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[edit] Some of my philosophy, Horatio
- I'm pretty much just here to work on an encyclopedia.
- I believe edit summaries are an oft-missed opportunity for communication, and I use them pretty religiously. In fact, I rarely use my rollback privilege, because it leaves uninformative summaries.
- I try to observe a one revert rule, except in obvious cases of repeated vandalism.
- I think references are very important—otherwise, this isn't much of an encyclopedia. I like inline citations.
[edit] Articles I've put a lot of work into
Rosie the Riveter • Boston Latin School • Netflix Prize • Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
See my other edit stats.
[edit] Other things I work on
- Developing Navibot. It finds missing disambiguation entries and adds them to the appropriate page—see below
- Developing enwikipedia, a bot that announces featured Wikipedia content on Twitter
- Cleaning up references and citations
- Adding Persondata
- Applying MOSDAB
- Spam
[edit] Tools I use
Citation templates • Last 500 anon. edits • {{subst:unsigned2}}
[edit] Bots etc.
I'm working on Navibot. It will find disambiguation entries, e.g.:
I'm also thinking of writing a formatting bot that would do stuff like this:
- He died at Eisenach on May 14th 1565
- But see discussion with idiosyncratic editor: User_talk:Johndburger#What_about_the_dates.3F
A "descriptor" bot (terrible name).
- Find bare mentions of people in lists like "Notable graduates" or "Notable residents"
- Formulate short descriptions from the corresponding article, using WP:Persondata and other heuristics
- Add these descriptions to the bare mentions in the list
This approach could also be used when adding entries to disambiguation pages.
[edit] To do list
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