User:Noisy
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Born on Wikipedia 26 June 2004. Contributed anonymously before, but first signed contribution was to evolutionarily stable strategy.
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| Date | 08AUG04 | 09SEP04 | 24OCT04 | 25DEC04 | 09FEB05 | 17APR05 | 04JUN05 | 02OCT05 | 26NOV05 | 31JAN06 |
| Edits | 5500 | 6000 | 6500 | 7000 | ||||||
| Date | 26MAR06 | 30APR06 | 18JUN06 | 30JUL06 |
Current count? Use Wikipedia:Kate's Tool. Alternative: http://faleg.org/cgi-bin/wannabe_kate. Edit counters are down: see User talk:Interiot for explanation. Now that's old news, so watch the graph to see how far behind we are.
Alternative: Essjay's tool.
Attended London Wikimeet | pictures on 02DEC04.
[edit] Tables and general editing
- Became annoyed with seeing text run right up against tables which are right-justified, and so eventually found some guidance. In Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numbers, Abigail recommends putting style = "margin-left: 0.5em;" in the table header. Now, I'm on a mission ... [03JUL04]
- Now this is a useful link Wikipedia:How to edit a page! [04JUL04]
- And another useful one Wikipedia:Template messages. [13JUL04]
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- Template:Lifetime {{lifetime|1838|1900|Tuer, Andrew White}} Some people recommend using subst:, but that destroys the whole purpose of a template. I've saved it just in case Bluemoose takes unilateral action without seeking the wishes of the community. [12DEC05]
[[Category:{{{1}}} births|{{{3}}}]] [[Category:{{{2}}} deaths|{{{3}}}]]
- Tables: what a pain in the neck. In desperation I went to a formal definition of HTML 4.01, specifically Section 11. Fine, so far as it went, but I couldn't find the really interesting stuff, which is what properties can be specified within style. I'll keep looking (in a desultory fashion). [18JUL04]
- Think about M:EasyTimeline. [30MAR05]
- Wikipedia:Persondata. [22JAN06]
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Category:Human name disambiguationCategory:Lists of ambiguous human names, the format is {{hndis|name=surname, forename}}. [15MAR06] Update [11JUL06] - Wikipedia talk:Footnotes/Mixed citations and footnotes. I like this, but it seems confusing. [11JUL06]
Table links:
- m:Help:Table [23JUL04]
- Wikipedia:How to use tables [14AUG04]
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[14AUG04] Centring thumbed images in tables takes a lot of doing. The way I achieved it was to create a table within a table, viz.
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[edit] Evolution
Hmmm. A lot of good stuff in here about biological evolution, but a lot of confusion as well. How did Genetic drift get to be so crap? I'm not saying it's wrong, but it's not what I expect from an encyclopedia. [04JUL04]
- Thanks to User:Graft for the rewrite. [17OCT04]
[edit] Wikipedia life
- Useful link Wikipedia:Goings-on. [10JUL04] (upd [06JAN06])
- Did some RC patrol work on HUD Secretaries and Andrew Cuomo - boy was that hard to verify!. [10JUL04]
- Started messing around with Categories. Boy, there's a lot of cleaning up to do! Did you know there were 13,705 categories on 08AUG04? No? Shocking, isn't it. [08AUG04]
- 17167. I'll type that again. 17167. That's the number of categories now. Depressing isn't it, considering that a lot of them have only a couple of entries. Sigh. [29AUG04]
- More useful pages: Wikipedia:Community Portal and Wikipedia:Revert. [02OCT04] (upd [06JAN06]) (upd [06MAY06])
- Got very, very depressed with the actions of a robot that has buggered thousands upon thousands of articles. Don't know if I can take much more of this. [24OCT04]
- Cool links I've just found: Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. [10DEC04] (upd [06JAN06])
- More links: Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page and Wikipedia:Glossary. [25FEB05]
- Here's the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost! [30MAR05]
- This strikes a chord: Jason Scott discussed "The Great Failure of Wikipedia" during a presentation at Notacon on April 8 (transcript). [23APR06]
[edit] Generic welcome message template
Welcome to Wikipedia! Please create a logon ID for yourself, and start editing!
If you are too timid to start a slash and burn campaign in you subject area of choice, then feel free to play around in the Wikipedia:Sandbox. Other helpful pages are Wikipedia:Tutorial and Wikipedia:Annotated article.
There are many things to learn here: if you want a few pointers then come and visit me at User: Noisy, or leave a message on my talk page. Otherwise, the only tips I give are
- that you sign your name with three tildes (~~~), and leave name and timestamp with four tildes.
- <nowiki> </nowiki> around text will stop it being interpreted.
- Play around with your 'preferences' to change the way that your screen is displayed.
- And finally ... I recommend that you use the 'Show preview' button as a matter of habit before saving your edits.
[edit] Category:Industrial Revolution
Needed a lot more material, so I started playing around a few weeks ago. Started off in the main article, but found that I needed to fill out the supporting articles before the main section can be robustified. Here are the articles in question (n = newly created by me; m = major edits; r = redirect created by me) [08AUG04]:
- Industrial Revolution
- Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution
- Metallurgy during the Industrial Revolution
- Steam power during the Industrial Revolution
- Transport during the Industrial Revolution
[edit] Resources
Revolutionary players Questia Toynbee lectures
Thornber on Arkwright Bartleby on spinning Essay by Clark 1911 on cotton manufacture Essay Keen on spinning and weaving British history online A history of the growth of the steam-engine Eckilson on Samuel Slater links Open Door
Metallurgy document scans Historical Metallurgy Society
[edit] Wikilinks
[edit] Template
| Edit | The Industrial Revolution |
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| Themes | Coal, Coal mining, Coke, Cotton, Industry, Invention, Iron, Machinery, Manufacturing, Metallurgy, Sociology, Steam power, Steel, Technology, Textiles, Water power, Workforce |
| People/ groups |
Richard Arkwright, Thomas Boulsover, Matthew Boulton, James Brindley, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Edmund Cartwright, Henry Cort, Thomas and George Cranege, Samuel Crompton, Abraham Darby I, Abraham Darby II, Abraham Darby III, Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, William Fairbairn, James Hargreaves, Thomas Highs, Eaton Hodgkinson, Benjamin Huntsman, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Thomas Johnson (dressing frame), John Kay (flying shuttle), John Kay (spinning frame), Francis Cabot Lowell, Lunar Society, Thomas Newcomen, Robert Owen, Lewis Paul, William Radcliffe, Richard Roberts, Thomas Savery, John Smeaton, George Stephenson, Robert Stephenson, Thomas Telford, Richard Trevithick, James Watt, John Wilkinson, John Wyatt |
| Places | Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Bridgewater Canal, Coalbrookdale, Cromford, Derwent Valley Mills, Ironbridge, New Lanark, Portsmouth Block Mills, Quarry Bank Mill, Soho Foundry, Stockton and Darlington Railway |
| Invention/ technology |
Blast furnace, Canal, Cotton mill, Crucible steel, Dressing frame, Factory, Flying shuttle, Newcomen steam engine, Power loom, Railway, Reverberatory furnace, Sheffield plate, Spinning frame, Spinning jenny, Steam engine, Stephenson's Rocket, Water frame, Watt steam engine |
| Social impact | Bourgeoisie, Child labour, History of the Co-operative Movement, Cottage industry, Factory Acts, Industrial unrest, Luddite, Proletariat, Rochdale Pioneers |
| Reference | History of technology, History of the British canal system, Industrial archaeology, List of United Kingdom-related topics, Timeline of clothing and textiles technology, Timeline of invention, Timeline of materials technology, Timeline of steam power |
