User:Dispenser

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Setup
Firefox This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.
This user has a tri-monitor configuration.
This user uses AutoWikiBrowser.
This user has an account on the Wikimedia Toolserver.
Abilities
{{t|c}} This user can use and program conditional templates.
.css This user can write Cascading Style Sheets.
py This user is a Python programmer.


Speaks
en This user is a native speaker of English.
de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

I often have trouble expressing my self correctly, often forgetting put in the needed negatives. This is also the reason why I work primarily on templates. On the debate of deletionish v. inclusionist I to fall into the category of Mergism. I'm a staunch proponent of the KISS principle to the point of sacrificing functionality to keep it simple.

I operate one bot, PDFbot (talk · contribs), that updates the file size of PDF links and empties Category:PDFlink without a parameter.

Details of Projects
  • /Link checker, a tool which checks all the links in a given set of articles
  • /Navbox, an AWB script which fixes navboxes
  • /myskin.css, a skin which tries to break everything assumption of the layout.


Open Tasks list - WikiTasker
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If you want to work on the things listed go right ahead. Post to my talk page if you want some direction. As I tend to be rather busy and working on my tool server apps I am unlikely to complete these. When done just strike them out.

In article space
  • Improve and merge the articles on readability algorithms as as they are not quite correct. I've already began work at Simple English.
In template space
  • Checking with legal about the licensing in template space and if it legal for other wikis using Creative Commons licensees to use our source
  • Fix URL template and create a new {{tnavbar}} that resolves all the old issues
  • Help with Template cleanup at Wikipedia:Deprecated and orphaned templates
  • Create a navbox template which fill the values automatically from categories. Such to demonstrate why navboxes should have a limited scope.
  • Reinstate {{VG navigation}}
Toolserver Tools
  • Create a spell check which uses Wiktionary as the dictionary
    • Standardize Wiktionary's word meta information
    • Create plugin dictionaries for other application
  • Using artificial intelligence build a link map of what domain articles are in and use this to build an intelligent wikifier that can deal with word sense issues
  • Refactor and release source to checklinks.py
  • Implement one of the new designs for the Map list page (GeoHack)
Miscellaneous
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