User:Jarble

Some important tasks that should be automated

I spend much of my time performing various tedious tasks that could be done just as easily by a Wikipedia bot. Here's a list of tasks that I want to automate someday:

• Fixing thousands of broken section anchors: these anchors break whenever a section's title is changed
• Adding open-access links to references: OABOT can do this with references that use templates, but it still doesn't have a citation parser.

About me

This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth". This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

This user is on GitHub as jarble.

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chr-2This user is an intermediate constraint handling rules programmer.

pro-2This user is an intermediate Prolog programmer.

EBNF-2This user is an intermediate EBNF programmer.

CycL-1This user is an beginning CycL programmer.

Rebol-1This user is a beginning Rebol programmer.

ACE-1This user is an beginning Attempto Controlled English programmer.

VDM-SL-1This user is an beginning VDM-SL programmer.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

I am the author of a natural language programming system called EngScript. I have also written a a multilingual programming language translator that converts several programming languages into several other languages. One of my long-term goals is to develop a semantic reasoner for Wikipedia using Constraint Handling Rules.

Why Wikipedia needs a better peer review system:

A pending changes system already exists, but it is rarely used, so countless articles are still vulnerable to conflict-of-interest editing and long-term vandalism. Wikipedia often relies on administrator tools to prevent vandalism, but there is a chronic shortage of administrators in Wikipedia. A peer-review system could solve several chronic problems in Wikipedia, such as long-term vandalism and edit warring.

Some useful templates that I rely on

• {{reply-to}} for talk page reply notifications
• It is also possible to transclude sections of articles instead of transcluding entire pages.
• {{Massviews}}

Pageview statistics

• Wikipedia_policies
• Wikipedia_guidelines
• Expert_systems
• Procedural_programming_languages
• Functional_languages
• Logic_programming_languages
• Declarative_programming_languages
• Specification_languages
• Object-oriented_programming_languages

My current Wikipedia to-do list

• Pages without WikiData links

Computational models of language acquisition

Describe other computational models of language acquisition based on statistical parsing, adaptive parsing, and grammar induction algorithms

Grammar induction

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Expand : Describe: Methods of grammar induction using neural networks and statistical methods for grammar induction The problem of grammar induction from parallel texts unsupervised grammar induction

Important articles with no references

• Equation solving
• Data conversion
• Sum rule in integration

Sections with unexplained cleanup tags

• Ethos#Rhetoric

Typos to fix

It is very tedious to search for these typos manually. Wikipedia could use a spell checker or grammar checker to detect these errors more reliably.

• "has became" instead of "has become"
• "had became" instead of "had become"
• "honered" instead of "honored"
• "defeted" instead of "defeated"
• "innapropriate" instead of "inappropriate"
• "organiation" and "organziation" instead of "organization"
• "roganize" instead of "organize"

WP:Content forks to merge

• A lengthy paragraph that is duplicated in multiple policies, essays, and guidelinesY

References to clean up

• References to link using Google Scholar:
  • Describing morphosyntax: A guide for field linguistsY
• Misspelled links
• Referenced articles without links to online sources, to be completed using Google Scholar and WP:OABOT
  • Group concept mapping
• Reed–Solomon error correction
  • Jerome_Ravetz
  • Reinforcement
  • Template matching
  • Particle swarm optimization
  • Multi-task learning
  • Deception
  • Consumer neuroscience
  • Collaborative model
  • Cooperative coevolution
  • Alloparenting
  • Acorn woodpecker
  • Word-sense disambiguation
  • Hypergraph
  • Evolutionary algorithm
  • Redistribution of income and wealth
  • Artificial intelligence and law
  • Reconstructive memory
  • Memory improvement
  • Dusky leaf-nosed bat
  • Luzon fruit bat
  • Memoization
  • Quantum neural networkY
  • Holographic associative memory]Y
  • Sparse distributed memory
  • Robotic sensing
  • Mass comparison
  • Uralic–Yukaghir languages
  • Spontaneous recovery
  • Vladislav Illich-Svitych
• science.smith.edu
• Expired amazonaws links
• Broken links to articles.cnn.com
• Broken links to webcache.google.com
• Broken links to freebase.com
• Broken links to timesonline.co.uk
• Broken links to marx.org
• Broken links to zmag.org
• Referenced articles with "unreferenced" tags
• Broken links to academia.edu
• Broken links to ias.ac.inY
• Broken links to observer.com
• Broken links to aolnews.com
• Broken links to asmjournals.org
• Broken links to sciencenow.sciencemag.org
• Broken links to worldnews.nbcnews.com
• Broken links to planetmath.org
• Bare-link citations for Google books, to be corrected using reftag.appspot.com

Possibly unreliable sources

• techopedia.com
• livestrong.com
• buzzle.com
• ehow.com
• vigilantcitizen.com - a website that publishes various conspiracy theories
• [insource:/www\.rense\.com/ Rense.com]
• Debate.org
• Self-references to Wikipedia
• Cram101 Textbook Reviews - contains much content that was copied directly from Wikipedia
• YourNewsWire.com
• dailycaller.com
• citations to internet forums
• lifezette.com
• disclose.tv
• educate-yourself.org
• abovetopsecret.com
• zerohedge.com
• List of articles that rely on low-quality Q&A sites
• Whatreallyhappened.com
• globalresearch.ca

References to other wikis

• baike.com
• TV Tropes
• Wikia.com

Things to refactor

• Merge templates without a talk page discussion link
• Several search queries using {{findsourcesnotice}}Y
• Missing pages in Category:List of metropolitan areasY
• Redundant parameters in "see also" hatnotesY
• Improperly formatted hatnotes
• Categorize some pages with example Java and C# code
• Find an easier way to generate photo montages like the one in Native Americans in the United States.
• Categorize some userbox templates
• Bare-link references
• Improperly formatted disambiguation templates
• Templates that need to be refactored as Lua modules

Missing articles and redirect pages to create

• Software-related lists

My favorite programming tools and programming paradigms

• Hygienic macros (especially Sweet.js)
• Natural language programming tools
• Source-to-source compilers
• Prolog

Some topics I'm interested in:

• Functional logic programming
• Extensible programming
• Natural language processing
  • Natural language programming
  • Natural language user interfaces
• REBOL

Pages that need to be disambiguated:

• ?: refers to two separate operators, but this page is only about one of those operators. There is no clear primary topic, so a disambiguation page might be useful here.
• New Order: This page is about a band, but "New Order" also refers to an entire era of Indonesian history, along with many other unrelated uses. Jarble (talk) 01:18, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

List of technical issues that I want to fix eventually

• WP:Broken section links haven't been updated since February 2013.
• {{mergeto}} and {{mergefrom}} don't work properly with section links.
• {{findsourcesnotice}} can't be included within articles.
• WP:VisualEditor still isn't working properly, and it still isn't enabled by default.

Some deleted articles that I am interested in

I wish I were still able to read these articles, but they are now visible to administrators only.

• CobolScript, a COBOL-to-JavaScript compiler. The article was deleted via the proposed deletion process.

The article was undeleted, but it was nominated for deletion again and deleted a second time.

• TAKE ACTION games, a game studio which produced a game called Darfur is Dying
• Many articles about esoteric programming languages have been deleted from the English Wikipedia.
• getElementById, a widely used JavaScript function
• sEnglish, a natural language programming language
• Jslibs, a JavaScript library
• EjScript, a JavaScript implementation
• JxExtension

About me

I am an occasional Wikipedia editor. I sometimes correct spelling and grammar mistakes on the English Wikipedia. I also try to find pages that need to be merged, and tag them for merging as necessary.

List of redundant and tedious tasks that should be performed by Wikipedia bots

• Identifying unreferenced sections
• Automatically re-creating Google Books citations using the Google Books Citation Tool
• Automatically tagging articles that have no references or sources
• Automatically tagging articles that use bare URLs for citations
• Finding duplicate references within the same article
• Finding redundant links within the same article
• Identifying large paragraphs that have been copied and pasted from one article to another

Neutrality