User:J. Noel Chiappa

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Me

 Where Noel lives it is approximately: 03:26

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.

Recent favourite bon mots

• "Computers = stupid moronic small children who have zero common sense", to Aleta.

To do [edit]

Archive [e ]

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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 [edit]

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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
  • MediaWiki
  • Quantum mechanics (base version)
  • CZ:Article structure
  • CZ:Article-specific subpages

• 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

• Prime number
• Two's complement
• Special relativity
• Michael Faraday

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