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The username is lcarsos. pronounced el-cars-oh-ess. The only other acceptable capitalizations are LCARSOS or LCARS OS. The second of those is frowned upon because that should be used for any project attempting to create an LCARS operating system, or overlay/window manager. And lastly, '''never''' Lcarsos, despicable. | The username is lcarsos. pronounced el-cars-oh-ess. The only other acceptable capitalizations are LCARSOS or LCARS OS. The second of those is frowned upon because that should be used for any project attempting to create an LCARS operating system, or overlay/window manager. And lastly, '''never''' Lcarsos, despicable. | ||
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I'm just a big xkcd and Star Trek fan (props if you got the reference). | I'm just a big xkcd and Star Trek fan (props if you got the reference). | ||
− | + | Here, I'm just working backwards from the beginning to create missing pages, fix existing pages, updating them to the current header, adding categories, fixing double redirects, etc. I also try to find as much work for the admins as possible (just kidding). | |
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==Personal Achievements== | ==Personal Achievements== | ||
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*[[Danish]] - stumbled across [[377]] and suggested it to [[User:Blaisepascal|Blaisepascal]] to be used as her official name | *[[Danish]] - stumbled across [[377]] and suggested it to [[User:Blaisepascal|Blaisepascal]] to be used as her official name | ||
*[[Miss Lenhart]] - doesn't really count, I just created all the pages for her. But I'm very proud that I managed to do it all correctly on my own. | *[[Miss Lenhart]] - doesn't really count, I just created all the pages for her. But I'm very proud that I managed to do it all correctly on my own. | ||
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==Things I Need to Remember== | ==Things I Need to Remember== | ||
− | + | I'm currently at [[993: Brand Identity]] | |
; Categories I forget: | ; Categories I forget: | ||
− | *[[:Category: | + | *[[:Category:Comics with charts]] |
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; Cool pages: | ; Cool pages: | ||
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* [[Special:Categories]] | * [[Special:Categories]] | ||
* [[Special:ActiveUsers]] | * [[Special:ActiveUsers]] | ||
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* [[Special:SpecialPages]] | * [[Special:SpecialPages]] | ||
* [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] | * [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] | ||
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==Ruby Importer script== | ==Ruby Importer script== | ||
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https://github.com/lcarsos/explainxkcd-importer/ | https://github.com/lcarsos/explainxkcd-importer/ | ||
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===Usage=== | ===Usage=== | ||
Generic: | Generic: | ||
:<tt>./importer.rb <number> ...</tt> | :<tt>./importer.rb <number> ...</tt> | ||
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Specific examples: | Specific examples: | ||
:<tt>./importer.rb 1000</tt> | :<tt>./importer.rb 1000</tt> | ||
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* '''Active Development Work''' | * '''Active Development Work''' | ||
** Explanations are not being culled from the blog page. | ** Explanations are not being culled from the blog page. | ||
+ | ** Script will be made [[859]] compliant as soon as I get home. | ||
* '''Noted As Feature''' | * '''Noted As Feature''' | ||
** Some transcripts come from the json api with extra newlines. Will not be fixed to encourage humans to look everything through. Good for fingerprinting brain-dead copy/paste usage. | ** Some transcripts come from the json api with extra newlines. Will not be fixed to encourage humans to look everything through. Good for fingerprinting brain-dead copy/paste usage. | ||
==Formatting== | ==Formatting== | ||
− | + | It is high time someone created one of these. | |
===Paragraphs=== | ===Paragraphs=== | ||
Traditional paragraphs need to have an extra return between them | Traditional paragraphs need to have an extra return between them | ||
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! Typing this | ! Typing this | ||
!Produces this | !Produces this | ||
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You begin your conversation, and someone else replies to you by commenting under the post and indenting by using the colon (":"). This mimics how threaded conversations work in blog comments. | You begin your conversation, and someone else replies to you by commenting under the post and indenting by using the colon (":"). This mimics how threaded conversations work in blog comments. | ||
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'''All comments on talk pages should be signed''' by using <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>. It is easy to forget this, but it is equally easy to get into the habit. | '''All comments on talk pages should be signed''' by using <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>. It is easy to forget this, but it is equally easy to get into the habit. | ||
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This makes it easy to scan through to see who's comments are whom's. | This makes it easy to scan through to see who's comments are whom's. | ||
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! width="50%" | Typing this | ! width="50%" | Typing this | ||
! width="50%" | Produces this | ! width="50%" | Produces this | ||
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But if you meet someone who doesn't know what they are doing everything breaks down quickly. | But if you meet someone who doesn't know what they are doing everything breaks down quickly. | ||
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! width="50%" | Typing this | ! width="50%" | Typing this | ||
! width="50%" | Produces this | ! width="50%" | Produces this | ||
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For those of you that are now confused, don't worry I had to look back to my perfect example to see where I was coming. | For those of you that are now confused, don't worry I had to look back to my perfect example to see where I was coming. | ||
− | Do you see that User3 has now managed to make the conversation very hard to read? By ending the line with a username it looks like that user posted a reply to themselves, and then by using 2 returns, made it look his own comment was also a reply. In reality these two should be part of the same comment | + | Do you see that User3 has now managed to make the conversation very hard to read? By ending the line with a username it looks like that user posted a reply to themselves, and then by using 2 returns, made it look his own comment was also a reply. In reality these two should be part of the same comment. |
This is the only time in a wiki when paragraphs should not be double returned. | This is the only time in a wiki when paragraphs should not be double returned. |