User:rst20xx/Contributions and Awards

Contributions

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Articles

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The sole article primarily written by me is the completely unsourced Marvel Masterworks. This was back in 2005!

Templates

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I have created many templates in my time at Wikipedia. These include the following:

  • Oxfordshire locality templates:

The great WikiProject Tennis tagging spree

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One of my projects was to tag every tennis article on Wikipedia as being part of WikiProject Tennis (as well as give importance levels to all non-players and classes to all non-articles), as tennis articles were woefully undertagged. If you can't even see what articles are within the scope of your WikiProject, how are you meant to improve them?!? The tagging spree took WP:Tennis from this:

Tennis
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
  GA 1 1
B 3 22 19 7 4 55
Start 7 12 29 41 83 172
Stub 2 15 66 112 195
Assessed 10 36 64 114 199 423
Unassessed 1 17 7 2 888 915
Total 11 53 71 116 1087 1338

to this:

Tennis
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
  GA 1 1 2
B 4 24 16 8 4 56
C 1 1
Start 11 13 33 53 62 172
Stub 1 5 24 72 92 194
List 5 50 3 14 72
Assessed 21 92 78 148 158 497
Unassessed 54 121 1024 2367 1927 5493
Total 75 213 1102 2515 2085 5990

And, additionally:

  • NA-importance = 0 -> 1918

and:

  • Image-Class = 0 -> 56
  • Template-Class = 0 -> 343
  • Project-Class = 0 -> 27
  • Category-Class = 0 -> 1314
  • Disambig-Class = 0 -> 145
  • NA-Class = 70ish -> 0 (all went to Template-Class or Category-Class)
  • Portal-Class = 0 -> 36

I'd call that successful! 4652 articles newly tagged, and before I tagged the players, Unknown-importance was down to 327 articles, so I gave importance levels to most of the articles originally in there.

See also User:Rst20xx/Tennis.

I was the proposer and implementer of Good topics. Featured topics require a certain percentage of the content contained within them to be featured. As of writing, this is currently 25%, however it has a history of increasing, and this looks set to continue. As a result, there is a recurring trend of topics getting pushed out of WP:FT every few months, when the criteria goes up.

I originally proposed Good topics to help deal with this problem, envisioning that the good topic criteria would be more static (at around 25% say), and then the featured topic criteria would be more free to jump to 50%. Cirt had the bright idea of setting the good topic criteria to 0%, i.e. requiring no featured content at all, and brought forth a straw poll to this effect. The poll passed, and so next came the implementation plan.

The implementation of good topics is the most complicated piece of editing I have ever done. As the only difference between good and featured topics is the percentage of articles that need to be featured, I was able (using categories and templates) to set good topics up such that promotions and demotions between the two would be automatic. This involved writing the subsidiary templates {{FeaturedTopicSum}} and {{TopicTransclude}}, as well as heavily modifying {{ArticleHistory}}, {{Featured topic box}} and {{Featuredtopictalk}}. It also involved setting up a dummy WikiProject so we can easily monitor the promotions/demotions of articles involved in good and featured topics, and make sure everything is running as it should be (so far, it has been).

Awards

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Recieved

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  What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
For designing a simple system that will let us keep track of the quality of all articles in Featured Topics and paving the way for Good Topic promotions. --Arctic Gnome (talkcontribs) 02:21, 4 September 2008 (UTC)


  The Barnstar of Diligence
I, Cirt (talk), award this Barnstar of Diligence to Rst20xx, for excellent work with getting Wikipedia:Good topics on track, and an admirable demeanor in dealing with the myriad users with questions about its rollout. Cirt (talk) 08:35, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

(In the unlikely event you want to give me an award, please do so on my talk page!)

Given

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  "I award you this Comics Star personal user award for your extensive work on Golden Age and Atlas Era Marvel. Good job :)" - rst20xx 22:25, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Writing 312+ biographies to ensure comprehensive coverage of the alumni of Jesus College is a real labour of love. It's truly gobsmacking. It shows that you are editing not simply for merit badges (like the one I'm now giving you!) or shiny stars, but because you truly care about what you are working on, and you want to make sure it is covered in depth and in great quality - and that makes you the best type of editor on this Wiki. A fully deserved barnstar then! rst20xx (talk) 15:55, 13 April 2009 (UTC)