User:Alien333
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ROCKETS AND ASHES
YOU preach to me of laws, you tie my limbs
With rights and wrongs and arguments of good,
You choke my songs and fill my mouth with hymns,
You stop my heart and turn it into wood.
With rights and wrongs and arguments of good,
You choke my songs and fill my mouth with hymns,
You stop my heart and turn it into wood.
I serve not God, but make my idol fair
From clay of brown earth, painted bright with blood,
Dressed in sweet flesh and wonder of wild hair
By Beauty's fingers to her changing mood.
From clay of brown earth, painted bright with blood,
Dressed in sweet flesh and wonder of wild hair
By Beauty's fingers to her changing mood.
The long line of the sea, the straight horizon,
The toss of flowers, the prance of milky feet,
And moonlight clear as glass my great religion,
And sunrise falling on the quiet street.
The toss of flowers, the prance of milky feet,
And moonlight clear as glass my great religion,
And sunrise falling on the quiet street.
The coloured crowd, the unrestrained, the gay,
And lovers in the secret sheets of night
Trembling like instruments of music, till the day
Stands marvelling at their sleeping bodies white.
And lovers in the secret sheets of night
Trembling like instruments of music, till the day
Stands marvelling at their sleeping bodies white.
Age creeps upon your timid little faces
Beneath each black umbrella sly and slow,
Proud in the unimportance of your places
You sit in twilight prophesying woe.
Beneath each black umbrella sly and slow,
Proud in the unimportance of your places
You sit in twilight prophesying woe.
So dim and false and grey, take my compassion,
I from my pageant golden as the day
Pity your littleness from all my passion,
Leave you my sins to weep and whine away!
I from my pageant golden as the day
Pity your littleness from all my passion,
Leave you my sins to weep and whine away!
1914
So much stuff to do, so little time!
Hi there! I'm a poetry transcriber, and occasionally other things in other places (enwp/frwp/meta/commonsuploads/data/mw/translatewiki/phab).
I'm open to suggestions of poetry collections to proofread, add them at Poetry requests.
Links (mostly for me):
- Test pages: Sandbox (test)
- Scripts: common.js - poemise.js - nobr.js - cuts.js - clean.js - dab.js - transclude.js - rhalt.js - addtpp.js - pagenum.js -
cmbb.js -close.js - nts.js - prefillalt.js - mtv.js - rc.js - poemise+.js - sandbox.js - imagesalt.js - loupe.js - realpagelist.js - delnoms.js - respace.js - weirdchars.js - unic.js - preview.js - Module:Tpp - {{Tpp}}
- Random poem - Poemlist
- Other subpages: Works - Thoughts
- Patrolling: new user edits (page - nonpage) - deletion log - probable talk page misuse - barely used templates - totally unused templates - orphaned tak pages - BenchBot
- Reminders: help requested (1) speedy requests (4) dis to fix (2) to split (135) needing OCR (286) lua errors (~0) templatestyle errors (1) inexistant sections (2,467) move to commons (19) relindents (2)
- Dev projects: 333Bot (contribs - data - src) - XTools (todo - mwtalk - src) - realignocr.toolforge.org (doc - src - health) - wstranclude.toolforge.org (src - health)
- Copright records
- thumb steps: 20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960, 1280, 1920, 3840 - mw:Common thumbnail sizes - phab:T414805
- CSP: phab:T28508 (root) - phab:T419265 (allowlists)
Works
Thoughts
Some random and debatable thoughts of mine[1], if you've got time to lose[2].
- Here, the ultimate goal of technological optimization is to proofread only by reading. Most of the human input is unnecessary[3], and we can go much faster without it.[4].
- We should not focus on notability or usefulness, as they are both very relative[6]. I personally choose the works I do because why not[7].
- For technical stuff, the cache is the god and the devil. It is the cause[8] or the solution[9] of most problems.
- We have a problem with documentation. No one actively takes care of the help pages[10]. The /doc subpages of templates are in some cases good, but they're hard to find. We have a great lot of them, a nice help page that doesn't cover a lot of them and a category tree that doesn't either[11]. Some templates are in categories that make them hard to find[12]. I am neither the first, nor the second, and not the third either to think we have a documentation issue. There have apparently been a number of attempts to fix this already, and they've more or less all dwindled to nothing.
- Everyone makes mistakes. Not saying it's inevitable; merely that we should at all times expect that we're maybe going to make one, and prevent it.
- To me, it appears that the key instrument of integration into a wiki community is the watchlist, for two reasons:
- Discussions. The moment I really started participating in a coordinated effort (as opposed to proofreading stuff, lurking in a corner of the room) was when I watchlisted WS:S, WS:PD and WS:CV. In the meanwhile, I've watchlisted most user talk pages[13]. In a relatively small community like this, it allows one to be aware of virtually every discussion.
- Corrections. Experienced users correct mistakes when they see them; that's good. But often they don't tell the people that made the mistake, about their mistake. It is also my watchlisting every page I ever created[14] that has allowed me to learn how stuff works.
- It feels a bit strange sometimes coming across old traces of a forgotten past.
- ↑ with an absurd quantity of footnotes for not really necessary information. I am usually more of a parentheses user, but refs clutter the text less, even though it's a bit awkward
- ↑ and you probably do, if you landed here
- ↑ e.g. copying in the previous/next fields names already written in the TOC
- ↑ it is a bit ridiculous that I am taking time that I could have spent proofreading to write on how precious time is
- ↑ though obscure doesn't mean bad, and the best I did were quite obscure
- ↑ notability also has the issue that it's when we duplicate most the work of others, as for instance PG has most famous texts, but likelily not obscure collections of poetry[5] by authors of whom the work is the only trace
- ↑ and maybe an unreasonable liking of running gags. Can't tell me the 164 authors were notable, or that a lot of people care for them
- ↑ Notably for: scripting, you're looking for bugs that don't exist anymore; anything which relies on search-based page generators, with a wide range of consequences; images
- ↑ less often than it is the cause, sadly; but often useful for optimisation
- ↑ and despite my complaining about it most of the time I don't either
- ↑ and is sometimes a bit unclear in the distinction between subcategories
- ↑ e.g. {{ppoem}} in Category:Experimental templates
- ↑ Which leads me to comment in discussions between two other people quite often, but no one's found it offending yet, and I think I've been able to bring useful information. Will stop if someone does.
- ↑ Which means having more than 51 000 pages on my watchlist, that I can now edit only with the raw form (else it crashes), but that's ... another question.
Stuff
This is not an alien (it just looks funny [1]).
Speaking of stuff that looks strange, this isn't bad[2].
Sundogs are weird too, but they're pretty,
though not in the same ways as art can be.
Clouds can be pretty too,
as can the sea,
though snow is even more,
but space is much,
much,
much,
much more beautiful than any of these.
Oh, and also, I like cellular automata,
and have made a few myself (and a simulator).
See this fence? If you don't know why it's here, don't touch it
(Takes too much time from proofreading)
Fractals are nice
Did I say I like cats?
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- ↑ it would have been a shame if something called mantis shrimp has not been original
- ↑ details on that sort of stuff at w:Leg mechanism
- ↑ I find that phrase sort of motivating
- ↑ and we should really remember that it's no more than a mop to scrub the floor
- ↑ Also, feel free to strike that out whenever it becomes false
- ↑ The bit of code that does that. It however only does it for enwp. Would have liked to have
this shitty hack
over here too. - ↑ I deleted the main page, for 30 seconds. And then forgot to reprotect it. Not the most glorious thing I did. More context, in my defence: I wanted to test API:delete, because I was closing a PD discussion that required batch deleting. So, I thought, "on which page can I practice safely without any consequences?" From the enwp village stocks, I'd kept the impression that deleting the main page had been made impossible[6]. I wasn't sure, so I looked at the menu at the main page, saw that there was no delete button, was satisfied that you couldn't delete it, and the rest is history.
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