User talk:Mcint

Hello, Mcint! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 14:35, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Peaceray (talk) 14:35, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Peaceray!

I have a number of questions—writing out here to help myself use the mental frame of conversation to draw out my goals, curiosities, and current confusions, but will likely go follow up on elements myself.

• I'm interested in power tools: effective or commonly used ways to query for—data the community finds interesting.
  • I'm curious what level of activity triggers your threshold to prompt a Template:WelcomeMenu!
  • I'm also interested in bulk-editing tools. I made a series of around two dozen edits recently by hand, adding {{About| hatnote templates to disambiguation pages.
    • I'm curious about how to do edits in bulk.
    • And where I should raise discussion about it. Perhaps here on my user page, or on a user (project) subpage.
• I'm curious why the tooltip previews don't appear (for me) on mouseover of links in your post.
• I plan to follow up with wiki "adoption" or joining or contributing to a WikiProject.
• Heck, how do I check watchers, or how does the reply mechanism work here. What are the ways of (and levels of) bringing other's attention to edits, or questions, or topics, with appropriate light but effective insistence.

Mcint (talk) 01:16, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mcint!

• In answer about what prompts a welcome message from me, I usually do that when I notice an editor with a redlinked talk page when they appear on my watchlist.
• Regarding your interest in power tools, have you take a look at Wikipedia:Tools? I do not know what you know about our Wikidata sister project; that has its own set of wikidata:Wikidata:Tools.
• Semi-automated tools I have used:
  • Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser
  • Wikipedia:Twinkle
  • Wikipedia:RedWarn, which will become Wikipedia:Ultraviolet
• I customize my common.js & common.css files. If you look at Special:PrefixIndex/User:Peaceray/ you will see other .js & .css files that customize my environment. To understand how these work, see Wikipedia:Customisation & Wikipedia:User scripts.
• I see that you have edited a number of articles for adaptations of Les Misérable. Perhaps WP:WikiProject Film might be a good fit. You may also wish to check out the WP:WikiProject Directory.
• I do not know a way of checking watchers, but I would make use of article talk pages.
  • There is a tool for determining who has made the most contributions to an article by authorship, by edits, or by added text. An example for the current feature article would be xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/The%20Holocaust%20in%20Greece.
  • You can always check the page history to see who is recently editing the article.
  • You can notify the editor(s) by using the {{ping}} template on your talk page posts.
• I am not sure about what tooltip preview problems that you are encountering. Sorry!

That's it for now! It is late here, & time for me to get ready for bed. Peaceray (talk) 06:00, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]