User:Swpb/home

Tech tools

• mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
• Page views
• Article blamer
• Installed extensions
• Stylesheets: MediaWiki:Common.css
  • Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes/Wikitable
• Lua Reference Manual / Help:Lua
  • Wikipedia:Comparable Lua functions to wikitext
• Purging a page cache for all readers
• WikiNav - where readers come from and go to

Cleanup

AutoWikiBrowser

• AWB regex

Categorization

• Uncategorized cats
  • {{subst:User:Swpb/proj-cat}}
• Non-empty ambiguous categories

Deletion

• Tracking
• Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions / Subjective importance
• [[
  WP:OSE
  |The existence of similar content is not a valid argument for inclusion.]]
• Known Wikipedia mirrors

Disambiguation

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• Longest dabs
• WikiNav - where dab readers go next!

• Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup
  • Most-viewed dabs
  • Disambiguation pages with links
  • Random dab page
  • Random surname
• Errors of each type
• {{
  intitle
  }}

General cleanup

• Wikipedia:Database reports
• Wikipedia:Backlog
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fix common mistakes
• Automatic review tools - dead links, etc.

Content creation

• All pages in my userspace
  • For mainspace
• My Lua sandboxes
• Template messages
  • Redirects / Hatnotes
• Wikipedia Library

New article checklist

1. WP:ORDER
2. Categorize (use {{draft categories}} / {{DEFAULTSORT}} / Stub tag
3. Wikidata (properties) (basic)
4. {{short description}}
5. Infobox (update infobox templates per Infobox telescope)
6. Navbox
7. WikiProject banners ({{WikiProject banner shell|1=}})
8. Incoming links and redirects
9. People/books: {{authority control}} (https://viaf.org # on wikidata)
10. Places: {{coord}} (see decimal degrees for appropriate precision)
11. Technology: Check patents / copyright status
12. Remove {{draft categories}} once in mainspace

References

• Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources
• ReFill tool
• Citations (WP:CITET) / templates / Citation bot
  • Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books
• {{Find sources}}
• {{subscription required}}
• Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library (journal access)

Images

• Free Image Search Tool
• http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
  • Acceptable licenses on Flickr
• {{image requested |1= |2= |3= }} / Categories
• {{diagram requested}}
• Requesting copyright permission / User:Swpb/photo-request
• Charts / Graphs and charts
• Wikipedia:Graphics Lab
• Template:PD-US-patent (pre-1989)

Other

• Special:ContentTranslation
• User:Ham II/250 paintings

Other templates

• {{namespace detect}} (change content based on namespace)
• {{ConvertAbbrev}} (convert to and from common abbreviations)
• {{
  dts
  }} (date/time sorting)
• {{
  la
  }} (associated pages)
• Showing relationships: {{
  geographic location}}, {{tree list
  }}

• List of ALT+SHIFT+ shortcuts
• Wikipedia:Editnotice
• "Editor's index to Wikipedia"
• "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual"
• IPA chart for English

Talk

• IRC channels

User talk

• User warnings
  • {{subst:User:Swpb/db|article}} ~~~~
  • {{subst:uw-wizard|article}} ~~~~
  • {{subst:uw-dab|page}} ~~~~

Discussions requiring broad consensus

• Wikipedia:Centralized discussion
• Wikipedia:Village pump
• Wikipedia:Requests for comment
• Use {{
  rfctag
  }}

Templates

• {{resolved}} - for marking discussions
• {{outdent}} – "outdent" discussion threads

Article creation by new editors

• Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation#Landing_Page_.28arbitrary_break.29
• Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_article_creation

Other discussions

• Wikipedia:Administrative Standards Commission
• Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikidata Phase 2

Bugs/tickets

• My Phabricator dashboard (use LDAP login)
  • Phabricator Project Management
• 2017 Developer Wishlist survey results
• My old bug reports (short UMD email address)