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Notes for myself.

My way of becoming more experienced here

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General personal policies

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...on my participation

  • Do not delve into any activities related to an article
    • that is not good enough (yet) for providing me with the information I am looking for right now,
    • that is not a good encyclopedia article,
    • that is about something I'm not a specialist in,
    • and that (therefore) I'm not going to make a good article on this position the way I imagine it.
Just switch to other sources of information if this is unsatisfiable. Perhaps,
    • add a link to the article if I find something worth this (a good source of information on this subject), or
    • if I notice something trivial that needs to be done about the bad article, fix it or mark it, but no real big efforts.
    • Also, if I decide to try out a certain feature by making this article better, try it out, but rememeber what you are doing: just a very small thing, do not bother yourself about the article still remaining bad.

Ex. (where I thought this): ru:Омар Хайам--Imz 22:14, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

How to edit

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Learning trivialities

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  • Four single-quotes are not a special sequence :-( :
I want to strongly emphasize ''''this''''.

results in

I want to strongly emphasize 'this'.

--Imz 19:16, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Learned how to make the in-other-languages links: adding something like [[ru:Some title]] to the end of the article. (After categories. After stub-templaytes etc. or not?). --Imz 23:17, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • How to continue a list entry text after an embedded list?! I mean something like the following (look at karara):
bla-bla:
* blalala:
** baba,
** lala,
  karara;
* bububu.
Ok.

--Imz 22:41, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

More elaborate

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--Imz 01:49, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Meta-things

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Meta-markup

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That relates to doing something by wikipedians:

User accounts

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  • I intend to set 17 as the number of lines in the inout field (otherwise it might happen that all the stuff around the field doen't fit nicely into my Firefox "main area").--Imz 01:34, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I decided not to change the interface language at wikipedia-in-other-language sites from the default language (their native language) in order not forget that this is primary language there, and I should better write the changelog entries in that language (because of other users).--Imz 22:35, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Started to fill out this page (English).
  • Started to do links from my user accounts at other Wikimedia projects to here. (This is terribly awful --- having independent accounts everywhare! :-(( ) Ex.: См. [[:en:User:imz]]. at ru:Участник:Imz.
  • Simultaneously, I should try to keep a list of my accounts here, in #My other accounts section.--Imz 22:23, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Interwiki

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Doing things

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Kinds of edits

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Small things

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  • In an "alien" article, I am often able to make improvements that are small things (so, perhaps, the article is awful or perfect on the big, but that's not my bothering). I found it convenient to join several kinds of them in a single edit:
    • formatting:
      • fixing typos,
      • improving spelling,
      • punctuation
      • and some other formatting (specific for the electronic way of presentation; e.g.,
        • quotation marks, emphasis, etc.,
        • Russian ё (I don't want to impose its use, but if there is some inconsistency in its use, I'd fix it.));
    • wiki-linking things that are unclear, so it would be better for the understanding of the artic;e if there is a link;
    • make wiki-links out of essential terms (that must be keys in wikipedia; so perhaps, we even can't hope to write much more on this matter in the new article, but it should be there to enable people to look-up this key-term; it might simply give a short note and point at this article for further reference).

So, I refer to this kind of edits in the chnagelog as "formatting and essential terms mark-up (unclear or keys)", "форматирование & отметил важные термины (непонятные или ключевые)".

Примеры?.. --Imz 18:25, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

The formatting part should be probably called copy editing according to the common word usage (Wikipedia:How to copy-edit).--Imz 20:32, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Browser and other tools

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Noteworthy things

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...but no real use yet, maybe in future, I'll involve these thing somewhere somehow:

For content

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For controlling content

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For meta (proposals, etc.)

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  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions--Imz 19:47, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Arabic), can be "translated" to other languages, scripts (such Devanagari/Sanskrit). I'd propose
    • to always include additionally an IPA transcription (people have to learn only one system to be able to understand how it is pronounce rather than several tranliteration systems traditionally used for different languages)
    • to move parts of the information to footnotes (or hide by some other means): transscription + perhaps transliteration (when?)--Imz 00:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Pages I touched

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Just to keep track for myself.

(Main)

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Templates

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Discussions

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