User:Fred Gandt

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Hiya!

I love understanding and loathe ignorance, and feel strongly that knowledge should be free and accessible.

I see c lear evi dence that the wisdom of the crowd exists and is flourishing on the web and actively support open source and community projects including Wikipedia.

I do what I can to help but will perhaps never be as prolific or as accurate an editor as ClueBot, but then what human could be?

There are currently 6,930,250 articles on the English Wikipedia, curated by 48,461,797 registered and a whole bunch of unregistered Wikipedians!

See Featured articles for the cream of the crop.

This font is Gabriola and the background photo is Mount Sharp on Mars, taken by Curiosity.

I am committed

Committed identity: 60b82b3d0153589c33032c1b7fb595f96fe45cde6b85c0bfcfe7e758b786e04bc5d88172925b474d4913cb9b9968999ec58104c4b74684b4b1fb4c7d47b5906d is a SHA3-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

My first username on Wikipedia was "EddyFragment" (redirected here). When I changed my name, I didn't think to change my name, so now have accidentally got two names!

My timezone

As a UK resident, my time zone is UTC+01:00 during BST, and GMT the rest of the time. I am however naturally nocturnal so my active times would be typically more inline with a diurnal person living in, say, Caracas. Hope that helps 😜

Selected articles to which I've done a lot

But not necessarily recently

Blu del Barrio – American actor
Buke and Gase – American musical duo (work in progress)
Gacharic Spin – Japanese rock band
List of Google Easter eggs
"The Partisan" – 1943 song by Anna Marly and Emmanuel d'Astier, popularised by Leonard Cohen in 1969

For some technical stuff I've done; see #My sandbox (below)

My userboxes

en

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

This user has been editing Wikipedia for 15 years, 6 months and 8 days.

incr

This editor is an incrementalist.

even

This editor is an eventualist.

This user values descriptive edit summaries and actively encourages their use.

This user encourages the peaceful correction of vandals.

This user assumes nothing.

This user has template editor rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This user develops
user scripts;

This user can write in the MediaWiki language.

This user contributes to the template namespace with confidence, even with conditional templates.

Lua-2

This user is an intermediate Lua coder.

This user can program in Python.

mysql

This user writes programs that access MySQL.

PHP

This user can code PHP.

re

This user writes regular expressions.

W3C

This user believes in compliance with W3C standards.

html5

This user prefers HTML5 above older versions of HTML.

<html>

This user can write HTML.

This user can write Cascading Style Sheets.

This user can program in JavaScript.

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This_user_dislikes_seeing underscores_in_Wikilinks.

Warning! This user functions at a sub-optimal level before their 20th cuppa tea.

This user is pansexual.

If this user is awake; they are almost certainly listening to music.

SCH

This user has schizophrenia.

My sandbox

Welcome to my laboratory, where safety is number one priority – NOT – Mwahahaha!

Find links to stuff I've made or am working on, including user scripts.

Transcluded from my sandbox.

My JavaScript & Cascading Style Sheets

Developed for the Vector (legacy/2010 not 2022) skin; may not work well or at all for others
May conflict with other user scripts, stylesheets or Gadgets
Some do conflict with MediaWiki "Web Fonts" (will look into it)

My common JS & CSS

My common JavaScript – only importing the resource manager below
My common CSS – a few tweaks

Currently in use and reliable

navigationUI.js – compressed navigation user interface with expanded content; "sticky header" since 2016 😜
quickLinks.js – discrete UI widget for easily maintaining a user defined list of bookmarks; interwiki use (nearly)
allowTabs.js – tab key inserts a tab character instead of jumping to next input whilst editing
showSpecialDiffLink.js – shows a configured [[Special:Diff/oldid/diff]] link syntax on diff pages
correctFirstHeadingOfSpecialPages.js – does what it says on the tin; e.g. special page first heading "User contributions for Fred Gandt" becomes "Special:Contributions/Fred_Gandt"
~~unwatchList.js – unwatch (and rewatch if you make a mistake) pages directly while viewing changes to your watchlist~~
- Functionality built into preferences now; apply some CSS and it's not bad; probably more efficient

Listed at Wikipedia:User scripts/List

addCloneClearButtonAboveScributoConsole.js – does what it says on the tin
aceEditorOptions.js – provides a GUI to change and save desired settings for the Ace editor used on JavaScript, JSON, CSS and Module pages
userResourceManager – powerful meta-tool for user JavaScript and Stylesheet management; multi-tab problem to be fixed
confirmLogout.js – almost never (user scripts aren't loaded on preferences pages) accidentally log out again
responsiveHistoryCompare.js – dynamically move Compare selected revisions buttons next to the selected revisions on action=history pages
subdueLinks.js – add options to switch hyperlink color on and off
sectionFooters.js – add ghosted clones of editable-section headings to the end of the respective sections
getUnpatrolledOfAlexNewArtBotResultsPages.js – search AlexNewArtBot***SearchResults for unpatrolled pages; see User:AlexNewArtBot
watchUserContribs.js – add/remove pages listed in Special:Contributions to/from your watchlist
addUserContribsEditSummaryCountLink.js – add a link to xTools "Analysis of edit summary usage" to the footer on user contributions pages

On the todo list

Not fully fleshed out

greenTechDocs.js – applies styling for Module and Template doc pages inline with how they look when transcluded
moveFailedModuleTestsToTop.js – ‎for use on Module:UnitTests results pages
controlSiteWidth.js – ‎control the width and horizontal alignment of the site; useful for ultrawide monitors
dupeLinks.js – detect duplicate links in articles; in very early development; MOS:DUPLINK
sectionLinks.js – add permalinks to all section headings; scroll wheel access on cursor hover
wikilinkPlus.js – add related shortcuts to most wikilinks; Alt+left mouse click for extras; clashes with default browser functionality
previewCategoryDupeArgs.js – semi automated duplicate arguments hunting tool, specifically for use working on Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls
teleDirect.js – remotely create redirects
stopChromeJumpingTheDamnTextboxOnEveryReturnPress.js – does what it says on the tin
fixDodgyShortDescriptions.js – offers GUI for addressing bad short descriptions directly from Special:Search results
ambiguousLinks.js – highlights links to disambiguation pages in articles

Possibly working; definitely nasty

globalWatchlist.js – watchlists from all projects linked to Watchlist; needs streamlining

Avoid like the plague!

My JavaScript test script – I Dunno LOL ¯\(°_o)/¯

My templates

{{subst:Editing advice}}
- Using Module:Editing advice
{{GotCollegeColorsFor}}
{{IP-talk}}
{{NUMBEROFSECTIONS}}
- Using Module:NUMBEROFSECTIONS
~~{{subst:PleaseCite}}~~ – redirected to {{subst:Uw-unsourced1}}
{{subst:Rfd2 multi}}
{{See it}}
{{Usig}}
{{subst:Warn}}
{{subst:Welcome to Wikipedia}} – I played a large part in its development

My modules

I consider myself a novice Lua learner.

In progress

It seems like I'm currently doing something else...

Semi complete

Module:Sandbox/Fred Gandt/chessDemo
- chessDemo (documentation)
  - chessDemo example article 1
  - chessDemo example article 2

Safe space for testing

Because messing about for days or weeks at a time in other Module's sandboxes is likely to be bothersome to other editors

Module:Sandbox/Fred Gandt

Some good stuff I like

Concorde: a supersonic sleek beauty
Desiderata: words of wisdom by Max Ehrmann
Is that so?: an anecdote about a man with his priorities in good order
If—: a poem full of wisdom by Rudyard Kipling
Words of wisdom from the poem My Monument (August, 1836) by Alexander Pushkin: "Fear not insult, ask not crown: Praise and blame take with indifference And dispute not with the fool!"; discovered via Ad Orientem's user page
On Bullshit: an essay by Harry Frankfurt
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X: a painting by Francis Bacon
"The Elements": a song about stuff by Tom Lehrer
The Treachery of Images a.k.a. Ceci n'est pas une pipe (English: This is not a pipe): a painting by René Magritte
Turquoise: if that wasn't already obvious