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Hiya!
I love understanding and loathe ignorance, and feel strongly that knowledge should be free and accessible.
I see clear evidence that the wisdom of the crowd exists and is flourishing on the web and actively support open source and community projects including Wikipedia.
I do what I can to help but will perhaps never be as prolific or as accurate an editor as ClueBot, but then what human could be?
There are currently 6,881,274 articles on the English Wikipedia, curated by 47,951,922 registered and a whole bunch of unregistered Wikipedians!
See Featured articles for the cream of the crop.
This font is Gabriola and the background photo is Mount Sharp on Mars, taken by Curiosity.
I am committed
editMy first username on Wikipedia was "EddyFragment" (redirected here). When I changed my name, I didn't think to change my name, so now have accidentally got two names!
My timezone
editAs a UK resident, my time zone is UTC+01:00 during BST, and GMT the rest of the time. I am however naturally nocturnal so my active times would be typically more inline with a diurnal person living in, say, Caracas. Hope that helps 😜
Selected articles to which I've done a lot
editBut not necessarily recently
- Blu del Barrio – American actor
- Buke and Gase – American musical duo (work in progress)
- Gacharic Spin – Japanese rock band
- List of Google Easter eggs
- "The Partisan" – 1943 song by Anna Marly and Emmanuel d'Astier, popularised by Leonard Cohen in 1969
For some technical stuff I've done; see #My sandbox (below)
en | This user is a native speaker of the English language. |
incr | This editor is an incrementalist. |
even | This editor is an eventualist. |
This user values descriptive edit summaries and actively encourages their use. |
This user encourages the peaceful correction of vandals. |
This user assumes nothing. |
This user has template editor rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) |
This user develops user scripts; |
{{Wiki}} | This user can write in the MediaWiki language. |
{{t|3|c}} | This user contributes to the template namespace with confidence, even with conditional templates. |
This user can program in Python. |
re | This user writes regular expressions. |
This user can write Cascading Style Sheets. |
This user can program in JavaScript. |
Warning! This user functions at a sub-optimal level before their 20th cuppa tea. |
This user is pansexual. |
SCH | This user has schizophrenia. |
My sandbox
editWelcome to my laboratory, where safety is number one priority – NOT – Mwahahaha!
Find links to stuff I've made or am working on, including user scripts.
Transcluded from my sandbox.
My JavaScript & Cascading Style Sheets
edit- Developed for the Vector (legacy/2010 not 2022) skin; may not work well or at all for others
- May conflict with other user scripts, stylesheets or Gadgets
- Some do conflict with MediaWiki "Web Fonts" (will look into it)
My common JS & CSS
edit- My common JavaScript – only importing the resource manager below
- My common CSS – a few tweaks
Currently in use and reliable
editProbably still being fine tuned now and then, but good to go (mostly) |
- navigationUI.js – compressed navigation user interface with expanded content; "sticky header" since 2016 😜
- quickLinks.js – discrete UI widget for easily maintaining a user defined list of bookmarks; interwiki use (nearly)
- allowTabs.js – tab key inserts a tab character instead of jumping to next input whilst editing
- showSpecialDiffLink.js – shows a configured
[[Special:Diff/oldid/diff]]
link syntax on diff pages - correctFirstHeadingOfSpecialPages.js – does what it says on the tin; e.g. special page first heading "User contributions for Fred Gandt" becomes "Special:Contributions/Fred_Gandt"
unwatchList.js – unwatch (and rewatch if you make a mistake) pages directly while viewing changes to your watchlist- Functionality built into preferences now; apply some CSS and it's not bad; probably more efficient
Listed at Wikipedia:User scripts/List
edit- addCloneClearButtonAboveScributoConsole.js – does what it says on the tin
- aceEditorOptions.js – provides a GUI to change and save desired settings for the Ace editor used on JavaScript, JSON, CSS and Module pages
- userResourceManager – powerful meta-tool for user JavaScript and Stylesheet management; multi-tab problem to be fixed
- confirmLogout.js – almost never (user scripts aren't loaded on preferences pages) accidentally log out again
- responsiveHistoryCompare.js – dynamically move Compare selected revisions buttons next to the selected revisions on
action=history
pages - subdueLinks.js – add options to switch hyperlink color on and off
- sectionFooters.js – add ghosted clones of editable-section headings to the end of the respective sections
- getUnpatrolledOfAlexNewArtBotResultsPages.js – search AlexNewArtBot***SearchResults for unpatrolled pages; see User:AlexNewArtBot
- watchUserContribs.js – add/remove pages listed in Special:Contributions to/from your watchlist
- addUserContribsEditSummaryCountLink.js – add a link to xTools "Analysis of edit summary usage" to the footer on user contributions pages
On the todo list
editBest to steer clear of this stuff |
Not fully fleshed out
editSome parts might be very good |
- greenTechDocs.js – applies styling for Module and Template doc pages inline with how they look when transcluded
- moveFailedModuleTestsToTop.js – for use on Module:UnitTests results pages
- controlSiteWidth.js – control the width and horizontal alignment of the site; useful for ultrawide monitors
- dupeLinks.js – detect duplicate links in articles; in very early development; MOS:DUPLINK
- sectionLinks.js – add permalinks to all section headings; scroll wheel access on cursor hover
- wikilinkPlus.js – add related shortcuts to most wikilinks; Alt+left mouse click for extras; clashes with default browser functionality
- previewCategoryDupeArgs.js – semi automated duplicate arguments hunting tool, specifically for use working on Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls
- teleDirect.js – remotely create redirects
- stopChromeJumpingTheDamnTextboxOnEveryReturnPress.js – does what it says on the tin
- fixDodgyShortDescriptions.js – offers GUI for addressing bad short descriptions directly from Special:Search results
- ambiguousLinks.js – highlights links to disambiguation pages in articles
Possibly working; definitely nasty
edit- globalWatchlist.js – watchlists from all projects linked to Watchlist; needs streamlining
Avoid like the plague!
edit- My JavaScript test script – I Dunno LOL ¯\(°_o)/¯
My templates
edit{{subst:Editing advice}}
- Using Module:Editing advice
{{GotCollegeColorsFor}}
{{IP-talk}}
{{NUMBEROFSECTIONS}}
- Using Module:NUMBEROFSECTIONS
– redirected to{{subst:PleaseCite}}
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{{See it}}
{{Usig}}
{{subst:Warn}}
{{subst:Welcome to Wikipedia}}
– I played a large part in its development
My modules
editI consider myself a novice Lua learner.
In progress
editIt seems like I'm currently doing something else...
Semi complete
editSafe space for testing
editBecause messing about for days or weeks at a time in other Module's sandboxes is likely to be bothersome to other editors
Some good stuff I like
edit- Turquoise (color): as if that wasn't obvious
- Desiderata: words of wisdom by Max Ehrmann
- Words of wisdom from the poem My Monument (August, 1836) by Alexander Pushkin: "Fear not insult, ask not crown: Praise and blame take with indifference And dispute not with the fool!"; discovered via Ad Orientem's user page
- If—: a poem full of wisdom by Rudyard Kipling
- Is that so?: an anecdote about a man with his priorities in good order
- On Bullshit: an essay by Harry Frankfurt
- Ceci n'est pas une pipe (English: This is not a pipe): a painting by René Magritte
- Concorde: a supersonic sleek beauty
- Scheherazade: a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X: a painting by Francis Bacon
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The Goldfinch: painting by Carel Fabritius
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Chair: painting by Vincent van Gogh
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Girl with a Pearl Earring: painting by Johannes Vermeer
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Hypotrochoid animation: mathy thing by Sam Derbyshire
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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird: supersonic leaking beauty
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Pigeon: sculpture by Paul Sloan at Rundle Mall, Adelaide