User:Waldyrious


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I'm Waldir Pimenta, a Cape Verdean born in Russia and currently living in Portugal.

On Wikipedia, I

maintenance work

. Besides random fixes to articles I stumble upon daily, I enjoy:

Creating/improving
adding useful links
, in order to make information more easily findable
Creating new articles in somewhat obscure yet encyclopedic topics
scripts
to make the interface more user-friendly
Cleaning up and standardizing the articles' wikicode to make it more readable and easier to edit
Copyediting and formatting articles to conform to
encyclopedic standards
Improving
project pages
to ease Wikipedia editors' learning curve, by reducing text ambiguity, providing specific examples and linking to more specific guidance or resources whenever appropriate
Improving coverage of
Cape Verde-related topics
pages
to better preserve the history and evolution of a topic's collaborative development

If there's anything I can help you with (especially if it involves tasks related to the above), drop me a message in my talk page :)

Userboxes

Who Am I

This user comes from Cape Verde.

This user is in Portugal.

This user is male.

39Y

This Wikipedian was born on 16 February 1986 and is 39 years, 4 months, and 26 days old.

Me@Wikipedia

This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This user has been an admin for
15 years, 1 month and 11 days.

This user is an administrator on the MediaWiki.org. (verify mw)

This user is a former administrator on the Portuguese Wikipedia (verify pt).

This user is a former administrator on the Wikimedia Commons (verify c).

This user has been a Wikipedian since 2 February, 2005.

20Y

This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on February 2, 2005 (20 years, 5 months, 1 week and 2 days ago).

20,000+

This user has made 20,000+ edits to Wikipedia.

100,000+

This user has made over 100,000 contributions to Wikimedia projects.

This user has averaged one edit each ~6.4 hours, since joining Wikipedia on 5 February 2005.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

This user is a WikiOgre.

This user is a WikiFairy.

This user is a WikiSloth.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Cape Verde.

WikiProject Basic Income

.

This administrator will consider reasonable requests to provide copies of deleted articles.

Contact Me

@

This user can be reached by email.

This user has a website.

It is approximately 04:32 where this user lives (Braga, Portugal).

Languages

Babel user information

kea-N	Es uzuáriu se língua maternu e kriolu.

pt-5	Este utilizador tem um nível profissional de português.

en-4	This user has near native speaker knowledge of English.

es-1	Este usuario tiene un conocimiento básico del español.

Cyrl-1
Д

This user has a basic understanding of the Cyrillic script.

ipa-1
ə

This user has a basic understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Articles to watch

To do

Wikipedia:WikiProject Cape Verde
- Add content to (or create) articles in the category:American politicians of Cape Verdean descent from material stored in my computer (see also this)
- Create a dedicated importance scale, like WP Saints', and link Template:WikiProject Cape Verde to it rather than to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Criteria#Importance of topic as currently it does. Maybe a custom one for the Quality scale too.
- Recheck the stats table to make sure the numbers are correct. Might need to tweak the banner template's categorization scheme.
- Add more entries to
  Lists of countries and territories and List of international rankings. See also: International rankings of Hong Kong
- Add a MassViews traffic report to the WikiProject page, and maybe use that data to inform/validate against/help fill the importance ratings.
bring data from The University of Florida Book of Insect Records (see also [1]). details at /UFBIR
Move useful/encyclopedic content from Exploding head to the Scanners article and/or back to the disambig page.
Properly format the articles titled after each of the Nereids.
Try to illustrate Mammal articles without images with images from http://animalphotos.info
Rewrite Temporal paradox
Albert Hammond's "I'm a Train" seems to have some similarity to the Hawaiian War Chant at least as performed by Timon and Pumbaa. Check this and make links if appropriate.
Write essay
WP:CIRCULAR; Circular reporting
)

fix uses of {{?}} so that it can be used as a regular table cell template
Can {{Infobox OS}} be recoded as a specialized {{Infobox software}}?
Move some entries from
Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Editing philosophy
.
Natalie Dylan AfD (see User talk:Spartaz and User talk:Milowent)
{{
Wikipedia:IPA for Spanish
)
Standardize pages for individual days, see User:Waldyrious/16 February 1986
map2 in infobox country
Template:Openness (see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 6#Template:Openness)
Apply the
ISO 639-1
Help development and simplification (or at least code readability) of {{charmap}}. Examples of target usage: Ç#Computer, Â#Character mappings, É#Character mappings, Yer#Computing codes, A#Computing codes.
Make a calendar filled with
List of commemorative days (if they're not specific to a nation or subset thereof), using {{calendar
}}

recurring tasks

Category:Dead-end pages vs. Can We Link It?
Disambiguation
- Disambiguation pages with links vs. dab fixers / Suggestions for disambiguation repair
- {{
  intitle
  }} (intitle search)
- {{refer}}
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages aren't articles
Category:Orphaned articles and Special:Lonelypages
Categories starting at "Cape Verde". Look for red links and fix them.

admin tasks

[1] edit requests on protected pages
[0]
howto
)
Unprotection requests

see Category:Wikipedia requests related to admins and Category:Request templates

Deletion

todo: make templates below add specific categories, so that backlog can be counted

[0] G1-nonsense
[0] G2-test pages
[5] G6-technical cleanup/housekeeping (db-g6 | db-move | db-disambig | db-copypaste)
[1] G8-broken redirects
R3-implausible typos
F10-bad format
[2] U1-user request

Files

Duplicate Wikipedia files on Wikimedia Commons (probably {{
db-f8}} should be merged into {{Now Commons
}}):
- with the same name, from:
  - [0] three days ago
  - [0] two days ago
  - [0] one day ago
  - [1] today
  - [167] unknown date
- with a different name, from:
  - [0] three days ago
  - [0] two days ago
  - [1] one day ago
  - [0] today
  - [4] unknown date
Duplicate Wikipedia files on Wikipedia (the two templates / categories below should probably be merged):
- [0] F1-dupes (added by {{db-f1}})
- [0]
  duplicate
  }})
[0] F2-corrupt files

tools and links

{{
Lifetime
}} — template to be substituted as {{subst:Lifetime|year of birth|year of death|sort key}}, to automatically generate "XXXX births" and "XXXX deaths" categories (and optionally DEFAULTSORT) for new articles about people
Wikipedia uses the
logical quotation
style (thank god!)
Dates (January 01, 2025 → 01 January 2025): find ([a-zA-Z]+) (\d\d?), (19|20)(\d\d), replace $2 $1 $3$4
Notes and references:
- Help:Footnotes#List-defined references & Help:List-defined references (references defined in a list at the end of the page, rather than inline)
- WP:REFNEST
  (nesting references, e.g. a footnote with a reference of its own).
- Help:Shortened footnotes (named references with split sections for the short notes and the full references)
- {{rp |at=12:34}} —Lorem ipsum^[1]^: 12:34— for appending page numbers, timestamps, etc. to individual instances of an existing general reference (which can then be reused)
- meta:WMDE Technical Wishes/Book referencing does the same but natively
- retrieve DOI of a document given its title and other data
- Several tools for references and external links
- References and punctuation:
  WP:PAIC
- {{Citation needed span}}
{{
xsign
}}
Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change/Bug reports
How to fix bunched-up edit links
: {{FixBunching|beg}}, {{FixBunching|mid}}, {{FixBunching|end}}.
{{Plain image with caption}}

{{div col|colwidth=10em|cols=3}} ... {{div col end}}
{{
ql}} & {{diff2
}}

Check out the age counter at User:Wikitanvir/userboxes (and also the user age userbox)
{{flatlist}}
auto-updating timelines! See mw:Extension:EasyTimeline#Using the current date and {{Timeline openSUSE}} for an example.
test sorting order of various characters: Help:Sorting#Alphabetic sorting order
IMO
WP:CLUE should actually point to Wikipedia:WikiProject on Adminship/Goals of the adminship process#Discernment, possibly also linking to Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship, Wikipedia:Miniguide to requests for adminship, Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, and Wikipedia:Administrators#Expectations of adminship (as listed on this discussion
)

Javascript Wiki Browser (JWB)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Order of article elements (e.g. section headings, templates...)
- Quick cheatsheet: "See also" > "Notes and references" (one or two sections) > "Further reading" > "External links" > templates (navboxes, commonscat, etc.)
For revision history search, an alternative to WikiBlame is WikiRever (example)
{{Annotated link}} → produces a link to an article followed by its short description; very useful for "See also" sections

This page was last edited by Waldyrious 14 months ago on 17/04/2024. Revision ID: -

Slow discussions - check now and then

User talk:Nickj/Link Suggester#Step 5
User talk:SergioGeorgini#Euro sign vs. Euro logo
Talk:Legion (demon)#original research?
User talk:Magnus Manske#less edit clutter.js
Talk:LL Cool J#loungin' remix
Talk:Obscurantism#obscurantism as method to retain consumers
Talk:Cântico da Liberdade#Translation
Template talk:Infobox Country#Largest cities
Talk:Great Seal of the United States/Archive 1#Step pyramid and frustum
Procrastination#Physiological
Portal talk:Current events/Sidebar#Conflicts: Africa/Middle East
MediaWiki talk:Gadget-popups.js#New feature proposal: lead only (a single user responded, with strong support. TODO: try with a user test page, then edit the global js page if it works)

Subpages

Note: for user scripts, see User:Waldyrious/common.js and meta:User:Waldyrious/global.js (they might need some adjustment per mw:ResourceLoader/Legacy JavaScript)

Anonymous Edits

212.13.33.178: Some of these are mine -- the IP's from where I currently live, anyway (Viana do Castelo, Portugal): [3]. I am not sure all of them are mine, though. The ones about Utopia certainly are. I definitely hope the others are not =P. But the only one I can firmly assure wasnt me, is the first one, since I wasn't in Viana do Castelo prior to September 2004.
194.79.75.114: I didnt realise I wasnt logged in until I had made several edits. The contributions of that IP are mine or from someone at my university (I think most of them are mine but I haven't checked them all). See also wikiscanner's entry on this IP.

82.155.122.172 (as of today, 11 dec 2008, a single edit -- the system somehow logged me off moments before I clicked the save button)

85.244.8.13 on 6 May 2009. I was too lazy to login.

188.82.193.82, 7 April 2011. Same as above.

188.82.108.42, 16 April 2011

Contributions/188.82.72.82, 8 February 2014. Using the Android mobile app, apparently my login had expired or something, but the interface still showed me as logged in. After a log-out/log-in, it worked properly.

Links

Recommended reading for critics of Wikipedia in academia:

Improving Wikipedia/MediaWiki

Category:Wikipedia feature requests
m:MediaWiki Ideal
http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/infobox
Wikipedia:Tools
Tim starling on the two barriers to new editors: the technical one (user-unfriendly wiki software/interface/syntax, and the social one (overzealous/noob-biting admins)
Distributed Wikipedia (Wikia-style, but with a shared DB):
- User:HaeB/Timeline of distributed Wikipedia proposals
- possible extension to implement that, here: New extension: Include WP (by Jeroen de Dauw)
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3098029/is-there-any-distributed-revision-control-system-that-supports-partial-checkout
meta:Research:Oral Citations
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Action_paths

Topics of interest

Open source governance, Grassroots democracy, Deliberative democracy, Consensus democracy
and others. Need to clarify what exactly are the differences between them

Black Hole (House) –relevant scenes compiled here– (and probably many others). Nature: Identifying natural images from human brain activity, Nature: http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v12/n3/full/nn0309-245.html, and associated links. An interesting comment
. Maybe create a template?

Technological unemployment refers many interesting sources about automation and its effects on a capitalist market system.