User:ScottDavis
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I live in the northern suburbs of Adelaide. I had read articles in Wikipedia over several years. I finally joined at the beginning of 2005, and started filling in some gaps in things I know something about. Most of the articles I created or added to in my early years were about South Australian geography - towns, highways, regions, rivers. Most of them were quite short and marked as stubs, in the hopes that someone else would add info I didn't know. I'm gradually expanding my interests. I have tried to assist with the historic Australian Politics articles and also a few other Australian topics, as well as edits for places I've been to or other articles I read and notice problems with. After a few years of very few edits, I am back with wider interests, but still generally South Australian and Australian.
Wikiprojects
I contribute to a number of areas of WikiProject Australia:
- I am a member of the WikiProject Adelaide, but my interest is really all of South Australia, not just the Adelaide metropolitan area.
- Politics in Australia. Before it was set up I had ensured there was an article for each Governor of South Australia.
- I was previously involved with WikiProject Australian motorsport but my interests in that area have waned.
- WikiProject Australian places covers all places in Australia, especially if not under a more specific wikiproject. I have also added coordinates from Geoscience Australia to many of them. The results of early coordinate tagging in Wikipedia can be seen by Stefan Kühn having created a Google Earth dataset[1]. It is now much more obvious with the WikiMiniAtlas link at the top of pages with coordinates.
- WikiProject Australian history
- I revived the Australian collaboration of the fortnightwhich had become sadly neglected through the first part of 2005, however interest waned again a few years later.
I supported the Wikiproject Stub Sorting in helping to move stubs and short articles to the stub categories where they might be best noticed by experts. I encourage all Australians to review the Australia stubs category and its subcategories and see if you can expand a few articles.
The Red Link Recovery Project is an interesting way to read more of Wikipedia, and help the project, too.
Wikipedia milestones
I started this table when 1000 edits sounded like a lot. Of course, since then I've become more involved, and joined
Using
Edits | Date | Article |
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1000 | 14 May 2005
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1995 Formula One season
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2000 | 21 June 2005
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South Australian Electoral Distrcits (moved a mis-spelling)
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3000 | 26 July 2005
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Westminster, Western Australia |
4000 | 9 September 2005
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Wikipedia:Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight |
5000 | 16 October 2005
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STW-9 (sorting obvious Australia-stubs to Perth-stubs)
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4000 in article namespace | 25 October 2005
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Woodville Football Club (fixed red link, category) |
4 November 2005
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Appointed as an administrator | |
6000 edits | 20 November 2005
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Pru Goward (categories) |
7000 edits | 10 February 2006
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American River, South Australia (coordinates) |
6000 in article namespace | 9 March 2006
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Electoral district of Mawson (new article before state election) |
8000 edits | 11 March 2006
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Dubai Ports World controversy (disambiguate, clarify, wikilink) |
over 10,000 | I lost count when the counters were unreliable | |
over 15,000 | Around December 2006 | |
over 19,000 | Around August 2007 | |
20,000 | 9 March 2008 |
Wikipedia:Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight |
25,000 | early 2016 | ranked 2716 with 25,349 edits on 15 March 2016 |
30,000 | 5 April 2017 | Results for the Australian federal election, 2016 (Senate)
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latest | supercount |
I took time off from the end of 2008 to mid-2014 with very few edits in that period.
60.4% completed
Good ways of increasing your edit count include
- Writing new articles for any red links (like this one) you find
- Fixing grammar and other common mistakes
- Fixing wiki syntax
- Disambiguating links to disambiguation pages
- Stub sorting
- Find a category you know something about, and improve all the articles in it
- Add categories to articles without any category
Bad ways include
My contributions
You can review
- My contributions
- My user activity log (shows admin activity, uploads and page moves)
I also had a list of most categories and articles I have created, but it is way out of date.
- Some of the people for whom I have created articles were Governors of South Australia. I have ensured that the entire set have at least a stub. Most now have as much information as I could find on the internet.
Awards and achievements
I have been awarded several barnstars and other awards.
Images/photos I've contributed
See /Images or an automatic gallery of my contributions to Commons
Things I still want to do
- My current focus areas include:
- improve info on closed railway lines in South Australia
- Ensure all the places that are mentioned in the railway article (including map) have an article that mentions the railway
- Same for rural highways as for railways
- Create articles for places that have a family history connection, ideally with a photo
- Legislative Council districts
- improve info on closed railway lines in South Australia
(reminders to myself - feel free to butt in and do them first)
- Create an article for each of the red links I've made
- Monitor and add to Category:Towns in South Australia
- each article should be named "placename, South Australia" - more recent conventions seem to make the state name optional but a redirect is required.
- Each article should have either a redirect or link from "placename" or "placename (disambiguation)"
- Each article should contain
- text description of location
- an infobox with
- its coordinates and population - coordinates from Geoscience Australia
- description of LGA, state and federal electorates, and postcode
- Monitor and add to Category:Geography of South Australia — as above except for naming
- Keep an eye on any of the categories I created, and expand the articles in them.
- Solar power stations in Australia
- The /plain town names list contains all the placenames from the Australian postcode lists, with their state name removed. I can use it to find mis-named new town articles.
- Perform some of the tasks and redlinks listed in the templates below.
Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Adelaide:
- Places and landmarks: Southern Vales, Science Park, Sir Samuel Way Building, Cummins House, Adelaide Central School of Art, Pearson Isles
- Parks and rivers: Henley Square, Peace Park
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Events and people:
Carnevale in Adelaide,
Come Out Festival,SALA Festival, Ian Gilfillan,Edmund William Wright
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Streets:
South Terrace,
Currie Street
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History:
The Chronicle (South Australia),
Adelaide Observer, Adelaide Steamship Company, History Trust of South Australia, Electoral reform in South Australia
- Other: Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in South Australia, Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Adelaide
- Assess: Category:Unknown-importance South Australia articles, Category:Unassessed South Australia articles, Category:Unknown-importance Adelaide articles, Category:Unassessed Adelaide articles
- Maintain: Portal:South Australia
My international travels
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