User:Fred Gandt

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Hiya!

I love understanding and loathe ignorance, and feel strongly that knowledge should be free and accessible.

I see clear evidence that the wisdom of the crowd exists and is flourishing on the web, and actively support open source and community projects including Wikipedia.

I do what I can to help but will perhaps never be as prolific or as accurate an editor as ClueBot, but then what human could be?

There are currently 7,156,673 articles on the English Wikipedia, curated by 52,049,737 registered and a whole bunch of unregistered Wikipedians!

See Featured articles for the cream of the crop.

This font is Gabriola and the background photo is Mount Sharp on Mars, taken by Curiosity.

I am committed

Committed identity: 60b82b3d0153589c33032c1b7fb595f96fe45cde6b85c0bfcfe7e758b786e04bc5d88172925b474d4913cb9b9968999ec58104c4b74684b4b1fb4c7d47b5906d is an SHA3-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

My first username on Wikipedia was "EddyFragment" (redirected here). When I changed my name, I didn't think to change my name, so now have accidentally got two names!

My timezone

As a UK resident, my time zone is UTC+01:00 during BST, and GMT the rest of the time. I am however naturally nocturnal so my active times would be typically more inline with a diurnal person living in, say, Caracas. Hope that helps 😜

Articles I created

Selected articles to which I've done a lot

Essay I wrote

My userboxes

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
This user has been editing Wikipedia for 16 years, 9 months and 5 days.
This user has new page reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
This user has template editor rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
This user values descriptive edit summaries and actively encourages their use.
This user encourages the peaceful correction of vandals.
 This user assumes nothing.
This user develops
user scripts;
{{Wiki}}This user can write in the MediaWiki language.
{{t|3|c}}This user contributes to the template namespace with confidence, even with conditional templates.
LuaThis user can program in Lua.
This user can program in Python.
mysqlThis user writes programs that access MySQL.
PHPThis user can code PHP.
reThis user writes regular expressions.
W3CThis user believes in compliance with W3C standards.
html5This user prefers HTML5 above older versions of HTML.
<html>This user can write HTML.
This user can write Cascading Style Sheets.
This user can program in JavaScript.
_This_user_dislikes_seeing underscores_in_Wikilinks.
This user is powered by tea.
This user is pansexual.
If this user is awake, they are almost certainly listening to music.
This user looked for a suitable gender userbox, gave up and made this.
This user has seen a lot of shrinks and concluded that they're all bonkers.

"Welcome to my laboratory, where safety is number one priority"

My sandbox

Find links to stuff I've made or am working on, including user scripts.

Transcluded from my sandbox

My subpages

Including

My CSS and JavaScript

  • Developed for the Vector (legacy/2010 not 2022) skin; may not work well or at all for others
  • May conflict with other user scripts, stylesheets or Gadgets
  • Some do conflict with MediaWiki "Web Fonts"

Currently in use and reliable

A custom interface

  • navigationUI.js – compressed navigation user interface with expanded content and a sticky header since 2016 😜

Deprecated

  • unwatchList.js – unwatch (and rewatch if you make a mistake) pages directly while viewing changes to your watchlist
    • Functionality built into preferences now; apply some CSS and it's not bad; probably more efficient

On the todo list

Being evaluated and tested

  • tumbleweeds

Not fully fleshed out

Possibly working; definitely nasty

  • globalWatchlist.js – watchlists from all projects linked to Watchlist; needs streamlining

Avoid like the plague!

My templates

Editnotices

Deprecated

My modules

I only learned Lua for its use on Wikipedia, and wouldn't waste energy with it otherwise.

Semi complete

Safe space for testing because messing about for days or weeks at a time in other Module's sandboxes is likely to be bothersome to other editors.

Some good stuff I like

Rimsky-Korsakov. Scheherazade, Symphonic Suite, Op. 35
01 The Sea And Sinbads Ship
02 The Story Of The Kalandar Prince
03 The Young Prince And Princess
04 Festival At Baghdad The Sea
Performed by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Monteux, with violin solo by Naoum Blinder
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