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My name is Shawn Ligocki. This page is mostly used by me to organize some things that I do or am interested in, but feel free to explore if you like or leave me a message on my talk page.
Notes for powerusers
Wikipedia is great for simple editing, but once you want to do some more complicated work, the tools are often hidden. Here are some tools I've found:
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WP:Statistics - List of statistics information about Wikipedia
- Article traffic statistics (by User:Henrik) - Tells you the number of visits on every day (Note: not number of unique visitors, does not sum over redirects)
- WikiBlame (by User:Flominator) - Let's you find who added or removed something from a page
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WP:WikiProject User scripts (
/monobook.js) - Javascript scripts that can affect many things about Wikipedia interaction.
- WP:AutoEd (by User:Drilnoth and User:Plastikspork) - Runs some boilerplate checks and autofixes them then shows diff
- Wikipedia API:
MW:API or
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php - Access to the raw API (Unfortunately really convoluted data types are returned)
- WP:Creating a bot - Info on creating a bot and using the API, etc.
- python wikitools (by User:Mr.Z-man) - Python interface to work with API calls (Unfortunately it only has helpers for some things, ex. not for getting lists of revisions)
- Links to disambig pages (by User:JaGa) - Lists disambig pages by number of links to them (more = bad, this helps people disambiguate the internal links)
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Count number of backlinks (by
User:Dispenser) - Counts number of things which "link here" for a given page (It's not exactly clear what it's counting, does it include redirects,
transclusions,etc.) source
Programming philosophies
Things that smart people have said (or the young trade of programming has produced), that might be worth considering
- Hacker ethic
- Unix philosophy
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/)
- Worse is better ( http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html)
- Bikeshedding ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING)
- "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." —Knuth, Structured Programming with go to Statements
Also:
- Goto statement considered harmful
Things I like
http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
Amusing things about Wikipedia shamelessly stolen from User:The Thing That Should Not Be: