User:Boud

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The Wikipedia is cool and should be is used and developed in universities and schools everywhere, IMHO. Closed documentation on encyclopedic type knowledge has no moral justification, IMHO. But the Wikipedia should be used with an understanding of what it is, as justified by academic studies of Wikipedia (see the Education Working Group/RfC about difficulties in giving formal university grades for Wikipedia editing).

Moreover, there are many aspects of research and universities where the ethical principles in practice at Wikipedia should be the norm but are not (yet, as of 2026) the norm; by seeing how they work in the "real-world" case of Wikipedia (the world's biggest and often most reliable encyclopedia), pressure to move up to these standards in research practice and university governance - especially including transparent, rational, structured decision-making (the ideal of "collegial" decision-making and governance) - will (hopefully) continue to increase. Wikis themselves may not be the best FOSS packages for university governance; community-run FOSS decision-making software in the wiki spirit such as Decidim is likely to be more appropriate.

If you need to refer to me in Wikipedia discussions, then he/him/his are appropriate. If you really want to use they/them/their about me, go ahead, since it seems like those pronoun-related words may win the popularity contest against s/he, him/her, his/her.

• Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
• Tags to use on wiki commons for screenshots:

To the uploader: If possible, do not use this tag; please replace it with one of {{tv-screenshot}}, {{film-screenshot}}, {{musicpromo-screenshot}}, {{game-screenshot}}, {{software-screenshot}}, or {{web-screenshot}}.

• citation stuff
  • Wikipedia:Footnotes
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Generic citations
  • <ref name="...">{{cite news | last1= | first1= | last2= | first2= | pages= | language =| title= |trans-title = {{void| trans-title is the English translation}}| date= | publisher= |newspaper= | url= |access-date=2021- |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live {{void| live|dead|unfit|usurped}} |url-access = {{void| (subscription/registration/limited) default=free}} }}</ref>
  • <ref name="...">{{cite web| last1 =| first1 =| last2= | first2= | authorlink =| language =| title= |trans-title = {{void| trans-title is the English translation}} | work =| publisher =| website= |date =| url = |format =| doi =| access-date = |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live {{void| live|dead|unfit|usurped }} |url-access = {{void| (subscription/registration/limited) default=free}} }}</ref>
  • shorter: <ref name="...">{{cite news | last1= | first1= | last2= | first2= |author1-link= | language =| title= |trans-title =| date= |newspaper= | url= |access-date=2021- |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live |url-access = }}</ref>
  • shorter: <ref name="...">{{cite web| last1 =| first1 =| last2= | first2= | author1-link =| language =| title= |trans-title = | website= |date =| url = | access-date = |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live |url-access = }}</ref>
  • <ref name="...">{{cite journal | last1 = | first1 = | last2 = | first2 = | author1-link = | title = | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = | publisher = | location = | date = | url = | url-access = <!-- (subscription/registration/limited) default=free --> | issn = | doi = | id = | arxiv=YYMM.NNNNNa | access-date = | archive-url= | archive-date= |url-status=live <!-- live|dead|unfit|usurped -->}}</ref>
  • |display-authors=etal
  • for volatile, mainstream newspapers like NYT? Wikipedia:List of web archives on Wikipedia + use |archiveurl= |archivedate=
    • if one of archive-url, archive-date is present, then the other must be present too, and title and url must also be present
    • Template:Webarchive - {{webarchive |format=addlarchives |url= |date= |url2= |date2= }} (max 10 addl (additional) archives)
      • Web archive manual archive downtime logs
      • Feb+ 2026 RfC - archive.today deprecated Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Archive.is RFC 5 + Wikipedia:Archive.today guidance + Help:Archiving a talk page#May I edit an archived talk page? [[WP:ATODAY]] + [[Help:Archiving a talk page#May I edit an archived talk page?]]
      • WP:KDL Keeping dead links - Do not delete a citation just because it has been tagged with {{dead link}} for a long time.
        • [[WP:KDL]] Keeping dead links - {{tq|'''Do not delete a citation''' just because it has been tagged with {{t|dead link}} for a long time.}}
      • Help:Archiving a source#Megalodon.jp
  • {{cbignore}}

• stubs - Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
• useful templates:
  • biography warning template on talk page: {{WPBiography|living=yes|class=|importance=}}
  • USA-centric: {{globalize/USA}} - Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias - Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
  • • Template:Refimprove - {{Template:Refimprove}} {{third-party inline}}
    • Wikipedia:Template messages - general template messages | disambig etc. | vandalism warnings etc
      • Category:Welcome_templates
    • Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(Arabic)#Definite_article - al- vs Al-
    • /TemplateSystemicBiasRefimprove - proposed new template Boud (talk) 21:23, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
• [commons upload https]
  • Commons:Modelos_de_mensajes - Commons:Email_templates - Wikipedia:Example_requests_for_permission
    • face placeholders (en.wikipedia) depending on stereotyped hair-styles - File:Replace_this_image_male.svg - File:Replace_this_image_female.svg
  • useful version of expand section tag? - {{Expand section|but don't go beyond a short [[WP:Summary]] of the main article referenced above|date=whenever 20xx}}
• Template:Infobox_non-profit - non-profit or NGO infobox, links to other organisation infobox templates
• WP:RELTIME - short cut for now-ism text that becomes outdated when editing frequency drops...
• WP:GS/RUSUKR - for 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related articles

• avoiding totalitarianism: alternatives to google:
  • open source
  • semantic:
    • Evri (news) | Hakia | Yebol | Kngine [1] | DuckDuckGo
  • Nov/Dec 2023 proposal to avoid non-mainspace advocacy for Alphabet/Google:
    • Wikipedia:Village_pump (proposals)/Archive 209#Modify Module:Find sources/templates/Find general sources concerning the template {{Find sources}} and its source module:
      1. Add more individual sources - consensus against
      2. Remove all individual news outlets - strong consensus in favour; implementation (removal of NYT + AP)
      3. Replace the generic link - rough consensus against, but with acknowledgement that Participants who supported replacing it cited concerns about user privacy, potential systemic bias of Google's search engine, and some alternative websites were suggested.
  • alternative template: {{search for}} e.g.

• march 2011 message from Sue Gardner: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/March_2011_Update
• substantial-text-overlap detector http://toolserver.org/~dcoetzee/duplicationdetector/
  • substantial-text-overlap detector for an arbitrary Wikipedia page https://copyvios.toolforge.org/
    • {{copyvio}} {{copyvio-revdel}}

• redirect to section example

 #REDIRECT[[Gaafar Nimeiry#1985 Revolution]]
 {{Rcat shell|
  {{R to section}}
 }}

• example of a page editnotice: Template:Editnotices/Page/2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Wikipedia:Catalogue_of_CSS_classes - could be useful
• Wikipedia:All your bias are belong to us
• URLs to watch out for: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KiranBOT 12 - by hand: more or less just remove the string amp from Accelerated Mobile Pages, using common sense, and check that the new URL works
• misnaming, confusion between wikis and Wikipedia: WP:DAW = WP:NOTWIKI = WP:THEWIKI
• sometimes request admin attention is needed: WP:RAA
• WP:LABEL - Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Syria#RfC on the term "Assad"

• Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/Guide - Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/Guide#Warning editors - {{Uw-ai1}}, {{Uw-ai2}}, {{Uw-ai3}}, {{Uw-ai4}}
• WP:LLMDISCLOSE - Every edit that incorporates LLM output should be marked as LLM-assisted by identifying the name and, if possible, version of the AI in the edit summary. This applies to all namespaces.
• key texts
  • guideline: WP:LLM
  • guideline: WP:LLMPROD

To link to a specific (signed) paragraph on a talk page,

• look for <span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-USER-TIMESTAMP-OTHERTAG"></span> in the talk page as unrendered source html, or
• do a mouseover on the timestamp in the signature to see the internal link.

Example: on the talk page of an event-within-a-genocide article on Wikipedia, I was once told that I was scrupulously pretending [my]self to be "neutral".

Incomplete list of WP:SPI volunteers who might be willing to go beyond suspicion to gathering evidence:

• User:asilvering

• Commons:Commons:Wiki Science Competition 2019 in Poland
• Wikipedia:General_sanctions/Coronavirus_disease_2019 - might be necessary sooner or later

Battles get huge amounts of Wikipedia attention, while peace actions get much less. This is not Wikipedians' fault alone - killing is "sexy" for the media, while negotiations and the creation of networks and organised groups and healthier human relationships are boring and unprofitable. We need to create more peace process structures, since pedants don't want information on battles to be corrupted by "unencyclopedic" information such as elements of peace processes that inevitably accompany battles since (at least) a century ago: see this removal, for example.

• User:Boud/Draft:WikiProject Peace

• TODO Module:Find sources seems to be close to the core of the GAFAM recommendations used in {{Find sources}} and similar. This has to be sorted out to stop encouraging users to violate their own privacy: Searx (now SearXNG), startpage.com, DuckDuckGo would avoid providing free advertising for GAFAM.
  • Module talk:Find sources/Archive 1#Why does this link to Google?
  • Module talk:Find sources/Archive 1#Systemic bias

• TODO Check if How to quote Ethiopian authors in linguistic publications, Meyer, Treis (2021) is integrated into Wikipedia MOS guidelines.

• native_name:
  • Template_talk:Infobox_person#Template-protected_edit_request_on_14_December_2019 (will sooner or later be archived)
  • Village pump archive
  • Template:Infobox person/testcases

• Carbon footprint infobox parameters proposed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Climate change (TODO: update after archiving) could provide crucially important information to try to reverse the climate emergency.

• Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2006
• Timeline of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
• Muamar family detention incident
• List of killed, threatened or kidnapped Iraqi academics - quite amazingly, got deleted - i probably should have tacked on {{globalize/USA}} to the deletion debate - try to imagine a systematic campaign which assassinates 200 academics in the USA - what chance would the article listing those killed have of being deleted?
  • see also Violence against academics in post-invasion Iraq
• Imad Sarsam
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel " بايد از صفحه روزگار محو شود " see^[1]

• Benjamin Bloom sources noted on talk page in 2009: http://www.csus.edu/design/gphd/faculty/syllabus/yuki/GPHD30_Syllabus.pdf = http://www.webcitation.org/5zSX6gnd0 reproduced with attribution on page 8 top line from http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/bloome.pdf = http://www.webcitation.org/5zSX7PhZt by Elliot W. Eisner. The UNESCO/Eisner text is distributed under a copying-allowed-at-zero-cost, attribution-required licence. Boud (talk) 13:15, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Archives

2004: indymedia, Nepal, Wikipedia--free-software 2005: Wikimania 2006: Ahmadinejad, Iran

• Protests of 2019 - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Protests of 2019 (2nd nomination) - deleted in June 2020 without notification of a major contributor
  • Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2020 June 15 - not overturned
  • archives: 28 May 2020; history; edit statistics; talk page.
  • Erica Chenoweth, July 2020, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-future-of-nonviolent-resistance-2/#f1, "The year 2019 saw what may have been the largest wave of mass, nonviolent antigovernment movements in recorded history.1" cites themself "1. Erica Chenoweth et al., 'This May Be the Largest Wave of Nonviolent Mass Movements in World History. What Comes Next?' Washington Post, Monkey Cage blog, 16 November 2019." - original research by a Wikipedian?
  • protests of 2019, Wikidata Q76753469

unused DYK reviewing credits

• Template:Did you know nominations/Baalshillem II reviewed 18 Aug 2021 Boud (talk) 15:33, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

used DYK reviewing credits

• Template:Did you know nominations/Lula Mysz-Gmeiner reviewed 1–2 Sep 2018 - used for Template:Did you know nominations/2019 Saudi Arabia mass execution
• Template:Did you know nominations/Murder of April Tinsley reviewed 1–2 Sep 2018 - used for Template:Did you know nominations/ALQST
• Template:Did you know nominations/1981 General strike in Bielsko-Biała 6 February 2012

How interested were random en.wikipedia readers in these DYK'd topics? (pre- and post- stats not subtracted; time of day of appearance may affect N. American vs European/African vs South Asian vs East Asian/Australasian likeliness of reading):

• http://stats.grok.se/en/200812/Dheyaa_al-Saadi 323
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201104/Iman_al-Obeidi 3753
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201106/Manal_al-Sharif 3366
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201106/Hatoon_al-Fassi 3011
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201106/%60Ulaysha_Prison 828 (bolded DYK article)
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201106/Khaled_al-Johani 2079 (part of hook but not DYK article)
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201201/Society_for_Development_and_Change 573+116=689
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201201/Women_to_drive_movement 7844+1079= 8923
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/Samar_Badawi 1433
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/Hamza_Kashgari 4622
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/Lawyers_for_Liberty 594
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/Local_Coordination_Committees_of_Syria 1020+72=1092
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/Nimr_al-Nimr 1267
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/2011%E2%80%932012_Saudi_Arabian_protests 697
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201203/Specialized_Criminal_Court 770
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201203/Khaled_al-Johani 7411
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201203/Mohammed_Saleh_al-Bejadi 339+233=572
  • http://stats.grok.se/en/201203/Saudi_Civil_and_Political_Rights_Association 162+145=307
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201207/Syria_Files 1302
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201207/Timeline_of_the_2011%E2%80%932012_Saudi_Arabian_protests_%28from_July_2012%29 1030+313=1343
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201207/Mohammad_Fahad_al-Qahtani 1944
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201208/Alexander_Barankov 1697
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201510/Ali_Mohammed_Baqir_al-Nimr 9864
• 201806 Saudi anti male-guardianship campaign 1085
• 201809 Israa al-Ghomgham 6300
• 201812 ALQST 2079
• 201906 2019 Saudi Arabia mass execution 15115-(306+62)/2 = 14931
• 202106 People's Peace Movement (Afghanistan) 1788-12=1776
• 202108 Rukhshana media (4067-(44+61)/2)=4014

• SARS-CoV-2 pandemic page views (oldest) (oldish) 'pandemic' in titles

• Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/Case Count Task Force

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(to which I have not (yet) contributed...) - highlighted by https://womenrockscience.tumblr.com/ on the Fediverse

• Grace Hopper - pioneer in writing compilers/linkers
• Hedy Lamarr#Frequency-hopping spread spectrum - major contribution to bluetooth via proposing+patenting Frequency-hopping spread spectrum
• Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII - followup of Computer (job description)
• Ada Lovelace

m:Event:EmpowerHer Editathon 2024 - related articles - unclear if the scope is "women in politics, democracy, elections and governance within AU states" or "women in politics, in democracy, in elections and in governance within AU states" - probably the latter is the intended meaning...

• National Autonomous Electoral Commission (Senegal) - probably doesn't count since no specific mention of women in the commission
• Feminism in Senegal - includes legislative achievements so should count as women in governance

• wikimania 2005 - meta:Transwiki:Wikimania05/Paper-BO1
• http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171774 "Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia", Milena Tsvetkova, Ruth García-Gavilanes, Luciano Floridi, Taha Yasseri, 2017, PLOS One
• Wikipedia quality - what's needed? Commons:File:Wikipedia’s_poor_treatment_of_its_most_important_articles.pdf
• arXiv:1610.08914 (green open access) = doi:10.1145/3038912.3052591 (non-open-access, peer-reviewed): research paper about toxic comments on Wikipedia and an AI trained on human-classification of comments - "Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale", Ellery Wulczyn, Nithum Thain, Lucas Dixon
• internal vs externally peer-reviewed handling of a long-term highly contentious topic: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II and the history of Jews in Poland - arbitration starting around March 2023
  • Final decision

• first logged-in edit 28 August 2002 on pl.Wikipedia
• first logged-in edit 12 March 2003 on en.Wikipedia

• On the question of how much compression should be done in the long term, I've only just discovered that en.Wikipedia has a whole set of Category:Lists of diplomatic visits by heads of state. Given that almost all of these are opaque meetings with at best press conferences following the meetings, the useful information content is about as much as that of a 'Miss' competition. Famous powerful person A meets powerful person B. Great! and what does that have to do with transparent, rational, informed decision-making representing the interests of citizens of A and B's countries? If I were dictator of en.Wikipedia, I would probably delete the whole set. Boud (talk) 15:48, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

• Wikidot got deleted: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikidot - see especially archiveteam's overview of Wikidot and a link there to a plan to sell Wikidot, which could lead to notability if the price were high enough and it hit the mainstream press. I don't understand how a wiki community, of apparently a million users, could fail to get the attention of at least the internet/software geeky press.

• April 2025 WMF LLM policy

• WMF employees established a union in 2026: Wiki Workers United
  • Express your solidarity with WWU
  • suspected union busting in May 2026:
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF)#WMF Community Tech team has been disbanded, engineers laid off + meta:Talk:Community Wishlist#May 20 update
  • WMF has been violating WMF employees' rights (live link; local archive) by forcing the usage of Salesforce Inc. non-FOSS Slack (software); the issue is raised on Village Pump (archived link) too.
• meta:Wikimedians for software freedom
• arithmetic templates
  • 5!=120; 3

The world is round^{[2]: ${\displaystyle \pi }$} and orbits another world^{[3]: 3, 14, 15}, yet some^[4] claim that it's flat. Mikołaja also says it's roundish with a reference duplicating biblio info contained in the refs= list.^[3] and don't forget a subpage list of references.^[5] Maybe also see ref.^[6] of how not to falsify your inferences from checksummed data.^[7][8]

• peertube software archive: swh:0bd9d8b...

• Wikipedia: namespace: WP:CITEWATCH + User: namespace: User:JzG/Predatory
  • tool to consider using WP:UPSD = Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector (more checks than just predatory journals)

A semi-centralised place at GAFAM to look for lists of predatory journals and publishers, currently not updated since 2017, is:

• predatory journals: https://github.com/stop-predatory-journals/stop-predatory-journals.github.io/blob/master/_data/journals.csv or better: WP:SPSLIST (self-publishing sources list)
• predatory publishers: https://github.com/stop-predatory-journals/stop-predatory-journals.github.io/blob/master/_data/publishers.csv
• Discussion = "issues" - with currently (2020-12-06) nobody handling these seriously: https://github.com/stop-predatory-journals/stop-predatory-journals.github.io/issues

TODO: Which lists of predatory journals are ... peer-reviewed? See predatory publishing#Other blacklists for the "2020 systematic review of 93 lists", among which three^[1][2][3] "were assessed as evidence-based".^[4]

• Cabells' Predatory Reports ?
• https://kscien.org/predatory-publishing ?
• https://web.archive.org/web/20231112102007/https://predatoryreports.org/about ? (temporary)
• https://beallslist.net - unofficial update "by an anonymous European postdoctoral researcher"

• Whether or not bots or parsers should ignore <!-- ... --> or rather {{void| ... }} comments seems to be disputed between different people. TODO: See this discussion and find the (early 2021?) bot owner discussions about this, and get the different people to chat directly and decide what's best.

See User:Boud/Barnstars.

While Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing, universities want publicity for their researchers, so my public profile - independent of Wikipedia editing - might sooner or later be used to create an article about me, whether I want that or not, in which case WP:PROF would almost certainly be the criterion for deciding whether or not the topic is notable enough to survive an WP:AFD. So here are some sources that should likely qualify as WP:RS (several are paywalled) for deciding for or against creating/keeping an article:

Sources for notability of Boudewijn François Roukema (Q123176767) under WP:PROF:

• degrees: habilitation 2003, full professor (criterion 5) with professor title 2018 ^[1] (source includes prose cv in Polish)
• in-depth scientific profile - full chapter by Marek Oramus in an offline-only book (criterion 1.b) ^[2]
• cosmic topology (criterion 1.b, or 1.a taking into account that there are not many papers on cosmic topology)
  • 1997 OA: "Science: A strange twist in the tale of the Universe", Gribbin, New Scientist ^[3]
  • 2002 "Is Space Finite?", Starkman, Luminet, Weeks, Scientific American
  • 2008 Return of the ball-shaped universe? Zeeya Merali, New Scientist
  • citations of first cosmic topology paper
• merger history trees of galaxy dark matter haloes from N-body simulations
  • citations of main paper; (first paper with N-body merger history trees) (criterion 1.b)
• accelerating scale factor of the universe
  • Roukema & Yoshii 1993 appears to be the first paper that presents an observational argument for an accelerating scale factor while also using the words "accelerating" and "universe" to describe that observational inference (criterion 1.b); apparently earlier papers only argue for evidence of a non-zero cosmological constant, or mention "accelerating" from a purely theoretical point of view
• inhomogeneous cosmology
  • Gravity Research Foundation 'fifth award' 2013 ^[4]
• election forensics (spinoff from astronomical statistics)
  • 2009 Iranian presidential election - Physics World ,^[5] Nate Silver ^[6] (criterion 1.b?)
  • 2020 United States presidential election Reuters ^[7]
• open science
  • open science ambassador ("full open science" Yufering) ^[8]

Other notable info from WP:RS that is unlikely to qualify for notability criteria

• PhD 1993 + PhD supervisor Bruce Peterson (astronomer) + PhD advisor Peter Quinn (astronomer)
• Research papers currently in Wikidata
• 2018 POV on dark energy as likely to be recent negative average spatial curvature

• Wikipedia:Editor reflections#User:Boud – October 12, 2025 (TODO: update after archiving)