User:wbm1058

It is approximately 7:34 AM where this user lives (Ohio). [refresh]

This user has been on Wikipedia for 13 years, 7 months and 8 days.

This user runs a bot, RMCD bot (contribs). It maintains the Wikipedia:Requested moves process.

This user runs a bot, Merge bot (contribs). It performs tasks that are extremely tedious to do manually.

This user runs a bot, Bot1058 (contribs). It performs tasks that are extremely tedious to do manually.

This user has bicycled in all 50 of the 50 States.

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This user attended Clarkson University.

This user attended the UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON

Top 200 editor as of May 5, 2023.

Secret to winning the Race Against the Machine: become an expert bot programmer, and hope that the bots don't learn to program themselves. HAL?

English Wikipedia will reach 7,000,000 articles around 9 December 2025.
It currently has 6,913,975 articles.

		The Technical Barnstar
		Thanks for creating RMCD bot and bringing the requested moves process back on its feet! Favonian (talk) 15:56, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	For your contribution over at Requested Moves. Great work! Tiggerjay (talk) 03:32, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		For your tireless (and often-times, tedious) work at Wikipedia:WikiProject Merge and surrounding environs. It is well appreciated! GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 23:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

		The Technical Barnstar
		For operating Merge bot._ Marvellous Spider-Man 15:23, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	For completing a significant part of the large merger relating to the Timeline of the Syrian Civil War. Your hard work is very much appreciated. Tradedia^talk 06:14, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

	The Hard Worker's Barnstar
	For your work on maintaining and improving RMCD bot, which has made itself indispensable to the Requested Move process. You are highly appreciated for your flexibility and dedication! Aervanath (talk) 23:40, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

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		The Rosetta Barnstar
		for cracking the code and saving the day. ty amigo. Gregkaye ✍♪ 15:26, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

bot help
Thank you, user who knows the secret to winning the Race Against The Machine, for helpful bots and for cleaning up yourself ("removing WP:OVERLINK to an everyday word"), for redirects and templates such as {{Forms of energy}}, for detailed analysis and offering to serve as arbitrator: "Don't underestimate how far I'm willing to go to read the background", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:06, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	For your diligence toward getting Template:NRHP Focus working again. Awesome. ―Mandruss ☎ 21:08, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For your fine contribution to Talk:Self-balancing scooter regarding the article's title and the usage of the word "hoverboard." X4n6 (talk) 22:22, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	A thousand thanks for today's improvement of the RMCD bot notification rule. That will be a big help to the Wikpedia community. —BarrelProof (talk)

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	Just wnted to ad-gnomish you for doing what you do! Special thanks for relentlessly working on the Merge Project backlog. Well done. GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 03:52, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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12:34, November 21, 2024 GMT [refresh] in Great Britain
07:34, November 21, 2024 EST [refresh] in Ohio

Did you know

Martin Luther King's final Sunday sermon referenced the thesis of "The Triple Revolution", which primarily discussed the cybernation revolution of increasing automation, whereby machines would continue reducing the need for manual labor, while increasing the skill needed to work, thereby producing greater unemployment
The Eureqa software tool used genetic programming to discover the law of conservation of energy on its own
Much of the work I've done for Wikipedia could be offshored to anywhere, or automated (indeed much is already semi-automated; run my edit history through some machine learning algorithms to automate more)
- Thoughts on Wikipedia Editing and Digital Labor
Here come the robots: Davos bosses brace for big technology shocks

Important historical events that don't get their due

The fourteenth and fifteenth British colonies, East Florida and West Florida, remained loyal to the Brits during the American Revolution
The 1863 New York City draft riots remain the largest civil and racial insurrection in American history, aside from the Civil War itself
The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire led to labor reforms that became the template for the New Deal
- It followed the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 (by the way, the building still stands)
Luckily the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion did not release any radioactive material from its 9-megaton nuclear warhead
- Related opinion piece by Michael Lewis

Mindboggling facts

The total length of expressways in China increased from zero in 1988 to 69,560 miles (111,950 km) at the end of 2014, the world's largest controlled-access highway system by length. The US has 64,352 miles (103,565 km) total – the 47,856 miles (77,017 km) Interstate Highway System plus 16,496 miles of other freeways and expressways (as of 2013, including Puerto Rico).^[1]
And although the London Underground had over a century head-start on the Shanghai Metro, which first opened in 1993, the latter now has the world's longest metro system, at 334 miles. The New York City Subway has 232 miles, but if you add the Staten Island Railway (14 mi.), Long Island Rail Road (319 mi.) and Metro-North Railroad (385 mi.), Shanghai has a way to go yet—seems they're just getting started though.
US public spending on transport and water infrastructure has fallen steadily since the 1960s, and is now at 2.4% of GDP. Europe invests 5% of GDP in infrastructure; China's racing into the future at 9%.^[2]
China Spends More on Infrastructure Than the U.S. and Europe Combined! Western countries put less money into roads and bridges now than they did before the global financial crisis. Bloomberg Businessweek.
In 1995, the US was tied for first in the world in the percentage of the population with a college degree. Now the US ranks fourteenth.^[3]

References

^ Public Road Length - 2013. Federal Highway Administration.
^ "Life in the slow lane". The Economist. April 28, 2011.
^ Madland, David (2015). Hollowed Out: Why the Economy Doesn't Work without a Strong Middle Class. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-520-28652-8.

‘We Need an Energy Miracle’

Bill Gates nails it: Interview by The Atlantic. Something on the order of the Drake Well or Chicago Pile-1. Maybe some computers running genetic programming algorithms will help us find it, before "time runs out". A breakthrough in stellarator or tokamak research could be a game-changer.

Vast shale oil field in Texas could yield 20 billion barrels It seems that "peak oil" has been superseded by "peak unconventional oil", so we will be running "climate experiments" for a while longer...
Vivek Wadhwa thinks Perovskite solar cells could be the solution, along with rapidly improving battery technologies. I highly recommend his book about the near future (ISBN 978-1626569713, it covers a lot more than just cars).
Arkansas May Have Vast Lithium Reserves, Vast deposit of 'white gold' in Arkansas could be stunningly valuable – direct lithium extraction ≡ "fracking for (clean?) energy storage"

Women On $20s

The non-profit organization "Women On $20s" conducted a poll to choose a woman to put on a newly designed US twenty-dollar bill (to replace Andrew Jackson). The two leading vote-getters were Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Tubman. Others on the ballot were Rosa Parks, Wilma Mankiller, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Rachel Carson, Shirley Chisholm, Alice Paul, Frances Perkins, Barbara Jordan, Patsy Mink and Betty Friedan. As I was not familiar with some of these names, I looked them up and linked to them here. I think Jeannette Rankin should have been included on this ballot.

“I hope we can convince the next treasurer to print an equal number of $20 bills with both Jackson and Tubman.” Sounds like a great idea to me. NPOV and all. The last president to pay off our national debt in 1835.

Wikipedia peaked in 2008?

A ten-year update of Google Ngram data would help answer that question. By the way, for more on Culturomics and the Google Ngram Viewer, I highly recommend ISBN 978-1-59448-745-3.

UPDATE: Google has updated data to 2019! The answer is NO! Check back in 10 years to see whether Wikipedia peaked in 2019; its growth curve does seem to be flattening.

Issues I've patrolled

Admin statistics
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Edits	256618
Edits+Deleted	269786
Pages deleted	11809
Revisions deleted	56
Logs/Events deleted	5
Pages restored	3656
Pages protected	100
Pages unprotected	10
Protections modified	21
Users blocked	35
Users reblocked	1
Users unblocked	5
User rights modified	4
Users created	4
Pages merged	4331

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This editor is a WikiGnome.

Errors

Pages transcluding {{error}}s
- in main namespace
- in draft namespace
- in talk namespace
- in Wikipedia talk namespace
- in file namespace
- in file talk namespace
- in category namespace
- in category talk namespace
Category:ParserFunction errors (36)
Category:Pages with template loops (7)
Category:Pages with bad rounding precision (0)
Category:Pages with incorrectly transcluded templates (14)

Redirects

Category:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review (5)
Category:Missing redirects (2)
Category:Unsynchronized talk page redirects (29)
partially cleared by User:Bot1058 (task 4)
Category:Articles with talk page redirects (45)
- (Quarry query)
Category:Articles with unsynchronized talk page redirects (16)
Self redirects (Quarry query)
Talk-to-mainspace redirects, except subpages (Quarry query)
- Talk subpage-to-mainspace redirects (Quarry query)
- Redirects from draft talk to mainspace (Quarry query)
Redirects from nonexistent user, except user subpages, to mainspace (Quarry query)
Category:Redirects to former names (307)
Category:Redirects for convenience (176)
Inconsistent similar redirects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect/Inconsistent targets
- also User:RussBot/Similar titles report/01 (old)
- Garry Newman targeted a different page than Garry newman (talk)
Broken talk pages Done
Category:Possible cut-and-paste moves Done
User:RussBot/Non-disambiguation redirects/001
Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken section anchors

Cross-namespace redirects [ edit ]
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3 User talk	285		5846
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5 WT	28604		62
10 Template	860		1243
12 Help	2	0	5	0	348	0	37		1	0	0
100 Portal	32	0	1	0	843	2	89	1	0		0
118 Draft	198473	5	1050
126 MOS	2	0	0	0	2195	2	1	2	0	0	0
Notes: ¹ WP:R2 applies to redirects (apart from shortcuts) from the main namespace to any other namespace except the Category:, Template:, Wikipedia:, Help: and Portal: namespaces. ² Talk subpage-to-mainspace redirects only. Talk-to-mainspace redirects, except subpages, are patrolled.

See also: Redirects in Category: namespace

MediaWiki software limits

Disambiguation

Malplaced disambiguation pages
Incomplete disambiguations
Category:Articles with hatnote templates targeting a nonexistent page (8,633)
Category:Pages with incorrectly transcluded disambiguation templates (1)
Redirects to disambiguation pages that are not dab pages (Quarry query)
- User:Certes/Reports/Redirects to dab where target is not a dab
Links to Hardware requiring disambiguation, using the What links here tool
See User talk:Wbm1058/Archive 6 § Number redirects

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Magic words

Behavior switches usually placed by VisualEditors, in error (archived discussion)

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Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [1]
View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [2]

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On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [3][4]

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Wikipedia editors are somehow expected to know a lot of stuff about this topic. I find it a bit overwhelming. I checked out ISBN 978-0199941162 from my local library, but confess it's been a struggle to put down my keyboard & mouse long enough to read it. Taking notes and posting links to terms as I come across them.