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[[Image:CITATION NEEDED protestor.png|right|155px|thumb|The {{[[Wikipedia:Citation_needed|Citation needed]]}} template aims to promote [[Wikipedia:Verifiability|accountable]] discourse. In French it’s: <br><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[:fr:Template:référence nécessaire|référence nécessaire]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki>.]]

Hi, I'm Kai Carver. 

I've been making minor edits to Wikipedia articles for about 20 years (since 2005): at last count, over [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Kaicarver#year-counts 2000 edits] on [[Special:Contributions/Kaicarver|1000 English articles]],  [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/fr.wikipedia.org/Kaicarver#year-counts 400 edits] on [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Contributions/Kaicarver 300 articles in French], and [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Kaicarver#mw-centralauth-info a few edits on other wikis], with a  [https://xtools.wmcloud.org/globalcontribs/Kaicarver global edit count] approaching 3000 on [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Kaicarver 18 projects so far]. So my contributions are [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits|modest]] (I'm one of [[Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits#List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits|50,000]]), I make an edit every 2 or 3 days, and I'm a big fan of Wikipedia.

I edit articles on a pretty [http://www.screencast.com/users/kaicarver/folders/Jing/media/b26faada-8330-4375-bb3b-371fa416d085 wide variety of topics]. I usually come across topics because they caught my interest or because I wanted to check or learn something, not because I have any special expertise. I try to be careful with my contributions, and the slightest change takes me forever, but I still screw up sometimes, so apologies for any mistakes I make, and thank you for correcting them!

I'm not an admin, but this has a few interesting links: {{Admincheck|Kaicarver}}

I live in Paris, France, and Taipei, Taiwan. I'm American, quite a bit French, half German, and 1/12th Spanish by repeated summer residence (if that makes any sense -- they are overlapping categories).

I work as a computer programmer, and occasionally as a translator. I studied science, and majored in philosophy, a long time ago.

I've always been a bit of a [[Language|languages]] fan. And I love [[Writing system|scripts]]. There are [https://blog.duolingo.com/writing-systems-around-the-world/#other-major-scripts-of-the-world 6 types of scripts]: [[List_of_writing_systems#List_of_writing_systems_by_adoption|sortable list of the major ones]].

My first encounter with wikis was around 1998, on [[Ward Cunningham]]'s [[WikiWikiWeb|original wiki]], where it seems [http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?KaiCarver my user page] still lives (and here's an [http://c2.com/w4/wikibase/?KaiCarver even older version]).

Feel free to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kaicarver&action=edit&section=new leave me a message] on [[User_talk:Kaicarver|my Talk page]].

==Interesting stuff==

*[http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/requests/AnimationEditsOneDayWp.html Map with animation of Wiki edits in every language]

*Wikipedia motto of the day: inactive since mid-2015 (?), or just too silly, but [[Wikipedia:Motto_of_the_day/Schedule/Archive_2014#2014|old mottoes]] ''may'' still be fun to read.

{{Motd plain}}

*someone or something left me a message here: https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86_%DA%AF%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA:Kaicarver#c-KaleemBot-20230524080700-%D8%AC%DB%8C_%D8%A2%DB%8C%D8%A7%DA%BA_%D9%86%D9%88%DA%BA%21 immediately after I visited the pnb (Western Punjabi?) page for Baklava when I was looking into different translations of the word... I think it's a welcome message, Google Translate tells me it's Urdu.

==Stuff by me==

* [[Special:Contributions/Kaicarver|My English contributions]] (plus  [[Special:Contributions/85.168.194.14|some early anonymous ones]]). 

* [http://toolserver.org/~tparis/pages/index.php?name=Kaicarver&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia&namespace=0&redirects=noredirects 20+ English articles created by me], [http://toolserver.org/~tparis/pages/index.php?name=Kaicarver&lang=fr&wiki=wikipedia&namespace=0&redirects=noredirects 2 French ones].

* My other Wikipedia/Wikimedia pages: [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Kaicarver French], [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Kaicarver German], [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Kaicarver Wiktionary], [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kaicarver Meta-Wiki], [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Kaicarver Wikibooks], [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Kaicarver Wikisource], [http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kaicarver wikimediastrategy]. 

* Other wikis: [http://wikitravel.org/en/User:Kaicarver Wikitravel], [[CEDICT|CEDICT Chinese dictionary]] ([http://cc-cedict.org/editor/editor.php?listchanges_searchuserid=kaicarver&listchanges_searchuseridmatchtype=0&handler=ListChanges contributions] ).
{{Babel|en|fr|de-2|es-2|ru-1|zh-1}}

*  Edit counters: [http://toolserver.org/~tparis/pcount/index.php?name=Kaicarver&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia English], [http://toolserver.org/~tparis/pcount/index.php?name=Kaicarver&lang=fr&wiki=wikipedia French]. Another counter: [http://en.wikichecker.com/user/?t=Kaicarver&c=1 English], [http://fr.wikichecker.com/user/?t=Kaicarver&c=1 French]. [http://wikiscan.org/utilisateur/Kaicarver Another French counter with stats].

* Two overviews of my contributions in all the various wikipedias, with edit count for each and ''total'' edit count (about 1300 last time I looked): 
** [http://toolserver.org/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=Kaicarver&blocks=true my latest contributions in each wikipedia].
** [http://toolserver.org/~vvv/sulutil.php?user=Kaicarver list of all wikimedia sites where I have a single user login (SUL)].

==Scraps==
Example of using Wikipedia to research names of obscure (to me) 17th century composers:

:Oeuvres de [[Pablo Bruna]], [[Juan Cabanilles]], [[Antonio de Cabezón]], [[Francisco Correa de Arauxo]], [[Peeter Cornet]], [[Abraham van den Kerckhoven]]

idea for a wikipedia page needed in English and French: la Fontaine de Médicis in [[Jardin du Luxembourg]]:

:Sicilian river-god Acis and milk-white sea-nymph Galatea loved each other, but jealous Cyclops Polyphemus killed Acis with a boulder.

:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acis_and_Galatea_(mythology)

:the Italian-style facade was built in 1631 for Queen Marie de Médicis. It became a fountain in 1799, and the sculpture was added in 1862.

:http://www.senat.fr/visite/fontaine/

needs improvement:

:translation of song http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Pieterszoon_Hein

More scraps in a [[Wikipedia:Subpages|subpage]]: [[User:Kaicarver/Scraps]]

==Ideas==

* Make web page that shows the translation of a term in all languages it has Wikipedia articles for. Use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php API], e.g.: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=langlinks&titles=Nitrogen&redirects&lllimit=500 "Nitrogen"], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=langlinks&titles=Coffee&redirects&lllimit=500 "Coffee"], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=langlinks&titles=Cinnamon&redirects&lllimit=500 "Cinnamon"]. Use [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=languages the list of all languages in Wikipedia] and, for the English name of each language, see this [[meta:List_of_Wikipedias#1_000_000.2B_articles|list of Wikipedias]] (is there a better way via the API?). See [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code#Perl Perl API client code]: [http://code.google.com/p/perlwikipedia/ MediaWiki::Bot] or [http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?MediaWiki::API MediaWiki::API] for ways to interface the API in Perl.
::I actually implemented that but I forget where...

* Variation on edit count: [http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Nicolas%20Sarkozy view counts]. Answering questions such as: how many total views have there been for the pages I created? How about for those I edited?

* Also, an extension that displays the view count for every article ([http://stats.grok.se/json/en/201010/User:Kaicarver example JSON view counts for this page]).

==Tools==
Some interesting Wikipedia tools I use or have tried out:
; [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/ The Wikipedia Library] : When you need a reference... and you can't find one for free on the web or in Google Books: the Wikipedia Library, [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/about/ a kind of reward or perk for active Wikipedia editors], can be really useful. I first used it for [[Niesen]].
; [[Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups]] (now easily activated via the ''General'' tab in [[Special:Preferences]]) : Very very nice and useful hover preview feature that everyone should be using. On to the clickless Web!
; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-mode.el wikipedia-mode.el] : Emacs major mode for editing Wikipedia articles. Works well with the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 It's All Text!] Firefox extension. Swore I would use this when a Firefox crash made me lose an entire article I had written on [[Forbidden Planet]] writer [[Irving Block]]. I don't like submitting many edits.
; [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/makeref.php MakeRef] : Assist in the generation of reference tags, written by [[Magnus Manske]]. Could make it handier as a bookmarklet. I keep forgetting to use this. The nitty-gritty of [[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|citing sources]] is such a pain.<br>Anyway here's a simple [[bookmarklet]] that creates a reference from a web page, using the page URL, title, and selected text, if any:<br>''<nowiki>javascript:(function(){ var sel=''+(window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); var remoteWin=window.open('','','resizable=yes,width=500,height=300,left=508,top=122'); remoteWin.document.write('<html><body>'); remoteWin.document.write('&lt;ref>'+'['+location.href+' &quot;'+document.title+'&quot;] '+sel+'&lt;/ref>'); })();</nowiki>''
; [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API MediaWiki API] : Access lots of interesting info without that pesky UI. For example, here are lists of what's being edited right now in different languages: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcprop=title|timestamp|user&rclimit=20 en] [http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcprop=title|timestamp|user&rclimit=20 fr] [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcprop=title|timestamp|user&rclimit=20 de] [http://es.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcprop=title|timestamp|user&rclimit=20 es] [http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcprop=title|timestamp|user&rclimit=20 zh] [http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcprop=title|timestamp|user&rclimit=20 ru] (more [[User:Kaicarver/What's Being Edited Now|here]]). And here lists of just the new articles: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcprop=title|timestamp|user&rctype=new&rcnamespace=0&rclimit=20 en] [http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcprop=title|timestamp|user&rctype=new&rcnamespace=0&rclimit=20 fr] [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcprop=title|timestamp|user&rctype=new&rcnamespace=0&rclimit=20 de] [http://es.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcprop=title|timestamp|user&rctype=new&rcnamespace=0&rclimit=20 es] [http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcprop=title|timestamp|user&rctype=new&rcnamespace=0&rclimit=20 zh] [http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcprop=title|timestamp|user&rctype=new&rcnamespace=0&rclimit=20 ru].
; [http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/blame/ Blame: Find addition of text in a page history] : Determine who is responsible for a specific fragment of an article. Seems to be simpler and to work much better than WikiBlame below. Props to [[User:X!]], who also runs one of the edit counters mentioned above.
; [http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php WikiBlame] : Determine who did what when. Interface could be better though. Ideally I could select some text in an article, click on a bookmarklet or button, and get the first revision where the text appeared. 
; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEd wikEd] (now easily activated via the ''General'' tab in [[Special:Preferences]]) : Enhanced text processing functions to edit pages in Firefox, using Javascript and a rich-text edit box. Impressive, but probably too fancy for me, and a bit slow, so I disabled it. I find editing articles ''hard'' due to the syntax and all. I'm still looking for a tool that makes it real easy, for example, to dash off a new article. It would make easy: imitating other similar articles, putting in the right categories, with the right templates, links to other languages, etc. Also I'd ''really'' love something that would simplify making references.
; [http://stats.grok.se Wikipedia article traffic statistics] : wherein it is revealed that in December 2010, [http://stats.grok.se/en/201012/WikiLeaks Wikileaks] beat [http://stats.grok.se/en/201012/Christmas Christmas] (6 million visits vs. 3 million).
; [https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD:%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8B_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B8 Stats on major language editions of Wikipedia (with pretty language flags)] : from a Russian user's page. I'd like to find an English version of these stats boxes and flags.

== [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Webcomic_xkcd_-_Wikipedian_protester.png Citation needed around the world] ==

[[File:Webcomic xkcd - Wikipedian protester.png]]
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[[File:Agitador wikipedista.png]]
[[File:Webcomic_xkcd_-_Wikipedian_protester_zh.png]]
[[File:Webcomic xkcd - Wikipedian protester RUS.png]]
[[File:Webcomic xkcd - Wikipedian protester-GREEK-1.png]]
[[File:Webcomic xkcd - Wikipedian protester ko.png]]
[[File:Webcomic xkcd - Wikipedian protester it.png]]
[[File:Webcomic xkcd - Wikipedian protester - Polish.png]]
[[File:Webcomic_xkcd_-_Wikipedian_protester_de.png]]
[[File:Webcomic_xkcd_-_Wikipedian_protester_Ar.PNG]]

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modèle:Référence_nécessaire

[[de:Benutzer:Kaicarver]]
[[es:Usuario:Kaicarver]]
[[fr:Utilisateur:Kaicarver]]
[[ru:Участник:Kaicarver]]
[[zh:用户:Kaicarver]]

== More vanity/humility ==

https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Kaicarver/all

[[Special:Statistics]]

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/User:Kaicarver/

==Userboxes==

{{Userboxtop}}
{{User Wikipedian for|year=2005|month=8|day=23}}
{{Template:user ipa-0}}
{{Template:user ot-5}}
{{Template:User split infinitive:Yes}}
{{Template:User french spacing:no}}
{{Template:User serial comma:Yes}}
{{Template:User straight quotes}}
{{User:UBX/logical quotes}}
{{User:Feureau/UserBox/AmericanEnglish}}
{{user wikifr}}
{{user wikide}}
{{User Wikitravel}}
{{User:Alx_xlA/Userboxes/1ofAll}}
{{user encyclopedist}}
{{user everyone}}
{{user citing sources}}
{{User Hotel Wikipedia Userbox}}
{{Template:User wikipedia/Donor}}
{{user numberofarticles}}
{{User:UBX/signsposts}}
{{User France}}
{{User Paris}}
{{Template:User US}}
{{Template:user simplified:neutral}}
{{Template:User WP Taiwan}}
{{Template:user Kanji}}
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{{Template:User Hangul}}
{{User emacs}}
{{User:Quasar Jarosz/Userboxes/Perl}}
{{User religious reasons}}
{{User humility|21}}

{{Userboxbottom}}

Hmm, dunno about those buttons, or userboxes or whatever those are... Like many things on Wikipedia, they're a pain to use. Click, scroll, copy, change page, paste, repeat... If there was one page where I could quickly select those that I want... Still, kind of a neat way to explore the Wikipedia universe. Makes me think of [[Scoutcraft|Scout badges]]... They're apparently [[Wikipedia:Jimbo on Userboxes|controversial]].