/WPR. Cheers! --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 18:21, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
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Coordinates
Can you explain your claims that DMS is best
and Five-digit decimal coordinates cannot resolve on Wikidata
? DMS has no inherent advantages over decimal; arguably it's less intuitive. And I've never seen any indication that Wikidata has any issues with five-digit decimal coords. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 07:44, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Pi.1415926535:Wikidata defaults to DMS. It will attempt to turn decimal coordinates to DMS, DMS.s, DMS.ss, etc., and be unable to stop extending the digits. D.dd are the last decimal coordinates that always turn exactly into DMS without any remainders. Then any D.dddd that ends in D.dd00, D.dd25, D.dd50, and D.dd75, will also work out to "integral" DMS. Look through my edits and you'll see that I try to choose DMS that also happen to end as D.dd00/25/50/75.
- So, it is inelegant to use D.ddd or D.ddddd. D.dddddd doesn't resolve, unless the last two digits are 00. Also, the five or six level of precision exceeds the ability of both GPS measuring devices, and the accuracy of Google Maps and Bing maps.
- If you click on the random article link on the left column a bunch of times, you will note that most articles give the coordinates in DMS. I was trying to find a counterexample to show you but gave up after about 50 clicks--they were all DMS. Early on in my time editing Wikipedia I was informed that the use of DMS was the standard. For many years, people hewed to that standard. Abductive (reasoning) 22:07, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
- Your coordinates should be based on the actual position of an object, not an attempt to avoid rounding. (I have reverted your wikidata change to 360 Newbury Street for that reason - your change moved the coordinates from centered on the building to off-center.) Five decimal places is a precision of about one meter - the same accuracy that Google claims for its imagery - which is desirable for smaller buildings and similar objects per the links you posted at my talk page. If you wish to see DMS coordinates on all articles, you can follow the instructions here. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:01, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- I find that forcing DMS is inelegant and hides mistakes. Abductive (reasoning) 02:19, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- Your coordinates should be based on the actual position of an object, not an attempt to avoid rounding. (I have reverted your wikidata change to 360 Newbury Street for that reason - your change moved the coordinates from centered on the building to off-center.) Five decimal places is a precision of about one meter - the same accuracy that Google claims for its imagery - which is desirable for smaller buildings and similar objects per the links you posted at my talk page. If you wish to see DMS coordinates on all articles, you can follow the instructions here. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:01, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2020 May newsletter
The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.
Our top scorers in round 2 were:
- Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
- Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews- Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
- Lee Vilenski with 869 points,
Hog Farm with 801, Kingsif with 719, 
SounderBruce with 710, Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and 
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April 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
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Inspired by a March 2020 post at WikiProject Medicine detailing the growth of Featured Articles over time, we decided to reproduce that table here, adding a second table showing the growth of Good Articles. Tree of Life articles are placed in the "Biology" category for FAs, which has seen a growth of 381% since 2008. Only two other subjects had a greater growth than Biology: Business, economics, and finance; and Warfare. Percentage Growth in FA Categories, 2008–2019, Legend: Considerably above average, Above average, Average Below average , Considerably below average, Poor
*subset of natural sciences Unsurprisingly, the number of GAs has increased more rapidly than the number of FAs. Organisms, which is a subcategory of Natural sciences, has seen a GA growth of 755% since 2008, besting the Natural sciences overall growth of 530%. While Warfare had far and away the most significant growth of GAs, it's a clear outlier relative to other categories. |
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Late Bronze Age collapse
If that's still on your watchlist, you'll see that your edit at [2] was reverted, although somewhere along the line the numbered links to sources lost the sources themselves. Doug Weller talk 10:53, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
- The section is completely different now than when I made that addition. I think the editor may be correct in removing it. Abductive (reasoning) 15:18, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
- Fine, just thought you might want to know. Doug Weller talk 08:47, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
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May 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
- May 2020—Issue 014
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This month we're joined by Jts1882, who is active in depicting evolutionary relationship of taxa via cladograms. Part of this includes responding to cladogram requests, where interested editors can have cladograms made without using the templates themselves. How did you come to be interested in systematics? Are you interested in systematics broadly, or is there a particular group you're most fond of? As long as I can remember I’ve been interested in nature, starting with the animals and plants in the garden, school grounds, and local wood, and then more general wildlife worldwide. An interest in how things are classified grew from this. I like things to be organised and understanding the relationships between things and systems (not just living things) is a big part of that. Biology was always my favourite subject in school and took up a disproportionate part of my time. My interest in systematics is broad as I’d like to comprehend the whole tree of life, but the cat family is my favourite group. What's the background behind cladogram requests? I see that it isn't a very old part of the Tree of Life Well I can’t take any credit for the cladogram requests page, although I help out there sometimes. It was created by IJReid and there are several people who have helped there more than me. I think the motivation is that creating cladograms requires a knowledge of the templates that is daunting for many editors. It was one way of helping people who want to focus on content creation. My main contribution to the cladograms is converting the {{clade}} template to use a Lua module. The template code was extremely difficult to follow and had to be repetitive (I can only admire the efforts of those who got the thing to work in the first place). The conversion to Lua made it more efficient, allowed larger and deeper cladograms, plus facilitating the introduction of new features. The cladogram request page was recently the venue for discussion on making time calibrated cladograms, which is now possible, if not particularly user friendly. What advice do you have for an editor who wants to learn how to make cladograms? The same advice I would give to someone facing any computer problem, just try it out. Start by taking existing code for a cladogram and make changes yourself. The main advice would be to format it properly so indents match the brackets vertically. Of course, not everyone wants to learn and if someone prefers to focus on article content there is the cladogram request page. Examples of cladograms Jts1882 has created, showing different proposed clades for Neoaves
Do you have any personal projects or goals you're working towards on Wikipedia? As I said I like organisation and systems. So I find efforts like the automated taxobox system and {{taxonbar}} appealing. I would like to see more reuse of the major phylogenetic trees on Wikipedia with more use of consensus trees on the higher taxa. Too often they get edited based on one recent report and/or without proper citation. Animals and bilateria are examples where this is a problem. Towards this I have been working on a system of phylogeny templates that can be reused flexibly. The {{Clade transclude}} template allows selective transclusion, so the phylogenetic trees on one page can be reused with modifications, i.e. can be pruned and grafted, used with or without images, with or without collapsible elements, etc. I have an example for the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (see {{Phylogeny/APG IV}}) and one for squamates that also includes collapsible elements (see {{Phylogeny/Squamata}}). A second project is to have a modular reference system for taxonomic resources. I have made some progress along this lines with the {{BioRef}} template. This started off simply as a way of hardlinking to Catalog of Fishes pages and I’ve gradually expanded it to cover other groups (e..g. FishBase, AmphibiaWeb and Amphibian Species of the World, Reptile Database, the Mammalian Diversity Database). The modular nature is still rudimentary and needs a rewrite before it is ready for wider use. What would surprise your fellow editors to learn about your life off-Wikipedia? I don’t think there is anything particularly surprising or interesting about my life. I’ve had an academic career as a research scientist but I don't think anyone could guess the area from my Wikipedia edits. I prefer to work on areas where I am learning at the same time. This why I spend more time with neglected topics (e.g. mosses at the moment). I start reading and then find that I’m not getting the information I want. Anything else you'd like us to know? My interest in the classification of things goes beyond biology. I am fascinated by mediaeval attempts to classify knowledge, such as Bacon in his The Advancement of Learning and Diderot and d’Alembert in their Encyclopédie. They were trying to come up with a universal scheme of knowledge just as the printing press was allowing greater dissemination of knowledge. With the internet we are seeing a new revolution in knowledge dissemination. Just look at how we could read research papers on the COVID virus within weeks of its discovery. With an open internet, everyone has access, not just those with the luxury of books at home or good libraries. Sites like the Biodiversity Heritage Library allow you to read old scientific works without having to visit dusty university library stack rooms, while the taxonomic and checklist databases provide instant information on millions of living species. In principle, the whole world can now find out about anything, even if Douglas Adams warned we might be disinclined to do so. This is why I like Wikipedia, with all its warts, it’s a means of organising the knowledge on the internet. In just two decades it’s become a first stop for knowledge and hopefully a gateway to more specialised sources. Perhaps developing this latter aspect, beyond providing good sources for what we say, is the next challenge for Wikipedia. |
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