User:Johnjbarton
Appearance
This user is a participant in WikiProject Physics.
This user simplifies Wikipedia referencing with ProveIt.
About
[edit]Retired physical chemist, physicist, book author, user-interface researcher, software engineer.
Interested in matter waves, decoherence, experimental physics, clear communications of physics to educated lay audiences.
Oh hey, I found myself on Wikipedia be accident one day: Barton–Nackman trick!
Johnjbarton (talk) 00:26, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
Tools
[edit]- Citer for DOI -> wikipedia
- WikiBlame is available on each page by selecting
View history → Find addition/removal.
- ffmpeg for video to gif
- Incantation for copying across pages:
copied content from page name; see that page's history for attribution
- Archiving incantation:
{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis | age=2160 | archiveprefix={{subst:#titleparts:{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}}}/Archive | maxarchsize=100000 | header={{Automatic archive navigator}} | minkeepthreads=4 | minarchthreads=1 | numberstart=1 | format= %%i }} {{Archives|banner=yes|age=90}}
Sandboxes
[edit]Library Todos
[edit]- Talk:Cosmic_inflation#The_Causal_Universe_of_Brout_Englert_and_Gunzig
- Talk:Noble gas#Sampling_and_measurement_is_WP:UNDUE
- Talk:Euler_spiral#Unsourced_additions
- Talk:Thorium
- Talk:Gravitational_wave#Acceleration_vs_motion
- Cobalt etymology
- Peskin, Michael E.; Schroeder, Daniel V. (1995). An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory. QC174.45 .P465. Try to verify Spin–statistics_theorem#Relation_to_representation_theory_of_the_Lorentz_group
- "Thermal radiation heat transfer" Robert Siegel, John R. Howell. QC331 .S55 2002 Sort Attenuation coefficient
Experience with Templates
[edit]The template system is very irregular and confusing:
- The regular expressions are non-standard and limited.
- The string matching occurs on parsed wikitext, so you can't base patterns on reading wikitext.
- some tags, esp.
<ref>
tags are magic and cannot be processed by template code. - many existing templates really only support special cases, eg {{Plain text}}