User talk:Sj/Help

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Contents 1 Six things 2 Cute links 3 Uther's Useful Welcome Mesg 4 Endless questions 4.1 Shortcuts/Overviews? Stats? 4.2 Other 'pedias, translation 5 Greeting, and a note on [the above questions]

[edit] Six things

1. Wikipedia:Multilingual_coordination
2. Wikistats language list: How best to encourage that this page be updated?
   • Try asking Erik Zachte (done)
3. Combined recent changes -- are there little tools for tracking recent changes or watchlists across multiple WP languages?
   • Unfortunately not. Maybe one day. People have certainly suggested it in the past.
4. Stats queries -- is there a place to request further stats queries? For instance, "Articles edited by more than 10 non-bot users", "Articles present in more than 3 languages", &c.
   • Wikipedia:Scripting requests (first 2 requested)
5. List of non-transient users -- is there some way to see a list of users with a) a user-page or b) more than a few edits? The bulk of non-contributing users makes using the Users special page difficult.
   • I expect it's possible with some SQL query requests but you'd need to convince a developer to run it as it would likely be quite database intensive. (x)
6. New bot action -- Is there a place to request a new bot / bot features? There are a number of specific regexp search-and-replaces I would suggest.
   • The people who run PyWikipediaBot would be the best people to ask. PyWikipediaBot is the closest thing we have to an "official Wikipedia bot". They have a mailing list you could ask on. (on hold)

Hope that helps. Angela. 23:58, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC) (Yes(x6). Thank you. +sj+)

[edit] Cute links

[W'pedia Stats] .'. via Optim, Maveric149 and Tim Starling user pages, various hidden utility pages like All messages and Special:Allpages (a month out of date). also Dan Keshet! Hi, Daniel. ..

[edit] Uther's Useful Welcome Mesg

note that pasting this has been superseded by using {{subst:Sj-welcome}}

Welcome to Wikipedia!

Questions? Help || Village pump(everyone gathers here) || Admin links: Deletion || Undeletion

Helpful links: Editing || Writing a great article || Naming || Style Manual || Policies || Reassigning old edits.

I hope you enjoy being a Wikipedian! Drop us a note at Wikipedia:New user log so we can meet you and help you get started. You can also leave me questions at my talk page. +sj+

Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: Graduand, Hard Drive Courage, Elegant Machinery, Eileen Schaer, Gary Walters, History of Hvar Island, Backlog...
• Cleanup: Teacher in role, Fan Changjiang, The Musical Racket, Imperial Way Faction, German units of measurement, Backlog...
• Stubs: Pedagogy, Kevin J. Anderson, Baseball Writers Association of America, Multinational corporation, Buda, Cargo, More...
• Verify: The 7th Guest Part III: The Collector, Aerosmith's outtakes, Algophobia, AIML, Al Tomaini, A&F Quarterly, Backlog...
• Update: All-Round Athletics, All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland, Christopher Stokes, Blankenburg am Harz, 102P/Shoemaker, More...
• Neutrality: Afro-Asian, Air Defense Identification Zone, Anker Boye, Alex Munter, Ammadam, Alan Goodman, Alorica, Backlog...
• Copyedit: Menstrual cup, Kateřina Jacques, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Jain Irrigation Systems, Galileo's Cannonball, More...
• Merge: Lymphopenia, Dragonlance timeline, Hollyphant, King Philip Math League, Variety (plant), Epigenetic robotics, Backlog...
• Style: Agape College, ADT Security Services, Active 20-30, Action Kid (comic), Agumbe, A.T. Kearney, A13 road, More...
• Expand: Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Barry Lee Bush, Engaged and Underage, Silent Hill 3, E-mail, More...
• Requests: IGF type 2 receptor, Fifty-third Texas Legislature, D and I Railroad, Jus inter gentes, Colin Monk, Fiat 1T, More...
• Mediation Cabal: Robert Gray, anarchy battlefield, Almeda University, Antioxidant, Hero, The Freechild Project, More...
• Cleanup backlogs - Review recent overhauls - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: be merged

[edit] Endless questions

[edit] Shortcuts/Overviews? Stats?

Updated: +sj+ 04:00, 2004 Jan 28 (UTC)

• Is there a list of shortcuts somewhere? Thanks again. The idea of 'welcomers' is perfect.
  • Wikipedia:MediaWiki custom messages

• Is there some way to see "recent changes" to content articles, and not to personal pages, user-talk pages, etc? Any other way to make "recent changes" more useful? I really do want to see "recent changes to highest-level pages", or some daily statistics about activity, broken down by {main-page category, level of importance of active page, activity level} and noting the {number of different editors, number of non-minor edits}... at what level would such a change be implemented? At the feature-request-on-Sourceforge level?
• (Having a good "recent changes" page seems better for a system like this than getting everyone to use "Watch this page" extensively, since you can update "recent changes" once a minute and be guaranteed of only 1440

sets of queries a day; queries that cover a full day of changes might only be updated once an hour.)

• • Try Sourceforge [or IRC --Ed].

Neat. I did find an overall [stats page]... +sj+ 04:00, 2004 Jan 28 (UTC)

[edit] Other 'pedias, translation

• What's wikipedia's relation to other 'pedias? Is there a policy of forming useful relations or alliances that might eventually turn into copyright transfer?

Try Wikipedia:Village_pump and Wikipedia:Reference_desk.

• What's up with nunupedia? I know there's a close relation b/t these projects, and that nupedia hardly exists as a 'pedia, but more as a software dev project these days... how is its software related to wikipedia's ware?

I don't know. Also try joining a [[Wikipedia:Mailing_lists] list. - UtherSRG 03:07, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

• How does multilingual association work? Who identifies an english page with a german page, for instance? What's the right way to say two pages aren't quite referring to the same thing? To suggest someone migrate/merge content from one language to the page in a different language? How can I find, say, a list of German pages which have no English counterpart?

manually, some folks use IRC and bots to do a bunch of it. Try Wikipedia:IRC_channel. - UtherSRG 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

• How does "opentask" get generated? Where can I go to find such technical details?

See Wikipedia:MediaWiki custom messages for details. UtherSRG 03:07, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Greeting, and a note on [the above questions]

Hi there. Thanks for your note on the new user log. Glad you like it here, and I hope you stick around. If you want another person to bug with questions like the ones you were asking UtherSRG, feel free to drop notes on my talk page. I try to answer whenever I'm able. --Isomorphic