Alien333
Joined 17 May 2023
currently not very active due to IRL stuff
Random poem: Poems (Curwen)/A Christmas Wish
A Christmas Wish.
to each and all.
Joy fill your cup,
Mirth with you sup,
And plenty heap your table up,
And Love preside;
And sweet Goodwill
Kind thoughts instil,
And banish all remembered ill
This Christmastide.
And Hope be bright,
And cares as light
And transient as the snow-flakes white;
And at your side
Be gentle Peace:
God grant you these,
With blessings that shall never cease,
This glad Yuletide.
Mirth with you sup,
And plenty heap your table up,
And Love preside;
And sweet Goodwill
Kind thoughts instil,
And banish all remembered ill
This Christmastide.
And Hope be bright,
And cares as light
And transient as the snow-flakes white;
And at your side
Be gentle Peace:
God grant you these,
With blessings that shall never cease,
This glad Yuletide.
So much stuff to do, so little time!
Hi there! I'm a poetry transcriber, and occasionally other things in other places (enwp/frwp/meta/commonsuploads/data/mw/translatewiki/phab).
I'm open to suggestions of poetry collections to proofread, add them at Poetry requests.
Links (mostly for me):
- Test pages: Sandbox (test)
- Scripts: common.js - poemise.js - nobr.js - cuts.js - clean.js - dab.js - transclude.js - rhalt.js - addtpp.js - pagenum.js -
cmbb.js -close.js - nts.js - prefillalt.js - mtv.js - rc.js - poemise+.js - sandbox.js - imagesalt.js - loupe.js - realpagelist.js - delnoms.js - respace.js - weirdchars.js - unic.js - preview.js - Module:Tpp - {{Tpp}}
- Random poem - Poemlist
- Other subpages: Works - Thoughts
- Patrolling: new user edits (page - nonpage) - deletion log - probable talk page misuse - barely used templates - totally unused templates - orphaned tak pages - BenchBot
- Reminders: to split (140) needing OCR (222) lua errors (~504) inexistant sections (2,079) move to commons (19) edit requests (1)
- Dev projects: 333Bot (contribs - data - src) - XTools (todo - mwtalk - src) - realignocr.toolforge.org (doc - src - health) - wstranclude.toolforge.org (src - health)
- Copright records
- thumb steps: 20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960, 1280, 1920, 3840 - mw:Common thumbnail sizes - phab:T414805
- CSP: phab:T28508 (root) - phab:T419265 (allowlists)
Works
Thoughts
Some random and debatable thoughts of mine[1], if you've got time to lose[2].
- Here, the ultimate goal of technological optimization is to proofread only by reading. Most of the human input is unnecessary[3], and we can go much faster without it.[4].
- We should not focus on notability or usefulness, as they are both very relative[6]. I personally choose the works I do because why not[7].
- For technical stuff, the cache is the god and the devil. It is the cause[8] or the solution[9] of most problems.
- We have a problem with documentation. No one actively takes care of the help pages[10]. The /doc subpages of templates are in some cases good, but they're hard to find. We have a great lot of them, a nice help page that doesn't cover a lot of them and a category tree that doesn't either[11]. Some templates are in categories that make them hard to find[12]. I am neither the first, nor the second, and not the third either to think we have a documentation issue. There have apparently been a number of attempts to fix this already, and they've more or less all dwindled to nothing.
- Everyone makes mistakes. Not saying it's inevitable; merely that we should at all times expect that we're maybe going to make one, and prevent it.
- To me, it appears that the key instrument of integration into a wiki community is the watchlist, for two reasons:
- Discussions. The moment I really started participating in a coordinated effort (as opposed to proofreading stuff, lurking in a corner of the room) was when I watchlisted WS:S, WS:PD and WS:CV. In the meanwhile, I've watchlisted most user talk pages[13]. In a relatively small community like this, it allows one to be aware of virtually every discussion.
- Corrections. Experienced users correct mistakes when they see them; that's good. But often they don't tell the people that made the mistake, about their mistake. It is also my watchlisting every page I ever created[14] that has allowed me to learn how stuff works.
- It feels a bit strange sometimes coming across old traces of a forgotten past.
- ↑ with an absurd quantity of footnotes for not really necessary information. I am usually more of a parentheses user, but refs clutter the text less, even though it's a bit awkward
- ↑ and you probably do, if you landed here
- ↑ e.g. copying in the previous/next fields names already written in the TOC
- ↑ it is a bit ridiculous that I am taking time that I could have spent proofreading to write on how precious time is
- ↑ though obscure doesn't mean bad, and the best I did were quite obscure
- ↑ notability also has the issue that it's when we duplicate most the work of others, as for instance PG has most famous texts, but likelily not obscure collections of poetry[5] by authors of whom the work is the only trace
- ↑ and maybe an unreasonable liking of running gags. Can't tell me the 164 authors were notable, or that a lot of people care for them
- ↑ Notably for: scripting, you're looking for bugs that don't exist anymore; anything which relies on search-based page generators, with a wide range of consequences; images
- ↑ less often than it is the cause, sadly; but often useful for optimisation
- ↑ and despite my complaining about it most of the time I don't either
- ↑ and is sometimes a bit unclear in the distinction between subcategories
- ↑ e.g. {{ppoem}} in Category:Experimental templates
- ↑ Which leads me to comment in discussions between two other people quite often, but no one's found it offending yet, and I think I've been able to bring useful information. Will stop if someone does.
- ↑ Which means having more than 51 000 pages on my watchlist, that I can now edit only with the raw form (else it crashes), but that's ... another question.
Stuff
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This is not an alien (it just looks funny [1]).
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Speaking of stuff that looks strange, this isn't bad[2].
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Sundogs are weird too, but they're pretty,
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though not in the same ways as art can be.
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Clouds can be pretty too,
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as can the sea,
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though snow is even more,
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but space is much,
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much,
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much,
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much more beautiful than any of these.
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Oh, and also, I like cellular automata,
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and have made a few myself (and a simulator).
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See this fence? If you don't know why it's here, don't touch it
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(Takes too much time from proofreading)
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Fractals are nice
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Did I say I like cats?
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- ↑ it would have been a shame if something called mantis shrimp has not been original
- ↑ details on that sort of stuff at w:Leg mechanism
- ↑ I find that phrase sort of motivating
- ↑ and we should really remember that it's no more than a mop to scrub the floor
- ↑ Also, feel free to strike that out whenever it becomes false
- ↑ The bit of code that does that. It however only does it for enwp. Would have liked to have
this shitty hack
over here too. - ↑ I deleted the main page, for 30 seconds. And then forgot to reprotect it. Not the most glorious thing I did. More context, in my defence: I wanted to test API:delete, because I was closing a PD discussion that required batch deleting. So, I thought, "on which page can I practice safely without any consequences?" From the enwp village stocks, I'd kept the impression that deleting the main page had been made impossible[6]. I wasn't sure, so I looked at the menu at the main page, saw that there was no delete button, was satisfied that you couldn't delete it, and the rest is history.
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