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Boud

Joined 12 March 2003
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The Wikipedia is cool and should be is used and developed in universities and schools everywhere, IMHO. Closed documentation on encyclopedic type knowledge has no moral justification, IMHO. But the Wikipedia should be used with an understanding of what it is, as justified by academic studies of Wikipedia (see the Education Working Group/RfC about difficulties in giving formal university grades for Wikipedia editing).

Moreover, there are many aspects of research and universities where the ethical principles in practice at Wikipedia should be the norm but are not (yet, as of 2023) the norm; by seeing how they work in the "real-world" case of Wikipedia (the world's biggest and often most reliable encyclopedia), pressure to move up to these standards in research practice and university governance - especially including transparent, rational, structured decision-making (the ideal of "collegial" decision-making and governance) - will continue to increase.

Gender pronouns

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If you need to refer to me in Wikipedia discussions, then he/him/his are appropriate. If you really want to use they/them/their about me, go ahead, since it seems like those pronoun-related words may win the popularity contest against s/he, him/her, his/her.

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To the uploader: If possible, do not use this tag; please replace it with one of {{tv-screenshot}}, {{film-screenshot}}, {{musicpromo-screenshot}}, {{game-screenshot}}, {{software-screenshot}}, or {{web-screenshot}}.
  • citation stuff
    • Wikipedia:Footnotes
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Generic citations
    • <ref name="...">{{cite news | last1= | first1= | last2= | first2= | pages= | language =| title= |trans-title = {{void| trans-title is the English translation}}| date= | publisher= |newspaper= | url= |access-date=2021- |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live {{void| live|dead|unfit|usurped}} |url-access = {{void| (subscription/registration/limited) default=free}} }}</ref>
    • <ref name="...">{{cite web| last1 =| first1 =| last2= | first2= | authorlink =| language =| title= |trans-title = {{void| trans-title is the English translation}} | work =| publisher =| website= |date =| url = |format =| doi =| access-date = |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live {{void| live|dead|unfit|usurped }} |url-access = {{void| (subscription/registration/limited) default=free}} }}</ref>
    • shorter: <ref name="...">{{cite news | last1= | first1= | last2= | first2= |author1-link= | language =| title= |trans-title =| date= |newspaper= | url= |access-date=2021- |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live |url-access = }}</ref>
    • shorter: <ref name="...">{{cite web| last1 =| first1 =| last2= | first2= | author1-link =| language =| title= |trans-title = | website= |date =| url = | access-date = |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live |url-access = }}</ref>
    • <ref name="...">{{cite journal | last1 = | first1 = | last2 = | first2 = | author1-link = | title = | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = | publisher = | location = | date = | url = | url-access = <!-- (subscription/registration/limited) default=free --> | issn = | doi = | id = | arxiv=YYMM.NNNNNa | access-date = | archive-url= | archive-date= |url-status=live <!-- live|dead|unfit|usurped -->}}</ref>
    • |display-authors=etal
    • for volatile, mainstream newspapers like NYT? Wikipedia:List of web archives on Wikipedia + use |archiveurl= |archivedate=
      • if one of archive-url, archive-date is present, then the other must be present too, and title and url must also be present
      • Template:Webarchive - {{webarchive |format=addlarchives |url= |date= |url2= |date2= }} (max 10 addl (additional) archives)
    • {{cbignore}}
  • avoiding totalitarianism: alternatives to google:
    • open source
    • semantic:
    • Nov/Dec 2023 proposal to avoid non-mainspace advocacy for Alphabet/Google:
      • Wikipedia:Village_pump (proposals)/Archive 209#Modify Module:Find sources/templates/Find general sources concerning the template {{Find sources}} and its source module:
        1. Add more individual sources - consensus against
        2. Remove all individual news outlets - strong consensus in favour; implementation (removal of NYT + AP)
        3. Replace the generic link - rough consensus against, but with acknowledgement that Participants who supported replacing it cited concerns about user privacy, potential systemic bias of Google's search engine, and some alternative websites were suggested.
    • alternative template: {{search for}} e.g.
Advanced search for: 
"topology"
In books/documents 
Google Books
Internet Archive  · WorldCat
In the news 
Google News: recent  · archives
Free English newspaper archives
In academic/legal journals 
and reference works 
Google Scholar: academic  · legal
The Wikipedia Library

Oxford Reference  · JSTOR
PUBMED Central
Internet Archive

World Wide Web pages 
Google Web Search  · Advanced Search
Searx 1  · 2  · 3  · 4
Bing  · DuckDuckGo  · Startpage
Yahoo
Images (free) 
Google  · Flickr


  • redirect to section example
 #REDIRECT[[Gaafar Nimeiry#1985 Revolution]]
 {{Rcat shell|
  {{R to section}}
 }}

Possible TODOs

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Peace process

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Battles get huge amounts of Wikipedia attention, while peace actions get much less. This is not Wikipedians' fault alone - killing is "sexy" for the media, while negotiations and the creation of networks and organised groups and healthier human relationships are boring and unprofitable. We need to create more peace process structures, since pedants don't want information on battles to be corrupted by "unencyclopedic" information such as elements of peace processes that inevitably accompany battles since (at least) a century ago: see this removal, for example.

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Ethiopian names

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Meta-level work

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Some stuff i worked on several years ago

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  • Protests of 2019 - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Protests of 2019 (2nd nomination) - deleted in June 2020 without notification of a major contributor
    • Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2020 June 15 - not overturned
    • archives: 30 Dec 2019; history; edit statistics; talk page.
    • Erica Chenoweth, July 2020, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-future-of-nonviolent-resistance-2/#f1, "The year 2019 saw what may have been the largest wave of mass, nonviolent antigovernment movements in recorded history.1" cites themself "1. Erica Chenoweth et al., 'This May Be the Largest Wave of Nonviolent Mass Movements in World History. What Comes Next?' Washington Post, Monkey Cage blog, 16 November 2019." - original research by a Wikipedian?
    • protests of 2019, Wikidata Q76753469

DYK

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DYK reviewing credits

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unused DYK reviewing credits

used DYK reviewing credits

DYK stats

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How interested were random en.wikipedia readers in these DYK'd topics? (pre- and post- stats not subtracted; time of day of appearance may affect N. American vs European/African vs South Asian vs East Asian/Australasian likeliness of reading):

Other statistics

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Balancing some particular biases

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Women in computing articles

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(to which I have not (yet) contributed...) - highlighted by https://womenrockscience.tumblr.com/ on the Fediverse

EmpowerHer Editathon 2024-03-22 to 2024-04-22

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m:Event:EmpowerHer Editathon 2024 - related articles - unclear if the scope is "women in politics, democracy, elections and governance within AU states" or "women in politics, in democracy, in elections and in governance within AU states" - probably the latter is the intended meaning...

About Wikipedia

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Rants

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  • On the question of how much compression should be done in the long term, I've only just discovered that en.Wikipedia has a whole set of Category:Lists of diplomatic visits by heads of state. Given that almost all of these are opaque meetings with at best press conferences following the meetings, the useful information content is about as much as that of a 'Miss' competition. Famous powerful person A meets powerful person B. Great! and what does that have to do with transparent, rational, informed decision-making representing the interests of citizens of A and B's countries? If I were dictator of en.Wikipedia, I would probably delete the whole set. Boud (talk) 15:48, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Other wikis: Wikidot

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refs experiment

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The world is round[2]:    and orbits another world[3]: 3, 14, 15 , yet some[4] claim that it's flat. Mikołaja also says it's roundish with a reference duplicating biblio info contained in the refs= list.[3] and don't forget a subpage list of references.[5] Maybe also see ref.[6] of how not to falsify your inferences from checksummed data.[7][8]

References

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  1. ^ Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud (2005-10-26). "(speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 26 October 2005)". The President's Office (Iran). Retrieved 2007-09-30.
  2. ^ "Diameter". 2011-03. Archived from the original on 2011-04-02. Retrieved 2011-04-02. {{cite news}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help) Cite error: The named reference "Eratosthenes" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b this.version.is.ignored if it comes second, i guess, and does not override the first. Cite error: The named reference "Copernicus" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Circular argument". 2011-03. Archived from the original on 2011-04-02. Retrieved 2011-04-02. {{cite news}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help) Cite error: The named reference "WMAP" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ The World of Subpages. Mod U. Larity Cite error: The named reference "from the subpage" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Rev". 2011-03. Archived from the original on 2011-04-02. Retrieved 2011-04-02. {{cite news}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ Samantha Schmidt; Steven Rich; Ana Vanessa Herrero; María Luisa Paúl (4 August 2024). "Maduro lost election, tallies collected by Venezuela's opposition show". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Wikidata Q128550264. Archived from the original on 5 August 2024.
  8. ^ Blogg, Jane (4 August 2024). "Wow". WaPo. d:Q128550264.

predatory journals

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A semi-centralised place at GAFAM to look for lists of predatory journals and publishers, currently not updated since 2017, is:

Reference section bots/parsers

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  • Whether or not bots or parsers should ignore <!-- ... --> or rather {{void| ... }} comments seems to be disputed between different people. TODO: See this discussion and find the (early 2021?) bot owner discussions about this, and get the different people to chat directly and decide what's best.

Barnstars

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by Abie the Fish Peddler 4 Oct 2009:

  The Rosetta Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded for making the farsi language accessible on Talk:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Abie the Fish Peddler (talk) 20:27, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

by Philippe (WMF) 21 Jan 2012:

  The Original Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation.

by Northamerica1000 on 16 Feb 2012:

  The Barnstar of Liberty
Thanks for creating the new article Lawyers for Liberty and helping to improve Wikipedia's coverage of human-rights related organizations. Your work is appreciated. Northamerica1000(talk) 19:18, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

by Mohamed CJ 22 July 2012:

  The Barnstar of Liberty
For your coverage of the ongoing protest movement in Saudi Arabia. You've done some excellent work there, many times all by yourself! Mohamed CJ (talk)

by AntonSamuel 19:30, 21 October 2020:

  The Editor's Barnstar
Thank you for your contributions in improving the neutrality and quality of the Ilham Aliyev article! AntonSamuel (talk) 19:30, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
  • According to another volunteer, I have recently been scrupulously pretending [my]self to be "neutral" in Wikipedia editing. Sounds like a compliment to me. Boud (talk) 02:37, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

by WomenArtistUpdates 00:51, 1 April 2021:

  Women in Red Women in Africa contest
Boud Thank you for your additions March 2021! - WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:43, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

by Gerda Arendt, 06:51, 24 August 2021:

peace process

Thank you for quality articles about protests for peace and human rights, and news about them in Afghanistan and elsewhere, such as Rukhshana Media,Geneva II Middle East peace conference, 2019 Iraqi protests, 2020 Polish protests and People's Peace Movement (Afghanistan), for "Battles get huge amounts of Wikipedia attention, while peace actions get much less." - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2644 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:51, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

by Sennecaster 13:16, 16 November 2021:

  The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
I've seen you around WP:CP with a lot of helpful comments and listings. Thank you for your work there! Sennecaster (Chat) 13:16, 16 November 2021 (UTC)


by Pachu Kannan 08:47, 20 July 2024:

  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This is for your tireless contributions related to Arab-Israeli conflict. Pachu Kannan (talk) 08:47, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Is /me notable?

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While Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing, universities want publicity for their researchers, so my public profile - independent of Wikipedia editing - might sooner or later be used to create an article about me, whether I want that or not, in which case WP:PROF would almost certainly be the criterion for deciding whether or not the topic is notable enough to survive an WP:AFD. So here are some sources that should likely qualify as WP:RS (several are paywalled) for deciding for or against creating/keeping an article:

Sources for notability of Boudewijn François Roukema (Q123176767) under WP:PROF:

Other notable info from WP:RS that is unlikely to qualify for notability criteria

References

  1. ^ Nowi profesorowie [New professors] (in Polish), Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, 25 June 2018, Wikidata Q123861567, archived from the original on 16 February 2021
  2. ^ Marek Oramus (2018). Na niebie i ziemi: Największe tajemnice wszechświata objaśniają czołowi polscy naukowcy [On sky and earth: the greatest mysteries of the universe explained by leading Polish scientists] (in Polish). Zona Zero (Warsaw publisher). ISBN 978-83-950193-7-1. OCLC 1066110503. Wikidata Q123861755.
  3. ^ John Gribbin (4 January 1997). "Science: A strange twist in the tale of the Universe". New Scientist. ISSN 0262-4079. Wikidata Q123861956. Archived from the original on 16 July 2021.
  4. ^ Abstracts of Award Winning and Honorable Mention Essays for 2013 (PDF), Gravity Research Foundation, 2013, Wikidata Q124512442, archived (PDF) from the original on 14 March 2022
  5. ^ Michael Banks (23 June 2009). "Benford's law and the Iranian election". Physics World. ISSN 0953-8585. Wikidata Q124300382. Archived from the original on 12 April 2023.
  6. ^ Nate Silver (18 June 2009). "Karroubi's Unlucky 7's?". FiveThirtyEight. Wikidata Q124300458. Archived from the original on 12 April 2023.
  7. ^ Fact check: Deviation from Benford's Law does not prove election fraud, Reuters, 10 November 2020, Wikidata Q124300475, archived from the original on 25 December 2022
  8. ^ Pierwsi ambasadorowie otwartej nauki [First open science ambassadors] (in Polish), Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, 5 July 2023, Wikidata Q130298627, archived from the original on 5 July 2023

scratch

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