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User:EmptySora

A bit of a preamble


Pronouns: she/her.

Please do not use my old username when referring to me. It is associated with my deadname. In referring to me, please use one of the following:

  • EmptySora_ (or EmptySora or EmptySora1 if underscores are not available), my social media handle on Twitter (don’t check often), Bluesky, Twitch, etc.,
  • Sora, my nickname and internet identity,
  • or Naomi, my given name, and what I would most prefer to be called.

As hinted, I am trans. However, the labels for trans people are complicated, unclear, and/or stigmatized, so, for me, it’s just easier if that’s not a factor at all. I prefer not to identify as trans (or any similar term), in other words. I hope that makes sense, somewhat.

Thank you!

- Naomi

Addendum to the above: I live in the US (in Florida, lmao, eff me). With Trump elected, I’m being forced to grapple with the very unsettling possibility of being killed in a hate crime or worse. While I don’t use the term “genocide” lightly, the fear that there could be one for trans people like me in the US is there. Things are getting so bad I’m getting a passport and researching my options for asylum, if it ever comes to that. CONSEQUENTLY: due to stress, anxiety, and the possibility I might suddenly need to flee the state or country, it might take me [much] longer to respond to messages on my talk page or elsewhere. Thanks for understanding!


So yeah, this is a user page, and not part of the main wiki.

And now, a letter to myself:

Greetings and well met, my dear, future self,


The iOS app’s talk page interfaces auto-sign replies. Please stop inserting the four tildes to sign them. You’ll have to edit the page again to remove the duplicated signature if you do, lol.


Sincerely,

Your past self.

Okay, I keep doing it. Lmao. I’m gonna start recording the diffs from now on: [3]. My embarrassment shall be public, lol.

Milestones

Account Milestones
Date Time Milestone
2012-03-17 22:44Z Account created
2012-04-27 00:07Z First edit
2018-10-04 06:30Z Account renamed (to remove reference to my deadname)
2023-08-11 06:36Z 500th Edit
2023-08-11 11:20Z Extended auto-confirmed flag attained†
2025-01-24 08:44Z My first contribution to Mediawiki (Phabricator, Gerrit) was merged. Thank you matmarex and Isabelle for the help!
Notes
Notes
†Side note: I waited multiple hours after edit 500 and the flag wasn’t added. The flag clearly isn’t granted on 500, but, instead, the moment you do edit 501, seeing as my last edit triggered it. Coincidentally, checking my user log here, the extended flag is granted at the exact same time as the timestamp of edit 501, confirming this. I also tried editing Russian invasion of Ukraine (as it is semi-protected) after edit 500 to see if it would trigger the flag. It didn’t. So, I’m not sure why WP:XC would say “A registered editor becomes extendedconfirmed automatically when the account has existed for at least 30 days and has made at least 500 edits.”. Clearly, it should read “[…] and has made more than 500 edits.” It would seem that most of the clarification topics on that WP article’s talk page were after users got to 500 but didn’t get the flag. Then, ironically, in posting about their confusion, that’s edit 501, which properly grants it, solving the problem. This is visible in this edit and the user rights log. Both also have the same timestamp. I’d update the page, but contrary to WP:BRD, I’m a coward, lol.

Edits

I browse a lot of Wikipedia, and try to fix any grammatical, mechanical, or other errors I come across. If you have any issues with any of my edits, or want to contact me, try my talk page. I use this site nearly hourly, so I’m bound to see it pretty quickly. (NOTE: Due to current events (see the addendum below the preamble), it may take me much longer to see and respond to messages)

Also, I tend to do most of my edits on my phone. Recently, my phone decided that autocorrect really insists on capitalizing random words and throwing in weird replacements. (Eg: Karyotype test ⇒ Largo type year) I try to catch these errors where possible, but some slip through. Sorry if that happens, it’s not intentional. I can’t disable it either since I typo every other letter, practically.

Another issue is Unicode quotes: ‘ and ’ vs '. If I accidentally use Unicode instead of ASCII, my bad. Again, not intentional, just missed it. (Almost happened when I edited the lip licker’s whatever page)

Also, apparently, I don’t know how edit summary templates work, lol. (Such as this edit)

So, in summary, most of my edits will fall under the following categories:

  • Grammar/spelling corrections
  • Converting references to the new formats (eg: text or parenthetical citations to CS1/CS2 templates, ref tags, and reflist templates)
  • Adding citations (very rarely, depending on the kind of rabbit holes I fall into)
  • Reverting vandalism
  • Fixes to tables, formats, etc.. (and other technical things)


Aside from that, I’ve got nothing.

To a better, more informative, Wikipedia~!

— Naomi

Random Notes

Random notes to myself.

MOS:INDENT

Use {{block indent |left=1.5 |text=BODY TEXT}} or {{in5}} for indentation. They’re about equal (though block indent will indent all lines, in5 only indenting the first) to description list indentation.

As a side note, the following, from Sluice was a near-identical replacement for the original colon/dl markup:

{{block indent |left=1.5 |text={{plainlist}}
* <math>Y_U</math>: upstream depth
* <math>Y_G</math>: opening of the sluice gate
* <math>Y_m</math>: the minimum depth of flow after the sluice gate
* <math>Y_{J1}</math>: the initial depth of the hydraulic jump
* <math>Y_{J2}</math>: the secondary depth of the hydraulic jump
* <math>Y_D</math>: downstream depth
{{endplainlist}}}}
  • : upstream depth
  • : opening of the sluice gate
  • : the minimum depth of flow after the sluice gate
  • : the initial depth of the hydraulic jump
  • : the secondary depth of the hydraulic jump
  • : downstream depth
: <math>Y_U</math>: upstream depth
: <math>Y_G</math>: opening of the sluice gate
: <math>Y_m</math>: the minimum depth of flow after the sluice gate
: <math>Y_{J1}</math>: the initial depth of the hydraulic jump
: <math>Y_{J2}</math>: the secondary depth of the hydraulic jump
: <math>Y_D</math>: downstream depth
: upstream depth
: opening of the sluice gate
: the minimum depth of flow after the sluice gate
: the initial depth of the hydraulic jump
: the secondary depth of the hydraulic jump
: downstream depth

However, this isn’t really a perfect replacement, since this only worked here because the lines were already basically items in a list. Using it in situations where the lines are not discrete list items would produce semantically invalid HTML. But this is nice for lists because you don’t need to put blank lines between each line.

What is with these diffs…?

Genuinely, these two diffs:

Diff 1278727694
MOS:INDENT (Don’t use colon/description list markup for indentation. Replaced with Block indent+plainlist templates. Pretty sure that qualifies as a list)
Diff 1278728938
MOS:INDENT (Ditto, though this one is definitely two lists. Ironically, they may work as desc lists, lmao. I just don’t know if the text before the colons is semantically enough a “name”, or if that’s pushing it. I think that’s pushing it, personally)

Why on God’s green earth are those diffs so butchered? All these edits actually did was add {{block indent |left=1.5 |text={{plainlist}} and {{endplainlist}}}} before and after each list, and changed the colons to asterisks. The diffs, though, are showing entire items being reordered, plus the first item being duplicated. If you compare the actual text content (sans spaces) before and after the edits, it should be virtually identical. I’ve got no clue what’s going on there, lmao. Hopefully nobody reverts it thinking it’s vandalism (especially worried because they’re marked as minor).

Eg: (the first diff)


  • Grammatical number is a morphological category characterized by the expression of [[quantity]] through inflection or agreement. As an example, consider the English sentences below:
  • +
    {{block indent |left=1.5 |text={{plainlist}}
  • : ''That apple on the table is fresh.''
  • : ''Those two apples on the table are fresh.''
    +
    * ''That apple on the table is fresh.''
  • : ''That apple on the table is fresh.''
    +
    * ''Those two apples on the table are fresh.''
  • +
    {{endplainlist}}}}
  • The quantity of apples is marked on the noun—"apple" '''singular number''' (one item) vs. "apples" '''plural number''' (more than one item)—on the demonstrative, ''that/those'', and on the verb, ''is/are''. In the second sentence, all this information is [[Redundancy (linguistics)|redundant]], since quantity is already indicated by the numeral ''two''.

I know this is formatted here atrociously. At least in the iOS app and on mobile web does it render the diff incorrectly. (Ie: not the diff on this page, but the actual diff) The diff SHOULD read:


  • Grammatical number is a morphological category characterized by the expression of [[quantity]] through inflection or agreement. As an example, consider the English sentences below:
  • +
    {{block indent |left=1.5 |text={{plainlist}}
  • : ''That apple on the table is fresh.''
    +
    * ''That apple on the table is fresh.''
  • : ''Those two apples on the table are fresh.''
    +
    * ''Those two apples on the table are fresh.''
  • +
    {{endplainlist}}}}
  • The quantity of apples is marked on the noun—"apple" '''singular number''' (one item) vs. "apples" '''plural number''' (more than one item)—on the demonstrative, ''that/those'', and on the verb, ''is/are''. In the second sentence, all this information is [[Redundancy (linguistics)|redundant]], since quantity is already indicated by the numeral ''two''.

No clue what’s going on, still. Gonna check desktop. I’m sure it’s also messed up. Wouldn’t mind being wrong, though. Regardless, the second diff looks even worse. At first glance, it DEFINITELY does NOT look like a minor edit.

Okay, actually, on Desktop, while it is still messed up, it’s a lot easier to recognize that MW is just being bizarre. It is doing that weird arrow thing for, I assume, paragraphs being moved around. But if you look at the actual order on the before/after, it’s clearly the exact same text. It’s probably just the internal logic being confused, clearly, on whether it’s a paragraph reorder+edit or just edit.

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