User:J. Noel Chiappa
Where Noel lives it is approximately: 05:09
Hi, I'm here because I'm very interested in the goals of Citizendium - especially the part about a reliable and high-quality online encyclopaedia - so I'm going to try and do some stuff here, as time allows.
I actually wrote the very first new Citizendium article, at the start of October, 2006: Hokusai!
I'm a long-time Wikipedian (started there in August, 2003), but I became dissatisfied with various negative aspects of Wikipedia (as so many other Wikipedians have done - I think of the group of dissatisfied Wikipedians as 'Citizendium's recruiting pool' :-).
My Wikipedia home page gives an indication of the kind of things that I am interested in and write about. For more about me, look at my home page here:
Thumbnail bio
Born in 1956; attended Saltus Grammar School in Bermuda (which is where I am from), Phillips Academy (Andover) and M.I.T. My principal professional field is computer information systems, with a focus in computer networking. Most significant professional accomplishment: participated in the early development of the Internet (starting in 1977). I have significant and deep interests in many other areas, particularly history (especially military), art (especially Asian) and music.
For more, see an extended biographical note here.
Recent favourite bon mots
- "Computers = stupid moronic small children who have zero common sense", to Aleta.
To do [edit]
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Policy
- Shepherd CZ:Proposals/Disambiguation mechanics through the EC
- Comment on CZ:Proposals/Involving authors in approvals
- Comment on CZ:Proposals/Should we allow article specific subpages?
- More on CZ:Proposals/Naming Conventions for Biographies
- Propose {{}} (or something like that) to create a piped link showing the abc= name, for use in alphabetized lists
- Propose splitting page-id/article-title (thread)
- Propose details, organization of disambig format (most common at top, etc)
- Propose janitors (thread)
- Propose more redirects (thread)
- Propose changes to Approval system to ensure readable articles (thread)
- Work on sources/biblio/further-reading separation (thread?)
- Footnotes (thread)
- Propose /Quotes subpage, /Glossary subpage, per-article subpages
- Relationship between /Glossary and /Related Articles
- Shared subpages among multiple articles
- Dates (thread, thread)
- Categorize images (thread)
- Tag article with no images (thread)
- External links - group, indent links to same site
- Reply on poster's talk page
Technical
- Hack {{Authors}} to get/show Editors from metadata
- Create {{}} = "For a more detailed guide see the [[{basename}/Bibliography|Bibliography subpage]]"
- Maybe put together an {{edef}} that is like {{def}}, but has the edit link too?
- Create Category:Article name redirects with slashes (thread)
- By analogy with {{slashtitle}}, have a {{}}?
- Deal with obsolete templates/categories
- Template:Cuisine/Catalogs/French cuisine/Metadata - WTF? Also:
Documentation
- Make clearer that citing Wikipedia is not kosher (thread)
- Fix reference to CZ:Policy Outline#Editorial Council in CZ:Editorial Council Rules of Procedure#Vote on the issue of purview
- Check Special:Whatlinkshere/CZ:Policy Outline for places that need to be re-targeted (Jitse already did a lot that refer to #Editorial Council)
- Make sure CZ:Redirects (and article creation) says to make lots of them, to prevent duplicate articles
- Improve CZ:Why should experts join CZ?
- Re-write CZ:About per LS's request
- Redo CZ:FAQ ditto
- Maybe copy Memory Alpha's math help page here, it's a CC site
- CZ:Using the Subpages template and CZ:The Article Checklist are turning into clones of each other; rationalize content, and possibly rename latter?
- Update documentation to cover subgroups (thread)
- Check Special:Whatlinkshere/CZ:Subpages for places that need to be re-targeted to CZ:How to add a new subpage type (thread)
- Check Special:Whatlinkshere/CZ:Using the Subpages template for places that need to be re-targeted to CZ:How to move an article with subpages (when it gets created - thread, thread)
- Add links to Category:Rename suggested from a few places (thread)
- Add links to Category:Duplicate articles from a few places (thread)
- Update CZ:Templates to add all the templates I've done
Cleanups
- Go through Category:Rename suggested and clean up old entries
- Go through Category:Duplicate articles and make sure they are all dealt with:
- Scientology articles
- Scientology (the philosophy) - no history - probably delete?
- Scientology (theory) - no history
- Scientology (doctrine) - has history
- Scientology (the religion) - has minimal history, cut-and-paste moved to Church of Scientology - merge history and delete resulting redir?
- Scientology (disambiguation) - has history
- Talk:Scientology (the philosophy) - has contents
- Talk:Scientology (disambiguation) - has contents
Useful links [edit]
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Pages
Test pages
- User:J. Noel Chiappa/Test
- User:J. Noel Chiappa/ExtraTest
- User:J. Noel Chiappa/Sandbox
- User:J. Noel Chiappa/ExtraSandbox
Other
- User:J. Noel Chiappa/Create Article
- User:J. Noel Chiappa/NewMetadataFields
- User:J. Noel Chiappa/AWelcome
- User:J. Noel Chiappa/monobook.css
Source
MediaWiki
Documentation
Policy
- Content:
- Wikipedia:
Mechanics
- CZ:How To
- CZ:How to edit an article
- CZ:Subpages
- CZ:The Article Checklist
- CZ:Using the Subpages template
MediaWiki
- Extension:Inputbox
- Extension:TreeAndMenu
- Extension:DynamicPageList
- Extension:DynamicFunctions
- Extension:StringFunctions - [1]
- Extension:VariablesExtension - [2]
- Extension:Loops
- Extension:FlaggedRevs
Other
Tools
- Special:Specialpages
- Special:Version
- Special:Statistics
- Special:ExpandTemplates
- Special:Listusers/sysop
- Special:BrokenRedirects
- Special:Prefixindex
- Special:Allpages
Technical
- CZ:MediaWiki customizations
- CZ:Enhancing your editing with javascript extensions
- CZ:Namespaces
- CZ:Technical Help
- CZ:Technical Team
Content
- Special:Wantedpages
- Category:CZ Live
- Category:Rename suggested
- Category:Articles to Approve
- CZ:Unchecklisted Articles
- CZ:Ready for approval
- CZ:Feedback Requests
Procedures
Other
Articles I created
- Written from scratch for Citizendium
- Written from scratch for Wikipedia, uploaded here
- Created based on a version from Wikipedia
High-priority articles todo
Articles I signed up to do when we were trying to get the project off the ground, but never did, so I now feel a debt of honour to make them happen.
- Vincent van Gogh
- George Boole
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Cryptology
- Internet (exists, but a stub)
And some more we really need:
Articles I have significantly upgraded
- Inactive CZ Editors
- Inactive Computers Editors
- Inactive Visual Arts Editors
- CZ Authors
- Anthropology Authors
- Archaeology Authors
- Architecture Authors
- Astronomy Authors
- Classics Authors
- Computers Authors
- Engineering Authors
- History Authors
- Military Authors
- Music Authors
- Politics Authors
- Physics Authors
- Visual Arts Authors
- CZ Editorial Council Emeritus Members