User:Kyle Barbour/Knickknacks
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Here's where I store little bits and pieces of things I find interesting or useful, as well as articles, AfD debates, etc. that I think are worthy of noting, or that I want to reference. It's also my toolbox.
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[edit] Tools
- User:Cyde/Ref converter: For converting {{ref}} to cite.php. Very handy.
- http://toolserver.org/~magnus/commonshelper.php: For transwikiing images to the Commons.
- http://toolserver.org/~pgk/autoblock.php: Pgk's autoblock finder.
- http://vs.aka-online.de/globalwpsearch/: A universal Wikipedia search engine.
[edit] Instructions and helpful bits
- Web colors: Hexadeximal values for colors and more.
- User:Ingoolemo/Thread help: Interesting bit on threads.
- User:Uncle G/Wikipedia triage: A great how-to for Newpages patrol.
- Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide: How to do admin tasks.
- Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list: Policies, guidelines, noticeboards, etc.
- Wikipedia:Guide to layout: A step-by-step guide to how to lay out an article.
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages): The MoS has lots of great stuff; this is one I use more.
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions: How to title a page.
- Wikipedia:Template substitution: Information on substitution and when to use it.
- m:Help:Displaying a formula: How to write mathematics formulas in TeX (minor extensions in LaTeX).
- m:Help:Interwiki linking: How to link to all of the other MediaWiki projects (and others!).
- m:Help:WikiHiero phonemes: Egyptian hieroglyphics in Wikipedia markup.
- m:Interwiki map: List of all the interwiki prefixes for links.
- m:Range blocks: How IP range blocks work.
[edit] Templates
- Wikipedia:Blank maps: Exactly what it sounds like.
- {{boschmeter}}: I got a kick out of this one.
- {{click}}: This makes an image link to a page instead of the image's description page.
- {{reqdiagram}} and related family ({{diagram needed}}, {{reqimageother}}, {{reqmap}}, {{reqphoto}}, etc.): For requesting diagrams, images, photos, etc. for articles.
- {{ln}} and family ({{la}}, {{lw}}, {{lu}}, etc.): Extremely useful for linking to a page.
- {{test}} and related family ({{test0}} through {{test5}}): Warnings of all kinds. See Template:TestTemplates for more detail.
- {{tl}} and related family ({{tls}}, {{cl}}, etc.): For linking to templates (and in the case of {{cl}}, categories); extremely handy.
- {{otheruses}}, {{for}}, {{this}}, and family: For disambiguation hatnotes. See Template:Otheruses templates for more detail.
- {{unsigned}} and related family ({{unsigned2}}, and {{unsigned3}}): For signing the posts of others who have forgotten to do so.
[edit] Wikipinions
- User:CatherineMunro: Brilliant essay on the nature of the 'pedia.
- User:Fubar Obfusco: I agree very much with what this man has to say.
- User:Geogre: Him too, usually.
- User:Sjakkalle/Admin criterion: I agree with these criterions fully, he puts them very well.
[edit] *fD
- User:Doc glasgow/workshop/deletions: AfD reform.
- User:Ryan Delaney/deletionism: Opinions on deletionism and critical mass.
- Wikipedia:AFD 100 days: A very interesting study on AfD patterns.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lingnan Primary School: This AfD debate contains one of the best, most thorough arguments to delete an article I've heard in a while.
[edit] Wikiquotes
- User:Cyrius/Quotes: Quite a repository.
- User:HoratioVitero#Quotes: He's got some good ones in there.
- "Anyway, this is first and foremost an effort to write a high quality encyclopedia, not a wide open wiki." —Jimbo Wales, 16:43, December 8 2005 (UTC): May we all remember this.
- "Wikipedia articles are all works-in-progress. To date there is not yet a system for formal review and fact-checking, so there are no public-ready articles at this time, only drafts." —Brion Vibber, 18:56, December 5 2005 (UTC).
- "I just wanted to say that becoming a sysop is *not a big deal*." —Jimbo Wales, 11:55, February 11 2003 (UTC): the famous adminship quote, which I regularly couldn't find and so is now here.
- "Deletion means deletion. The deleted page archives ARE TEMPORARY TO FACILITATE UNDELETION OF PAGES WHICH SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DELETED and are subject to being cleared or removed AT ANY TIME WITHOUT WARNING." —Brion Vibber, 00:50, January 19 2007 (UTC): Good piece of info about the mw:archive table.
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-February/027547.html: An e-mail from Kat Walsh on the Foundation's position on fair use and licensing. 02:57, February 8 2007 (UTC). See also Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Kat Walsh's statement.
- "The wikilawyers and trolls always want a codified set of rules on an issue, so they can subvert the spirit while adhering to the letter." —Charles Matthews, 23:15, February 8 2006 (UTC): A beautifully put summary of the problems inherent in rules-lawyering.
[edit] Wikihumor
- Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense/Sysop Accountability Policy: This made me laugh.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mermaid in a Manhole: Delete. You know, if I ever start a band I'm just going to cut out the middle-man and call it "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion." --MisterHand 20:38, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
- from User talk:EncephalonSeven#Putin:
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- Your addition of a gay porn image to the Putin article was not a notable improvement...
- Oops -- the picture can indeed be interpreted this way. I've deleted it.--EncephalonSeven 05:42, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
- Hmmm...how else could a threesome of naked elderly men, one of whom is clearly being fellated by another, be "interpreted"?
- "Political chierarchy"? ... Anyway, this picture is history now. --EncephalonSeven 20:42, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
- Hmmm...how else could a threesome of naked elderly men, one of whom is clearly being fellated by another, be "interpreted"?
- Oops -- the picture can indeed be interpreted this way. I've deleted it.--EncephalonSeven 05:42, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
- Your addition of a gay porn image to the Putin article was not a notable improvement...
[edit] Miscellaneous wiki-bits
- MediaWiki:Monobook.css: The CSS file for Wikipedia's monobook skin, the default.
- User:Snoutwood/Pagenamefix: A possible fix to the
{{PAGENAME}}business brought up at Template talk:Welcome. - User:Talrias: A lovely design for a user page.
- Special:Unwatchedpages: Title says all.
- Wikipedia:Times that 100 Wikipedians actually agreed and voted to support something: Humorous and true bit on how hard it is to get us to agree.
- m:Wikimedia staff: Who the hell works here, anyways?
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&oldid=28324647: Kind of interesting test which I ran about edit summaries.
