User:Fabartus/typical edit day

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Since your 'checking me out', I thought I'd illustrate some typical WikiWork on my part by this example.

This is a typical Marathon edit mode for me, I try not to save unfinished edits when possible, and testing links in context and categories sometimes leads to unexpected places (e.g. Thought problem: Connect Measurement system to Recreational boating or Marina or Dredges (I managed somehow):

Source Document

This is cut out of my contributions page, so it's in inverse order by save order (lowest on list are first saved, but last edit started), but in order with respect to when an edit was started—the times just don't indicate (are backwards) when the edit window was opened!
The first (last) entry is an add to the TO-DO list for another day of editing. The second a notification to the guy that started me off by asking me to review his changes in the old business 'Systems of mesurement'.

Typical Recent WikiDay of Editing

00:32, 5 April 2006 (hist) (diff) User:Fabartus (→Useful links - +useful link)
23:48, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) m User talk:Pol098 (→Exponentiation and Metric - Change notice with link) (top)
23:46, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Systems of measurement (Revise Intro to correct and extend to better lay reader understandabilityFrankB)
23:27, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Talk:History of measurement (→Merge with Metrology - Strong disagree on Move/Merge w/notes FrankB) (top)
23:11, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) User:Fabartus (→Useful links - WP:GTL — Guide to Layout, part of MOS)
23:07, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) m User:Fabartus (→Reminders and ToDo Lists - Add to TO-DO)
21:37, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Systems of measurement (Add a much needed dose of cosmopolitinism. Was entirely POV dismissive of customary systems. FrankB)
21:36, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Yard (Stride and Pace derivation variant + Cat due to Nautical Miles relationships FrankB) (top)
21:32, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) m Mile (→Nautical miles - Pipe trick to avert disambig page link (Channel) FrankB)
21:30, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Channel (geography) (+Cat (Nautical Terms), elaborate and clarify that usageFrankB) (top)
21:28, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:TantalumTelluride (→Did you mean "equanimity"?)
21:18, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Marina (Major rework as expansion + Cat I came to addFrankB) (top)
20:46, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) m User:Fabartus (→Reminders and ToDo Lists - Add to TO-DO FrankB)
20:45, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Recreational boating (Genesis as a inadequate redirect to a section not on point, WE NEED AN ARTICLE so STUB too, with one Category tie. FrankB)
20:00, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) User:Fabartus (Add two links (TO-DO + Useful) FrankB)
19:56, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Talk:Dredge (→dredge versus dredger - Talk on proposal to split && Clean template FrankB)
19:43, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Dredge (→Other meanings of the word - +Cat (nautical Terms) FrankB) (top)
19:17, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Mile (→Nautical miles - Fixups, some format, mostly links FrankB)
19:07, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Piolet (Added disambig notation on misspelled variant FrankB) (top)
19:03, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) m Harbor (→See also - + Cat (Nautical Term) FrankB) (top)
18:53, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Mile (Large expansion on Nautical Miles - as is used and importance of utiltity in spherical navigationFrankB)
17:48, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Customary measurement system (Genesis-redirect needed topic to subarticle section of pertinent (near parrallel) topicFrankB) (top)
17:31, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Talk:Metric system (Speed of Light and time standard impact versus length interdependencyFrankB)

Somewhat Startling Result

But the whole series (string of related edits) started in response to a talk posting about 17:17 (UTC) with this following article... which only got saved (AHEM) 6.5 HOURS and 10 major edits LATER!
23:46, 4 April 2006 (hist) (diff) Systems of measurement (Revise Intro to correct and extend to better lay reader understandabilityFrankB)

So...

23:46 less 17:20 is a chain of ten high quality (IMHO) edits in 6 hours and 26 minutes, Give or Take

Not Quite Promises

All I can say is I'm trying to cut back, and it's actually getting a bit better. Editing in multiple windows is at times confusing and I've lost certain good edits that never got saved, so I'm safer with such linear edits. I just need to figure out when to back down and save out and start a new at whatever beguilling temptress waits for more attention!

FrankB 15:03, 5 April 2006 (UTC)