User:sligocki

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This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know.

This user is a hacker, or identifies with and promotes the hacker ethic.

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This user is a mathematician.

This user enjoys rock climbing

This user enjoys sailing for sport.

This user is a Go player.

My name is Shawn Ligocki. This page is mostly used by me to organize some things that I do or am interested in, but feel free to explore if you like or leave me a message on my talk page.

Notes for powerusers[edit]

Wikipedia is great for simple editing, but once you want to do some more complicated work, the tools are often hidden. Here are some tools I've found:

WP:Statistics - List of statistics information about Wikipedia
- Article traffic statistics (by User:Henrik) - Tells you the number of visits on every day (Note: not number of unique visitors, does not sum over redirects)
WikiBlame (by User:Flominator) - Let's you find who added or removed something from a page

WP:WikiProject User scripts (/monobook.js) - Javascript scripts that can affect many things about Wikipedia interaction.
- WP:AutoEd (by User:Drilnoth and User:Plastikspork) - Runs some boilerplate checks and autofixes them then shows diff

Wikipedia API: MW:API or http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php - Access to the raw API (Unfortunately really convoluted data types are returned)
- WP:Creating a bot - Info on creating a bot and using the API, etc.
- python wikitools (by User:Mr.Z-man) - Python interface to work with API calls (Unfortunately it only has helpers for some things, ex. not for getting lists of revisions)

Links to disambig pages (by User:JaGa) - Lists disambig pages by number of links to them (more = bad, this helps people disambiguate the internal links)
Count number of backlinks (by User:Dispenser) - Counts number of things which "link here" for a given page (It's not exactly clear what it's counting, does it include redirects, ~~transclusions,~~ etc.) source