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Revision as of 06:23, 1 August 2005
About me
I am going on a wikivacation, to make more time for important things like finding a new job and moving cross-country. So, I won't be able to get around to feeding my various wiki projects in a timely fashion until sometime in September. But do feel free to leave a note on my user talk page if you'd like to draw my attention to something in particular. I'm sorry that I may not be able to give a timely reply.
I am expecting to move from San Francisco to Boston in August or September. I am taking digital pictures of San Francisco before I leave. If you have any special requests, no guarantees, but you should probably speak up sooner rather than later. -- Beland 8 July 2005 04:20 (UTC)
Pearle
I am the owner of Pearle Wisebot. Feel free to leave messages about the behavior of Pearle on my personal talk page.
Tools
- /workspace
- Dumps en
- Wikipedia:Cleanup_resources
- Wikipedia:Template_messages/Stubs
- Wikipedia:Auto-categorization
- WP:CFD
- Requested maps
- Category:Pearle edits needing manual cleanup
- Wikipedia:LGBT notice board, Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality
Watchlist checked through: end of 31 Jan 2005
- News: Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
- IRC: [1]
- IRC: [2]
- IRC: [3]
- WikiWax
Status
- #wikimedia-tech, #wikipedia
- m:Wikimedia_servers
- Squid response times
- http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/
- Apache CPUs
- Squid CPUs
- MySQL CPUs
- http://www.qwikly.com/WikiPulse.html
- http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Wikipedia_Status
You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)
Fix spelling and grammar
Fix wikilinks
Update with new information
Expand short articles
Check and add references
Fix original research issues
Improve lead sections
Add an image
Translate and clean up
Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.
Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.
Sites
Todo
Active collaborations
| Resources for maintenance and collaboration |
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| Cleanup |
| Categories |
| Create an article |
| Referencing |
| Stubs |
| Deletion |
| Polishing |
| Translation into English |
| Images |
| Controversy |
| To-do lists |
| Disambiguation |
| More |
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For a listing of ongoing discussions, see the dashboard. |
CFD Cleanup
Finish implementing this decision:
- Merge Wikipedia:Substub into Wikipedia:Stub.
- Pull everything appropriate from Category:Wikipedia style and how-to, Category:Wikipedia guidelines (completed S-Z so far), and Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines for a new category, "Category:Wikipedia style guidelines". Make it a subcategory of Category:Wikipedia guidelines.
- Pull everything appropriate from Wikipedia:Style and How-to Directory and Category:Wikipedia help into a new "Category:Wikipedia how-to", with subcategories.
- Delete Category:Wikipedia style and how-to
- Clean up Wikipedia:Style and How-to Directory.
- Wikipedia talk:What is a troll (renaming)
- Implement Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Page_fixing_tools as redirect, if approved by Jun 5, UTC.
More meta
- Wikipedia:WikiProject help desk is cute.
- Wikipedia:Auto-categorization/Wikipedia_namespace
- Needs publicity. Add to current categorization projects, maybe make an announcement. See what currently links to the parent page. Update. Re-add to Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects.
- User:Sietse_Snel/Fix_common_mistakes
- Internal mergers on Wikipedia:Offline reports; eliminate this page?
- Wikipedia_talk:Bots (Pearle cleanup tagging. Then see Wikipedia:Cleanup to removed already-fixed and move comments to talk pages.)
- WP:B
- Speed limit discussion
- Wikipedia:Cleanup
- Purge Wikipedia:Cleanup/September
- Move to Template:cleanup-date using Pearle
- Constructing new intro text
- See Template_talk:Stub
- Wikipedia:Cleanup_process
- Wikipedia:Cleaning_department
- Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention
- Needs publicity or attention from Beland
- WP:CFD
- Periodic cleanup, especially requests for automated moves
- Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/likely is in cold storage.
- AMERICA
- Summarize decisions on Category talk:Ireland and see also Wikipedia:Irish wikipedian's notice board
- Clean up policy on WP:CFD and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion_phrases and their talk pages.
- Post gender-neutral nominations from Wikipedia talk:Categorization of people.
Active content collaborations
- Talk:Infotainment (listed on WP:RFC)
- [4]
- Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:lgbt
- Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Homosexuality_and_morality
- Wikipedia_talk:LGBT_notice_board#Mergers_and_renames
- Talk:Court-packing Bill (Fix effects section)
- Wikipedia_talk:Merge_some_redundant_lists_to_categories
- Separation of church and state (external links, Article Improvement Drive)
- History of science
- Talk:History of sex
- Journalistic ethics and standards, Category:Regional wikipedian notice boards
- Objectivity (journalism) (needs help)
- Category:Orphaned categories
- Homophobia cleanup
- Demographics of sexual orientation and Kinsey Reports cleanup and fact-check.
- Corporate farming (fix NPOV)
- Rural sociology, Demographic history of the United States (fix NPOV)
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Grammar - merge templates, change to category listings only?
- Talk:Sex_in_advertising#Budweiser_ad
- Talk:Pederasty
- Talk:Journalistic standards and ethics
- Talk:Separation_of_powers#Unsourced_statements
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cities
- Need to start implementing proposal
- Need to check if recommended categorization scheme has been implemented.
- Intro texts do not conform to the recommendation. A bot should check all articles in a given category to see if the right phrase and/or links are present.
- Wisconsin towns (townships) are confusing (e.g. Springfield, Wisconsin).
- See Category_talk:Towns_in_Maryland?
- Intro texts do not conform to the recommendation. A bot should check all articles in a given category to see if the right phrase and/or links are present.
- Need to clean up talk page, esp "weird cases" or later
- Need to update status section on main page.
- Need to update status of mapping project
- Template:CDPpreface, Template:UnincorpNotCDP
- city-data.com
Update once per DB dump
- Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention
- new-funny-categories.txt
- Category:Orphaned categories
- new-orphaned-categories.txt
- Wikipedia:Auto-categorization (USA state placenames)
- Add suppression feature before uploading next dump
Science
- Time could use a rewrite to make it flow better
- History of science has growing pains
- Timeline of scientific discoveries and Category:Science timelines
- Science_studies needs a lot of help. It may need a Wikibook project.
- Sociology of scientific knowledge
- Scientific enterprise
- Sociology_of_knowledge
- History_of_science_and_technology - may need inbound links fixed
- Peer-review Scientific_method and read Talk:Scientific_method. Possible merge with Scientific enterprise.
- Scientific_skepticism: Categorize, check for accuracy, NPOV. Add to official list of Controversial topics?
- Check Science
- Basic_theories_of_science
- History of parapsychology - needs NPOV, cleanup
- Talk:Obsolete_scientific_theory#Request_for_obsolete_theories_of_electricity
- Elminate "fluid" metaphor from Electromagnetic field
- E, B -> EMF -> EW -> QED -> Standard Model
- Electromagnetic field should say it's part of electroweak theory and is special relativity-compliant.
- Electric_field should say that it's part of EM/electroweak theory/standard
- Global System for Mobile Communications, GSM core network, and related
Supreme Court History project
- Reading book on history of the Supreme Court
- May also need to check out the Supreme Court "encyclopedia" book
- Related articles to fix:
- Corporate personhood
- List_of_Justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
- Reconstruction
- Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
- List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases
- Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
- United States Constitution
- Dormant_Commerce_Clause
- Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution, etc.
- See Lawrence_v._Texas
- Write an article on the Charles River Bridge case, find out more about the history of Charles River crossings.
- Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali
Meta
Mergers
- See Wikipedia talk:Browse
- Wikipedia_talk:Welcoming_committee - Some pages in Category:Wikipedia basic information could use merging.
- Category:Wikipedia needs cleaning again. Combine things about protected pages.
- Wikipedia:Topical index needs to be converted into category listings.
- Wikipedia:Utilities needs to be reconciled with categories, templates (on User:Beland) and Wikipedia:Community portal.
- Wikipedia:Maintenance could probably use an update. Is it in the most easily maintainable form? Is it redundant with Category:Wikipedia maintenance or any other pages? Templates? What maintenance pages should Wikipedia:Community Portal and Template:Opentask point to?
Avoidance mergers
- Upgrade Wikipedia:Be cautious with compliments and mass attribution and form consensus
- Wikipedia:Avoid weasel terms -> Wikipedia:Be cautious with compliments and mass attribution
- Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms -> Wikipedia:Be cautious with compliments and mass attribution
- Wikipedia:Be cautious with compliments and mass attribution -> Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles (or at least summarize it there)
- Update Wikipedia:Words to avoid
Talk mergers
- Wikipedia talk:Writers' rules of engagement -> Wikipedia:Wikiquette
- Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines -> Wikipedia:Wikiquette, Wikipedia:Talk page
More
- Coordinate bugs on Wikipedia:Categorization with Wikipedia:Merge some redundant lists to categories.
- Clean Wikipedia:Category_schemes
- Clean Category:Wikipedia proposals
- Post to Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories
- Tidy Wikipedia talk:Categorization and Wikipedia:Categorization
Religion
- Atheism needs rounding out after it is un-protected.
- Arguments_against_the_existence_of_God and Arguments for the existence of God might be fun to edit.
Politics
- Peer review UN Reform and later sections of United Nations, possibly organize its talk page
- Check up on Capitalism
- Should the following be merged? United States territorial acquisitions History of United States imperialism Historic regions of the United States
- Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson
- Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
- Note that many modern Americans reject the label "empire/imperialism".
- De-Americanize Separation_of_powers, incorporate comments on the UK. (See section "Other countries").
- Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government
- Address todo list on Progressivism
Sexuality
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- http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/The_Swiss_vote_yes_to_same-sex_relationships_and_%22Schengen/Dublin%22
- Gender role needs POV check.
- History of sexuality and Demographics of sexual orientation need attention. May need to merge from Anthropological classification of homosexuality.
- Improve homosexuality, heterosexuality, bisexuality, Homosexuality and transgender and sexual orientation with regard to terminology and orientation/behavior/identity considerations.
- Improve Genetics and sexual orientation, esp. terminology in twin studies
- Refactor Causes_of_sexual_orientation in Sexual orientation w.r.t. genetic and environmental/choice subarticles. Talk:Causes_of_sexual_orientation suggests science/society not gene/environment split.
- Also sync homosexuality and morality
- Add something like the following to Nature_versus_nurture_debate and/or Sexual_orientation. Or maybe make a "multi-determined" article.
- Multi-determination: A car owner notices the check engine light on their dashboard is on, but continues driving for 3 days. On the highway, the engine suddenly fails. A second car that has been tailgating crashes into the first one. A nearby philosopher asks whether the cause of the accident was the way the car was built, or the way it was operated by the owner. In fact, if the car had been built differently, operated differently, or followed differently, the accident would not have happened. The accident is "multi-determined". Cite that STS book.
- Reconcile Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sexology_and_Sexuality/Terminology with Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language.
- Homosexuality, Heterosexuality, and Sexual_orientation, and Anthropological classification of homosexuality need to be re-synchronized.
- All sexology articles need their See Also sections cleaned, especially converion to categories where needed.
West Springfield/Pioneer Valley History
- Obtained source materials
- Extract and summarize
- Post full text of non-copyrighted content?
- Massachusetts
- Pioneer Valley
- West Springfield, Massachusetts
- Springfield, Massachusetts
Random Topics
Boston transport
- MBTA history
- Boston transportation
- Turnpike should talk about the old English gate, not just be a redirect to toll road
EM Categorization
- Electromagnetic field, Electroweak force, Fundamental force, SU(3)XSU(2)XU(1), Standard_Model
- E, B -> EMF -> EW -> QED -> Standard Model
United States Categorization
- Clean up Category:History of the United States. Most articles belong in a subcategory; some new subcategories need to be created, including Category:US history by year. Many articles need to be assigned to multiple categories. Cross-referencing by year would be useful.
- Category:Companies_of_the_United_States (top level needs sorting out)
- Category:Subdivisions of the United States (check entire tree for anomalies)
Random peer review
Science
- Three-phase electric power (hard to understand)
- Civilization
- Temperature (intro is not public-friendly)
- Decimal_time
- National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration
- Gravitational_radiation
- Thermopower
- Peltier-Seebeck_effect
Religion
Politics
Postmodernity
Some of the antecedents of postmodernism are missing from modernism.
The postmodern articles are too long and very hard to read.
Readme
World legal systems
- Goal: Write an article on Legal systems of the world
- Historical derivation of current systems
- Main ideas of each historical/ideological system
- Add to Category:Legal_history, Category:Law
Problems
- Legal_system is probably missing a number of fundamental references, including many kinds of law listed in religious law. It should either reference or summarize or be Legal systems of the world
- Legal_history is also somewhat fluffy, and might actually be the best place to put Legal systems of the world.
- Legal_code is very fluffy and could probably use a merge or a re-write. It also has broken links and grammatical issues.
Readme
Pages to remember
Intellectual
- List_of_discredited_substances
- List of alternative, speculative and disputed theories
- List_of_unsolved_problems
- Slippery slope
- Project_Censored
Nifty
- American and British English differences
- Enclave
- Country
- Nation
- Maps of San Francisco, California
- Image:Irish1346.gif
- User:Stevey7788/Maps
- WikiNews
- Multilevel_streets_in_Chicago
- Conch Republic
- Google X
- Theban_alphabet
- Strange matter
- List of active autonomist and secessionist movements
- Dagen H
Educational
- Regional_language
- California Central Valley
- Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California
- Gibraltar
- Reconciliation (Senate)
- Chemical Galaxy
Serious history
- Air France Flight 8969
- Republic of Indian Stream
- U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1954)
- Wall Street bombing
- Vermont Republic
- Indian Removal
- American Indian Movement
- Occupation of Denmark and Rescue of the Danish Jews
Not serious, best of
- Extreme ironing
- Japanese toilet
- User:Bishonen/European_toilet_paper_holder
- Riot Act (contains exact instructions for reading it aloud)
- List of fictional curse words
- Self-reference (note indirect self-reference)
- Linux (washing powder)
File:Spotted Dick-640x480.jpg A can of Spotted Dick sponge pudding. 
Linux (washing powder) 
Chicago River, dyed green for St. Patrick's Day
More not serious
- Crêpe Day is February 2nd.
- Profanity
- Minced oath
- Todos
- Uhura (isn't she fabulous?)
- RuPaul (also incredibly fabulous)
- Ravi_Shankar
- [5]
- Dord
- Crazy Frog
Of indeterminate seriousness
Offspring
- Category:Orphaned categories
- Advocacy journalism
- Snickerdoodle
- Bi-curious
- Straight acting
- How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
- City College of San Francisco
- Image:Crater-depth-diagram.gif
- Image:Crater-rim-diagram.gif
- User:Radiant!/new-categories-2005-06-23 (303k)
- Image:Sf-skyline-twin-peaks.30jun2004.jpg
- Image:Filbert-street-steps-16jul2004.jpg
- Image:Alcatraz-island.29jun2004.jpg
- Image:Marin-headlands-3jul2005.jpg
- Procedural programming
- Image:South-Park-18aug2004.jpg
- Image:Yerba-Buena-Gardens-MOMA.jpg
- Image:Yb-waterfall-29jun2004.jpg
- Image:Castro-sidewalk-east.jpg
- Image:Castro-stores.jpg
- Image:Duboce-Triangle.jpg
- Image:Eureka-Valley-SF.jpg
- Image:Duboce-Park.jpg
- Image:Sunset-Tunnel-east.jpg
- Image:Western-Addition.jpg
- Image:Pacific-Heights.jpg
- Image:Fillmore-sidewalk-1.jpg
- Image:Japantown-AMC-Pagoda.jpg
- Image:Japan-Center-interior.jpg
- Image:Japantown-plaza-14jul2005.jpg
- Image:Japantown-pagoda-crop.jpg
- Wikipedia:Duplicated sections
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