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[edit] About meI'm Richard Wilde, an undergraduate student from New Zealand doing a Bachelor of Science majoring in biology at the University of Auckland. I'm here to help fight in the War on Ignorance (including, of course, my own) and to make the internet not suck, or at least to suck somewhat less. I'm interested in many subjects, including but not limited to philosophy and science. I'm currently working on a range of ecology, ethology and evolutionary biology related topics in my spare time, and my editing activities involve assessing articles (we now have 1.6 out of 2.4 million assessed), adding to do lists (I feel articles are a bit like a headless chicken without one), and requesting, creating or expanding articles themselves. As a Wikipedian I feel I can never, never do enough. Parallel to Wikipedia, I'm also interested in making old public domain materials available online, as well helping to build a free audio/visual media library (i.e. Wikimedia Commons). If anyone needs me to look up a journal article or something similar, I have access to a range of databases through the university library system. Recently I have emailed a few academics/experts to see if they'll write something for Wikipedia. I have had some interest, and will be interested to see how things go. I'm also thinking about the idea of creating a Wikipedia club at the university. I'm not sure how much interest there would be, though it might boost the number of UoA Wikipedians here a bit if we can generate some interest in it. Might be something I could start next year or the one after... [edit] ScheduleI will be in Auckland until the 21st of December. After that I will be going home for Christmas and won't have internet access, and will return somewhere between early January and late February of 2009. [edit] Common mistakesThere are some frequent mistakes I constantly fix, which I'll list here as I come across or think of them. Hopefully someone reading this will learn from them. [edit] See also sections
These sections should seldom contain links already in the article, especially those linked in the first sentence. The see also section is a place to link related topics that wouldn't be out of place linked in the text of the article, but which currently are not present. Listing half the article's internal links again is of no help. Also, please keep lists alphabetical. I often leave the same message in brief as a hidden comment simply because this happens so often. [edit] Headings Should Not Be CapitalizedThe above heading should of course read 'Headings should not be capitalized'. The same goes for article names. A common mistake among new users, though I seldom see experienced users fixing it. [edit] Lead sectionsToo often I see articles with a tiny introduction or lead section. An article's lead should be a concise summary of the whole article. There are some articles with overly large leads, but more often they are too short. The length should be proportional to the length of the full article, so while a brief article can get away with only a one paragraph lead, a detailed one should have a lead of 3, 4 or even 5 paragraphs. Unfortunately even some GA or 'A' class articles suffer from this issue. [edit] The tragedy of the CommonsPlease upload to Wikimedia Commons. The number of free images that could be moved there is staggering, and seems to be growing larger by the day. The template {{un:c}} is useful for new users. Also, please link to Commons whenever possible (use {{commons}} or {{commonscat}}. You don't have to look far to find an article that is screaming out for a link to a useful Commons gallery or category to be added. [edit] CitationsCitations come after punctuation,[1] not before.[2] The previous sentence is a good example. [edit] Talk pagesTalk pages are only for discussion of improving the article. This means that off topic material should be removed from talk pages. If you see off-topic fluff floating around, please, do as I do and remove it. [edit] Reverting vandalismThere is little point reverting vandalism if you are reverting to a revision that itself contains vandalism. Often I see someone revert one IPs vandalism by merely rolling back to a vandalized version by another IP. And guess what usually happens next? Yup, people assume everything has been fixed and the vandalism stays put. If you see this happening, please find the reverter and explain what has happened. Bots do it too; there's not much we can do about this besides closely watching articles. Often, this doesn't happen though (see below). [edit] Thoughts about WikipediaI think the internet would be a lot better if it was more like Wikipedia. Many sites would be much neater if they were wikis or took on some of the characteristics of a wiki (wiki hybrids, if you like). I am both impressed with the progress of Wiki(p/m)edia but at the same time disappointed at the slow development of some important things given the large number of people in the world who could contribute here and at our sister projects. [edit] Ideas to improve Wikipedia[edit] The need for organized page maintenanceSee User:Richard001/Maintenance for an essay about the need for organized maintenance of Wikipedia pages. [edit] Article requestsThe Wikipedia assessment scheme describes how articles can be placed in certain classes - stub, B-class etc. But what about articles that don't exist? I'm not suggesting that we assess the quality of such articles, but rather I think we should pay more attention to article requests. I think WikiProjects are the best way to handle requests. More WikiProjects need to get involved with requests, and in a bigger way. Requests pages need to be refined and improved, sorted etc. Requests should also be assessed in the sense of "yes, this is a good request, we should have an article on it" or "no, there is already an article on this topic/it isn't notable etc" (i.e. there would be three classes of non-existent article: non-requested, new requests and approved requests. Of course, some non-requested articles may still be article worthy, even urgently needed!) Request lists should include assessment of how important it is to any relevant project(s) (and thus how urgent a request it is) and, if possible, reliable sources which could be used to create such an article. It is important for projects to look not only at what articles they have and how good they are, but what articles they should have, how many there are, and how important they are. [edit] Want a dictionary definition?Wikipedia is not a dictionary, but if you want a definition just type "wikt:" before the word, e.g. "wikt:candor", and you'll be taken to the Wiktionary entry. [edit] Current work and to do
[edit] Focus article
[edit] WikiProjectsI am listed as a member of the following WikiProjects. I work on a range of articles and assess almost anything, but these are the ones I'm most involved with:
[edit] Most recent articlesI plan to work more on making stubs into non-stubs in future, maybe including some of my own.
Full list: User:Richard001/Articles I have created
[edit] Some articles to createFeel free to beat me to creating these!
[edit] Notes/to do
[edit] Other projects I contribute to
My other work at WMF projects almost entirely at Commons, with occasional editing at quote and other projects (though I may become more involved with others in the future). Check out m:Help:Unified login to merge your accounts!
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