User:Wugapodes

Wugapodes

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Isn't it nicer when the gate can be left open, allowing people to pass through more freely?
Name	Wugapodes
Country	United States
Languages	en (sp. Inland Northern) de roa (via Latin) ase
Time zone	PST
Current time	07:22
Sexuality	Queer
Personality type	INFP
Alignment	NG
Account statistics
Joined	20 March 2015
First edit	WikiProject Linguistics
Permissions	Special:UserRights/Wugapodes
Signature	— Wug·a·po·des​ 11:58, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
Pronouns	Any pronouns

My fields of interest are phonetics and sociolinguistics, sign languages, anthropology of the United States, and law. My university gives me access to a large number of resources, both online through institutional access, and offline through its holdings and inter-library loan, so if you would like something, feel free to ask. I believe in making knowledge accessible, and so try to combat FUTON bias by contributing using information that may be holed up behind a paywall or in dusty, old dead trees. Libraries and librarians are your friends! Most of the work I do would be impossible without the wonderful, knowledgeable humans behind the desk. WorldCat is also an amazing resource that can help you find a library and get access to a number of materials online and off. If you haven't guessed by now, I'm a big fan of WP:OFFLINE.

Stuff I have or am working on

Linguistic Society of America Centennial in 2024

This subsection is transcluded from User:Wugapodes/LSA Centennial, a centralized page for tracking the improvement effort.

The Linguistic Society of America is celebrating its centennial in 2024 which provides a great motivation to improve the coverage of linguistics and linguists. It's a large task, so feel free to help with some of the goals or articles linked below.

Goals

• Improve Linguistic Society of America to FA status.
  • Have the page be the Today's Featured Article on its centennial: 28 December 2024
• Have no red links on List of presidents of the Linguistic Society of America: currently 7 red links
• Improve the biography of every president of the LSA to at least GA status: 0/93
• Create a good or featured topic on the LSA.

Recently created stubs to improve

• David M. Perlmutter
• David Lightfoot
• Hayward Keniston

Useful sources

• Sebeok, Thomas A (2002). Portrait Of Linguists. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum. ISBN 9781843710066.

"Mommy, mommy! The dogapodes are kissing!" -The unfortunate child of a linguist, age 3

Draftapodes

Articles

• Low back merger (Sandbox)
• Phonetics (Sandbox)
• Spectrogram (Sandbox)
• Ceil Lucas (Sandbox)
• Functional load (Sandbox)
• Articulatory phonology (Sandbox)
• Source–filter model (Sandbox)

Red links and redirects

• Acoustic cue (Sandbox)
• Nathie Marbury (Sandbox)
• Scope ambiguity (Sandbox)
• Transit (Cusk novel) (Sandbox)

Images

• File:Thomascole2.jpg
  • File:Thomascole2 restoration.png
• File:Panorama of the ruined area tulsa race riots.jpg
  • File:Panorama of the ruined area tulsa race riots restoration.png

Essays

• User:Wugapodes/Getting access to offline sources
• User:Wugapodes/Advice on editing Wikipedia for academics and experts
  • For the public facing summary see User:Wugapodes/Linguistics quick start
• User:Wugapodes/Good article status is no big deal
• User:Wugapodes/GAStats
  • Documentation for my article "Taking stock of the Good Article backlog" in The Signpost.
• User:Wugapodes/Bibliography review draft
• User:Wugapodes/DYK promoter
• User:Wugapodes/DYK Templates broken by Wugapodes
• User:Wugapodes/Better as a redlink
• User:Wugapodes/RFA trend lines

To Source and/or Expand

• Natural class
• Relevance theory

Selected contributions

• Black American Sign Language
• Heffernan v. City of Paterson
• Electromagnetic articulography
• Linguistic Society of America ( Version before first edit | diff )
• Santosky v. Kramer
• Phonetics ( Version before first edit | diff )
• Sociophonetics
• Template:Interactive COVID-19 maps
• McGruff the Crime Dog ( Version before first edit | diff )
• Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley ( Version before first edit | diff )
• Taking stock of the GA Backlog (Special Report in The Signpost)
• India Walton (with others)
• Homobiles (with DanCherek)

Technical stuff

• User:Wugapodes/Capricorn – A javascript tool for editing and categorizing redirects I forked from User:Sam Sailor
• User:Wugapodes/Add tools links – A help page for adding custom links to your sidebar
• User:Wugapodes/RefactorUBX – A userbox I use on this page
• mw:Extension:ChessBrowser – A MediaWiki tag extension for turning portable game notation into interactive chess content

My front lawn

Userboxapodes Wikiprojects This user is a member of WikiProject Linguistics. This user is a member of WikiProject Deaf. This user is a member of WikiProject Feminism. This user is a member of WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases. This user shares at the Resource Exchange. This user is a member of WikiProject History Merge. Editing philosophy This user is a wikiarchaeologist and strongly supports keeping history. RTP This Wikipedian recognizes the downside of threads and wants you to refactor their comments if it simplifies discussion. About me This user is interested in open access to research literature. This user identifies as queer. This user loves the philosophy of Immanuel Kant This user is a huge fan of Noam Chomsky. This user competed in the 2015 GA Cup. This user uses free software wherever and whenever possible. About my computer This user contributes using Debian GNU/Linux. This user contributes with KDE desktop environment. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. Babel (Languages) en This user is a native speaker of the English language. ipa ə This user has a native-like understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet. de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. ase-2 This user can communicate at an intermediate level in American Sign Language. This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user holds checkuser and oversight privileges on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user is a member of the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee. This user has alternative accounts named WugBot, WugapodesOutreach.

Some people like grass; I prefer my lawn covered in a random collection of things I find cool.

Wugapodes? What's that?

It's a (poor) linguistics joke. A wug is a fictional bird-like creature made up by Dr. Jean Berko Gleason to test when children learn English morphology, particularly how to make things plural. She would show a child a card that read "Look, there's a wug" that also showed a picture of one wug. Then she would show a picture of two wugs with the caption "Look, now there are two of them! There are two ____?". The child should respond "wugs" if they know how to pluralize normally in English. Wugapodes is a fictitious pluralization based upon a rare plural form of octopus, octopodes, meaning that, instead of the child learning to make plurals with -s they make it with -podes. Despite my name being plural, there is however only one of me.

WugBot

I run the bot, WugBot, which updates the GAN backlog report and moves approved DYK nominations to the approved section for curation. Its source is available on GitHub. Feel free to ask questions or report errors with the bot (or contribute!). For more urgent matters, email me (or the bot, it is the same email address).

Library reference interview

Readers come to an encyclopedia because they have information needs. In a traditional encyclopedia, if a reader's information need isn't met they cannot ask the editors, and writing a question on the pages of Britannica won't get a reply. Not so on a Wikipedia. Editors will frequently encounter readers whose information needs are not met as we go about our tasks, making our interactions with newbies more like a librarian and less like an editor-in-chief. Library scientists have researched and developed methods for handling these encounters successfully so that patrons have their needs met and leave with a positive impression of the institution. These same methods can be useful for editors to keep in mind when interacting with newbies on talk pages or who replace article text with questions (after reverting, of course). The following is adapted from our article on Reference interviews, and attribution is available at that page. The reference interview is structured to help provide answers to the patron. In general, the interview is composed of the following stages.

1. Welcoming
2. Gathering general information from the user and getting an overview of the problem
3. Confirming the exact question
4. Intervention, such as giving information, advice or instructions
5. Finishing, including feedback and summary

These stages may occur in loops, for example when a clarification of the question leads to the need to establish more background information on the query topic. These steps are designed to put the user at ease, and then help ensure that they have correctly explained what they require. When the editor believes that the query is fully understood, they can attempt to provide resources that help satisfy it. This can include making edits to an article, providing links to policy pages, providing useful encyclopedia articles, or recommending external resources. An important and often overlooked final step is checking that the information or service provided was indeed what the user needed.

Links of one kind or another

Barnstarapodes

Barnstarapodes

The Barnstar of Diplomacy Thank you for your very level-headed contributions that helped solve the dispute over the GA nomination for Amal Women's Training Center and Moroccan Restaurant. It's very much appreciated! Ry's the Guy (talk|contribs) 14:46, 27 July 2015 (UTC) The Good Article Barnstar For your contributions to bring Black American Sign Language to Good Article status.  — Calvin999 19:41, 20 August 2015 (UTC) The Content Creativity Barnstar For Black American Sign Language, a delightful article. BlueSalix (talk) 20:40, 26 August 2015 (UTC) The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar Congratulations on making it all the way to Round 3 of the 2nd Annual GA Cup. Although you didn't make the Final/top 5 (which was very hard), we'd like to commend you with this barnstar. We hope to see you next year! MrWooHoo (talk) 23:52, 1 November 2015 (UTC) The Football Barnstar Thank you very much for taking the time to review the article bicycle kick. The association football project appreciates valuable contributions to the articles, and your GA review was one of them. Thanks again, and we hope you can work with us again!--MarshalN20 Talk 20:01, 13 December 2015 (UTC) Four Award Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Black American Sign Language. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:49, 27 February 2016 (UTC) What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar For your hard work creating Bluebook style citation templates; I have no doubt that they will serve as an invaluable tool for future generations of Wikipedians. -- Notecardforfree (talk) 20:27, 7 May 2016 (UTC) The GA barnstar For tackling the eight Los Espantos related GA reviews at one time, I know that was not an easy task to do and that you were not forced to do so. Each review got the highest scrutiny and were better for it. Truely appreciate your time anx efforts on this.  MPJ-DK  11:58, 28 June 2016 (UTC) The Technical Barnstar For your work with WugBot and DYK. I've been away from Wikipedia and by extension DYK for a while. When I came back and saw that someone had finally worked to help automate the DYK review process it made my day. Thanks for all your great work! Best, Mifter (talk) 01:53, 10 February 2017 (UTC) The Writer's Barnstar Fantastic work getting sociophonetics to the Main Page! Very interesting article. MX (✉ • ✎) 00:58, 1 November 2018 (UTC) The Special Barnstar For you exemplary work at Resource Exchange:-) ∯WBGconverse 16:33, 16 December 2018 (UTC) The Teamwork Barnstar I thought your willingness to extend discussion was exemplary. I have no problems with non admin closure and I am fully aware and support the consensus we come to may be exactly what you did. Thanks again and cheers. Hell in a Bucket (talk) 21:22, 5 August 2019 (UTC) Barnstar of Awesomeness I hereby award you the barnstar of awesomeness! — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:59, 23 November 2019 (UTC) Barnstar of Navigation Thank you for making it easier for people to solve their technical problems by creating Help:Troubleshooting broken scripts. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:55, 26 November 2019 (UTC)