User:johndburger

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Some of my philosophy, [[Hamlet|Horatio]]

I'm just here to work on an encyclopedia.
I believe edit summaries are an oft-missed opportunity for communication, and I use them pretty [http://www.math.ucla.edu/~aoleg/wp/rfa/edit_summary.cgi?user=johndburger religiously]. In fact, I rarely use my rollback privilege, because it leaves uninformative summaries.
I try to observe a one revert rule, except in obvious cases of repeated vandalism.
I think references are very important—otherwise, this isn't much of an encyclopedia. I like inline citations.

See my other [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=johndburger&dbname=enwiki_p edit stats].

Developing Navibot. It finds missing disambiguation entries and adds them to the appropriate page—see below
Developing [http://twitter.com/enwikipedia enwikipedia], a bot that announces featured Wikipedia content on Twitter
Cleaning up references and citations
Adding Persondata
Applying MOSDAB
Spam
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.unit-converter.org unit-converter.org] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.mycomponents.co.uk mycomponents.co.uk] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.convertunits.com convertunits.com] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.onlineconversion.com onlineconversion.com]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Citation_templates Citation templates]

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[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=500&hideliu=1&namespace=0 Last 500 anon. edits]

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I'm working on Navibot. It will find disambiguation entries, e.g.:

Pages of the form foo (bar) that are missing from a foo (disambiguation) page (or a foo page that's in :Category:Disambiguation)
Pages of the form foo (disambiguation) that do not have a disamb link from foo.
Missing disambiguation pages—that is, there are three or more real articles named foo, foo (bar), etc., but no foo (disambiguation)

I'm also thinking of writing a formatting bot that would do stuff like this:

Correctly italicize titles in obvious cases, e.g., this Primeval (film) can be corrected to this Primeval (film).
Clean up non-standard -th, etc., dates, like in Nicolaus von Amsdorf:

:He died at Eisenach on May 14th 1565

: But see discussion with idiosyncratic editor: User_talk:Johndburger#What_about_the_dates.3F

A "descriptor" bot (terrible name).

Find bare mentions of people in lists like "Notable graduates" or "Notable residents"
Formulate short descriptions from the corresponding article, using WP:Persondata and other heuristics
Add these descriptions to the bare mentions in the list

This approach could also be used when adding entries to disambiguation pages.

Add main pages to categories where appropriate.
Putting Boston_Latin_School#Notable_alumni in Category:Boston Latin School alumni
Expand Human language technology