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Revision as of 19:23, 31 December 2007
- Happy new year!
Account histories (including previous accounts)
List of the day
Today's featured list is: October 23.
Turbo charge your editing performance
If you need to work on lots of articles, to make small or similar changes on each page, then you may find AutoWikiBrowser to be extremely useful. It's an auto page-loader which automatically loads the next article on your list as soon as you save the one you are working on. Also, each time it loads a page it automatically executes the search and replace routines and other operations you've told it to do (like prepending or appending notices). Then you do whatever manual edits you wish to make to the page, and click save. And it has lots of other features. Only editors with 500 or more edits in the main (article) namespace are given the keys to this program (that is, you are required to register to be placed on a check page - the program checks for your name on the check page before proceeding). You can easily rack up over a hundred edits an hour with this tool.
Abbreviating edit summaries
Edit summaries can be a pain, but did you know Wikipedia has somewhat standardized short forms for the common edit summaries? These can reduce the time spent summarizing your edits, so you can spend more time writing. See Wikipedia:Edit summary legend.
You may also find standardized correction "marginal marks" useful (many are abbreviations). Here are a couple of links:
Hey, check this out...
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Would you like to be a Wikipedia decision-maker?
Did you know that you are already a member of Wikipedia's two main "committees" which determine the nature of Wikipedia now and in the future? What am I talking about? You. I'm talking about you. You are already in charge...
That's right, you are already a committee member! The main decision-making authority of Wikipedia lies in the hands of all Wikipedians -- you -- and the two main places where Wikipedia's decisions are being made are Village pump (proposals) and Village pump (policy).
Wikipedia is constantly changing. There are proposals being made at the Village pump every day which influence the very nature of Wikipedia, its policies, procedures, and features for better or for worse -- based solely on the input of the participants in the discussions there! The fate of Wikipedia is in your hands. So be sure to participate in Wikipedia's key decision-making at the Village pump.
It's your privilege, and your responsibility.
I look forward to seeing you there.
About me
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* Total includes previous accounts. See account histories.
Current favorite subjects:
- Meaning of life
- Reperfusion
- Cryonics
- Science
- Help
- Humanism
- Humanitarianism
- Sociocracy (what the Wikipedia community is)
- Lists of lists
- Cholesterol
- Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults US National Institutes of Health Adult Treatment Panel III
- Aspects of fat digestion and metabolism - UN/WHO Report 1994
- American Heart Association - "About Cholesterol"
- Hazardous Substances Data Bank - Cholesterol
Current projects
Meaning of life featured article development drive
Someone hit this article with WP:VER and basically gutted the article. Most of the material got commented out, and can't be restored until citations are found for each fact. And since the brunt of featured article development is finding citations, we might as well take the article all the way. It's going slow, but we'll make it eventually. Feel free to join in.
I've been coordinating a wiki-school, called the virtual classroom, for Wikipedians to teach each other how to become better Wikipedians and improve their wiki-skills. Many of the students come from the Admin Coaching program in their pursuit of adminship (to prepare for the often dreaded Requests for Adminship approval process), and others are involved for general improvement as wiki-editors. The program has 3 graduates so far, each of whom have become Wikipedia administrators and VC coaches.
Content pages
From time to time, I do what I can to improve and refine the contents pages of Wikipedia. I was a key contributor to their overhaul. The main ones are on this navigation header bar:
Although very useful, they are still incomplete. For example, the Lists of basic topics is growing slowly but surely and will eventually include lists on all major subject areas. And all the contents pages need to be updated periodically.
Contributions / History
I've lost track of how many articles I've worked on, but my passion is projects (not necessarily WikiProjects), and it is on these I've applied most of my effort...
Early edits
- I learned about Wikipedia through answers.com in early 2005, but didn't start editing until October of that year, under the anonymous IP 24.18.171.99.
- During this time I:
- worked on Meaning of life
- began rewriting Procrastination, and my overhaul was later transwiki'd and converted into the wikibook Overcoming Procrastination
- created the Philosophy navigation footer
- created the Glossary of philosophical isms (still needs some definitions filled in).
After about a thousand edits, on November 11, 2005, I created an account. As Go for it!, I:
- joined the Philosophy Wikiproject and overhauled the entire project page.
- created the Philosophy portal, using the category page as a starting point (it looked a lot like a portal, so I moved it over and overhauled it). Had much help from Infinity0.
- resurrected the Main Page redesign project, which attracted a lot of participants, and resulted in the present Main Page design.
- created the Main Page alternatives department, for those who have special browsing needs, and for those who get tired of looking at the same main page design all the time.
- initiated the overhaul of Wikipedia's Help page, expanding it with an immense quantity of links gathered from everywhere, making it quite unwieldy, and then split it into its current 2-tier structure, turning the main help page into a menu. Of course I had a lot of help. Also, others have refined these pages to their current polished presentation.
- initiated the overhaul of the Community Portal, in the process creating the Community bulletin board (inspired by an idea provided by Renata). My insistence on developing the Community Portal directly without using a draft, landed me in an RfC. Now I use sandboxes extensively (but not exclusively). :-) I slunk away with my tail between my legs and worked in out-of-the-way corners of Wikipedia for awhile...
- created the Wikipedia department directory
- redesigned the headers & instructions for the Help Desk, and to a lesser extent the Reference Desk's menu (others have made it look even nicer since then).
- resurrected the long dead Tip of the day department, the output of which is displayed daily on the Help page and the Wikipedia:Community portal. I wrote a complete set of departmental instructions, designed a method for the creation and approval of tips, and wrote a fair number of tips from scratch. Others have joined in on the fun, and we now have a collection of hundreds of tips on how to make the most of Wikipedia, and several ways to display them: including a randomizing template which displays a different tip every time you enter or refresh the page upon which it is displayed, courtesy of CBDunkerson.
- created a tip libarary which presents the tips of the day by subject.
- created the Health portal (converting a redirect)
Got tired of the name "Go for it!" (sort of one-dimensional), and tried out various usernames until I settled on my current one.
- created the Thinking portal.
Throughout my time on Wikipedia, I've done extensive work on lists and Wikipedia's main navigation header and its member pages. I'm still working on them.
- resurrected the Lists of basic topics which were gathering dust in the project namespace, and overhauled and moved the entire collection of lists to the article namespace and giving them their new "list" identities. I've added many lists to this collection, and created the standard heading format currently used by them. The template for the heading structure is called {{BLT}}. This list collection is far from complete, and could sure use your help.
- overhauled Wikipedia:Contents from this to this, and then from this to this, providing most of its current information structure. Kudos go to Quiddity and Rfrisbie for refining the page and making it look really sweeeeet.
- overhauled the Psychology index, based on the design of the Mathematics department's index, taking it from this to this
- overhauled List of overviews, expanding it to its present scope.
- overhauled the Categories page, expanding the link selection.
- helped refine the Quick directory, adding essential links, cleaning up descriptions, etc.
- currently in the process of dismantling List of reference tables, integrating its contents into the overall list system (of which Lists of topics is the top page.
- I've worked on hundreds of other lists, including many list creations and overhauls. Way too many for me to track down easily.
After getting somewhat burnt-out on lists, I spent more time on other types of projects...
- Came across the Esperanza admin coaching project, and helped improve it.
- I tried to extend the concept and created the Admin School, but it got deleted in short order.
- The feedback on the above project and what was wrong with it inspired a better project idea: the Virtual classroom, which spotlights one classroom assignment or topic of discussion at a time. Based on the messages I get, users find it helpful.
- With material garnered from the Virtual Classroom mentioned above, I created a Tools page, listing most of the tools and techniques I currently use for working on Wikipedia. I update it from time to time.
- Created a tutorial on user page design, which is also a clearinghouse of sample wikicode, to help users save time in the creation of their user pages. It also includes a collection of snapshots of (that is, permanent links to) some of the more interesting user pages that have been created on Wikipedia.
- Helped to revamp the Welcoming committee, its various pages, and welcome message templates. Special recognition goes to Anthony cfc for page design, and to Audacity for template programming. They were both inspired by the project and a source of inspiration.
- From the onset of the Virtual classroom, I started building a collection of lessons for it (see {{VC lessons}}), initally from classroom discussions, but soon began to get offers of submissions from other Wikipedians! Then I began to encourage my students to write a lesson each as part of their training. I coordinated the proofreading and copy-editing of each lesson. And the collection just keeps on growing. For it I wrote the lesson Learning the ropes.
- Coached The Rambling Man, Dweller, and User:AGK. When I felt they were ready, I nominated each at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, and each were granted admin status.
Having recovered from list burn-out, I began to work on lists again more and more, along with various other projects...
- Created a header navbar for the Wikipedia namespace, called Template:WP nav pages (header bar), for providing easier access to the Wikipedia community's directories, and through those to the community's support pages. Currently, it looks like this:
- Cleaned up and reformatted the pages on the above header bar.
- Expanded the directory of shortcuts, adding the "shortcut alphabet".
- Created the header navbar Template:WP help pages (header bar) for tying together and providing easier access to Wikipedia's help pages. Here it is:
- Dismantled most of the huge "List of reference tables" which had grown into a list of lists. Folded it's contents (links) into Lists of topics and various subject-based lists. This was probably the most tedious and mind-numbing project I've done so far. Thanks go to Quiddity for finishing it off.
- On Wikipedia's introductory articles and tutorials, I added explanations of the importance of providing references and the consequences of Wikipedia's verification policy. That way, newcomers are more likely to reference their contributions and less likely to be caught totally off-guard when their unreferenced contributions are removed or deleted.
- Continued developing the Lists of basic topics, building geology, human anatomy, radio, Renaissance, biotechnology, fiction, machine topics and expanding the ones on architecture, chemistry, and life extension.
- Revived the Geography WikiProject, expanded the List of basic geography topics with help from feedback from WP:FLC, and started an index of geography topics with about 8,000 articles listed in it.
- Started the basic topic lists WikiProject, to recruit others to help build this useful navigation subsystem of Wikipedia. Built and posted banners to advertise the project on all the relevant projects.
- A recurring problem encountered by lists has been competition from categories, and the assumption by many that lists and categories should not overlap at all. This has resulted in many lists being deleted for the reason that they simply duplicate categories, or the misassumption that "categories would serve this function better". A great many hours of effort of page development has been wasted this way, plus the time spent by those who participated in those deletion discussions. Those who were familiar with lists understood that lists had a great many advantages, and felt frustrated when lists were deleted out of bias by those who didn't understand them very well at all. I've worked to resolve this problem by clarifying in relevant guidelines the purposes of lists, and the synergy between Wikipedia's various navigation methods. See WP:CLS, WP:LISTS, WP:SAL.
- Proposed and implemented the renaming of Wikipedia:Avoid self-references to Wikipedia:Self-references to avoid. The guideline had become a recurring problem for lists, because many editors miscited it as a reason to delete lists that referred to themselves, even though such neutral self-references were not the kind of self-references that the guideline instructed to avoid. Editors were enforcing the guideline's title without reading the guideline, and were applying it to all self-references! This was especially frustrating to list builders, because Wikipedia's list guidelines specifically instructed to use self-references on the list pages to refer to the lists.
- I'm currently coaching 3 students.
I'm always on the lookout for new projects to sink my teeth into, or existing ones to overhaul. Suggestions are welcome.
Now what?
See you in the wiki! The Transhumanist
Awards
Thanks for helping a newbie!
I just want to thank you for building on my tip and making it a true wikipedia tip of the day. I'm still learning a lot about how to do things around here, so your help was greatly appreciated! Keep up the great work, and keep on Going for it! Filmcom 14:36, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For everyone who worked so hard on the Main Page redesign, we all deserve a barnstar! HereToHelp 01:05, 19 March 2006 (UTC) Seconded :-) +sj + 10:00, 22 March 2006 (UTC) Yep, that was a tedious project. Good job. --Go for it! 03:20, 29 March 2006 (UTC) |
Congrats. You deserved it.
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Go for it! earned this barnstar for tireless contributions to the Community Portal and Tip of the Day. (^'-')^ Covington 05:19, 1 May 2006 (UTC) |
Congrats. Don't forget to wind it up every other day. (^'-')^ Covington 05:20, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Smashing!
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
| Your kindess was not random, because you were kind enough to listen to my requests to fix my userpage. Your major kindness will not be ignored, as this BarnStar is my token of appreciation! File:SoleteRayosÑajo.gif Kyo catmeow! 01:59, 24 November 2006 (UTC) |
Thanks for teaching me how to use smilies! I'll be using these more often! Kyo catmeow! 01:59, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
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| Awarded to User:The Transhumanist. Sometimes those who take on large areas of wikipedia organisation seem to be taken for granted, and this is just to show that your work is appreciated by the community. Khukri (talk . contribs) 09:56, 12 December 2006 (UTC) |
Thanks
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
| This wikipedian is a truly reputable user. I am new to wikipedian, and asked him a few questions. He responded so promptly and kindly it was shocking. A wikipedian I look up to. Thanks for doing such a great job. King of Anonymity |
Random Smiley Award
originated by Pedia-I
(Explanation and Disclaimer)
--TomasBat (Talk) 02:53, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
How can I sum the above up....? Oh yes:
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The Original Barnstar | |
| For your revamp of The Welcoming Committee, and of the Welcome Page, I award you the original barnstar. Well done! Anthonycfc [T • C] 18:19, 14 February 2007 (UTC) |
Barnstar
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| For all your work with admin coaching, barnstar awarding, Wikipedia-expanding, and various administrative duties (if you can call all that political stuff we Wikipedians must wade through such a name), I, Sharkface217, hereby award you this Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Good job. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 19:36, 5 May 2007 (UTC) |
Just a few words...
TT, my friend, my mop would never have been gained without your incredible expertise. My kindest regards to you, and drop by as often as possible! Now, a little token of my appreciation...
This, the Golden Wiki Award, the highest attainment level of awards and barnstars, goes to you - The Transhumanist - for being one of the most helpful, kind, resourceful and generous Wikipedians I've had to utmost fortune to meet. Your contributions around the Wiki - at the WikiClassroom, in Dispute Resolution, at the Welcoming Committee, but most of all being a genuinely fun guy, are an amazing feat, and if half the trolls I'll undoubtedly meet after gaining my mop (thanks to you) took a leaf from your book, Wikipedia would be a nicer place.
My kindest possible regards,
Anthony 21:38, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Barnstar
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| I award you this Brilliant Idea Barnstar for helping others to earn Barnstars and awards through your Award Center! • The Giant Puffin • 13:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC) |
User Page Guide
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| This barnstar is for your User Page Guide. It was very helpful and inspired me to actually make a userpage with more than just userboxes. =) Thanks! Theunicyclegirl talk 21:05, 21 July 2007 (UTC) |
Re: Yep, it was just miscommunications
Thank you for stepping up! Jouster (whisper) 21:43, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for stepping up there and defusing that situation. As I've already awarded you a WikiCookie, I'm now hard to work, at right, conjuring up some suitable accompaniment! Jouster (whisper) 16:41, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
- Virtual milk and cookies. I found them virtually delicious. Thank you! The Transhumanist 09:13, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Award
Hello The Transhumanist, (Hold on, can I say that or is it "Hello Transhumanist")
I was going to give you an award but there wasn't one good enough, so I made one better than any that has ever been seen before - This message. Yes, yes, I know, you don't think your worthy of it, but I assure you, you are the only one good enough for it - Pheonix 19:34, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Thank you
A million "Thank You!"s to you! For the life of me I swear I messed with every padding setting, and nothing I did worked, 
. Then you come along, and ~*Poof*~ you fixed it! For this, you receive:
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For fixing a silly error I couldn't fix on my userpage!  |
A Help:Contents Barnstar
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| As the top contributor to Help:Contents, you deserve this barnstar. Thank you! Jreferee (Talk) 05:59, 23 August 2007 (UTC) |
Thank you
Dearest The Transhumanist,
Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 137 supports, 22 opposes, and 5 neutrals. Your efforts as my admin coach and your kind words of strong support are very much appreciated and I look forward to proving you right. I would like to give special thanks to The_undertow and Phoenix-wiki for their co-nominations. Thank you again and best regards.
Thank you!
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| For single-handedly writing Glossary of philosophical isms. It is such a comprehensive, well-written reference that I even have it bookmarked. 124.170.13.86 (talk) 07:49, 29 November 2007 (UTC) |
User page design thanks
Hello there, just wanted to leave a note of appreciation for the very useful stuff on your user page design section. I have mercilessly pillaged stuff from there, and from Phaedriel's user page, to revamp my own pages which I could not possibly have done without copying and pasting from you. So many thanks for providing such clear and helpful examples to those of us who can barely understand the code that underlies these pages! Kim Dent-Brown (Talk to me) 20:57, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
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The Surreal Barnstar | |
| You really deserve this barnstar for the pizazz you put into the work. Everything is so creative! --Alexanderbirkel (talk) 22:33, 13 December 2007 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar | |
| For taking up the challenge and improving my command page, I, Sharkface217, hereby award you this Original Barnstar. Another feather in the Transhumanist cap, eh? :-P |
You won an award!
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X××x××pink×jellocreature××x××X (talk) awards you the unofficial funniness award! |