User:Vadmium

Firefox CSS hacks I use to remove some of the skinning of Wikipedia and other Media Wiki sites: https://github.com/vadmium/etc/blob/master/firefox/chrome-userContent.css. It retains the browser’s default font, and also removes the giant left-hand margin.

Quick reference

{{fullurl:title|oldid=revision&diff&. . .}}
mw:Manual:Parameters to index.php
- title
- oldid=revision
- diff=prev
- action=edit
  - editintro=title
  - section=0 / 1 / . . .
  - section=new
    - preload=title
    - preloadtitle
{{cite}}:
- last(1–9), first(1–9); editor; author(2–9)- and editor-link
- date (authorship when publication-date also given); edition=ordinal
- title (book, article)
- chapter or contribution; page, pages or at
- journal, periodical, newspaper, magazine, or work; series; volume; issue
- publisher; place or location (authorship when publication-place also given)
- language
- id, isbn, issn, doi, oclc, pmid, pmc, bibcode
- url; accessdate; format; archiveurl and archivedate
Wikipedia:Citation templates#Examples
- {{cite encyclopedia|last(n)=|first(n)=|author(n)=|editor(n)-first=|editor(n)-last=|year=|article=|encyclopedia=|series=|publisher=|isbn=|url=}}
- {{Cite web|last=|first=|author(n)=|date=|title=|url=|work=|publisher=|accessdate=}}
Template:Hatnote templates documentation: {{Other uses}} {{For}} {{About}}
{{diff|diff=revision|label=Main Page diff 589841}}
{{oldid|oldid=revision|label=Main Page revision 589841}}
Wikipedia:Layout: hat notes; maintenance; lead; body; see also; references; further reading; categories; inter-language
{{smallcaps|Lower-case Capitals}} {{sc|LOWER-CASE CAPITALS|SMALL AND UPPER-CASE|. . .}}

TODO

Hyena chase (pic), Nyout, Game of the Goose, Snakes and ladders, Alleyway (board game), Horseshoe (board game) (?)
charge-line pulser and avalanche transistor
discrete-time Fourier series [1]
Electronic noise: measuring with dual-trace CRO/square wave
Willah (look at From London to Willah)
Matheson (band)
Nassella neesiana = Chilean needle grass
Fix Talk:Comparison of file systems#Units for bytes: use binary SI units (verified) or cite ambiguity; explain the binary SI units
Talk:Signed number representations#One's versus ones' complement: ones’ (plural) vs two’s (singular) certainly should be added to article
Hunger (disambiguation) primary topic blessing (Talk:Hunger#Disambiguation)
Task scheduler dab → Task Scheduler (Windows) / Job scheduler (general)
ELF file format#ELF file layout
Talk:Library (computing)#What does it mean to say a library is "shared"?
/Man pages#Cleanup after Talk:C standard library#Pages for each function and WP:NOTMANUAL
Talk:GTK+#Theming
Template talk:Welcomeg#Pasted code complexity
Handy links for quick response to vandalism, protection, blocking
Reference links for Easter egg links, WP:Do not fix links to redirects that are not broken, . . .
CSI2/CSI-2, Camera Serial Interface, Camera Link, Compact Camera Port 2 (CCP2), Camera interface, MIPI CSI, CPI, Camera parallel interface
Galvanic coupling: Is this a fancy word for electrical conduction or something else, maybe related to galvanic isolation?
Relationship of Character entity reference with XML’s “predefined entities”: Talk:XML#Character entity references for escaping

Done

Royal Exhibition Building
Pachisi, Ashte kashte, Ludo (board game), Hyena chase
vectors going into and out of page (in 3D) in Vector (spatial)#Representation of a vector
hole through the earth: actually Gravity train
GraphEdit
merging for Direct Connect (file sharing)
Cue sheet (computing)
Question mark#History

Gallery

Ashte kashte board and route of one player
Opening and closing question marks
Ludo board diagram
High-pass filter
Low-pass filter
Current mirror

Overdone

Macromantics (back again!)

Nits

Wikipedia

camelCase → Camel case. It’s just a styling, not really a new word or spelling. The camelCase style stands out too much in ordinary text. The article title certainly shouldn’t specially begin with a lower case C for camel. Camel case is just as common in a Google search [13:24, 19 March 2011 (UTC)]. (Talk:CamelCase#Requested move, 2010)
HarperCollins → Harper Collins. Styled as HarperCollinsPublishers.
make (software) → Make (software). I don’t think the name was originally set specifically in lower case in its own documentation, and I doubt third parties would have used lower case either. It’s just the recent shorthand obsession of morphing Unix commands and computer strings in general into pseudo-words. (Talk:Make (software)#Capitalization, 2005)
Sentence capitalisation: WP:Capitals#Mixed or non-capitalization, WP:Numbers#Numbers as figures or words, WP:Trademarks#Trademarks that begin with a lowercase letter, WP:Manual of Style/Mathematics#Writing style in mathematics.

Media Wiki

Help:Diffs. They often miss comparing the most similar paragraphs and just compare the first two that are different. It is ~~impossible~~ hard to see changes of spacing characters. The deficiencies make it very hard to resolve edit conflicts. (2011)
Help:Tables. It is too hard to review changes to a large table (such as Comparison of file systems) with a diff that shows the neighbouring column entries but no column heading context. 10:44, 20 July 2011 (UTC).
Help:Redirects. The need for extra text in a redirect, and the bug when the text includes links. (bugzilla:7304, 2006; WT:Template messages/Redirect pages#Redirect display text, 2011)
Help:Categorisation:
- Sorting special entries under special characters (space, *, +, ~, µ, other Greek letters, mathematical symbols); see WP:Sort key. 10:44, 20 July 2011 (UTC).
- A better way of providing better display text for entries; not than the little-used technique of WP:categorising redirects. For example, World Trade Center (New York) in Category:World Trade Centers. 10:44, 20 July 2011 (UTC).
Help:Edit summaries. Nowiki tags don’t work, leaving certain things that are hard or impossible to type out. (Help talk:Edit summary#Avoiding wiki links, 2011; a Word Joiner U+2060 is probably an even better null character)
Help:Files. Image sizes must be specified in pixels; there’s no way to specify in terms of text size. 10:44, 20 July 2011 (UTC).
Nostalgia skin on English and German Wikipedias: $wgOut->isArticleRelated() in SkinLegacy.php always seems to return false, which inhibits links from page headers and footers. (WP:Village pump (technical)/Archive 107#Useful links disappeared from botton of Nostalgia skin, 2013)
Hidden mw:Quickbar a.k.a. mw:Sidebar setting only available at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering after meta:Help:preferences are saved and re-opened. 06:01, 31 January 2013 (UTC).

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