User:Waldir

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I'm Waldir Pimenta, a Russia-born Cape Verdean PhD student in computer generated holography at a Portuguese university.

On Wikipedia, I tend to do mostly maintenance work. Besides random fixes to articles I stumble upon daily, I enjoy:

• Creating/improving disambiguation pages and redirects, adding disambiguation hatnotes to articles and sections, and adding useful links, in order to make information more easily findable
• Creating new articles in somewhat obscure yet encyclopedic topics
• Improving templates, mediawiki messages and scripts to make the interface more user-friendly
• Formatting and standardizing articles, and improving help and instructions pages to make the editing process more streamlined
• Improving coverage of Cape Verde-related topics
• Cleaning up discussion pages to better preserve the history and evolution of a topic's collaborative development

If there's anything I can help you with (especially if it involves tasks related to the above), drop me a message in my talk page :)

Userboxes Who Am I This user comes from Cape Verde. PhD This user is currently studying for a PhD in Computer Science specializing in Computer-generated holography. This user is male. 26 This Wikipedian is 26 years, 0 months, and 12 days old. Me@Wikipedia This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has been an admin for 1 year, 8 months and 28 days. This user is an administrator on the Commons. (verify commons) This user operates WaldirBot on the English Wikipedia. This user has been a Wikipedian since 2 February, 2005. 7 This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia 7 years, 0 months, 26 days ago as of February 28, 2012. 13,500+ This user has made over 13,500 contributions to Wikipedia. This editor is a WikiGnome. This user is a WikiOgre. This user is a WikiFairy. This user is a WikiSloth. This user is a member of WikiProject Cape Verde. This administrator will consider reasonable requests to provide copies of deleted articles. Contact Me @ This user can be reached by email. This user has a website at waldirpimenta.com. This user maintains a blog at Pensatorium. This user uses MSN Messenger as waldir@email.com. f This user maintains a facebook profile as Waldir Pimenta. This user uses Skype. His username is waldyrious. Languages Babel user information kea-N This user has a native understanding of Kabuverdianu. pt-5 Este utilizador pode contribuir com um nível profissional de português. en-4 This user has near native speaker knowledge of English. es-1 Este usuario tiene un conocimiento básico del español. Cyrl-1 Д This user has a basic understanding of the Cyrillic script. ipa-1 ə This user has a basic understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Users by language Interests This user is interested in maps and mapmaking. This user is interested in regiving. CS This user is a couchsurfer.

Articles to watch

• /Creations (watchlist)
• /Contributions (watchlist)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cape Verde/Watchlist
• enwiki edit count 1, enwiki edit count 2, global edit count

To do

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cape Verde
• Add content to (or create) articles in the category:American politicians of Cape Verdean descent from material stored in my computer (see also this)
• bring data from The University of Florida Book of Insect Records (see also [1]). details at /UFBIR
• Move useful/encyclopedic content from Exploding head to the Scanners article and/or back to the disambig page.
• Properly format the articles titled after each of the Nereids.
• Add an attribute support table to Comparison of layout engines (Scalable Vector Graphics), similar to what they have in http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto26/#opsupport. See also http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/attindex.html, http://developer.mozilla.org/en/SVG/Element#Categories and http://developer.mozilla.org/en/SVG/Attribute
• try to illustrate Mammal articles without images with images from http://animalphotos.info
• rewrite Temporal paradox
• Albert Hammond's "I'm a Train" seems to have some similarity to the Hawaiian War Chant at least as performed by Timon and Pumbaa. Check this and make links if appropriate.
• Write essay Wikipedia:Observer effect (see WT:OR; {{Neologism}}; Observer effect (physics); Wikiality; truthiness; History is written by the victors; Truth by consensus; Wikipedia:Truth; Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth; Wikipedia:The Truth; WP:CIRCULAR; Circular reporting)
• fix uses of {{?}} so that it can be used as a regular table cell template
• Can {{Infobox OS}} be recoded as a specialized {{Infobox software}}?
• Move some entries from Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Miscellaneous to more specific pages, and organize the rest. See also Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Views and affiliations vs. Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Views vs. Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Editing philosophy.
• Natalie Dylan AfD (see User talk:Spartaz and User talk:Milowent)
• {{IPAc-en}} (see [2], also Wikipedia:IPA for Spanish)
• Add more entries to Cape Verde#International recognition from Lists of countries and territories and List of international rankings. See also: International rankings of Hong Kong
• Standardize pages for individual days, see User:Waldir/16 February 1986
• map2 in infobox country
• Template:Openness (see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 6#Template:Openness)

recurring tasks

• Category:Dead-end pages vs. Can We Link It?
• Disambiguation
  • Disambiguation pages with links vs. dab fixers / Suggestions for disambiguation repair
  • {{Lookfrom}} (prefixindex) and {{intitle}} (intitle search)
  • {{refer}}
  • Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages aren't articles
• Category:Orphaned articles and Special:Lonelypages
• Categories starting at "Cape Verde". Look for red links and fix them.

admin tasks

• [13] edit requests on protected pages
• [0] history merges (howto)
• Unprotection requests

see Category:Wikipedia requests related to admins and Category:Request templates

Deletion

todo: make templates below add specific categories, so that backlog can be counted

• [0] G1-nonsense
• [0] G2-test pages
• [1] G6-uncontroversial cleanup/housekeeping (db-g6 | db-move | db-disambig | db-copypaste)
• [0] G8-broken redirects
• R3-implausible typos
• F10-bad format
• [4] U1-user request

Files

• Duplicate Wikipedia files on Wikimedia Commons (probably {{db-f8}} should be merged into {{Now Commons}}):
  • with the same name, from:
    • [13] three days ago
    • [19] two days ago
    • [66] one day ago
    • [28] today
    • [5] unknown date
  • with a different name, from:
    • [0] three days ago
    • [1] two days ago
    • [2] one day ago
    • [6] today
    • [32] unknown date
• Duplicate Wikipedia files on Wikipedia (the two templates / categories below should probably be merged):
  • [0] F1-dupes (added by {{db-f1}})
  • [0] Duplicate Wikipedia files (added by {{duplicate}})
• [0] F2-corrupt files

tools and links

• {{Lifetime}}
• Wikipedia uses the logical quotation style (thank god!)
• Dates (January 01, 2012 → 01 January 2012): find ([a-zA-Z]+) (\d\d?), (19|20)(\d\d), replace $2 $1 $3$4
• List-defined references / WP:LDR
• retrieve DOI of a document given its title and other data
• {{xsign}}
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request
• Wikipedia:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change/Bug reports
• How to fix bunched-up edit links: {{FixBunching|beg}}, {{FixBunching|mid}}, {{FixBunching|end}}.
• {{Plain image with caption}}
• Several tools for references and external links
• template queries/filters (documentation here. check database age here)
• {{div col|colwidth=10em|cols=3}} ... {{div col end}}
• {{ql}} & {{diff2}}
• References and punctuation: WP:REFPUNCT and WP:PAIC
• Nesting references: WP:REFNEST
• Wikimedia SVN search!
• Check out the age counter at User:Wikitanvir/userboxes (and also the user age userbox)
• {{flatlist}}

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• This page was last edited by Waldir 24 days ago on 4/02/2012. Revision ID: 474992649

Slow discussions - check now and then

• User talk:Nickj/Link Suggester#Step 5
• User talk:SergioGeorgini#Euro sign vs. Euro logo
• Talk:Legion (demon)#original research?
• User talk:Magnus Manske#less edit clutter.js
• Talk:LL Cool J#loungin' remix
• Talk:Obscurantism#obscurantism as method to retain consumers
• Talk:Cântico da Liberdade#Translation
• Template talk:Infobox Country#Largest cities
• Talk:Great Seal of the United States#Step pyramid and frustum
• Procrastination#Physiological
• Portal talk:Current events/Sidebar#Conflicts: Africa/Middle East
• Template talk:Non-free computer icon

Subpages

Waldir/16 February 1986 Waldir/16 February 1986/CE Waldir/16 February 1986/google Waldir/Contributions Waldir/Creations Waldir/DateMatrix Waldir/Editcounter Waldir/Fictional Black US Presidents Waldir/LinkSets Waldir/Music Waldir/Music mood classification Waldir/Temp Waldir/Tests Waldir/UFBIR Waldir/UFBIR/cell Waldir/WatchedCategories.js Waldir/Wikipedias without physical counterparts Waldir/admintask Waldir/common.css Waldir/common.js Waldir/formatcitations Waldir/formatcitations.js Waldir/live-edit-counter.js Waldir/modern.css Waldir/modern.js Waldir/monobook.js Waldir/myskin.css Waldir/myskin.js Waldir/nay Waldir/sinceContribs.js Waldir/stats Waldir/vector.css Waldir/way Waldir/yay

Anonymous Edits

• 212.13.33.178: Some of these are mine -- the IP's from where I currently live, anyway (Viana do Castelo, Portugal): [3]. I am not sure all of them are mine, though. The ones about Utopia certainly are. I definitely hope the others are not =P. But the only one I can firmly assure wasnt me, is the first one, since I wasn't in Viana do Castelo prior to September 2004.
• 194.79.75.114: I didnt realise I wasnt logged in until I had made several edits. The contributions of that IP are mine or from someone at my university (I think most of them are mine but I haven't checked them all). See also wikiscanner's entry on this IP.

• 82.155.122.172 (as of today, 11 dec 2008, a single edit -- the system somehow logged me off moments before I clicked the save button)

• 85.244.8.13 on 6 May 2009. I was too lazy to login.

• 188.82.193.82, 7 April 2011. Same as above.

• 188.82.108.42, 16 April 2011

Links

Recommended reading for critics of Wikipedia in academia:

• User:Jbmurray/Madness
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-14/2000th FA
• http://howwikipediaworks.com/apb.html

Improving Wikipedia/MediaWiki

• Category:Wikipedia feature requests
• m:MediaWiki Ideal
• http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/infobox
• Wikipedia:Tools
• Tim starling on the two barriers to new editors: the technical one (user-unfriendly wiki software/interface/syntax, and the social one (overzealous/noob-biting admins)
• Distributed Wikipedia (Wikia-style, but with a shared DB):
  • User:HaeB/Timeline of distributed Wikipedia proposals
  • http://www.delicious.com/pfctdayelise/decentralisedwiki
  • possible extension to implement that here: http://blog.bn2vs.com/2011/02/13/new-extension-include-wp/
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3098029/is-there-any-distributed-revision-control-system-that-supports-partial-checkout
• meta:Research:Oral Citations
• http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Action_paths

Topics of interest

• Open source governance, Grassroots democracy, Deliberative democracy, Consensus democracy and others. Need to clarify what exactly are the differences between them
• Mind reading: Brain–computer interface#MEG and MRI. Cognitive neuroscience. Statistical parametric mapping. fMRI (and more generally, Functional neuroimaging). History of neuroimaging. Mind transfer#Brain imaging. Computational neuroscience#Cognition, discrimination and learning. Dramatized in Black Hole (House) –relevant scenes compiled here– (and probably many others). Nature: Identifying natural images from human brain activity, Nature: http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v12/n3/full/nn0309-245.html, and associated links. An interesting comment. Maybe create a template?