User:CheChe
The very existence of Wikipedia is proof that there are more people in the world wanting to build than to tear down. Were that not true, vandals would have overwhelmed and destroyed us years ago.
I believe knowledge should be beautiful! If you need any help with diagrams just let me know and I'll see what I can do.
My main focus of work lately has been the Group Testing article, which recently passed its GA review. Next I'm hoping to take this article to featured, so any suggestions or feedback is welcome.
I am also currently recording a spoken version of the Earth article. You can find my script here.
General notes
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Propose merge of Wythoff symbol and Wythoff construction
Links I find useful
- Diagrams: Graphics Lab • Requested diagrams • Top 200 maths vectorisation requests • Images for conversion • Available fonts • SVG check
- Deletion: WP:AFD • AfD Common outcomes
- Governance: Democracy portal • Administration of Wikipedia
- Community: The Five Pillars • Community portal • RfC portal • Teahouse • All policies and guidelines • The Signpost
- Copyediting: Guide • Tagged articles
- Other: Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace • GALMorous
Krinkle: Special:BlankPage/RTRC
Goals:
User:Kelvin13
Planned vectorisations
- File:Spread of avalanches in G-M tube.jpg
- File:Sphere symmetry group d3h.png
- File:Catena of soils.jpg
- File:Gametic meiosis.png
- File:Molly Sheehan Wikipedia 1.jpg
- Any Brews Project file preceded by "@"
- Commons:Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
Upload checklist
- Upload image
- (Remove SVG request / link to new version)
- Link back to source / credit on new version
- Update Wikipedia pages
- Update user page
Primary sources
Primary sources are direct records/logs of events as they happened with no commentary.
- Wikipedia mailing list archives
- Wikitech mailing list archives
- Nupedia mailing list archives
- Censorship – a discussion page about censorship, filtering content, user preferences for reading, ethical relativity, and other subjects.
- WikiProject Film/Essay on writing film articles (meta link)
- GNE Project files – failed Wikipedia-like project.
- Friends of Wikipedia – a list of sites that link to Wikipedia.
- Imported pictures – an archive of images formerly used on Wikipedia by permission.
- MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage – an old MediaWiki page.
- Template:Substub – a template that was used to tag very short articles.
- Template:Totally-disputed – a template that was used to tag articles whose neutrality and accuracy were dispute.
- Template:Noncompliant – a template that was used to tag articles that violated multiple policies.
- (2001) Moving commentary out of Wikipedia – a discussion that eventually lead to the creation of MetaWiki and namespaces.
- (2001) The future of Wikipedia
- (2001-01-27) A few comments about Wikipedia – evidence of early discussions happening in article space, and a discussion of naming conventions / redirects.
- (2001-01-27) Re: A few comments about Wikipedia – creation of the first known talk page (it was for GeorgeWBush).
- (2001-01-27) Hello, "FreeLinks" work, and redirected pages – an explanation of the original wiki-linking / article naming system, and why it was abandoned.
- (2001-01-28) Re: Hello, "FreeLinks" work, and redirected pages – an explanation of some of UseModWiki's initial limitations: images had to be externally stored and there were no headers. Also shows how article space was originally multilingual.
- (2001-01-30) wikipedia traffic – at this time there were at most 224 unique visitors in a 23-hour period.
- (2001-05-01) GNU Encyclopedia Tech FAQ – musings about the nature of the GNE project.
- (2001-05-17) To delete or not to delete
- (2001-06-12) Why I am suspicious of subpages – Larry Sanger expresses initial doubts about the use of subpages.
- (2001-06-14) Accidental linking and hard-wired category schemes – Larry Sanger discusses the benefits and drawbacks of subpages.
- (2001-06-28) Estimating article numbers – early discussion on the size of Wikipedia. Includes mention of a proposal to have individual pages for victims of the September 11 attacks.
- (2001-07-02) Case against subpages – Larry Sanger argues against the use of subpages.
- (2001-08-07) Wikipedia teamwork – early musings on collaboration.
- (2001-08-13) An impending scalability problem – an early example of the concern for reviewing edits to articles.
- (2001-08-26) Edit lock – a description of a feature of Wikipedia when it ran UseModWiki.
- (2001-09-08) Recent Changes – text that used to be at the top of Recent Changes.
- (2001-09-18) RefactoringPolicy – an early discussion on how and where discussion of articles should be conducted.
- (2001-09-26) WikiProject Sports – the first WikiProject.
- (2001-09-26) International Wikipedia/TextToTranslate – the first translation project for the Wikipedia interface.
- (2001-09-30) September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/In Memoriam and its talk page – mostly preserved for their page histories.
- (2001-10-05) Politics/Wanted – a list of requested politics articles from 2001 and 2002.
- (2001-10-17) WikiProject proposal – an early blueprint for WikiProjects, written by Manning Bartlett.
- (2001-10-18) Cutting each other a bit of slack – Larry Sanger muses on what would eventually become Wikipedia's culture of wikilove and wikiquette.
- (2001-10-18) Blocked IPs – a list of blocked IPs during the UseModWiki era, mostly preserved for its page history.
- (2001-10-19) WikiProject Concepts and its subpages – early idea for a WikiProject which failed. Similar functions have since been successfully implemented by WikiData.
- (2001-10-19) Summary of the debate about the neutral point of view – Larry Sanger attempts to promote discussion about the (apparently contentious) NPOV policy.
- (2001-11-09) Advertising on Wikipedia – an early discussion on the use of advertising on Wikipedia. Jimbo claims that operating expenses were the primary reason that Larry Sanger had to leave the team (Larry was paid full-time).
- (2001-11-20) New logo? – Larry Sanger proposes seeking a new logo (now the current logo).
- (2001-11-21) Get rid of subpages entirely – a community discussion about the use of subpages opened by Larry Sanger.
- (2001-12-20) Nostalgia Wikipedia – an archive of Wikipedia circa 20 December 2001.
- (2001–2002) Rules to consider – the earliest discussions of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
- (2001–2002) Search engine commentary
- (2001–2004) Wikipedia:Do not use subpages – original policy and final discussion regarding subpages in mainspace. Policy seems to have been adopted since the switch to the 'PHP wiki', and was possibly manually (and retroactively) enforced before then. Hierarchical organisation is now supported by the category system.
- (2001–2007) Wikipedia arranged by topic – a proposed category scheme.
- (2002) Self-linking pages – an old maintenance project.
- (2002-01) Announcement about my involvement in Wikipedia and Nupedia--Larry Sanger
- (2002-01) Logo suggestions
- (2002-01-02) Final international solution – a proposal for a system for making alternative-language versions of an article discoverable from each other. At the time of writing it seems as if automatic linking took place.
- (2002-03-1) My resignation--Larry Sanger
- (2002-04) Threats – users expressing perceived threats to the project.
- (2002-04-05) Visions – playful ideas about what the future of Wikipedia might look like.
- (2002-04-06) Best cases – essay on the attainable goals of the project, including a request to admins.
- (2002-07) Unsuccessful searches (2002-07)
- (2002-08-19) Worst cases – an essay on the perceived threats to the project.
- (2002-09-23) Future of international Wikipedias as part of the main community – a discussion about the status of non-English Wikipedias.
- (2002-10-02) Wikipedia and corporate structure – essay about the incorporation of Wikipedia.
- (2002-10-01) Open letter to the Enciclopedia Libre group
- (2002-10-01) Open letter to the Enciclopedia Libre group/Notes – selected notes from a mailing list on the subject of open letter.
- (2002-10-29) Lag – various complaints and possible solutions to the lag problem on Wikipedia, from 2002–2003. Currently, complaints about lag are more typically aired on meta and IRC.
- (2002-11-06) United Wikipedias Forum – a proposal for handling communication between different language Wikipedias.
- (2003) Wikimedia cache strategy evolution during 2003 – proposal.
- (2003) Separate database and web servers – proposal.
- (2003-01-13) Common words, searching for which is not possible
- (2003-01-19) Burn All GIFs – discussion on a proposal to ban the GIF format.
- (2003-03-08) Japanese – first known use of Japanese characters on Wikipedia.
- (2003-03-24) How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word
- (2003-03-24) How to draw a diagram with OpenOffice.org Writer
- (2003-05-30) What to do with www.wikipedia.org – discussion on what to do with this webpage.
- (2003-06-20) International logo contest
- (2003-06-27) Wikiquotionary – proposal.
- (2003-08-06) Talk:Wikimedia press releases/Second press release – early press release that seems to have gone unpublished.
- (2003-08-06) Talk:Wikimedia press releases/Third press release – early press release that seems to have gone unpublished.
- (2003-08-23) User:Papotages~metawiki – seems to be a memorial for a user of French Wikipedia.
- (2003-09-27) Linguistic democracy in a multilingual project – discussion outlining perceived difficulties relating to the cooperation of different language Wikipedias.
- (2003-10-13) User:Mediator~metawiki – some kind of defunct method for communicating between different language Wikipedias.
- (2003-10-15) Link style vote – a discussion about how to display links on Wikipedia.
- (2003-10-22) Wikimedia's first press release/status – short discussion about the timing of the first press release.
- (2003-12-01) Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
- (2003-12-01) Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
- (2003-12-01) Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
- (2003-12-01) Refreshing brilliant prose - Others
- (2004-02-02) Cache bugs
- (2004-03-20) Votes for deletion/Lists – a mass-discussion on deletion of lists.
- (2004-03-26) Foundation-L Proposal – successful proposal to create a new mailing list, including an example of voting.
- (2004-04-16) Modèle1 – French Wikipedia discussion and voting about what do with a particular problematic user.
- (2004-05-08) Official position history – proposal to give out 'titles' to users so that they can liaise with third-parties more effectively.
- (2004-06-02) Petition for the return of the Old Wikipedia – a petition to change the standard skin back to the older style, before Monobook.
- (2004-08-09) Multilingual communication – a proposal for a translation system so that different language users can communicate in their native languages.
- (2004-08-13) Contingency planning
- (2004-10-29) Wikinews/Worst cases – essay on the perceived threats to Wikinews.|
- (2004–present) Fundraising archives
- (2005-01-30) How to draw a diagram with OpenOffice.org Draw
- (2006–present) meta:Communications committee – a group authorised by the Board. They maintains the press clippings pages from 2012 to 2016.
- (2011–2019) Wikimedia monthly activities meetings
- (2017-04-01) Requests for adminship/Wikipe-tan– an example of Wikipedia culture (in this case humour). Wikipe-tan is a community mascot anthropomorphisation of Wikipedia dating from 2006.
The following are collections of very early discussions. The dates of the discussions are difficult to ascertain, because they have all been moved at least once and many of them are from very early era Wikipedia. Additional date information can be found on their talk pages.
- Historical/Wikipedia and Nupedia
- Historical/MediaWiki
- Historical/Community
- Historical/Humor and General Interest
Indices
Indices are lists of links to primary or secondary sources without commentary (other than possibly dates) attached.
- Internal news media
- Wikipedia:List of newsletters
- Wikipedia:Historical archive – pages removed from the Wikipedia namespace.
- meta:Category:Wikipedia history
- Wikipedia commentary – old list of essays which have since been moved to meta, and has itself been moved to meta.
- Category:Wikimedia history
- Category:Wikimedia by year
- Wikimedia_press_releases
- (2006–present) meta:Reports – place for groups working with Wikimedia to post reports of their activities.
- (2000–2010) Meta Archives index – Category:Archives has sub categories and may contain more recent sources.
- (2001–2006) Events by chronology
- (2001–2009) Meta Historical archives index
- (2001–present) Wikipedia in the media
- (2001–present) Wikipedia:Press coverage
- (2002–2006) Wikipedia:Press releases – see also the meta index/timeline for press releases.
- (2003–2016) Wikimedia press releases
- (2004–2007) Category:Wikimedia hardware
- (2006–2018) foundation:Resolutions
- (2003–2016) Wikimedia press releases