User:Alien333
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Random poem: Poems (Barker)/To my Dear Husband
To My Dear Husband.
ON OUR FIFTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.
Five years ago when the earth was glad,
With the joyous cadence of Christmas chimes,
And even the angels seemed to bless
That gladdest to us, of all glad times,
We stood at the altar, husband dear,
And vowed to be loving, leal, and true,
But a world untried before us lay,
You were all to me, I was all to you.
Five years ago when the earth was glad,
With the joyous cadence of Christmas chimes,
And even the angels seemed to bless
That gladdest to us, of all glad times,
We stood at the altar, husband dear,
And vowed to be loving, leal, and true,
But a world untried before us lay,
You were all to me, I was all to you.
Five years have flitted on golden wings,
No sorrow to-night at our fireside dwells,
But a world of happiness, pure and sweet,
Was ushered in by those Christmas bells;
And a fancy bright has come to me,
That each year is a link, In the chain of gold,
That unites our lives and binds our hearts,
And makes us dearer, a hundred fold.
No sorrow to-night at our fireside dwells,
But a world of happiness, pure and sweet,
Was ushered in by those Christmas bells;
And a fancy bright has come to me,
That each year is a link, In the chain of gold,
That unites our lives and binds our hearts,
And makes us dearer, a hundred fold.
Each year had its trials to meet and bear,
Each year its portion of cloud and rain,
But we always welcomed the sunshine more,
When we felt the warmth of its rays again;
And God has blest us with wealth untold,
With mines of treasures both rich and rare—
Our jewels sparkle in baby's eyes,
And the sunshine plays in our boy's bright hair.
Each year its portion of cloud and rain,
But we always welcomed the sunshine more,
When we felt the warmth of its rays again;
And God has blest us with wealth untold,
With mines of treasures both rich and rare—
Our jewels sparkle in baby's eyes,
And the sunshine plays in our boy's bright hair.
Then we have the love of three little hearts,
That know not the meaning of sin or crime;
Why darling, how very rich we have grown!
Since me made our vows in the Christmas time.
Five years ago, and you told me then
"You would make my life all fair and bright."
There's no discord dear, in the music sweet,
That the bells are breathing to us to-night.
That know not the meaning of sin or crime;
Why darling, how very rich we have grown!
Since me made our vows in the Christmas time.
Five years ago, and you told me then
"You would make my life all fair and bright."
There's no discord dear, in the music sweet,
That the bells are breathing to us to-night.
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) empty centers (2) to split (136) needing OCR (227) inexistant sections (2,432) move to commons (19) relindents (3)
- 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
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![This is not an alien (it just looks funny [1]).](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Odontodactylus_scyllarus_60094688.jpg/250px-Odontodactylus_scyllarus_60094688.jpg?utm_source=en.wikisource.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
This is not an alien (it just looks funny [1]). -
![Speaking of stuff that looks strange, this isn't bad[2].](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Strandbeest_walking_with_six_legs.gif/250px-Strandbeest_walking_with_six_legs.gif?utm_source=en.wikisource.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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). -
![Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more![3]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/HOWARD%281828-33%29_Shakspeare%2C_Henry_V%2C_vol3%2C_p199.jpg/330px-HOWARD%281828-33%29_Shakspeare%2C_Henry_V%2C_vol3%2C_p199.jpg?utm_source=en.wikisource.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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![I am a janitor[4][5] since december 2024, for the better or for the worse[7]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Wikisource_Administrator.svg/250px-Wikisource_Administrator.svg.png?utm_source=en.wikisource.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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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?
![This is not an alien (it just looks funny [1]).](/wiki/File:Odontodactylus_scyllarus_60094688.jpg)
![Speaking of stuff that looks strange, this isn't bad[2].](/wiki/File:Strandbeest_walking_with_six_legs.gif)
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![Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more![3]](/wiki/File:HOWARD(1828-33)_Shakspeare,_Henry_V,_vol3,_p199.jpg)
![I am a janitor[4][5] since december 2024, for the better or for the worse[7]](/wiki/File:Wikisource_Administrator.svg)
- ↑ 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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