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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em; color: #00FF00;" | The Technical Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid #00FF00; color: #00FF00;" | Thanks for creating RMCD bot and bringing the requested moves process back on its feet!

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Original Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For your contribution over at Requested Moves. Great work! Tiggerjay (talk) 03:32, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your tireless (and often-times, tedious) work at Wikipedia:WikiProject Merge and surrounding environs.
It is well appreciated! GenQuest "Talk to Me" 23:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

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style="border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For completing a significant part of the large merger relating to the Timeline of the Syrian Civil War. Your hard work is very much appreciated. Tradediatalk 06:14, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

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style="border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your work on maintaining and improving RMCD bot, which has made itself indispensable to the Requested Move process. You are highly appreciated for your flexibility and dedication! Aervanath (talk) 23:40, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | for cracking the code and saving the day. ty amigo. Gregkaye ✍♪ 15:26, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

bot help

Thank you, user who knows the secret to winning the Race Against The Machine, for helpful bots and for cleaning up yourself ("removing WP:OVERLINK to an everyday word"), for redirects and templates such as {{tl|Forms of energy}}, for {{diff|Talk:Hardwired control|456571861||detailed analysis}} and offering to serve as arbitrator: "Don't underestimate how far I'm willing to go to read the background", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Special Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | A thousand thanks for [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3ARequested_moves&type=revision&diff=726583727&oldid=726534559 today's improvement] of the RMCD bot notification rule. That will be a big help to the Wikpedia community. —BarrelProof (talk)

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style="border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Just wnted to ad-gnomish you for doing what you do! Special thanks for relentlessly working on the Merge Project backlog. Well done. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 03:52, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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The current time is

Did you know

  • Martin Luther King's final Sunday sermon referenced the thesis of "The Triple Revolution", which primarily discussed the cybernation revolution of increasing automation, whereby machines would continue reducing the need for manual labor, while increasing the skill needed to work, thereby producing greater unemployment
  • The Eureqa software tool used genetic programming to discover the law of conservation of energy on its own
  • Much of the work I've done for Wikipedia could be offshored to anywhere, or automated (indeed much is already semi-automated; run my edit history through some machine learning algorithms to automate more)
  • Thoughts on Wikipedia Editing and Digital Labor
  • [http://news.yahoo.com/come-robots-davos-bosses-brace-big-technology-shocks-133340137--sector.html Here come the robots: Davos bosses brace for big technology shocks]

= Important historical events that don't get their due =

Mindboggling facts

  • The total length of expressways in China increased from zero in 1988 to {{convert|69,560|mi|km}} at the end of 2014, the world's largest controlled-access highway system by length. The US has {{convert|64,352|mi|km}} total – the {{convert|47,856|mi|km}} Interstate Highway System plus 16,496 miles of other freeways and expressways (as of 2013, including Puerto Rico).[http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2013/hm20.cfm Public Road Length - 2013]. Federal Highway Administration.
  • And although the London Underground had over a century head-start on the Shanghai Metro, which first opened in 1993, the latter now has the world's longest metro system, at 334 miles. The New York City Subway has 232 miles, but if you add the Staten Island Railway (14 mi.), Long Island Rail Road (319 mi.) and Metro-North Railroad (385 mi.), Shanghai has a way to go yet—seems they're just getting started though.
  • US public spending on transport and water infrastructure has fallen steadily since the 1960s, and is now at 2.4% of GDP. Europe invests 5% of GDP in infrastructure; China's racing into the future at 9%.{{cite web|title=Life in the slow lane|url=http://www.economist.com/node/18620944|magazine=The Economist|date=April 28, 2011}}
  • [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-15/china-spends-more-on-infrastructure-than-the-u-s-and-europe-combined China Spends More on Infrastructure Than the U.S. and Europe Combined!] Western countries put less money into roads and bridges now than they did before the global financial crisis. Bloomberg Businessweek.
  • In 1995, the US was tied for first in the world in the percentage of the population with a college degree. Now the US ranks fourteenth.{{cite book|last=Madland|first=David|title=Hollowed Out: Why the Economy Doesn't Work without a Strong Middle Class|year=2015|page=87|isbn=978-0-520-28652-8}}

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‘We Need an Energy Miracle’

Bill Gates nails it: [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/we-need-an-energy-miracle/407881/ Interview] by The Atlantic. Something on the order of the Drake Well or Chicago Pile-1. Maybe some computers running genetic programming algorithms will help us find it, before "time runs out". A breakthrough in stellarator or tokamak research could be a game-changer.

  • [https://www.yahoo.com/news/vast-field-recoverable-oil-natural-144523997.html?ref=gs Vast shale oil field in Texas could yield 20 billion barrels] It seems that "peak oil" has been superseded by "peak unconventional oil", so we will be running "climate experiments" for a while longer...
  • Vivek Wadhwa thinks Perovskite solar cells could be the solution, along with rapidly improving battery technologies. I highly recommend his book about the near future ({{ISBN|978-1626569713}}, it covers a lot more than just cars).
  • [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/business/energy-environment/arkansas-lithium-ev-batteries.html Arkansas May Have Vast Lithium Reserves], [https://www.yahoo.com/news/vast-deposit-white-gold-arkansas-192131057.html Vast deposit of 'white gold' in Arkansas could be stunningly valuable] – direct lithium extraction ≡ "fracking for (clean?) energy storage"

Women On $20s

The non-profit organization "Women On $20s" conducted [http://www.womenon20s.org/results a poll] to choose a woman to put on a newly designed US twenty-dollar bill (to replace Andrew Jackson). The two leading vote-getters were Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Tubman. Others on the ballot were Rosa Parks, Wilma Mankiller, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Rachel Carson, Shirley Chisholm, Alice Paul, Frances Perkins, Barbara Jordan, Patsy Mink and Betty Friedan. As I was not familiar with some of these names, I looked them up and linked to them here. I think Jeannette Rankin should have been included on this ballot.

:[http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/24/change-20-bill-feels-like-slight-some-andrew-jacksons-home-state/83398740/ “I hope we can convince the next treasurer to print an equal number of $20 bills with both Jackson and Tubman.”] Sounds like a great idea to me. NPOV and all. The last president to pay off our national debt in 1835. {{smiley}}

Wikipedia peaked in 2008?

A ten-year update of [https://books.google.com/ngrams/interactive_chart?content=Wikipedia%2CBritannica%2CEncarta%2C+Encyclopedia+Americana%2CWorld+Book&year_start=1960&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CWikipedia%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CBritannica%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CEncarta%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CEncyclopedia%20Americana%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CWorld%20Book%3B%2Cc0 Google Ngram] data would help answer that question. By the way, for more on Culturomics and the Google Ngram Viewer, I highly recommend {{ISBN|978-1-59448-745-3}}.

:UPDATE: Google has updated data to 2019! The answer is [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?smoothing=3&corpus=26&year_end=2019&year_start=1800&content=Wikipedia%2CBritannica%2CEncarta%2CEncyclopedia+Americana%2CWorld+Book&direct_url=t1%3B%2CWikipedia%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CBritannica%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CEncarta%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CEncyclopedia%20Americana%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CWorld%20Book%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2CWikipedia%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CBritannica%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CEncarta%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CEncyclopedia%20Americana%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CWorld%20Book%3B%2Cc0 NO]! Check back in 10 years to see whether Wikipedia peaked in 2019; its growth curve [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Wikipedia%2CBritannica%2CEncarta%2CEncyclopedia+Americana%2CWorld+Book&year_start=1990&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3 does seem to be flattening].

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  • in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Error&namespace=1&hidelinks=1 talk namespace]
  • in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Error&namespace=5&hidelinks=1 Wikipedia talk namespace]
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  • [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&search=insource:/__INDEX_/&fulltext=Search&ns118=1&profile=advanced Drafts using the INDEX magic word]
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  • [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&search=insource%3A%22NEWSECTIONLINK%22&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&profile=advanced Articles using the NEWSECTIONLINK magic word]
  • [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&search=insource%3A%22NONEWSECTIONLINK%22&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&profile=advanced Articles using the NONEWSECTIONLINK magic word]
  • [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&profile=advanced&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2F__DISAMBIG_%2F&ns0=1&searchToken=5kebrk01222xsrm3t7qrebhf2 Articles using the DISAMBIG magic word]
  • [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&profile=advanced&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2F__STATICREDIRECT_%2F&ns0=1&searchToken=5kebrk01222xsrm3t7qrebhf2 Articles using the STATICREDIRECT magic word]

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= Database =

= MediaWiki core =

  • Welcome to MediaWiki.org!
  • mw:How to become a MediaWiki hacker
  • [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core MediaWiki core] on Gerrit
  • [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/master/DEVELOPERS.md DEVELOPERS.md] MediaWiki provides an extendable local development environment based on Docker Compose.
  • [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/master/ MediaWiki (master) on Phabricator] (source code)
  • [https://codesearch.wmcloud.org/search/ MediaWiki Codesearch]
  • mw:Manual:MediaWiki architecture
  • mw:Manual:Installation requirements
  • [http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/ Unicode Code Converter]

Setup and configuration

  • the [https://idm.wikimedia.org/ Bitu Identity Manager], which shows me "My LDAP properties". (see wikitech:IDM)
  • Gerrit Wikimedia Code Review [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/settings user settings]
  • https://git-scm.com/ Git, a free and open source distributed version control system. [https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.46.2.windows.1 Git for Windows v2.46.2] was the last version supporting Windows 7
  • Configure Git

Submit a patch

Open a Git Bash window, and from there,

  1. mw:Download from Git#Keeping up to date
  2. mw:Gerrit/Tutorial#Submit a patch
  3. *mw:Gerrit/Tutorial/tl;dr#Write your patch
  4. Start server: c:\php\mediawiki\core> "c:\php\php" -S localhost:8000
  5. Open webpage: [http://localhost:8000/ localhost:8000]

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Copyright

Wikipedia editors are somehow expected to know a lot of stuff about this topic. I find it a bit overwhelming. I checked out {{ISBN|978-0199941162}} from my local library, but confess it's been a struggle to put down my keyboard & mouse long enough to read it. Taking notes and posting links to terms as I come across them.

History

Editor engagement experiments

Every now and then I run into something interesting over the course of editing.

Newer experiments

  • [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=&subtype=&tagfilter=&type=growthexperiments&user=&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist&wpdate=&offset=&limit=250 Growth experiments log]
  • [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=growthexperiments&user=&page=&wpdate=2022-01-02&tagfilter=&subtype=&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist Started slowly in 2021], without fanfare that I noticed

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