User:RexxS
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I live in the West Midlands, England and was born in 1952. Although I studied Natural Sciences and the Electrical Sciences Tripos, I only worked for a year in the Electronics industry before becoming a teacher. After 24 years of teaching in Secondary schools (11-18+), I spent my time since 1997 working on IT-related projects, before retiring in 2012.
My main hobby is Scuba diving and I've been involved in instruction of recreational diving for well over 25 years to date as an SAA National Instructor.
Having looked at the Wikipedia articles on Scuba and related topics, I felt obliged to create an account to take part in improving the topic to the best of my abilities.
Since then, I've taken some of the scuba articles through the GA process and written featured content, both article and list. I've had the benefit of being able to collaborate with a wonderful source for diving-related references, User:Gene Hobbs, who runs the Rubicon Foundation. Nowadays, I tend to find my wiki-time taken up mainly on technical matters, particularly my work for WP:WikiProject Accessibility and maintaining Module:Wikidata and Module:WikidataIB, which I have worked on developing over the last four years to enable information to be pulled from Wikidata into infoboxes on the English Wikipedia.
I am a Lead Trainer for WMUK and make use of the "vanilla" account Famously Sharp (talk · contribs · logs) for demonstration of editing and the unconfirmed account Famously Mild (talk · contribs · logs) to demonstrate how Wikipedia looks to a brand new editor. Since Summer 2019, I've been privileged to chair the new thematic organisation, "Wikimedia Medicine", as Wiki Project Med Foundation will now be known.
How many?
[edit]Wikipedia has 6,880,428 articles and 115,659 active users. That represents 59 articles per user.
This is why ...
[edit]- This is why we ask for independent sources
- This is why secondary schools are not automatically notable
Lua
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Module:WikidataIB | {{#invoke:WikidataIB |getValue |P123 |qid=Q99 |name=abc |spf=fields_not_to_display |fwd=ALL |osd=y/n}}
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Module:WikidataIB/sandbox | Development for WikidataIB |
Template:Wdib | A wrapper for WikidataIB (or the sandbox while testing) {{wdib |P123 |qid=Q99 |fwd=ALL |osd=y/n}}
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Module talk:WikidataIB/testing | Test cases for WikidataIB |
Module talk:WikidataIB/sandbox/testing | Test cases for WikidataIB/sandbox |
Module:Carousel | Wikimedia module |
Module:RexxS | for testing some of my personal or specialised Lua functions: carousel, wobble, prevwarn, getIdentifierQualifier, getValueIndirect, checkRedirect, getAuthors, getValueQualIndirect. |
Module:Wikidata | {{#invoke:Wikidata|Dump}}
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Module:Sandbox/RexxS/WdRefs | {{#invoke:Sandbox/RexxS/WdRefs|seeRefs}}
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Module:Cite Q | see Template:Cite Q |
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Aware templates
Wikidata RfCs
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikidata Phase 2
- Template talk:Infobox book/Archive 8
- Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 128 #RfC: Wikidata in infoboxes, opt-in or opt-out? (May 2016)
- Wikipedia:Wikidata/2018 Infobox RfC
Resources
- https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html – Lua 5.3 Reference Manual
- http://www.lua.org/cgi-bin/demo – online Lua interpreter
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua – Wikibase Client API for Lua
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual – Scribunto/Lua reference manual
- https://wdcm.wmflabs.org/WD_percentUsageDashboard/ – Wikidata usage in projects
To do
- Lobby for exposing things like https://wiki.riteme.site/w/api.php?action=query&prop=description&titles=Alan_Turing to Scribunto
Useful links
[edit]Season to be merry
[edit]🎅 - my sole concession to this season's merriment. Bah humbug.
🎄 - OK, maybe just one more.
🦖 - can't wait for this one. @Bishzilla: I got first dibs on it (see https://web.archive.org/web/20170102221538/http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-candidates.html#1f996 ) --RexxS (talk) 18:24, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Helpful links
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/Scuba_divers_office.jpg/360px-Scuba_divers_office.jpg)
(thanks to User:Keeper76 )
How to fix bunched-up edit links
Wikipedia:Welcome_template_table
WP:Administrator intervention against vandalism {{IPvandal|IP address}} reason --~~~~
The damage done at AFC:
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive931 #Damage done by declining AFC
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anthony Charles Robinson
Clarification request on hidden text:
The results for 14 hues of finding the darkest/lightest backgrounds that are AAA-compliant against black text, white text, linked text and visited linked text:
Resources
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Pillar_Valve_DIN_300.jpg/220px-Pillar_Valve_DIN_300.jpg)
- https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality – COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country
- http://www.ivydene1.co.uk/demo/tab2wiki.php
{{subst:MedWelcome}} ~~~~
- Robert Wood's multi-lingual scuba dictionary
- {{cite book}}
- Brubakk, Alf O; Neuman, Tom S, eds. (2003). Bennett and Elliott's physiology and medicine of diving, 5th Rev ed. United States: Saunders. p. 123. ISBN 0702025712. - Citation for Bennett and Elliott
- Tikuisis, Peter; Gerth, Wayne A (2003). "Decompression Theory". In Brubakk, Alf O; Neuman, Tom S (eds.). Bennett and Elliott's physiology and medicine of diving, 5th Rev ed. United States: Saunders. pp. 419–54. ISBN 0702025712. - Citation for "Decompression Theory" in Bennett and Elliott
- Molvaer, Otto I (2003). "Otorhinolaryngological Aspects of Diving". In Brubakk, Alf O; Neuman, Tom S (eds.). Bennett and Elliott's physiology and medicine of diving, 5th Rev ed. United States: Saunders. pp. 227–64. ISBN 0702025712. - Citation for "Ear, nose and throat disorders" in Bennett and Elliott
- Bennett, Peter B; Rostain, Jean Claude (2003). "The High Pressure Nervous Syndrome". In Brubakk, Alf O; Neuman, Tom S (eds.). Bennett and Elliott's physiology and medicine of diving, 5th Rev ed. United States: Saunders. pp. 323–57. ISBN 0702025712. - Citation for "High Pressure Nervous Syndrome" in Bennett and Elliott
- Clark, James M; Thom, Stephen R (2003). "Oxygen under pressure". In Brubakk, Alf O; Neuman, Tom S (eds.). Bennett and Elliott's physiology and medicine of diving (5th ed.). United States: Saunders. pp. 358–418. ISBN 0702025712. OCLC 51607923. - Oxygen toxicity citation for Bennett and Elliott
- Brittain, Colin (2004). "Practical diver training". Let's Dive: Sub-Aqua Association Club Diver Manual (2nd ed.). Wigan, UK: Dive Print. pp. 45–47. ISBN 0-9532904-3-3. Retrieved 9 January 2010. - Citation for SAA Manual
- Jablonski, Jarrod (2006). Doing it Right: The Fundamentals of Better Diving. Global Underwater Explorers. ISBN 0971326703.
- Cole, Bob (March 2008). The SAA BUhlmann DeeP-Stop System Handbook. Sub-Aqua Association. ISBN 0953290484.
- Cole, Bob (2009). Student Diver Tool Box. Sub-Aqua Association. ISBN 0-9532904-9-2.
- Powell, Mark (2008). Deco for Divers. Southend-on-Sea: Aquapress. ISBN 978-1-905492-07-7.
Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Assessment#Rubric
Search for infobox sandboxes in articles: hastemplate:"infobox" insource:/nfobox [A-Za-z ]*\/sandbox/
Things to do
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- Recruit more active editors for WikiProject SCUBA
- Diving regulator - still needs to distinguish between performance delta with depth and perf delta with cylinder press; ++ a lot more
- Diving cylinder - needs a US version of the breathing time calc
Nitrogen narcosis - may need to delete "acclimation" & "breathing techniques"- Scuba diving - proof-read again - there's a problem with organisation of sections
Find how to include pic without breaking the section in Diving cylinderEar clearing - expand - names of manoeuvres- Scuba set - Air cylinders
- Diving suits - how they work
Ear clearing - sourcesIsobaric counterdiffusion - fix the ambient pressure link when it arrives in Wiktionary as wikt:ambient pressureOxygen toxicity - revisit to copyedit as suggested by the GA reviewHyperoxia - rewrite in sub-page User:RexxS/Hyperoxia- Diving club - create over redirect
Diving center - create- Cold water diving - create
Investigate setting "ts_alternate_row_colors = true;" in skin.css- Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Assessment/RexxS
- WP:Manual of Style (accessibility)#Color – Italic text
- WP:MOS#Section headings and WP:ACCESS#Links "To avoid accessibility problems, headings should not normally contain links"
- Help:Section#Section linking: "An internal link in a section heading does not give complications in terms of section linking"
Subpages
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Geogre
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Geogre was among the finest editors Wikipedia has known.
It seems to me a real pity that we don't do more to celebrate his contributions.
Instead the system tends to eradicate them by erosion. To me it is as if we had decided to place Michelangelo's David outside a factory in the acid rain.
It is, in some ways, worse to see how the author himself is being turned into a 'non-person'. The damnatio memoriae of Geogre is no more apparent than in this FfD.
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Phaedriel
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User:Phaedriel was a Wikipedian from the early days, who stopped editing before I started. She made a huge impact on a lot of editors and I think it's important to celebrate those who made such a memorable contribution to our project. That's why I'd like to see something of hers kept, and not swept away into the collective amnesia that plagues Wikipedia. Phaedriel was very kind and thoughtful, which led her to make personalised "thank you" notices for those who participated in her RfA. This is one of them.
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