User:wbm1058
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- Top 200 editor as of May 5, 2023.
- 136th most-thanked Wikipedian as of June 18, 2025
- Most-thankful Wikipedians (I barely make the cut)
- Secret to winning the Race Against the Machine: become an expert bot programmer, and hope that the bots don't learn to program themselves. HAL?
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For your remarkable thoroughness in cleaning up other people's technical errors. I don't mean to step on your toes, but I appreciate the few times you've fixed whatever I've broken. One only has to look at your contributions to see you doing the same thing everywhere. :) Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 09:57, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for creating RMCD bot and bringing the requested moves process back on its feet!
For your contribution over at Requested Moves. Great work! Tiggerjay (talk) 03:32, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
For your tireless (and often-times, tedious) work at Wikipedia:WikiProject Merge and surrounding environs.
It is well appreciated! GenQuest "Talk to Me" 23:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
It is well appreciated! GenQuest "Talk to Me" 23:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
For completing a significant part of the large merger relating to the Timeline of the Syrian Civil War. Your hard work is very much appreciated. Tradedia talk 06:14, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
For your work on maintaining and improving RMCD bot, which has made itself indispensable to the Requested Move process. You are highly appreciated for your flexibility and dedication! Aervanath (talk) 23:40, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
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bot help
Thank you, user who knows the secret to winning the Race Against The Machine, for helpful bots and for cleaning up yourself ("removing WP:OVERLINK to an everyday word"), for redirects and templates such as {{Forms of energy }}, for detailed analysis and offering to serve as arbitrator: "Don't underestimate how far I'm willing to go to read the background", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:06, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
For your diligence toward getting Template:NRHP Focus working again. Awesome. ―Mandruss ☎ 21:08, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
For your fine contribution to Talk:Self-balancing scooter regarding the article's title and the usage of the word "hoverboard." X4n6 (talk) 22:22, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
A thousand thanks for today's improvement of the RMCD bot notification rule. That will be a big help to the Wikpedia community. —BarrelProof (talk)
Just wnted to ad-gnomish you for doing what you do! Special thanks for relentlessly working on the Merge Project backlog. Well done. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 03:52, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
The current time is
[edit ]- 15:24, November 15, 2025 AEDT [refresh] in eastern Australia
- 14:54, November 15, 2025 ACDT [refresh] in South Australia
- 13:24, November 15, 2025 JST [refresh] in Japan
- 12:24, November 15, 2025 AWST [refresh] in Western Australia
- 12:24, November 15, 2025 SST [refresh] in Singapore
- 09:54, November 15, 2025 IST [refresh] in India
- 04:24, November 15, 2025 GMT [refresh] in Great Britain
- 23:24, November 14, 2025 EST [refresh] in Ohio
Did you know
[edit ]- Martin Luther King's final Sunday sermon referenced the thesis of "The Triple Revolution", which primarily discussed the cybernation revolution of increasing automation, whereby machines would continue reducing the need for manual labor, while increasing the skill needed to work, thereby producing greater unemployment
- The Eureqa software tool used genetic programming to discover the law of conservation of energy on its own
- Much of the work I've done for Wikipedia could be offshored to anywhere, or automated (indeed much is already semi-automated; run my edit history through some machine learning algorithms to automate more)
- Here come the robots: Davos bosses brace for big technology shocks
Important historical events that don't get their due
[edit ]- The fourteenth and fifteenth British colonies, East Florida and West Florida, remained loyal to the Brits during the American Revolution
- The 1863 New York City draft riots remain the largest civil and racial insurrection in American history, aside from the Civil War itself
- The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire led to labor reforms that became the template for the New Deal
- It followed the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 (by the way, the building still stands)
- Luckily the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion did not release any radioactive material from its 9-megaton nuclear warhead
- Related opinion piece by Michael Lewis
Mindboggling facts
[edit ]- The total length of expressways in China increased from zero in 1988 to 69,560 miles (111,950 km) at the end of 2014, the world's largest controlled-access highway system by length. The US has 64,352 miles (103,565 km) total – the 47,856 miles (77,017 km) Interstate Highway System plus 16,496 miles of other freeways and expressways (as of 2013, including Puerto Rico).[1]
- And although the London Underground had over a century head-start on the Shanghai Metro, which first opened in 1993, the latter now has the world's longest metro system, at 334 miles. The New York City Subway has 232 miles, but if you add the Staten Island Railway (14 mi.), Long Island Rail Road (319 mi.) and Metro-North Railroad (385 mi.), Shanghai has a way to go yet—seems they're just getting started though.
- US public spending on transport and water infrastructure has fallen steadily since the 1960s, and is now at 2.4% of GDP. Europe invests 5% of GDP in infrastructure; China's racing into the future at 9%.[2]
- China Spends More on Infrastructure Than the U.S. and Europe Combined! Western countries put less money into roads and bridges now than they did before the global financial crisis. Bloomberg Businessweek .
- In 1995, the US was tied for first in the world in the percentage of the population with a college degree. Now the US ranks fourteenth.[3]
References
- ^ Public Road Length - 2013. Federal Highway Administration.
- ^ "Life in the slow lane". The Economist . April 28, 2011.
- ^ Madland, David (2015). Hollowed Out: Why the Economy Doesn't Work without a Strong Middle Class. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-520-28652-8.
‘We Need an Energy Miracle’
[edit ]Bill Gates nails it: Interview by The Atlantic . Something on the order of the Drake Well or Chicago Pile-1. Maybe some computers running genetic programming algorithms will help us find it, before "time runs out". A breakthrough in stellarator or tokamak research could be a game-changer.
- Vast shale oil field in Texas could yield 20 billion barrels It seems that "peak oil" has been superseded by "peak unconventional oil", so we will be running "climate experiments" for a while longer...
- Vivek Wadhwa thinks Perovskite solar cells could be the solution, along with rapidly improving battery technologies. I highly recommend his book about the near future (ISBN 978-1626569713, it covers a lot more than just cars).
- Arkansas May Have Vast Lithium Reserves, Vast deposit of 'white gold' in Arkansas could be stunningly valuable – direct lithium extraction ≡ "fracking for (clean?) energy storage"
Women On 20ドルs
[edit ]The non-profit organization "Women On 20ドルs" conducted a poll to choose a woman to put on a newly designed US twenty-dollar bill (to replace Andrew Jackson). The two leading vote-getters were Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Tubman. Others on the ballot were Rosa Parks, Wilma Mankiller, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Rachel Carson, Shirley Chisholm, Alice Paul, Frances Perkins, Barbara Jordan, Patsy Mink and Betty Friedan. As I was not familiar with some of these names, I looked them up and linked to them here. I think Jeannette Rankin should have been included on this ballot.
- "I hope we can convince the next treasurer to print an equal number of 20ドル bills with both Jackson and Tubman." Sounds like a great idea to me. NPOV and all. The last president to pay off our national debt in 1835.
Wikipedia peaked in 2008?
[edit ]A ten-year update of Google Ngram data would help answer that question. By the way, for more on Culturomics and the Google Ngram Viewer, I highly recommend ISBN 978-1-59448-745-3.
- UPDATE: Google has updated data to 2019! The answer is NO ! Check back in 10 years to see whether Wikipedia peaked in 2019; its growth curve does seem to be flattening.
Issues I've patrolled
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Errors
[edit ]- Pages transcluding {{error }}s
- Category:ParserFunction errors (41)
- Category:Pages with template loops (17)
- Category:Pages with bad rounding precision (0)
- Category:Pages with incorrectly transcluded templates (0)
Redirects
[edit ]- Category:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review (6)
- Category:Missing redirects (1)
- Category:Unsynchronized talk page redirects (5)
- partially cleared by User:Bot1058 (task 4)
- Category:Articles with talk page redirects (50)
- Category:Articles with unsynchronized talk page redirects (2)
- Self redirects (Quarry query)
- Talk-to-mainspace redirects, except subpages (Quarry query)
- Talk subpage-to-mainspace redirects (Quarry query)
- Redirects from draft talk to mainspace (Quarry query)
- Redirects from nonexistent user, except user subpages, to mainspace (Quarry query)
- Category:Redirects to former names (398)
- Category:Redirects for convenience (20)
- Inconsistent similar redirects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect/Inconsistent targets
- also User:RussBot/Similar titles report/01 (old)
- Garry Newman targeted a different page than Garry newman Garry newman (talk)
- Broken talk pages Done
- Category:Possible cut-and-paste moves Done
- User:RussBot/Non-disambiguation redirects/001
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken section anchors
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0 Main |
1 Talk |
2 User |
3 talk |
4 WP |
5 WT |
10 {{ }} |
12 Help |
14 Cat |
100 Portal |
118 Draft |
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| 0 (Main) | 1 1 | 0 | 0 | 855 | 0 | 268 | 785 | 25034 | 627 | 0 | |
| 1 Talk | 274 2 | 27 | |||||||||
| 2 User | 106031 | 2285 | |||||||||
| 3 User talk | 285 | 5846 | |||||||||
| 4 Wikipedia | 2511 | 1694 | 42 | ||||||||
| 5 WT | 28604 | 62 | |||||||||
| 10 Template | 860 | 1243 | |||||||||
| 12 Help | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 348 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 100 Portal | 32 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 843 | 2 | 89 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 118 Draft | 198473 | 5 | 1050 | ||||||||
| 126 MOS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2195 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Notes: 1 WP:R2 applies to redirects (apart from shortcuts) from the main namespace to any other namespace except the Category:, Template:, Wikipedia:, Help: and Portal: namespaces. 2 Talk subpage-to-mainspace redirects only. Talk-to-mainspace redirects, except subpages, are patrolled . | |||||||||||
See also: Redirects in Category: namespace
MediaWiki software limits
[edit ]Disambiguation
[edit ]- Malplaced disambiguation pages
- Incomplete disambiguations
- Category:Articles with hatnote templates targeting a nonexistent page (6,281)
- Category:Pages with incorrectly transcluded disambiguation templates (3)
- Redirects to disambiguation pages that are not dab pages (Quarry query)
- Links to Hardware requiring disambiguation, using the User talk:Wbm1058/Archive 6 § Number redirects
Miscellaneous
[edit ]- Category:Fulfilled page move requests (0)
- Category:Articles for merging with no partner (0)
- Category:Wikipedia non-free files lacking article backlink (0)
- Category:Wikipedia non-free files with red backlink (46)
- Diffusion of Category:Computer hardware (39)
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked misspellings
- Linked ASCII-only redirects
- Linked mishyphenations
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations
- Linked incorrect names
- Linked incomplete names
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Orphaned talk subpages
- Category:Infobox person using numbered parameter (0)
- Category:Marriage template errors (16)
- Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Holding cell
- Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template (33)
- Category:Shortcut templates with missing parameters (12)
- Category:Documentation subpages without corresponding pages (4)
- Category:Pages with syntax highlighting errors (16)
- Category:Wikipedia edit requests (2)
- Category:Administrative backlog (14)
- Category:Wikipedians looking for help (0)
Short pages
[edit ]Magic words
[edit ]To list pages that use a particular page property, see Special:PagesWithProp.
- Behavior switches usually placed by VisualEditors, in error (archived discussion)
- Articles using the INDEX magic word
- Drafts using the INDEX magic word
- Pages transcluding {{INDEX }}
- Articles using the NEWSECTIONLINK magic word
- Articles using the NONEWSECTIONLINK magic word
- Articles using the DISAMBIG magic word
- Articles using the STATICREDIRECT magic word
- default sort
- title
Administrators' newsletter
[edit ]News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2025).
- The speedy deletion criteria U5 has been repealed, with U6 and U7 replacing it. See the FAQ for more clarifications.
- Community-designated contentious topics may now be enforced and appealed at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE) as a result of an RfC.
- You can enable a handy user info card next to usernames, which when clicked displays edit count, blocks, thanks, and other information. To enable this feature, visit Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Tick Enable the user info card
- The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been closed
- Uninvolved administrators may impose an AE participation restriction on any thread at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard.
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced }}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Bots newsletter
[edit ]Latest tech news
[edit ]For the archives, see Wikipedia:Tech news.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
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- Starting November 12, users will see a change in the appearance of talk pages on some Wikipedias. Almost all wikis have received this design change; English Wikipedia will get these changes later. You can read more on Diff. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in "Show discussion activity". [1]
- MediaWiki can now display a page indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by community request. [2]
- Using the "Show preview" or "Show changes" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin', 'uselang' and 'section'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content. [3] [4] [5]
- Wikivoyage wikis can use colored map markers in the article text. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed. [6]
- The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging. [7]
- The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis. [8]
- Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed. [9]
Updates for technical contributors
- Nominations are open on Wikitech for new Toolforge standards committee members. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025年11月28日.
- The JWT issuer field in OAuth 2 access tokens for SUL wikis has been changed to
https://meta.wikimedia.org. Old access tokens will still work. [10] - The JWT subject field in OAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from
<user id>tomw:<identity type>:<user id>, where<identity type>is typicallyCentralAuth:(for SUL wikis) orlocal:<wiki id>(for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and thesessionJwtcookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work. [11] - MediaWiki's block messages (blockedtext, blockedtext-partial, autoblockedtext, systemblockedtext, blockedtext-tempuser, autoblockedtext-tempuser) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page
9ドルor emailing other users10ドル. [12] - A
REL1_45branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change. [13] - The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support. [14] [15]
- Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Technical help links
[edit ]The current MediaWiki version is 1.46.0-wmf.2 (2600406) (about this version)
{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}: 64,464,272{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}: 7,090,419- Tech News weekly summaries
- The Wikipedia Library
- /Hyphen-minus, En dash and Em dash – my first user essay
- Special:SpecialPages
- Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 108#How to edit—or request an edit—of Special:SpecialPages
- Ask and eventually you may receive Per m:Tech/News/2014/06:
- You can now link to diffs using
[[Special:Diff/12345]]and similar links. Wikimedia code review
- You can now link to diffs using
- Now I see movement on another aspect of this, apparently a reaction to another village pump "ping": see T47221 and Wikimedia code review
- Yay! Finally Checked done. Administrators can edit MediaWiki:Specialpages-summary.
- Ask and eventually you may receive Per m:Tech/News/2014/06:
- Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 108#How to edit—or request an edit—of Special:SpecialPages
- m:Wikimedia Resource Center (new) [July 2017] – comes with edit button and talk (actually started by Rogol Domedonfors August 2016)
- Wikimedia Developer Portal (newer) [June 2022] – no edit button or talk
- m:Help:Introduction
- m:MediaWiki Handbook (moved to m:Help:Contents)
- Help:HTML in wikitext
- Help:Substitution
- Help:Template
- mw:Help:Templates
- m:Help:Template
- mw:Extension:TemplateStyles
- Help:Labeled section transclusion
- Help:Magic words
- mw:Help:Magic words
- mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
- mw:Help:Parser functions in templates
- mw:Manual:Index.php
- mw:API
- mw:API:Recent changes stream
- Special:ApiSandbox
Database
[edit ]MediaWiki core
[edit ]- Welcome to MediaWiki.org!
- mw:How to become a MediaWiki hacker
- MediaWiki core on Gerrit (
Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource.on my Windows 7 machine. But still works for me on Ubuntu)- DEVELOPERS.md MediaWiki provides an extendable local development environment based on Docker Compose.
- MediaWiki (master) on Phabricator (source code)
- MediaWiki Codesearch
- mw:Manual:MediaWiki architecture
- mw:Manual:Installation requirements
- Unicode Code Converter
Setup and configuration
- the Bitu Identity Manager, which shows me "My LDAP properties". (see wikitech:IDM)
- Gerrit Wikimedia Code Review user settings
- https://git-scm.com/ Git, a free and open source distributed version control system. Git for Windows v2.46.2 was the last version supporting Windows 7
- Configure Git
Submit a patch Open a Git Bash window, and from there,
- mw:Download from Git#Keeping up to date
- mw:Gerrit/Tutorial#Submit a patch
- Start server:
c:\php\mediawiki\core> "c:\php\php" -S localhost:8000
- Open webpage: localhost:8000
Toolforge
[edit ]- wikitech:User talk:Wbm1058
- wikitech:Portal:Toolforge
- Toolforge admin console
- wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Jobs framework
Archive search boxes
[edit ]Example: search for "Simpsons" in my talk/archives
Copyright
[edit ]Wikipedia editors are somehow expected to know a lot of stuff about this topic. I find it a bit overwhelming. I checked out ISBN 978-0199941162 from my local library, but confess it's been a struggle to put down my keyboard & mouse long enough to read it. Taking notes and posting links to terms as I come across them.
- Wikipedia:Copyrights
- Copyright
- Copyright Clause
- Copyright Act of 1976
- Copyright Royalty Board
- United States Copyright Office
- Register of Copyrights
- Copyright Catalog
History
[edit ]Editor engagement experiments
[edit ]Every now and then I run into something interesting over the course of editing.
- Wikipedia:Editor engagement experiments
- m:Editor engagement experiments
- mw:Editor engagement experiments
Newer experiments
- Growth experiments log
- Started slowly in 2021, without fanfare that I noticed
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