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Hello! I am new to editing on Wikipedia. I will update this page soon, promise! This page is a work in progress! You can find me at:
- Teahouse
- Talk page
- My Sub-Pages
- occasionally editing >.<
- contributions: EN | AM
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Tip of the day...
Screenshots
If you need to illustrate an article about software or a website, a good tip is to take screenshots. In Microsoft Windows, a screenshot of the entire monitor, complete with taskbar, can be copied to the system clipboard by pressing the Prt Sc key. Alternatively, pressing Alt+Prt Sc will copy just the active window to the clipboard. You can then paste the clipboard into a program like MS Paint or Paint.NET using Ctrl+V, and then save it as an image file (for uploading to Wikipedia, for instance). In Mac OS X, simply prepare your screen to how you want it to look, then hit ⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+3 (not the number pad 3) simultaneously. The new image will appear as a PNG on your desktop. Additionally, if you only want to capture part of the screen, you can hit ⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+4, click and drag over the part of the screen you would like to capture and release, also saving it as a PNG on your desktop. When uploading, be sure to use an appropriate copyright tag, such as web-screenshot. – – Read more: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}} |
About Me
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 Hi, I'm Basedgirl. I'm honored that in 2020 the editing community trusted me sufficiently to give me administrator privileges here on Wikipedia. I see this additional role as helping our community of editors to grow and to work cooperatively and constructively, undisturbed by bad-faith actions. I'm bound to make mistakes at first, so please let me know if you have any concerns over any of my actions. If I've made a really obvious or stupid mistake, I authorize another experienced admin to revert my actions without the need to first consult me. I am not always around to respond immediately - just leave a note on my talk page if you've felt the need to reverse one of my admin actions, or want to politely express any concerns about my actions here. I recently took early retirement, but was Senior Keeper of Natural History at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, where I worked for over 25 years. I also worked in Kirklees at Tolson Museum and Bagshaw Museum, though my first ever museum job was a student post within the European herbarium of the Natural History Museum, London. I have also worked for the CIA and the TA.  I set up the Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project in 2006, which I still run today. (You can watch our live nest camera here). Dangling off ropes, installing nest platforms, fixing webcameras, helping to ring wild falcon chicks, meeting the public and doing tons of social media stuff has been incredibly rewarding (though not monetarily!) It was an approach to Derby Museum in late 2010 to use QRpedia codes that led to my serious involvement with Wikipedia (see video on right), though I only really started editing in earnest from 2015 onwards. For 20 years I collected and computerized nearly a million vascular plant records from across my county and, in 2015, I jointly published a major new version of the Flora of Derbyshire. It replaced Clapham's 1969 Flora and the 1903 Flora, both of the same name. (See here -again, it was done for love of the subject, not for profit). My involvement with Wikipedia picked up once that huge project was out of the way. From 2011 to 2017 I worked as a Biodiversity Project Officer, doing BAP stuff (see here) and LNP-related stuff). I have interests and expertise in biological recording; species mapping; botany; herbaria; Floras and biographies of UK botanists; peregrine falcons; glow worms; ecology, biodiversity and conservation; geology; Derbyshire and, of course, museums. Other interests include alpine mountaineering, mountain biking, photography and, of course, Wikipedia. Former activities included radio comms, self-sufficiency/defence and the TA. Mountains I've climbed over 4,000 metres (13,123 ft), by height: Mexico: Pico de Orizaba; Iztaccihuatl; Nevado de Toluca; Alps: Mont Blanc; Dufourspitze; Nordend; Zumsteinspitze; Signalkuppe; Dom; Liskamm; Weisshorn; Täschhorn; Liskamm; Matterhorn; Mont Maudit; Parrotspitze; Dent Blanche; Ludwigshöhe; Nadelhorn; Schwarzhorn; Combin de Grafeneire; Dôme du Goûter; Finsteraarhorn; Mont Blanc du Tacul; Stecknadelhorn; Castor; Zinalrothorn; Hohberghorn; Vincent Pyramid; Alphubel; Rimpfischhorn; Aletschhorn; Strahlhorn; Combin de Valsoray; Breithorn; Bishorn; Mönch; Pollux; Ober Gabelhorn; Gran Paradiso; Aiguille de Bionnassay; Gross Fiescherhorn; Grünhorn; Dürrenhorn; Allalinhorn; Hinter Fiescherhorn; Weissmies; Dôme de Rochefort; Dent du Géant; Lagginhorn; Aiguille de Rochefort. I am always keen to share my knowledge and experience, and to learn from others - whatever their age or gender. If you still feel the need for a WP:COI, please see below. I'm using the rest of this and other sub-pages as a notepad to help me manage or plan future editing. I variously edit via a desktop, a tablet, an iPhone and a laptop, catching whatever sleep I can in between! |
My Contributions
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Taxobox issues to fix
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Video and file-editing tools
Wikipedia Guidance
Learning Resources
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Taxonomic Lists Mountain Resources
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Feedback and Suggestions
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This is a list of ideas I've encountered whilst editing since 2015. Some I've since found solutions for ...I do need to do some housekeeping of this section. If you've stumbled on this page and know a suggestion already has a solution - do feel free to add a note next to it.
AutoWikiBrowser As a new user of WP:AWB, I encountered a number of criticisms over the way I initially (usually unintentionally) employed it. These suggestions are based on those experiences:
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Interesting Links and COI Declaration
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WP:COI declaration: Working as a museum curator, over the decades I have produced a small number of publications: articles, journal papers and free information leaflets, plus one major book on some of the subjects listed in 'About Me', but (unfortunately!) I make no direct profit from the sale or distribution of any of them. I (and others) occasionally cite them as references, and I always endeavor to do so in a neutral manner. I was, of course, a paid member of staff when I helped introduce QRpedia codes to Derby Museum, and started to learn how to edit articles (see video above). This was not a part of my defined core duties; I have always been fortunate in being able to carve out my own areas of work - and Wikipedia seemed a logical extension of my desire to share and communicate the natural sciences with new audiences. In April 2011 I was paid by WMF (UK) to organize an editathon at Derby Museum (shortly after having been made redundant from that institution!) I was completely unaware back then of the need to declare WP:COI and WP:PAID (and the admin I was working with didn't say anything about declaring stuff). As Jimbo Wales and Wittylama both gave us an honourable mention for the work done at Derby (link), I doubt anyone had too many concerns about my employment in the WP:GLAM sector. That ended abruptly in March 2011, thanks to Tory-led Government spending cuts! I have in the past also contributed some content to one project I helped set up: The Sanctuary Local Nature Reserve. From July 2011 - May 2017 I was employed on a part-time basis to support a Local Nature Partnership and Local Biodiversity Action Planning. I am now In April 2017 I created a second Wikipedia account (User:NM_Demo) intended specifically for the purposes of making teaching and demonstration resources on how to edit Wikipedia. I needed it to create screenshots so that new users would be able to see how pages normally appear with only their default settings in operation, rather than with my selected scripts and other personal settings in place. It is not intended that this extra account will be used for editing, apart from demonstration, editathon-type purposes, testing, or creating further screenshots. Because default settings for new accounts subsequently changed, I then need to create a third Wikipedia account User:NM Demo 2 which has mostly replaced my need for my second account. Doh! In 2018 I was asked to give a talk and demonstration to a group of professional librarians on using and editing Wikipedia. A small fee was paid for my travel and time. I might do similar presentations in the future, and I have also claimed expenses from WMF(UK) for attending training events they were supporting. Notwithstanding the above 2011 mea culpa, I have never been paid to make any specific edits on behalf of any person or organisation. Since 2018 I have contributed as an interviewee in a small number of academic or research studies into aspects of Wikipedia (ORES, Teahouse and RfA). These sometimes offer a very small payment or voucher as a 'thank you' for participating. Wiki-will: In the event of my ceasing to edit here, I would like to have all newsletter messages and and future routine notices to my talk page cancelled or removed. If there is any content of merit in my sub-pages, please feel free to work this up into a finished product for the benefit of all.
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