document updated 15 years ago, on May 2, 2008
- now that I'm semi-established as [[User:Underpants]], we clearly need a theme on our homepage.
This will do nicely:
[[Gnomes (South Park episode)]]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gnomes_plan.png
(obviously I'd have to re-draw it myself, and make it obviously distinct, since fairuse isn't allowed on user pages)
http://xb5.xanga.com/ba6b937739d3347675902/b32107584.jpg
ASAP:
- if this issue isn't resolved by Dec 24, 2007, remove the questionable text:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2007_Pakistani_state_of_emergency#Copyright_of_declaration_text.3F
- make a decent worldwide map for [[Endorheic basin]]
- [[Image:Ocean drainage.png]] is decent, but it shows everything BUT the endorheic basins
- partial components:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Caspianseamap.png
http://earthtrends.wri.org/maps_spatial/maps_detail_static.php?map_select=294&theme=2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GB-Definition-Map.jpg
- add this: http://reddit.com/info/2bisz/comments/c2bjb7 to [[List of bridge disasters]]
- create a map for [[Quad Cities]]:
http://tinyurl.com/ypklvw
- hopefully we can include some sort of outline of the individual cities?
- do an inset that shows the larger area, maybe the entire U.S.
- convert [[Image:Car diagram.jpg]] (!!?!) to SVG
- nominate the [[soap bubble]] image for featured image on Commons
- but first, I need watch the featured image candidates, and find out the social standards, etc.
- add a enhancement/bug in bugzilla for being able to display a specific version of an image
- add another enhancement/bug, for adding a proper (diff) link to image versions... that
uses a [[blink comparator]]
- email Satoko, mention:
- did she get her package?
- did she decide on a job?
- has she seen this hilarious video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X30eJjDZlJ0
X update my cross-namespace redirects report
X write a dump-script that identifies all CSD-G8 (note that sub-criteria 1, 2, and 4 can be automated)
- write a dump-script that idnetifies all CSD-G8 that have existed since we have deletion-logs
available for, and whose main page (AND top-level main page) appears to have never existed...
eg. likely entirely joke articles
- post all three of the above on WT:CSD
- write a dump-script that identifies some of the worst {{disambig}} pages
1. (manually?) come up with a full list of the subcategories of [[Category:Disambiguation]]
2. use categorylinks.sql to come up with a full list of all disambiguation articles
3. scan through the article text, and analyze them
- draw an image for [[Orbital plane (astronomy)]]... maybe render it?
http://odin.physastro.mnsu.edu/~eskridge/astr101/Draconic.png
- take a picture for:
[[bar ends]]
[[dipstick]]
- change large sections of [[Tomb of Jesus]] away from being a disambig... I don't believe
that trying to wedge it into the confines of [[WP:MOSDAB]] will benefit it at all
- make sure all the links at [[User:Interiot/CamelCase]] have {{R from CamelCase}} on them (using AWB)
- add [[Image:USSRonaldReagan hangar.jpg]] to [[aircraft carrier]]... the article is already jam-packed with pictures, but this one is particularly stunning
- things to put through XfD sooner or later (they're marginal... if they're kept, AfDing might help them improve, and/or clarify why they should be kept)
- [[Cambrian House]] (I think we do need to be absolutely certain of its notability, due to the GoogleSense stunt before)
- [[Paul Kraus]]
- [[Purple minutes]] (its significant concerns were noted in tags on March 25)
- convert this to SVG: Image:LocationNigeria.png
using [[Image:BlankMap-World6.svg]]
- articles in the process of being created (see staging/ directory)
- [[Template:Disambig-inclusion]] (per [[Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#New cleanup tag proposal]])
- [[Dan Rather Presents]]
- [[Infiniti G37]]
- [[Extralife]]
- [[Template:Succinct_captions]]
- maps I'd like to draw in SVG eventually
- [[Mississippi Delta]], based on http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4675562
- [[Jordan River]], based on http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/mckinney/ce397/Topics/Jordan/jordanb.jpg
- at stubtypes for deletion, have [[Category:Auto racing stubs]] renamed to something like
[[Category:Motorsport stubs]], since {{motorsport-stub}}'s name doesn't at all imply only-automobiles
Examples that are not automobiles:
- [[Sidecarcross]]
... so I guess the question will be: are there enough non-auto entries to be able to split this?
... on the other hand, does it make sense to split it? things like [[Tamburello (infamous race track corner)]]
may well straddle the line
- some of my [[/Media]] articles that could definitely use some TLC (eg. proper writing, expansion, copyediting)
[[ExtremeTech]]
- find a way to delete or otherwise handle these: [[User:Interiot//Temp ns0]]
- move them all to Talk: space, per [[Wikipedia:Subpages]], I think
- take a picture for [[D-pad]] of the Wii controller
- clean the wii-mote first, obviously
- make sure there's a reflection off of the surface plastic that criss-crosses the D-pad... it looks quite nice
- add the Harvard study back into [[TRUSTe]] (see article history)
- make a better animated .gif for [[Sieve of Eratosthenes]]... that one is pretty bad:
- we should simply use circles for identified primes, and X out numbers that identified as non-prime
- it's useful to do some stepping through the numbers, but especially when doing
"2" and "3", only the first couple should be stepped through, after that it should
speed to the end for that number
- the colors are otherwise very confusing, especially with the subtle difference between things
like dark red and light right
- the list on the right is unnecessary, I think. Circling the primes would do
fine, I think. (it also adds untranslatable text)
(though the text refers to the two separate things, as part of the
algorithm, so... maybe we could leave it in, and just do a drop-in
replacement?)
- maybe as a bonus: when processing "3"s, hilight the cicled 3 and crossed 6, 9,
12, ... in red. When done processing the "3"s, turn those back to black.
Then hilight the crossed "4" in red. Then turn that to black. Then hilight
the circled "5" in red, and crossed 10, 15, 20, ... in red as well...
- maybe hilight the "anchor" nubmer... (eg. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ...), that way it's
clear what's being crossed off, and also, when we skip over a number, it's more
clear? maybe?
- see http://www.webreference.com/dev/gifanim/ for resources on optimizing animated gifs
after they're created
- do a program that outputs .rgb binary dumps to imagemagick to do this...
- give it several grayscale mask images:
1. the background gray-box grid
2. the rendered font (just a screenshot of the table from Word or Firefox)
(the current image would work fine as well...)
3. the final circles and crosses mask
- the program will just combine those masks in various ways for each part of the
grid... eg. often the rendered font will be black, but it can easily turn it
alpha+red when they're hilighted
- be sure to draw a black box around the whole thing like [[Image:Animation Sieb des Eratosthenes.gif]]
does so the image doesn't need a separate frame
- have some sort of list of frames to skip? Or just automatically start skipping
frames when you've done 5 of a given number?
- redo my homepage like this (har har, it's possible to make WP look worse than myspace): http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/
- at one point, I thought I knew a way to tile the backround like that... Currently, I'm not totally sure how to accomplish this
- get a bathymetry picture for [[Gulf of California]]
- maybe get pictures for [[Isla Ágel de la Guarda]] and [[Tiburósland]] as well?
- help out at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Malplaced disambiguation pages]]
- look into [[specialized dictionary]]... per the wikimania MP3, wiktionary is many
dictionaries in one, including a subject-specific dictionary. The most obvious subject that
this happens with is law dictionaries...
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Law
- create the equivalent of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games/Essential articles]] for Automobiles...
- include [[Automobile]], which is a CORE TOPIC for a printed wikipedia
Possible backlogs to work on:
- [[Category:Articles to be split]]
Work on Featured Articles more:
- spend time on FA RC patrol http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/offtoolserver/RC_firstonly?short=FA&hideBots=1
- spend some time in [[Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive]]
outstanding votes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_April_21#Category:School_of_Pharmacy_to_Category:University_of_London (basically agreed to)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals#Cat:Internet_stubs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals#.7B.7Bemergency-stub.7D.7D.2C_Cat:Emergency_services_stubs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stub_types_for_deletion#.7B.7BWagon-stub.7D.7D (agreed)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Image.2C_small_black_border
a tiny bit later
- clean up disambig pages per [[WP:MOSDAB]]
- start with http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/groupwatch/cat1?category=Disambiguation
- figure out whether [[Car dealership]] can be cleaned up from US version
- merge [[meta refresh]] into [[meta tag]]... clarify http-equiv a bit more in
[[meta tag]]... move [[text link]] to [[anchor tag]], add to [[Category:HTML]], and
expand accordingly... and link all the existing HTML tags into [[HTML element]]
- improve [[History of globalization]] quite a bit
- copy the history text from the [[globalization]] article
- say something about "the modern era has been typified by rapid advances in
transportation, communication, and international trade, previous eras saw slower
advances in these areas as well".
- cleanup the notability category cruft left by R!
- MFD [[Wikipedia:List of lists/uncategorized]] based on [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:List of lists]]
Take more serious pictures for...
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- [[D-pad]] (on the level of quality of [[Analog stick]])
Controllers with a high-contrast D-pad include:
S-NES (black on white)
N64 (black on gray)
Study more
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- [[User:Snowspinner/Arbcom]]
- http://cantrip.org/stupidity.html
- [[Atmospheric reentry]]
Tools
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- create a two-stage multi-category tool:
- in the middle of the night, a pagelist table is updated
(eg. "all articles under Category:Automobiles". This functions as something
like a personal watchlist, but is public/open, automatically updated,
bigger but less surgical)
- at any time, people can do queries like:
- watchlist
- show the intersection with particular categories, especially things like:
- cleanup categories
- deletion categories
- create a multi-category recentchanges
- add "back" navigational items to ContributionTree (eg. to get back to namepsaces, or whatnot)
Project: Automobiles
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- write a tool to identify all articles that should be marked as a stub
- then stub-sort these
- cleanup, merge [[Engine braking]]
- expand [[Dashboard]] by translating over from the de version
Project: Satellites
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Template [[Landsat 1]], [[Landsat 7]]...
Create:
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[[ACRIMSAT]]
Infobox:
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[[Landsat 7]]
[[Gravity Probe B]]
[[Aqua (satellite)]]
[[Jason 1]]
[[GALEX]] (telescope)
[[Monitor-E]]
[[AO-51]]
[[EDUSAT]]
== Noticably improve these articles ==
[[Subaru]]
- interesting aerospace shit:
https://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/EARS/Hallionpapers/aerospacemedicine.htm
Add ==Caveats== section to [[Backlink]] (eg. 1) googlebombing, 2) trackback spam, both are related).
Also clean it up a bit... make a better intro section, make it flow a little better
Wikify [[4-stroke cycle engine valves]] (and remove stub, it's not a stub)
Update user home page to be like [[User:Violetriga]] or [[User:Jtkiefer]] or [[User:NicholasTurnbull]]
[[Portal:Astronomy]]
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles]]
Cleanup stuff at bottom of [[Binary large object]]
Important things:
Clean up text at the bottom of [[Oversteer]]
Fair-use
Get a decent picture for [[Rob Corddry]]
Illustration
add bathymetry image to [[Atlantic Ocean]] (cripes)
[[Abyssal plain]]
fix the border on the [[Mississippi embayment]], I'm really starting to think it's an important article
[[FIFO]], [[LIFO]] (do an animated GIF, with a diagram that looks like computer pointers)
[[Strobe light]]
[[Plywood]]
[[Motorcycle safety]], show some motorcycle clothing?
[[Boom (sailing)]]
[[Age of Sail]]
[[Rain shadow]]
[[Disjoint union]]
[[Digital image]]
every damn article on [[Wikipedia:Browse_by_overview]]
[[TrueType]], [[Outline font]]
[[Contact patch]], copy from this:
http://images.google.com/images?q=Contact+patch+site%3Aautoemirates.com
[[HyperText Transfer Protocol]] (some headers on top of an entity... that going back and forth between a client, a server, and two proxies in between)
[[Hairy ball theorem]]
[[Rifling]]
[[Grille]]
[[Tapioca]], [[Tapioca pudding]]
- perhaps just de-green this? http://flickr.com/photos/jeffk/59598175/
[[Journal (mechanics)]]
[[Optical character recognition]]
try to clean up a few more [[Category:Images with inappropriate JPEG compression]]
Far-out illustration
[[Carjacking]] examples:
http://www.promised.com/episodeguide/3rdseason/304.html
http://www.chp.ca.gov/html/carjacker-es.html
[[Shoplifting]]
[[Sexual arousal]]
[[Sterilization (surgical procedure)]]
[[Infection]], [[Inflammation]]
Really far-out illustration
[[Russian roulette]]
[[Female ejaculation]]
Can happen Eventually
Fill out all the error codes on [[List of HTTP status codes]]
(exercise in non-notability, though I think I could actually get some of them past 10
sentences maybe?)
Cleanup/expand [[Motor vehicle]]
Add info from http://oersted.dtu.dk/PR/dtu_anniversary/jlj_dtuanniversary.html to [[Oersted (satellite)]]
Most wanted: [[Ionospheric heater]]
Enter everything on [[Template:Jet Propulsion Laboratory]]
udpate the Telecom 2005 act page with the new info
- post the new .html and .txt files
- either do the audio transcript myself, or:
- convert the .rm to .mp3, and post it to the internet (at a MUCH lower bitrate!)
revive [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobile construction]] a bit
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