User:Boud

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The Wikipedia is cool and should be is used and developed in universities and schools everywhere, IMHO. Closed documentation on encyclopedic type knowledge has no moral justification, IMHO. But the Wikipedia should be used with an understanding of what it is, as justified by academic studies of Wikipedia (see the Education Working Group/RfC about difficulties in giving formal university grades for Wikipedia editing).

Committed identity: 13eba3a2f9558e471774b91be5723a4f6f900c28ad54fb1e662daf8c5e4565a83f5e5abd31b7b6dda5f66118373df9a9a6fae55f28f086322fcdd07beb0a35f3 is an SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

Moreover, there are many aspects of research and universities where the ethical principles in practice at Wikipedia should be the norm but are not (yet, as of 2023) the norm; by seeing how they work in the "real-world" case of Wikipedia (the world's biggest and often most reliable encyclopedia), pressure to move up to these standards in research practice and university governance - especially including transparent, rational, structured decision-making (the ideal of "collegial" decision-making and governance) - will continue to increase.

Gender pronouns

If you need to refer to me in Wikipedia discussions, then he/him/his are appropriate. If you really want to use they/them/their about me, go ahead, since it seems like those pronoun-related words may win the popularity contest against s/he, him/her, his/her.

A few useful links and tools

To the uploader: If possible, do not use this tag; please replace it with one of {{tv-screenshot}}, {{film-screenshot}}, {{musicpromo-screenshot}}, {{game-screenshot}}, {{software-screenshot}}, or {{web-screenshot}}.
  • citation stuff
    • Wikipedia:Footnotes
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Generic citations
    • <ref name="...">{{cite news | last1= | first1= | last2= | first2= | pages= | language =| title= |trans-title = {{void| trans-title is the English translation}}| date= | publisher= |newspaper= | url= |access-date=2021- |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live {{void| live|dead|unfit|usurped}} |url-access = {{void| (subscription/registration/limited) default=free}} }}</ref>
    • <ref name="...">{{cite web| last1 =| first1 =| last2= | first2= | authorlink =| language =| title= |trans-title = {{void| trans-title is the English translation}} | work =| publisher =| website= |date =| url = |format =| doi =| access-date = |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live {{void| live|dead|unfit|usurped }} |url-access = {{void| (subscription/registration/limited) default=free}} }}</ref>
    • shorter: <ref name="...">{{cite news | last1= | first1= | last2= | first2= |author1-link= | language =| title= |trans-title =| date= |newspaper= | url= |access-date=2021- |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live |url-access = }}</ref>
    • shorter: <ref name="...">{{cite web| last1 =| first1 =| last2= | first2= | author1-link =| language =| title= |trans-title = | website= |date =| url = | access-date = |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live |url-access = }}</ref>
    • <ref name="...">{{cite journal | last1 = | first1 = | last2 = | first2 = | author1-link = | title = | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = | publisher = | location = | date = | url = | url-access = <!-- (subscription/registration/limited) default=free --> | issn = | doi = | id = | arxiv=YYMM.NNNNNa | access-date = | archive-url= | archive-date= |url-status=live <!-- live|dead|unfit|usurped -->}}</ref>
    • |display-authors=etal
    • for volatile, mainstream newspapers like NYT? Wikipedia:List of web archives on Wikipedia + use |archiveurl= |archivedate=
      • if one of archive-url, archive-date is present, then the other must be present too, and title and url must also be present
      • Template:Webarchive - {{webarchive |format=addlarchives |url= |date= |url2= |date2= }} (max 10 addl (additional) archives)
    • {{cbignore}}
  • redirect to section example
 #REDIRECT[[Gaafar Nimeiry#1985 Revolution]]
 {{Rcat shell|
  {{R to section}}
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  • example of a page editnotice: Template:Editnotices/Page/2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

LLMs

To link to a specific (signed) paragraph on a talk page,

  • look for <span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-USER-TIMESTAMP-OTHERTAG"></span> in the talk page as unrendered source html, or
  • do a mouseover on the timestamp in the signature to see the internal link.

Example: on the talk page of an event-within-a-genocide article on Wikipedia, I was once told that I was scrupulously pretending [my]self to be "neutral". Boud (talk) 17:24, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Possible TODOs

Peace process

Battles get huge amounts of Wikipedia attention, while peace actions get much less. This is not Wikipedians' fault alone - killing is "sexy" for the media, while negotiations and the creation of networks and organised groups and healthier human relationships are boring and unprofitable. We need to create more peace process structures, since pedants don't want information on battles to be corrupted by "unencyclopedic" information such as elements of peace processes that inevitably accompany battles since (at least) a century ago: see this removal, for example.

Ethiopian names

Meta-level work

Some stuff i worked on several years ago

  • Protests of 2019 - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Protests of 2019 (2nd nomination) - deleted in June 2020 without notification of a major contributor
    • Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2020 June 15 - not overturned
    • archives: 28 May 2020; history; edit statistics; talk page.
    • Erica Chenoweth, July 2020, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-future-of-nonviolent-resistance-2/#f1, "The year 2019 saw what may have been the largest wave of mass, nonviolent antigovernment movements in recorded history.1" cites themself "1. Erica Chenoweth et al., 'This May Be the Largest Wave of Nonviolent Mass Movements in World History. What Comes Next?' Washington Post, Monkey Cage blog, 16 November 2019." - original research by a Wikipedian?
    • protests of 2019, Wikidata Q76753469

DYK

DYK reviewing credits

unused DYK reviewing credits

used DYK reviewing credits

DYK stats

How interested were random en.wikipedia readers in these DYK'd topics? (pre- and post- stats not subtracted; time of day of appearance may affect N. American vs European/African vs South Asian vs East Asian/Australasian likeliness of reading):

Other statistics

Balancing some particular biases

Women in computing articles

(to which I have not (yet) contributed...) - highlighted by https://womenrockscience.tumblr.com/ on the Fediverse

EmpowerHer Editathon 2024-03-22 to 2024-04-22

m:Event:EmpowerHer Editathon 2024 - related articles - unclear if the scope is "women in politics, democracy, elections and governance within AU states" or "women in politics, in democracy, in elections and in governance within AU states" - probably the latter is the intended meaning...

About Wikipedia

First logged-in edits

Rants

  • On the question of how much compression should be done in the long term, I've only just discovered that en.Wikipedia has a whole set of Category:Lists of diplomatic visits by heads of state. Given that almost all of these are opaque meetings with at best press conferences following the meetings, the useful information content is about as much as that of a 'Miss' competition. Famous powerful person A meets powerful person B. Great! and what does that have to do with transparent, rational, informed decision-making representing the interests of citizens of A and B's countries? If I were dictator of en.Wikipedia, I would probably delete the whole set. Boud (talk) 15:48, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Other wikis: Wikidot

LLM alerts

refs experiment

Barnstars

Is /me notable?

Non-RS about me

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