User:Creol
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The basic information in the easiest terms possible - this can rarely be a bad thing.
Simple.wiki seems much easier to keep up on vandalism removal and reverts due to the decreased traffic (compared to en.wiki) which gives time to look into other area's.
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Category Status
It is probably slightly noticeable that I am doing a lot of work on cleaning up the categories. So I thought an update on what has been done may be helpful.
Countries
Category:Countries was the first target. The goal was a more stream-lined set up from the main cat through continents to countries and country cats. With more pages in the smaller countries, new cats for them will eventually be needed to be created and linked up. All Categories applying to a country are on its category page. The only category on the page itself should be its own category but there will always be exceptions I never thought of.
- Main work done, Maintenance as needed with new articles.
Cities
Category:Cities was next. Using countries as a basis, Cities were linked up from state/province for larger countries to country to continent. This is pretty much done. Many cities are in a cat above where they should be because there are not enough city pages in the lower levels to warrant a category for them yet. Cities are linked to both country and the level above them. (ie. Cities in France -> France and Cities in Europe). Capital cities is a special class that pretty much runs the same pattern. Cities that are large metropolitan areas (New York, London, Rome, LA) and can expect many pages related to them get their own category. Cities with multiple sports teams and/or tourist attractions seem to be getting the needed 3 pages for cat creation earliest.
- Main work done, Maintenance as needed.
People
Category:People is the current target. The main "people by nationality" cat thread is set up almost identical to Cities and the same drawbacks are there. Athletes in major sports was next and fairly well dealt with (mainly Football/soccer, not a lot of non-football athlete pages).
I am currently focusing on individual countries to categories major groups in them (ie. American singers in American musicians in American entertainers in People from the United States) As England (more so than the entirety of the UK) and the United States have the largest number of pages to work through and many of these are only partially categories (an American actor/singer is only listed under musicians or even music..) there are a lot of categories which need to be looked at to get a good grip on this area before turning to smaller countries (page count wise) and see if there is enough for them to get categories.
- Nationalities done
- Athletes close to done
- Entertainers in work.
- Composers, Singers, Musicians, Pianists - Done (First pass).
- User:Creol/Cat-Continent - A workup for the layout of geographical categories for countries, cities and people
Pet Projects
- user:Creol/targets - list of pages I constantly use for editing.
- User:Creol/Wiktionary - list of article either moved to simple wiktionary or waiting to be moved.
- The category tree is in bad shape. Tons of articles not categorized, many more in the wrong category (or at least not the best option).. lots to be done there.
Edit count milestones
- 250: Steve Martin
- 500: Kingsley Amis
- 750: Mutants (Marvel)
- 1k: Hunter S. Thompson - A revert.. was hoping for something special for 1000. A new article, a major rewrite.. nope, a revert.
- 1.5k: Fenrir
- 2k: Category:Wikipedians in Norway - much like 1000, I was in the heat of the moment running through a lot of changes and didnt notice how close I was to 2K.
- 2.5k: Santo Domingo - Cat fix
- 3k: Joss Whedon after missing 1K, 2K and 2.5K, I had to do a real article for 3K. Who better than the master himself.
- 4k: United States A Category cleanup - part of the work on Category:Countries
- 5k: Firefly
- 6K: Angel
- 7.5K: Sarah Michelle Gellar stub upgrade - anyone noticing a trend here?
- 9K: [1] Summer Glau
- 10K: Serenity - technically it was 10005, but only because an undeleted happened just before sending the page which caused 6 previously deleted edits to reappear and I am not counting them.
Notes
- 500 in 15 days.. That is a lot of reverts and fixed disambiguous or redirected links.
- 43.35 edits per day at 750.
- 1000 edits in 20 days at 48.89 edits per day
- Broke the 50 edits/day average on day 21.
- 2000 in 30 days at 67.85 edits per day.
- 5000 in 57 days. 88.72..
- ↑ special occasion - 9K was also the creation of the 14K article on simple)
Things of Note
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Congratulations: You have been awarded a Barnstar!
For lots of great work, especially in removing "you" from articles!--Blockinblox 18:32, 6 November 2006 (UTC) |
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Congratulations: You have been awarded a Barnstar!
For lots of great work!!!!! --Vector ^_^ (talk) 21:50, 15 November 2006 (UTC) |
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Congratulations: You have been awarded a Barnstar!
This is for your efforts toward knocking the uncategorized pages list down to only one page!--Blockinblox - talk 16:59, 12 December 2006 (UTC) |