User:JesseW

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I still find the arguments at User:Hillman (selected quotes available here, locally, as the original location has been removed by the author's request) to be disturbing, sensible, and  very worrying, but I've come back to Wikipedia, at least for a while, so I'm re-adding the rest of the content of my user page. ;-) I encourage everyone who comes across this page to go read them, and  think about them. As I understand them, the central point is  that Wikipedia, along with many other cultural forces, are  encouraging convenience over correctness, i.e. it's more  important to find an answer than the best answer. The specifics, which are  as important as the general issues, are  that, even as the absolute number of excellent article revisions stored on Wikipedia increases, the percentage of non-misleading article revisions is  decreasing; i.e. people who want to use Wikipedia to mislead others are  having more  and more  sucess. This also is  very disturbing to me, and  causes me to strongly reconsider my participation in Wikipedia - it  is not good work to do your part in polishing a building which is  being increasingly taken over by filth. I would be better off submitting corrections to resources which are  not suffering from this maledy. This is  saddening. I would love to hear any rebuttals, or  even mere comments of sympathy, on my talk page. JesseW, the juggling janitor 07:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Good thing, to look at: User:Phil_Sandifer/Craft_of_Research

Look at this: -> -> --> User:Lupin/autoedit.js

/Watchlists

I'm a janitor (see my RfA, and  the log of my actions, and  the log of any actions against me), although I generally try to avoid controversy.

Wikipedia:Recovering from Wikipediholism - Just in case.

Hello. I'm astonished and  impressed with the quality of Wikipedia. I hope to help out, probably as some kind of WikiFaerie. I'm also involved with various other Wiki's. Do not click here. it  will bring up an  ALPB.

I'm a Los Angeles native, currently on leave from Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, USA. Besides working on Wikipedia, I enjoy contra dance, hacking, juggling, and  science fiction, as well as various political work. I've also taken aikido from the Venice Japanese Community Center and  the Oregon Ki Society. You may find this amusing, if you are  familar with SF TV shows. Hm. As of 08:49, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC) 06:58, 20 July 2005 (UTC) I have  2647 edits.(via Kate's Tools) <shrug>. Oh. I only fit one, not both, of the criteria for listing on the List of unemployed Discordians, even if I was notable. Thanks to User:A Man In Black for the idea of the list.

I think the Eternal September has come to Wikipedia and  we are  all going to go progressivly madder, but the GFDL makes it  all okay, as we can start over somewhere else when we need to. -- 04:34, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent interesting links

Good quote: "Wikipedia articles are  all works-in-progress. To date there is  not yet a system for formal review and  fact-checking, so there are  no public-ready articles at this time, only drafts." by brion vibber on wikitech-l 07:26, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Excellent reply to "But how will the artists get paid without copyright?": The Digital Art Auction : Making Money when Information Wants to be Free by Crosbie Fitch. 07:26, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

If you want to know why the music industry is  going to lose; Freeing the Mind : Free Software and  the Death of Proprietary Culture. Wow. Particularly this quote: "What one can say is  that in the world of zero-marginal cost, anarchist distribution--that is, distribution without exclusion from the act of distributing--produces inherently superior distribution. " and  "when music under the present system leaves the production studio and  passes through six hands, it  isn't in the store yet. Whereas, in Stanley Milgram's United States, after six jumps, everybody who wants the music has it.". Wow. 11:15, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

A rather nice geography quiz on Oceania - I ought to know these, but I don't(yet): http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/oceania_quiz.html JesseW 19:08, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

In case you were not aware of the USA Patriot Act and  how its being used: here is  an example. The news story referred to is  available by searching google for site:www.reviewjournal.com FBI patriot act hotel Jan.

An excellent response to the Grand Theft Auto sex controversy: from mathew's journal 20:15, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Some pretty pictures from BesigedB 17:42, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC): http://forums.beyondunreal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=84549, http://forums.beyondunreal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=84550.

[edit] Other Wiki User pages

• Wikt:User:JesseW
• Wikisource:User:JesseW
• Meta:User:JesseW
• wikiventory:User:JesseW
• KB.mozillazine.org JesseW

If you want a picture of me, you can find one here. I'm juggling.

• My website
• My Reed webspace
• My bookmarks at Scuttle.org

[edit] Useful links

• gmane (mailing list aggregator) list of wikipedia mailing lists
• Wikipedia:Mirrors
• Special:Newpages
• User:Smoddy/Tools - ways of semi-automatically adding various default templates to pages...
• Special:Listusers near my name

[edit] My subpages

• User:JesseW/monobook.js - My collection of useful Wiki Tools. Quite worth checking out...
• User:JesseW/monobook.css - CSS stuff, I don't remember what's in here...
• User:JesseW/List_of_Image_doc_pages - an  essay on the current problem with images without sources. 20:35, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
• User:JesseW/Watchlists (and subpages listed there)
• User:JesseW/ImportantWatchlist
• User:JesseW/Full mirror list
• User:JesseW/Maintain Watchlist
• User:JesseW/BookmarkletsUniversal - A list of all the bookmarklets available on the web(pretty complete as of now).
• User talk:JesseW/Children of Category Japan list
• User:JesseW/status - which I use as a sort of sandbox...
• User:JesseW/welcome - my slightly customized copy of Template:welcome, which is  iritatingly protected.
• User:JesseW/List of articles about websites - User:Lotsofissues asked me to make this list, so I did.
• User:JesseW/wdb_format - an  essay on the format of Microsoft Works database files (.wdb) which I reverse engineered (partially).

[edit] To Do

• Make The Black Crook from the source I found.
• Take the cleanup tag off Image processing - I think it  was just added to clean up after a merge, which was reversed - it  may need some improvement, but not general cleanup, I think. JesseW 29 June 2005 22:52 (UTC)
• Add information, or  at least a picture, to Plaid pantry(the portland, or  chain) when I get back to Reed. 07:52, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
• Do some juggling, take a picture of it, and  add it  to one of the juggling pages. (Suggested by Pedant 21:20, 2004 Dec 2 (UTC))

[edit] Interesting ideas

• the earliest entry in Special:Log 2004-12-23, 03:21:00 . This is  probably WP:BEANS...

• I found a great book called the Encyclopedia of Fire ISBN 1-57356-302-1 ; I would like to pull a lot of the facts in it  and put them into Wikipedia. it  has articles on the history of big fires that are  facinating.

• I've sent emails to the makers of the DEEP THOUGHT: sightings of 42 page asking if they would release their stuff under GFDL so it  could be improved on Wikipedia; I hope to hear back from them. If they say yes, it  will be considerable work to import and  Wikifiy the pages, and  then start work on finding references, cross links, and  page numbers. Fun.

• Work on a series of wikipedia pages on various commodities (apples, apparel, computer chips, etc.) listing where they are  made, who makes them, how they are  made, and  who owns aspects of the above (means of production, intellectual property, consumers). 23:16, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[ or  Odd">edit] Funny or  Odd

• m:Web_Encyclopedia_Song
• User:ClockworkTroll/Name_the_Admin_Candidate
• VP (misc) note of support from a christian(yes, without caps) saying why e liked Wikipedia. Quite remarkable. JesseW 07:18, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
• Someone defending edit warring "Edit warring is  perfectly valid on Wikipedia" - Wow. Just so any innocent bystanders notice - This is  Not True. Edit wars are  a Bad Thing.
• Some nuts are  reproducing the whole Star Wars script in Wikipedia jargon. Amazing job. 06:04, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Good, interesting pages

• Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Lingnan_Primary_School - down at the bottom of the page, a long comment by User:Encephalon that I really wish he would put somewhere I could more  easily reference it. Why WP:NOR, WP:V and  WP:NPOV are  so critical. JesseW, the juggling janitor 21:39, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
•  and  university projects">A comment on the purposes of Wikipedia that is  remarkably apt and  well said. JesseW, the juggling janitor 00:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• Power outage and  linked pages. - Facinating stuff, considering that my house recently got a solar power system... 08:18, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
• User:Mindspillage/sense - I try to follow this principle. Thanks for stating it, Mindspillage! JesseW 06:00, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
• Village pump discussion on NPOV disputes - an  example of a newbie sucessfully navigating eis first edit war without mortal wounds or  damaging scars. Also includes a nice explanation of the real use of the NPOV tag. 07:19, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - we are  Wikipedia. - we will create the material world! - or  something like that.
• m:James_explains_law - More than you thought there was to know about Copyright law, or  Have you read the GFDL lately?
• Wikipedia:The_Wikipedian's Prayer
• m:Wikistress; Just because it's not listed on Wikipedia.
• Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia - an  excellent page
• 1 E2 m I want to look at this more. 05:06, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Image:San_Francisco_Bay_Area_Skyline_Blvd.jpg - A very good image I first found on the Wikipedia Quarto, and  which I tracked down here after asking the person who submitted it  to meta... JesseW
• meta:MPOV - a good list of symptoms of wikipedia kooks.
• There are  40,283 links to the Sandbox, right now. Wow. 21:56, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Up to 47,471 as of now. JesseW 06:24, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:legal research - I wrote a nice list of links to various Wikipedia:Style pages there, as part of a discussion. 00:31, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• At_the_Oxford_Computing_summer_school an  excellent example of the value of our hard work, from the VP(which is  why it's a uneditable permalink; where should things like this go? JesseW 04:58, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• We have  90 registered user names that start with Jesus. Quite odd. JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:26, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• And people say Wikipedia is  a form of self-abuse... JesseW, the juggling janitor 01:49, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiOrganizations I support

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia Namespace
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Kindness Campaign
•  and  Reference Check">Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and  Reference Check
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
• Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts

[edit] My various Wiki software tools

[edit] Code to print out a uniq list of pages from Speical:Contributions

Now I just need to figure out how to do it  all in one with more  than 500 contribs... BTW, it  needs to be run from something like squarefree's bookmarklet javascript shell, since it  outputs with print()

 m=document.getElementById("bodyContent");
 lis=m.getElementsByTagName("li");
 myans=new Object ();for (n=0;n<lis.length;n++) {
   myans[lis[n].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].title]=1 };
 for(q in myans){ print("[["+q+"]]") }

written as a quick hack on 02:00, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki-link bookmarklet

See Wikipedia:Wiki-Link Game. I've lost. ;-) it  skips redlinks and  external links.

Note: you need to change "thenum" to set it  to another number than 5. Written by me on 10:07, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

javascript:void((function () {thenum=5; m=0; 
z=document.getElementById("bodyContent").getElementsByTagName("A"); for 
(n=0;n<z.length;n++) {if (/\/wiki\//.test(z[n].href)) {m=m+1}; if (m==thenum) 
{document.location=z[n].href}}})())

[edit] Category Browsing Tools

I've written two python scripts that together let you browse through the Wikipedia catagory system and  generate pictures of the network. They can be downloaded here. Please try them out, and  complain if you can't figure out what they do, or  if they break. Also, any patches or  suggestions would be greatly appreciated. JesseW 11:59, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

If you wish to request a graph or  textual list of the children and/or parents of a category, please ask on my Talk page. I'm happy to do it; I'll create them, upload them, and  add them to this list(and let you know on your talk page. ;-) ) JesseW 02:51, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I have  now updated the code. it  now makes nicer looking text output and  has more  documentation. JesseW 23:28, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Forth release. Now the text output uses differnt headings for different depths. JesseW 05:16, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Examples:

• The parent's of Category:Bristol: Image:Bristol_parents.png
• The children of (to 30 levels deep) Category:Japan: Image:japan_category_graph.png (see also the text version of the information, here.)
• The children of Category:California(using my new wiki output format.): Wikipedia:WikiProject California/categories

[edit] Bookmarklet

Wrote a bookmarklet to hide entries on my watchlist in which I am  the last, listed, editor.

Note!! The current version of the script automatically identifies the user name, and  the number of days displayed in the watchlist.

I release this script under the revised BSD license.

Sorry I couldn't get it  to show up as a link. I'm working on it. JesseW 09:22, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Versions

• v2: Automatically identifies your userName
• v3: Automatically identifies the number of days set to display in your watchlist. This should also fix the bugs where it  erases other bits of screen. Please let me know.

[edit] The code

javascript:void((function(){userName=document.getElementById%28%22contentSub%22%29.innerHTML.match%28/%22%28.%2B%29%22/%29%5B1%5D;q=document.getElementsByTagName(%22ul%22); for(n=0;n<q.length;n++){if(q[n].getAttribute(%22class%22)==%22special%22){r=%22%22;z=q[n].childNodes;for(x=0;x<z.length;x=x+2) {LI=z[x].childNodes;if(LI[LI.length-4].innerHTML!=userName&&LI[LI.length-5].innerHTML!=userName){r=r+%22<li>%22+z[x].innerHTML+%22</li>\n%22}}; q[n].innerHTML=r}}})())

[edit] Bugs

User:Angela says that on Firefox 0.9.3 it  erases the navigation bar rather than the watchlist entries. User:Angela says that on Wikia: it  erases the sidebar rather than the watchlist entries.

I suspect both of these are  because the bookmark edits all the <ul> lists in the document, and  on Firefox or  Wikia: it  is picking up such lists in the wrong place. I will test it  on these places and  see if the bug shows up for me. If you also see the bug, or  have any information about it, please add your comments on the Talk page, and  I'll update this list. JesseW 03:53, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I also use firefox but my copy erases both the bar and  the watchlist entries...nice program though. [[User:BrokenSegue|BrokenSegue]] 23:51, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I think both of these bugs should be fixed now. I'm identifying "ul" lists to change by their class="special" attribute now. Please let me know if this is  fixed. JesseW 10:33, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Emacs defun

[edit] wiktionary-get-page

 (defun wiktionary-get-page (title) (interactive "M") "" 
  (progn 
    (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create title))
    (erase-buffer)
    (insert (shell-command-to-string
             (format "wget -q -O - \"%s?title=%s&action=edit\""
                     "http://en.wiktionary.org/w/wiki.phtml"
                     title)))
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (search-forward "<textarea") (search-forward ">") 
    (delete-region (point-min) (point))
    (search-forward "</textarea>") (setq pos (- (point) 11))

    (search-forward "wpEdittime")  
    (setq et (buffer-substring (- (point) 18) (- (point) 32)))
    (message "Edittime is: %s" et)
    (delete-region pos (point-max))

    (wikipedia-mode)
    (defvar wikipedia-edittime nil "*") 
    (set (make-local-variable 'wikipedia-edittime) et)))

[edit] wiktionary-submit-page

Warning! Do not use this unless you know it's not broken in some subtle way. it  is only a first draft and  probably is  broken or  does something bad, or  at best, fails to work. So be careful. and  send me improvements. JesseW 05:16, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 (defun wiktionary-submit-page 
  (title content summary edittime 
         &optional username password minor watch section) "" 
         (http-post 
          (concat "http://en.wiktionary.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=" 
                  (http-url-encode title 'iso-8859-1) 
                  "&action=submit")
          `(("wpTextbox1" . content) 
            ("wpSummary". summary) 
            ("wpSave". "Save page")
            ("wpSection" ."") ("wpEdittime" . edittime))
          'iso-8859-1))

[edit] Awards

• 
•  it  so much easier to report copyvios! Dan100 (Talk) 20:14, 23 December 2005 (UTC)"> it  so much easier to report copyvios! Dan100 (Talk) 20:14, 23 December 2005 (UTC)" width="111" height="107" longdesc="../../../b/a/r/Image%7EBarnstar.png_75b1.html" />

  For simple but beautiful additions to {{copyvio}} which made it  so much easier to report copyvios! Dan100 (Talk) 20:14, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
  (added to my talk page here)
•  and  sane on the mailing list, three characteristics that are  so often lacking there. Cheers, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 00:24, 7 July 2006 (UTC)"> and  sane on the mailing list, three characteristics that are  so often lacking there. Cheers, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 00:24, 7 July 2006 (UTC)" width="100" height="96" longdesc="../../../b/a/r/Image%7EBarnstar.png_75b1.html" />

  

  For being patient, intelligent, and  sane on the mailing list, three characteristics that are  so often lacking there. Cheers, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 00:24, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Creative Commons License

[edit] Missing articles project template

[edit] Amusing Incidents

• Vandalism of my user page
  • 05:25, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• User_talk page
  • 05:25, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Notes on thing's I've already done

(Things on here may be removed whenever I feel like it. The'll be available from history...)

Notes on provenence of Image:GeorgeClementPerkins.jpg

• According to the person I spoke to (at the California State Capitol Museum; 916-324-0333):
  • first 13 or  16 govenor's portraits were by the same person
  • George Clement Perkins (governer from 1880-1883) portrait
  • artist was probably: william cogswell
  • koren benoit - art collection manager, might know more
  • good book in bookstore - Schaechtele, Molly Shoemaker. The Governors of California and  their Portraits. Sacramento, CA: California State Capitol Museum Volunteer Association, 1995.
  • he will call back in about a half hour with more  details.

• I've checked that all 3364 images that I have  deleted so far are  all unlinked from anywhere. None of them were. JesseW, the juggling janitor 07:24, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
• Added three pictures of the collapse of the Santa Monicia Freeway to Northridge earthquake. I hope someone will clean them up eventually...

• Created Paul K. Keene - organic farmer, from NYTimes obit I have.

• Cleaned about 25 items off the Category:Wikipedia articles needing their fiction made clear list. It's empty now. Hah. JesseW 08:05, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • cleaned about 6 more  off. empty again. JesseW 02:50, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
• Make Billet from the source I found. - Finally done. Just a tiny job... JesseW 07:14, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Mathias Maul, the author of the Ultra-Complete Index of HHGttG, has put it  under GFDL. I've added it; now the Wikification can begin. (Moved to done on 23:16, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC))

• Organized the various lists of sources for articles, and  made a template listing the actual pages with content. The template is  Template:Article_resources. Good stuff. JesseW 11:03, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• Changed my "nickname" so it  references a staus template, which I can use to post messages on every page I sign. Unless I developer contacts me and  says I'm personally causing major slowdown of the entire wikipedia, I'll keep it. JesseW User:JesseW/status 13:43, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Removed, as I just read a thread on the VP saying it  was a terrible idea. ;-) JesseW 14:03, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 is  unsued anywhere right now, and  I'm intending to move to the Commons eventually"> is  unsued anywhere right now, and  I'm intending to move to the Commons eventually" width="300" height="225" longdesc="../../../i/m/g/Image%7EIMG_0122%28Notre_Dame_Glass_work%29.jpg_efed.html" />

[edit] Mirror notice

TagLib - here because, oddly, this (the homepage for taglib) is  not the top result on google; so I'm doing my small part to fix this.

Blog post from roughtype.com which I commented on just now: 06:44, 12 September 2006 (UTC) - linking for proof and  rememberance's sake.

[edit] Chu Chin Chow

The CD of the original London Cast is  Angel #0777 7 89939 2 6. Tracks 1 to 17 are  the version of the songs recorded independantly in 1959-61 with Te Wiata, Julie Bryan, & others. Tracks 18 to 24 contain some of the songs from either the original London Cast in 1916 or  from the Gaumont British film of 1934 (four songs from each). Page 11 of the notes lists the cast of both these versions of the complete musical.

DonJay 02:33, 27 September 2006 (UTC)