User talk:Johnuniq: Difference between revisions

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Index of stuff

• Comments re free speech
• Jagged progress • more • genre articles
• Links to highbeam.com from dumps of external links • earlier • more Credo • JSTOR results
• Gregorian serial date template
• Analysis of EL dump using Amazon S3 very interesting methods from GabrielF
• Module:Number at Hindi Wikipedia request from Siddhartha Ghai

Jagged 85

Just thought I'd let you know I'm still working on this. It's kinda horrendous isn't it! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:25, 23 April 2014 (UTC).

Yes, I noticed because I have the cleanup pages on my watchlist. Thanks for getting involved, it sure needs TLC! I also noticed that Physics in medieval Islam is getting a lot edits, clearly by students in some course. I haven't looked at what they are doing in detail, but it's an awkward area because naturally anyone working on such an article for a course is going to try hard to find stimulating stuff for inclusion, whereas the article probably needs a skeptic to study the sources and determine which are reliable historical accounts and which are boosterism. I would like to do something concrete to help but it's not my area and I'm busy elsewhere. Let me know if you encounter any special problems. Johnuniq (talk) 05:31, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

I have developed an analysis tool (still rather crude) an example output is here. Let me know if you want it run on any specific pages. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:37, 25 April 2014 (UTC).

Wow, that's impressive. I originally hoped to do something like that, but the page I started on had such an enormous number of changes that all I ended up with was a quagmire. I did a cut-down version which simply noted the refs that Jagged had added and which remained in the article, but even that was hard to use or make sense of. I might post a link to this discussion at the page discussing the issue in case anyone is still watching it and available. There is the awkward issue concerning why you put this on meta—the situation is pretty bizarre, but it might be better to let the dogs sleep so perhaps we shouldn't say much for a couple of months. Johnuniq (talk) 03:13, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

What did you mean by your comment?

It appeared to me that you were erroneously suggesting that my trouting of Drmies for his conduct was motivated by some content dispute position; did I understand your comment correctly? Ncmvocalist (talk) 12:37, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

If you are proposing yet more talking concerning whether an article should be titled Sarah Brown (wife of Gordon Brown), then I would say that my comment was not fully understood. If discussing an underlying issue is not warranted, a discussion about the discussion is worth even less. Johnuniq (talk) 00:43, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. No, I am not proposing that; my comment to Drmies was solely in relation to reverts - including rollback use. Ncmvocalist (talk) 07:32, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Library Coordinator Profile

Hi John!

Would you create a profile at Wikipedia:TWL/Coordinators?

Hope you're well, Jake Ocaasi ^{t | c} 14:37, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

@Ocaasi: Do you think that's needed? I'm in a different category from the others who are making themselves available to help editors—I'm just fiddling with code. By the way I have been meaning to ask you about Cochrane. Is it still wanted? Did you get any info on how to identify an onlinelibrary.wiley.com URL as being for Cochrane? If there is nothing, I will try my brute-force plan which is to get a list of all such links in articles now, then download each page (a bit over 6000 hits at wiley.com) and search for some magic text—if present, mark the URL as for the Cochrane Library in a local database. The magic text could be just "Cochrane", or possibly "Cochrane Library" or "The Cochrane Collaboration". Then I could examine the external links dumps for each month and would know which wiley links are for Cochrane. Problem: per discussion at Zad68's talk (archived) there are other ways of referring to Cochrane without using a wiley URL. I don't know what to do about that. Another problem is that even if I read the 6000 pages from wiley fairly slowly, they may have some system to cut me off after a hundred pages or so. I would just have to try it and see. Johnuniq (talk) 09:57, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

@Johnuniq:. Hi John, it's up to you. It's not needed but I thought it was nice to have profiles for the really key people who are working on the library. If you're not into it, don't worry about it. It was half just so you'd get recognition for the work you're doing, and half to give some sense of people for this project--that it runs because of volunteer help and not by magic.

Unfortnately I'm still stalled on Cochrane because they don't have a url sorting scheme yet. Because this is really Cochrane's identifier issue, and they are already on board with us, I think we can wait until they figure something out on their end. Thank you for thinking about how to solve the problem though; it's awesome. --Jake Ocaasi ^{t | c} 16:08, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

List of Nazis

User:Hoops gza, whom you may recall tried to unilaterally expand the scope of List of Nazis several weeks ago, has resumed adding Nazi-resister August Landmesser to it, and adding him to category:Nazis, contrary to consensus. I have attempted to engage him, but he simply denied the previous discussion took place and has since ignored me, except to revert every revert I make. I've reported the problem on the admin noticeboards for general incidents and edit warring, but perhaps because I'm the only person expressing concern, I've received no help there. Would you mind adding your thoughts? -Jason A. Quest (talk) 14:40, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

August Landmesser wasn't merely a "Nazi resister". He was a Nazi Party member. Ergo, he was a Nazi.Hoops gza (talk) 16:10, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

@Jason A. Quest: I'm glad that there was a response at ANI and a block occurred. I commented there, and please let me know if this flares up again. I removed the user name from the heading as that is probably not advisable unless somewhere like ANI. Johnuniq (talk) 01:56, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

I appreciate your participation. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 13:21, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thanks for your huge effort in Chinese Wikipedia for localizing Convert module. Sameboat - 同舟 (talk) 06:45, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! Working at zhwiki has been very interesting. Johnuniq (talk) 10:19, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Accidentally removed comments

I see that you keep archiving a talk page where you accidentally removed comments of mine. Please not make accusations of blocking on spurious grounds.--188.27.144.144 (talk) 10:43, 30 April 2014 (UTC)