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User:JesseW

Current UTC date and time: 17:31, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

JesseW's User page

Hello. I'm astonished and impressed with the quality of Wikipedia. I hope to help out, probably as some kind of WikiFaerie. I'm also involved with various other Wiki's.

I'm a Los Angeles native, currently on leave from Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, USA. Besides working on Wikipedia, I enjoy contra dance, hacking, juggling, and science fiction, as well as various political work. I've also taken aikido from the Venice Japanese Community Center and the Oregon Ki Society.

Hm. As of 22:26, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC) 08:49, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC) I have 1929 edits.(via Kate's Tools <shrug>. Oh.

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Contents
1 JesseW's User page

1.1 Other WikiMedia User pages
1.2 Useful links
1.3 My subpages
1.4 To Do
1.5 Interesting ideas
1.6 Funny!
1.7 Good, interesting pages
1.8 WikiOrganizations I support
1.9 My various Wiki software tools

1.9.1 Wiki-link bookmarklet
1.9.2 Category Browsing Tools
1.9.3 Bookmarklet

1.9.3.1 Versions
1.9.3.2 The code
1.9.3.3 Bugs

1.9.4 Emacs defun

1.9.4.1 wiktionary-get-page
1.9.4.2 wiktionary-submit-page

1.10 Awards
1.11 Creative Commons License
1.12 Notes on thing's I've already done

2 Notes for organizing Template:Resources_for_collaboration


Useful links

My subpages

To Do

  • Make The_Black_Crook from the source I found.

Interesting ideas

  • I found a great book called the Encyclopedia of Fire ISBN 1-57356-302-1 ; I would like to pull a lot of the facts in it and put them into Wikipedia. It has articles on the history of big fires that are facinating.
  • I've sent emails to the makers of the DEEP THOUGHT: sightings of 42 page asking if they would release their stuff under GFDL so it could be improved on Wikipedia; I hope to hear back from them. If they say yes, it will be considerable work to import and Wikifiy the pages, and then start work on finding references, cross links, and page numbers. Fun.
  • Add a picture of the collapse of the Santa Monicia Freeway in the Northridge Earthquake to the approriate article. 11:05, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Work on a series of wikipedia pages on various commodities (apples, apparel, computer chips, etc.) listing where they are made, who makes them, how they are made, and who owns aspects of the above (means of production, intellectual property, consumers). 23:16, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Funny!

Good, interesting pages

WikiOrganizations I support

My various Wiki software tools

Wiki-link bookmarklet

See Wikipedia:Wiki-Link Game. I've lost. ;-) It skips redlinks and external links.

Note: you need to change "thenum" to set it to another number than 5. Written by me on 10:07, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC) 

javascript:void((function () {thenum=5; m=0; 
z=document.getElementById("bodyContent").getElementsByTagName("A"); for 
(n=0;n<z.length;n++) {if (/\/wiki\//.test(z[n].href)) {m=m+1}; if (m==thenum) 
{document.location=z[n].href}}})())

Category Browsing Tools

I've written two python scripts that together let you browse through the Wikipedia catagory system and generate pictures of the network. They can be downloaded here. Please try them out, and complain if you can't figure out what they do, or if they break. Also, any patches or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. JesseW 11:59, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

If you wish to request a graph or textual list of the children and/or parents of a category, please ask on my Talk page. I'm happy to do it; I'll create them, upload them, and add them to this list(and let you know on your talk page. ;-) ) JesseW 02:51, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I have now updated the code. It now makes nicer looking text output and has more documentation. JesseW 23:28, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Forth release. Now the text output uses differnt headings for different depths. JesseW 05:16, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Examples:

Bookmarklet

Wrote a bookmarklet to hide entries on my watchlist in which I am the last, listed, editor.

Note!! The current version of the script automatically identifies the user name, and the number of days displayed in the watchlist.

I release this script under the revised BSD license.

Sorry I couldn't get it to show up as a link. I'm working on it. JesseW 09:22, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Versions

  • v2: Automatically identifies your userName
  • v3: Automatically identifies the number of days set to display in your watchlist. This should also fix the bugs where it erases other bits of screen. Please let me know.

The code

(You may need to copy the wikitext, not this text. Sorry.)

javascript:void((function () {userName=document.getElementById%28%22contentSub%22%29.innerHTML.match%28/%22%28.%2B%29%22/%29%5B1%5D; q=document.getElementsByTagName(%22ul%22); for (n=0;n<q.length;n++) {if (q[n].getAttribute(%22class%22)==%22special%22) {r=%22%22; z=q[n].childNodes; for (x=0;x<z.length;x=x+2) {LI=z[x].childNodes; if (LI[LI.length-4].innerHTML != userName && LI[LI.length-5].innerHTML != userName) {r=r+%22<li>%22+z[x].innerHTML+%22</li>\n%22}}; q[n].innerHTML=r}}})())

Bugs

User:Angela says that on Firefox 0.9.3 it erases the navigation bar rather than the watchlist entries. User:Angela says that on Wikia: it erases the sidebar rather than the watchlist entries.

I suspect both of these are because the bookmark edits all the <ul> lists in the document, and on Firefox or Wikia: it is picking up such lists in the wrong place. I will test it on these places and see if the bug shows up for me. If you also see the bug, or have any information about it, please add your comments on the Talk page, and I'll update this list. JesseW 03:53, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I also use firefox but my copy erases both the bar and the watchlist entries...nice program though. [[User:BrokenSegue|BrokenSegue]] 23:51, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I think both of these bugs should be fixed now. I'm identifying "ul" lists to change by their class="special" attribute now. Please let me know if this is fixed. JesseW 10:33, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Emacs defun

wiktionary-get-page

 (defun wiktionary-get-page (title) (interactive "M") "" 
  (progn 
    (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create title))
    (erase-buffer)
    (insert (shell-command-to-string
	     (format "wget -q -O - \"%s?title=%s&action=edit\""
		     "http://en.wiktionary.org/w/wiki.phtml"
		     title)))
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (search-forward "<textarea") (search-forward ">") 
    (delete-region (point-min) (point))
    (search-forward "</textarea>") (setq pos (- (point) 11))

    (search-forward "wpEdittime")  
    (setq et (buffer-substring (- (point) 18) (- (point) 32)))
    (message "Edittime is: %s" et)
    (delete-region pos (point-max))

    (wikipedia-mode)
    (defvar wikipedia-edittime nil "*") 
    (set (make-local-variable 'wikipedia-edittime) et)))

wiktionary-submit-page

Warning! Do not use this unless you know it's not broken in some subtle way. It is only a first draft and probably is broken or does something bad, or at best, fails to work. So be careful. And send me improvements. JesseW 05:16, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) 

 (defun wiktionary-submit-page 
  (title content summary edittime 
	 &optional username password minor watch section) "" 
	 (http-post 
	  (concat "http://en.wiktionary.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=" 
		  (http-url-encode title 'iso-8859-1) 
		  "&action=submit")
	  `(("wpTextbox1" . content) 
	    ("wpSummary". summary) 
	    ("wpSave". "Save page")
	    ("wpSection" ."") ("wpEdittime" . edittime))
	  'iso-8859-1))

Awards

WikiMedal for Janitorial Services

Creative Commons License

Notes on thing's I've already done

(Things on here may be removed whenever I feel like it. The'll be available from history...)

  • Make Billet from the source I found. - Finally done. Just a tiny job... JesseW 07:14, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Mathias Maul, the author of the Ultra-Complete Index of HHGttG, has put it under GFDL. I've added it; now the Wikification can begin. (Moved to done on 23:16, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC))
  • Organized the various lists of sources for articles, and made a template listing the actual pages with content. The template is Template:Article_resources. Good stuff. JesseW 11:03, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Changed my "nickname" so it references a staus template, which I can use to post messages on every page I sign. Unless I developer contacts me and says I'm personally causing major slowdown of the entire wikipedia, I'll keep it. JesseW 13:43, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Removed, as I just read a thread on the VP saying it was a terrible idea. ;-) JesseW 14:03, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Notes for organizing Template:Resources_for_collaboration

See Template_talk:Resources_for_collaboration#Revision_and_Updates for current work on this.

One thing that this Template is trying to be is a list of ways for people to deal with pages that they think need something, but they can't just do it themselves. Here is a list for that purpose. It's sorted from best cases, most general to worst cases.

Another thing the Template is trying to do is provide oppertunities for people who want to do some Wikipedia maintainance. The next list handles this. It is sorted from most needed(least known) to least needed(best publicized). There are probably some pages I missed from this list. For example, the Category:Articles_that_need_to_be_wikified is only on there because I knew of it indepedently.

There are various places where ideas for new articles can be found. I think there may be a central page, which if so, should replace this list.

There are two pages requesting translations. They are in the next list.

The next one is items for which comment(and voting) are wanted rather than actual content. There are a lot more items to be added to this list.

This is a list of pages where non-text requests are made. If you know of other pages, please add them.

There are a few pages devoted to the maintainance required of the Category system. They are listed here. I may also have missed some. Note that these are just pages for which non-admin users can do actual work, rather than just comment. Comment-only pages(like VfD) should be listed above in the approriate list.

Please let me know what you think of these. JesseW 01:22, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC) This should really be two differnt lists.

  1. a list of lists of pages to do things to; i.e. catagories, lists, etc.
  2. a list of ways to deal with pages

So, Wikipedia:Deletion_policy should be on #2, and none of the individual deletion pages should be; (if someone wants to understand how to deal with a page, they should go to deletion_policy before any other pages); but on #2 Wikipedia:Deletion_policy should not be on there, and (assuming this is for non-admins) neither should speedy deletions, or VfD or any of the other deletion pages, because normal users can't _do_ anything on those pages, they can only comment on them.

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