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Vinson Awards and Accomplishments Other stuff To-dos and Laboratory Autograph book

Wikipedia Maintenance

This section includes a bunch of stuff that you can do to help Wikipedia!

Be BOLD!

Being bold means if you think you can help an article, do so, but make sure you cite things! Also, if you happen to see a typo, or poor grammar feel free to edit it! Remember- if no one stepped forward to edit this encyclopedia, Wikipedia would get nowhere.

The bounty board

If you want to help Wikipedia by contributing to articles, or you want to donate to Wikipedia but don't have the money, don't worry! Go to the bounty board and start hunting! The bounty board is a place where bounty offerers will offer (real) money for promoting their article to a certain status (usually featured article status). Then, if the bounty is achieved before the expiration date, the money in the bounty will be donated to Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation under your name and anyone else who helped by contributing to the article. It's a win-win situation, see?

Welcoming new users

Another thing you can do to help Wikipedia is to welcome new users. There are several ways to do this. Some like to do this by hand. If you do, make sure you include links of helpful recourses and a personal message. You may also want to sign it. However, if you want to save time, check out some welcoming templates(WP:WC). Also, there is a gadget in your preferences that can help significantly. To find newbies use this page

Anti-vandalism

Anti-vandalism can be achieved in many ways. The first is by hand. This is very slow and you may find that the vandalism will be gone by the time you edit the page. Second, you can undo the edit. This is still pretty time consuming, compared to rollbacking. You have to request rollbacking, though. Finally, there are gadgets and programs that will aid you in antivandalism. I really like Huggle. It is a program. There are also gadgets like Twinkle. You can also use the recent changed feed. The best part of programs and gadgets are that they will not only revert vandalism quickly, but will also shoot a warning and find the vandalism in a flash. It may take up to 5 minuets to find and revert vandalism by hand, but with Huggle, you can do the same is less than 5 seconds.

Wikiprojects

The WikiProjects I am involved in.

This editor participates in the WikiProject Council, a collaborative effort regarding WikiProjects in general. Please feel free to join us.

This user participates in
WikiProject Biography.

This user is a member of the Nintendo Task Force.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Video games.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject
United States.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Canada.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Languages.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Arthropods.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Medicine.

Funny stuff

Funny stuff I encountered while on Wikipedia. Includes vandalism, usernames, and edits.

....should I block him?

Playground

This is a place to experiment with new formats, write some articles, etc. As the title suggests, anyone can experiment here. Please do not upload explict images here.

Random stuff

Sadly, this is what the English Wikipedia is made of

What's going on here?

Picture of the day

Ceramica pisi, the broom moth, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in a range covering the whole of Europe from the Arctic Circle to northern Spain, and across to the Russian Far East. It lives at heights of up to 2,000 metres. This photograph shows a broom moth caterpillar in Estonia.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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Explaining Wiki markup to other users

The <nowiki> tag is used to suppress the interpretation of Wiki markup. This is often useful to demonstrate or explain Wiki markup language to another user.

Wiki markup (and Wiki tags that resemble HTML tags) that are placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki> are not interpreted, and are displayed on the page just the way they are typed. For example, [[this]] would ordinarily form a wikilink, but since it is placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki>, like this: <nowiki>[[this]]</nowiki>, no such link is formed. This is rarely of use in an actual Wikipedia article.

The <nowiki> tag is helpful, for example, when asking questions at the Teahouse and explaining issues at the Village Pump as well as on an article's Talk page. In this case 'the markup code' can be displayed without being actionable.

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