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I'm Waldir Pimenta, a Cape Verdean nerd born in Russia and currently pursuing a PhD in computer-generated holography at Universidade do Minho in Braga, Portugal.

On Misplaced Pages, I tend to do mostly maintenance work. Besides random fixes to articles I stumble upon daily, I enjoy:

• Creating/improving disambiguation pages and redirects, adding disambiguation hatnotes to articles and sections, and adding useful links, in order to make information more easily findable
• Creating new articles in somewhat obscure yet encyclopedic topics
• Improving templates, mediawiki messages and scripts to make the interface more user-friendly
• Cleaning up and standardizing the articles' wikicode to make it more readable and easier to edit
• Copyediting and formatting articles to conform to encyclopedic standards
• Improving help and project pages to ease Misplaced Pages editors' learning curve, by reducing text ambiguity, providing specific examples and linking to more specific guidance or resources whenever appropriate
• Improving coverage of Cape Verde-related topics
• Cleaning up talk pages to better preserve the history and evolution of a topic's collaborative development

If there's anything I can help you with (especially if it involves tasks related to the above), drop me a message in my talk page :)

Userboxes Who Am I This user comes from Cape Verde. PhD This user is currently studying for a PhD in computer-generated holography. This user is male. 38Y This Wikipedian was born on 16 February 1986 and is 38 years, 10 months, and 29 days old. Me@Misplaced Pages This user is an administrator on the English Misplaced Pages. (verify) This user has been an admin for 14 years, 7 months and 14 days. This user is an administrator on the Portuguese Misplaced Pages. (verify pt) This user is an administrator on the Wikimedia Commons. (verify c) This user is an administrator on the MediaWiki.org. (verify mw) This user operates WaldirBot on the English Misplaced Pages. This user has been a Wikipedian since 2 February, 2005. 19Y This Wikipedian joined Misplaced Pages on February 2, 2005 (19 years, 11 months, 1 week and 5 days ago). 15,000+ This user has made 15,000+ edits to Misplaced Pages. This user has averaged one edit each ~5.1 hours, since joining Misplaced Pages on 5 February 2005. H This user had access to HighBeam through The Misplaced Pages Library. This editor is a WikiGnome. This user is a WikiOgre. This user is a WikiFairy. This user is a WikiSloth. This user is a participant in WikiProject Cape Verde. This user is a participant in WikiProject Basic Income. This administrator will consider reasonable requests to provide copies of deleted articles. Contact Me @ This user can be reached by email. This user has a website. It is approximately 18:43 where this user lives (Braga, Portugal). This user had a profile on Google+. This user has a Facebook account as Waldir Pimenta. This user uses Skype. His username is waldyrious. Languages Babel user information kea-N Es uzuáriu se língua maternu e kriolu. pt-5 Este utilizador tem um nível profissional de português. en-4 This user has near native speaker knowledge of English. es-1 Este usuario tiene un conocimiento básico del español. Cyrl-1 Д This user has a basic understanding of the Cyrillic script. ipa-1 ə This user has a basic understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Users by language Interests This user is interested in maps and mapmaking. This user is interested in regiving. CS This user is a couchsurfer.

Articles to watch

• /Creations (watchlist)
• /Contributions (watchlist)
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Cape Verde/Watchlist
• enwiki edit count 1, enwiki edit count 2, global edit count

To do

• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Cape Verde
  • Add content to (or create) articles in the category:American politicians of Cape Verdean descent from material stored in my computer (see also this)
  • Create a dedicated importance scale, like WP Saints', and link Template:WikiProject Cape Verde to it rather than to Misplaced Pages:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Criteria#Importance of topic as currently it does. Maybe a custom one for the Quality scale too.
  • Recheck the stats table to make sure the numbers are correct. Might need to tweak the banner template's categorization scheme.
  • Add more entries to Cape Verde#International recognition from Lists of countries and territories and List of international rankings. See also: International rankings of Hong Kong
• bring data from The University of Florida Book of Insect Records (see also ). details at /UFBIR
• Move useful/encyclopedic content from Exploding head to the Scanners article and/or back to the disambig page.
• Properly format the articles titled after each of the Nereids.
• Add an attribute support table to Comparison of layout engines (Scalable Vector Graphics), similar to what they have in http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto26/#opsupport. See also http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/attindex.html, http://developer.mozilla.org/en/SVG/Element#Categories and http://developer.mozilla.org/en/SVG/Attribute
• try to illustrate Mammal articles without images with images from http://animalphotos.info
• rewrite Temporal paradox
• Albert Hammond's "I'm a Train" seems to have some similarity to the Hawaiian War Chant at least as performed by Timon and Pumbaa. Check this and make links if appropriate.
• Write essay Misplaced Pages:Observer effect (see WT:OR; {{Neologism}}; Observer effect (physics); Observer effect (information technology); Wikiality; truthiness; History is written by the victors; Truth by consensus; Misplaced Pages:Truth; Misplaced Pages:Verifiability, not truth; Misplaced Pages:The Truth; WP:CIRCULAR; Circular reporting)
• fix uses of {{?}} so that it can be used as a regular table cell template
• Can {{Infobox OS}} be recoded as a specialized {{Infobox software}}?
• Move some entries from Misplaced Pages:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Miscellaneous to more specific pages, and organize the rest. See also Misplaced Pages:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Views and affiliations vs. Misplaced Pages:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Views vs. Misplaced Pages:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Editing philosophy.
• Natalie Dylan AfD (see User talk:Spartaz and User talk:Milowent)
• {{IPAc-en}} (see , also Misplaced Pages:IPA for Spanish)
• Standardize pages for individual days, see User:Waldir/16 February 1986
• map2 in infobox country
• Template:Openness (see Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 6#Template:Openness)
• Apply the table/matrix approach to ccTLDs and ISO 639-1
• Help development and simplification (or at least code readability) of {{charmap}}. Examples of target usage: Ç#Computer, Â#Character mappings, É#Character mappings, Yer#Computing codes, A#Computing codes.
• Make a calendar filled with International observance#Days and possibly List of commemorative days (if they're not specific to a nation or subset thereof), using {{calendar}}

recurring tasks

• Category:Dead-end pages vs. Can We Link It?
• Disambiguation
  • Disambiguation pages with links vs. dab fixers / Suggestions for disambiguation repair
  • {{Lookfrom}} (prefixindex) and {{intitle}} (intitle search)
  • {{refer}}
  • Misplaced Pages:Disambiguation pages aren't articles
• Category:Orphaned articles and Special:Lonelypages
• Categories starting at "Cape Verde". Look for red links and fix them.

admin tasks

• edit requests on protected pages
• history merges (howto)
• Unprotection requests

see Category:Misplaced Pages requests related to admins and Category:Request templates

Deletion

todo: make templates below add specific categories, so that backlog can be counted

• G1-nonsense
• G2-test pages
• G6-uncontroversial cleanup/housekeeping (db-g6 | db-move | db-disambig | db-copypaste)
• G8-broken redirects
• R3-implausible typos
• F10-bad format
• U1-user request

Files

• Duplicate Misplaced Pages files on Wikimedia Commons (probably {{db-f8}} should be merged into {{Now Commons}}):
  • with the same name, from:
    • three days ago
    • two days ago
    • one day ago
    • today
    • unknown date
  • with a different name, from:
    • three days ago
    • two days ago
    • one day ago
    • today
    • unknown date
• Duplicate Misplaced Pages files on Misplaced Pages (the two templates / categories below should probably be merged):
  • F1-dupes (added by {{db-f1}})
  • Duplicate Misplaced Pages files (added by {{duplicate}})
• F2-corrupt files

tools and links

• {{Lifetime}}
• Misplaced Pages uses the logical quotation style (thank god!)
• Dates (January 01, 2025 → 01 January 2025): find (+) (\d\d?), (19|20)(\d\d), replace $2 $1 $3$4
• Help:Footnotes#List-defined references & Help:List-defined references
• retrieve DOI of a document given its title and other data
• {{xsign}}
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request
• Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change/Bug reports
• How to fix bunched-up edit links: {{FixBunching|beg}}, {{FixBunching|mid}}, {{FixBunching|end}}.
• {{Plain image with caption}}
• Several tools for references and external links
• template queries/filters (documentation here. check database age here)
• {{div col|colwidth=10em|cols=3}} ... {{div col end}}
• {{ql}} & {{diff2}}
• References and punctuation: WP:REFPUNCT and WP:PAIC
• Nesting references: WP:REFNEST
• Wikimedia SVN search!
• Check out the age counter at User:Wikitanvir/userboxes (and also the user age userbox)
• {{flatlist}}
• auto-updating timelines! See mw:Extension:EasyTimeline#Using the current date and {{Timeline openSUSE}} for an example.
• test sorting order of various characters: Help:Sorting#Alphabetic sorting order
• IMO WP:CLUE should actually point to Misplaced Pages:WikiProject on Adminship/Goals of the adminship process#Discernment, possibly also linking to Misplaced Pages:Guide to requests for adminship, Misplaced Pages:Miniguide to requests for adminship, Misplaced Pages:Advice for RfA candidates, and Misplaced Pages:Administrators#Expectations of adminship (as listed on this discussion)

• This page was last edited by Waldyrious 9 years ago on 8/02/2015. Revision ID: -

Slow discussions - check now and then

• User talk:Nickj/Link Suggester#Step 5
• User talk:SergioGeorgini#Euro sign vs. Euro logo
• Talk:Legion (demon)#original research?
• User talk:Magnus Manske#less edit clutter.js
• Talk:LL Cool J#loungin' remix
• Talk:Obscurantism#obscurantism as method to retain consumers
• Talk:Cântico da Liberdade#Translation
• Template talk:Infobox Country#Largest cities
• Talk:Great Seal of the United States#Step pyramid and frustum
• Procrastination#Physiological
• Portal talk:Current events/Sidebar#Conflicts: Africa/Middle East

Subpages

Anonymous Edits

• 212.13.33.178: Some of these are mine -- the IP's from where I currently live, anyway (Viana do Castelo, Portugal): . I am not sure all of them are mine, though. The ones about Utopia certainly are. I definitely hope the others are not =P. But the only one I can firmly assure wasnt me, is the first one, since I wasn't in Viana do Castelo prior to September 2004.
• 194.79.75.114: I didnt realise I wasnt logged in until I had made several edits. The contributions of that IP are mine or from someone at my university (I think most of them are mine but I haven't checked them all). See also wikiscanner's entry on this IP.

• 82.155.122.172 (as of today, 11 dec 2008, a single edit -- the system somehow logged me off moments before I clicked the save button)

• 85.244.8.13 on 6 May 2009. I was too lazy to login.

• 188.82.193.82, 7 April 2011. Same as above.

• 188.82.108.42, 16 April 2011

Links

Recommended reading for critics of Misplaced Pages in academia:

• User:Jbmurray/Madness
• Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2008-04-14/2000th FA
• http://howwikipediaworks.com/apb.html

Improving Misplaced Pages/MediaWiki

• Category:Misplaced Pages feature requests
• m:MediaWiki Ideal
• http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/infobox
• Misplaced Pages:Tools
• Tim starling on the two barriers to new editors: the technical one (user-unfriendly wiki software/interface/syntax, and the social one (overzealous/noob-biting admins)
• Distributed Misplaced Pages (Wikia-style, but with a shared DB):
  • User:HaeB/Timeline of distributed Misplaced Pages proposals
  • possible extension to implement that here: http://blog.bn2vs.com/2011/02/13/new-extension-include-wp/
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3098029/is-there-any-distributed-revision-control-system-that-supports-partial-checkout
• meta:Research:Oral Citations
• http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Action_paths

Topics of interest

• Open source governance, Grassroots democracy, Deliberative democracy, Consensus democracy and others. Need to clarify what exactly are the differences between them
• Mind reading: Brain–computer interface#MEG and MRI. Cognitive neuroscience. Statistical parametric mapping. fMRI (and more generally, Functional neuroimaging). History of neuroimaging. Mind transfer#Brain imaging. Computational neuroscience#Cognition, discrimination and learning. Dramatized in Black Hole (House) –relevant scenes compiled here– (and probably many others). Nature: Identifying natural images from human brain activity, Nature: http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v12/n3/full/nn0309-245.html, and associated links. An interesting comment. Maybe create a template?
• Technological unemployment refers many interesting sources about automation and its effects on a capitalist market system.

Misplaced Pages News

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• User kea
• User kea-N
• User pt
• User pt-5
• User en
• User en-4
• User es
• User es-1
• Cabo Verdean Wikipedians
• Wikipedians with PhD degrees
• Male Wikipedians
• Misplaced Pages administrators
• Misplaced Pages bot operators
• Wikipedian WikiGnomes
• Wikipedian WikiFairies
• WikiProject Cape Verde participants
• Wikipedians interested in Cape Verde
• WikiProject Universal Basic Income participants
• Misplaced Pages administrators willing to provide copies of deleted articles
• User Cyrl-1
• User ipa-1
• Wikipedians interested in mapmaking
• Wikipedians interested in freecycling
• Portuguese Wikipedians