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  • Template:Efn — simple notes, also allows references, use {{efn|Text.}} and invoke with {{notelist}}
  • Template:Math — set maths with HTML

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Citing sources

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Citation Style 1 templates
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Citation Style 1 wrapper templates

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Specifics

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  • MOS:AMP — replacing & with and
  • MOS:CAPSACRS — most acronyms are written in uppercase (includes software names in titles and in text)
  • MOS:CAPTION — formatting of captions, including no trailing fullstop in single sentence captions
  • MOS:CREDENTIAL — remove Dr and Prof titles
  • MOS:CURLY — use ASCII single ' and double " quote marks
  • MOS:DASH — use of dashes (as opposed to hyphens): em dash without space, en dash with surrounding space: also {{spaced ndash}} or {{snd}}
  • MOS:DATEFORMAT — day names not normally used
  • MOS:DATERANGE — date ranges, year ranges should be 2010–2012, with an optional exception for consecutive years 2010–11
  • MOS:DATEUNIFY — publication dates in references within an article should have the same format (which may differ from archive dates and access dates)
  • MOS:DECADE — no apostrophe on 2000s
  • MOS:DIGITS — four digit numbers need not be thousands comma separated, providing usage is consistent within an article
  • MOS:DIGITS — numbers may be comma separated or thin-space separated, providing usage is consistent within an article
  • MOS:HEADINGS — headings are sentence-cased
  • MOS:HYPHEN — use of hyphens within words (see MOS:DASH for en and em dashes)
  • MOS:LAYOUT
    • hatnotes · maintenance tags · infoboxes · images · lead
    • See also · Notes · References · Further reading · External links
  • MOS:OVERLINK — overlinking can be a problem, particularly in the lead section
  • MOS:RELTIME — avoid terms like: current, recent, to date
  • MOS:SEEALSO — hyphenated annotation
  • MOS:TMRULES — generally omit trademark and copyright symbols
  • MOS:US — US (no dots) outside of the United States and Canada
  • MOS:NOTUSA — USA is deprecated, use United States instead
  • MOS:WEBADDR — omit trailing / on URLs when that is the only request (test as well)
  • WP:CREDITS — credits should not be added to images
  • MOS:#Names — covering organizational names, expand abbreviations and remove the "Ltd" and "GmbH"
  • MOS:INFOBOX — all information should also be found in the main body of an article
  • WP:FILE — [[Image:]] should be replaced by [[File:]]
  • Wikipedia:Citing sources#Avoid embedded links — external links outside of <ref> tags are now verboten
  • Wikipedia:Citing sources#Avoid embedded links — external links inside of <ref> tags should be improved
  • WP:REDNOT — where not to use red links, including articles not likely to be created
  • Wikipedia:Citing sources § Generally considered helpful
    • {{section link|Wikipedia:Citing sources|Generally considered helpful}} — replace bare URL references with full bibliographic citations
    • {{bareURL|{{subst:DATE}}}} — template for the top of an article
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations#Miscellaneous shortenings — spell versus in full, except for sport and legal contexts and in tables

Vague language

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  • MOS:VAGUE — main page
    • MOS:PUFF — inflated language and puffery like "legendary"
    • WP:WEASEL — weasel words like "some people say"
    • WP:EWW — alternatively embrace weasel words!

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Mathematics

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Titles and names

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  • WP:TITLE — advice on naming articles
  • WP:COMMONNAME — use commonly recognizable name (can include capitalization)
  • WP:ACRONYMTITLE — only if the subject is known primarily by its abbreviation and that abbreviation is primarily associated with the subject

German

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Other

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  • WP:DDD — disambiguation dos and don'ts: one blue link per entry, no external links
  • Wikipedia:Disambiguation — naming and use of disambiguation pages

Tables

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Creative Commons <span style="white-space: nowrap">CC BY-SA 4.0</span>
Creative Commons <span style="white-space: nowrap">CC BY 4.0</span>
Creative Commons <span style="white-space: nowrap">CC0 1.0</span>

Wikimedia Commons summary data

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  • prepare in advance
    • File (local name of file to upload):
    • Title (becomes filename) (sentence case, use spaces):
    • Description (with translations):
    • Date (default from photograph timestamp):
    • Source (original work): Own work
    • Source (derived work): This media and Original work — see: file:Classification of energy system models.svg
    • Author (default from login): Robbie Morrison (RobbieIanMorrison)
    • Camera location (default is GPS data, else manually edit using OpenStreetMaps information, optionally orientation data too):
    • Other comments (set after the Summary template):
    • Categories (important):

Photographs

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  • To modify the image description, artist, and copyright fields:
    • ExifTool automatically backs up the JPG file with _original appended
    • the -m or -IgnoreMinor Errors option is required because Gimp has corrupted the Nikon PreviewIFD preview image (bug report)
    • to process image.jpg, edit and save the following file as image.metadata and then action it using: $ bash -e image.metadata
# $ bash -e <filename>
# this file does not need the execute permission set
# exiftool appends "_original" to the input file

exiftool \
-ignoreMinorErrors \
-ImageDescription="to fix" \
-Artist="Robbie Morrison" \
-Copyright="This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" \
-XMP-cc:License="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" \
image.jpg
  • To view all tags from the Exif group with their current values:
$ exiftool test.jpg
  • To check GPS and timestamp data:
$ exiftool test.jpg | grep GPS
$ exiftool test.jpg | grep Time
$ exiftool test.jpg | grep "Date/Time Original\|GPS Date/Time"

Video

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Inkscape diagrams

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  1. choose a Wikimedia font: including Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans (wider)
  2. group text, copy to another layer and convert to paths, hide prior layer
  3. simply remove fonts: Path → Object to Path
  • exported PNG (for secondary uses, not for upload to Wikimedia Commons)
    • edit metadata with ExifTool — special recommendations for Creative Commons licenses
    • bug in Inkscape 0.91 prevents use of Creative Commons 4.0 (no work around except to edit the PNG)
    • examine metadata using ImageMagick (identify) or ExifTool (preferred):
      • Software · Title · Author · Description · Creation Time · Copyright
$ identify -verbose test.png
$ exiftool test.png

Searching for images

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Note the late-2016 discussions on an upgrade to Creative Commons 4.0.

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Technical

* [[Energy modeling]] – the process of building computer models of [[energy system]]s
* [[Energy system]] – the interpretation of the energy sector in system terms
* [[EU Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU]] – a 2012 [[European Union]] directive which mandates national [[efficient energy use|energy efficiency]] improvements
* [[German Climate Action Plan 2050]] – a German government climate protection policy document under development as of October 2016
* [[German National Action Plan on Energy Efficiency]] – released under the European Union directive on energy efficiency
* [[Open energy system databases]] – database projects which collect, clean, and republish energy-related datasets 
* [[Open energy system models]] – a review of [[energy system]] [[energy modeling|models]] that are also [[open source software|open source]]
* [[Power-to-X]] – used to describe a number of electricity conversion technologies

Organizations and people

* [[Carl-A. Fechner]] – a German documentary maker
* [[Climate-Alliance Germany]] – a network of civil society organizations calling for German decision-makers to protect the climate
* [[Hartmut Bossel]] – a German systems scientist

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German Climate Action Plan 2050

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Climate-Alliance Germany

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Logo approval

  • emailed the Communication Manager for copyright details — 2,956 days
  • eog ~/synk/wikipedia/logos/KA-Logo-JPEG.jpg &

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EU Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU

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Energy system

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On approval

  • rework the SVG energy system scope diagram
    • eog ~/synk/wikipedia/graphics//2016-energy-system-scope/energy-system-scope.2.svg &
  • later on: rework some of the referencing markup previously crunched by a bot

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Open energy system models

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Future reference

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Open energy system databases

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Integrated model

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Items

  • /stub — template for new articles
  • /archive — text not yet put to use
  • /urls
  • /references — ordered by content too
  • /publications — my publications with local links
  • /inkscape-metadata — representative metadata for an SVG diagram
  • /markup — examples of wiki markup
  • /table — examples of table markup
  • /userboxes — potential userboxes
  • /attic — stale help requests and similar
  • /legal — archive of legal issues, mostly concerning logos and photographs from other people

Keep (usually referred to on talk pages)

  • /energiewende — revised introduction, keep
  • /eeg — rework of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act, keep

Templates

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Evince

  • User:RobbieIanMorrison/evince — produces PDF command-line set in Courier
    • evince ~/synk/pdfs/file.pdf & — {{User:RobbieIanMorrison/evince|file.pdf}}
    • evince ~/path/file.pdf & — {{User:RobbieIanMorrison/evince|file.pdf|~/path}}
    • eog ~/path/file.jpg & — {{User:RobbieIanMorrison/evince|file.jpg|~/path|eog}}

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Publications

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Open energy system models

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Energy scenarios

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Energy model typology

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Merit order

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PRIMES

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WikiWoods

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  • check policy and rename page to WikiWoods

Photographs

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  • machine translate de:Wikiwoods and look for material
  • logo details
  • upload and add logo

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Disambiguation

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Miscellaneous

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Done

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  • /attic — stale help requests and similar


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Zotero

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Monitoring

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Wikipedia process

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  •   Comment: I'm not sure that open source energy system models are a notable sub-group of energy system models. In fact, there is currently (as of 02:45, 28 March 2013 (UTC)) no article called energy system models in Wikipedia, although the topic may be covered under a different name or as a section in another article.
    This draft also has writing-style issues. Simply put, it's written more like a magazine article or an "introduction to the topic" lesson one might see in a college or continuing-education course than an encyclopedia article.
    I am going to decline this with the hopes that the author will see if the topic of energy system models is already covered in Wikipedia and if not, determine if the topic meets Wikipedia's notability requirements. If the topic is notable and missing, I hope he writes an article about it. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 02:45, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Miscellaneous

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Other

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  • UTC timestamp: $ date -u in a terminal
  • non-breaking space in HTML: &#160; or &nbsp;
  • narrow non-breaking space in HTML: &#8239;