User:J. Noel Chiappa

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 Where Noel lives it is approximately: 07:47

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:

http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/

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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.

To do

The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.

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 {{ABCtitle}} (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)
  • Template:Hidden Footnotes‎
• 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 {{seebib}} = "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 {{sharptitle}}?
  • C Sharp

• Deal with obsolete templates/categories
  • Template list
  • Category:Checklisted Articles
  • Template:Subpages/Versions‎

• Template:Cuisine/Catalogs/French cuisine/Metadata‎ - WTF? Also:
  • Talk:Belgian cuisine/Catalogs‎
  • Talk:Martial arts/Catalogs‎
  • TI Talk:Unertan Syndrome‎

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

The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.

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

• Trunk
• Release 1.12
  • Core functions

Documentation

Policy

• Content:
  • CZ:Content Policy
  • CZ:Article mechanics
    • CZ:Article mechanics Complete
  • CZ:Neutrality Policy
  • CZ:Original Research Policy
  • CZ:Policy on Self-Promotion
  • CZ:Naming Conventions
  • CZ:Citation style
  • CZ:Subpages
    • CZ:Bibliography
    • CZ:Advanced
  • CZ:Approval Process
  • CZ:Article Deletion Policy

• Wikipedia:
  • CZ:Introduction to CZ for Wikipedians
  • CZ:We aren't Wikipedia
  • CZ:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles

• Other
  • CZ:Approval of CZ namespace pages
  • CZ:Editorial Council Rules of Procedure

Mechanics

• CZ:How To
• CZ:How to edit an article
• CZ:Subpages
• CZ:The Article Checklist
• CZ:Using the Subpages template

MediaWiki

• Markup spec
• Manual:Contents

• Help:Templates
• Help:Template
• Help:Advanced_templates

• Help:Expansion

• New preprocessor
• Parser ouline description
• Help:Substitution
• Help:Recursive conversion of wikitext

• Help:Variables
• Help:Magic_words

• Help:Parser_function
• Help:ParserFunctions

• Extension:Inputbox
• Extension:TreeAndMenu
• Extension:DynamicPageList
• Extension:DynamicFunctions
• Extension:StringFunctions - [1]
• Extension:VariablesExtension - [2]
• Extension:Loops
• Extension:FlaggedRevs

Other

• HTML

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

• CZ:Start Article
• CZ:Start article with subpages
• Template:No metadata template
• Create Article

• CZ:Proposals/New
• CZ:New Workgroup Requests‎

Other

• CZ:Personnel
• CZ:Userinfo System
• CZ:Bold Moves
• CZ:Approval and Feedback

Articles I created

• Written from scratch for Citizendium
  • Hokusai

• Written from scratch for Wikipedia, uploaded here
  • Anatoly Marchenko

• Created based on a version from Wikipedia
  • CZ:Namespaces

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:

• Alan Turing
• Thucydides

Articles I have significantly upgraded

• Special relativity