User:XanSurnamehere
Xan
Playing on my site
About me
I've made a few contributions.
I answer messages on my talk page.
I'm exceptional at procrastinating
Userboxes
My name's Xan ✨ and I'm on the en wikipedia and wikimedia commons.
About[edit]
Avid internet user and probable Wikipedia contributor. Has a website that's kept up to date with the latest and greatest information about them. Likes adding more info to articles about interests like software and making adjustments to sentences grammar & punctuation (this sentence probably messed up both of those).
Notes[edit]
- Curious as to why there seems to be no userboxes about liking indie pop or alternative rock music genres or artists. I might figure out how to make some or another contributor could.
- I really like how Wikipedia is so customizable, enjoyed reading some Wikipedia Essays, and understand why it makes it harder for Tor users to contribute in some scenarios.
- Messed around in the settings to enable the Vector '22 theme and HotCat + dark mode toggle + Justify paragraphs + Twinkle gadgets; all of which are pretty cool.
- My last user page was deleted because of U5. A non-contributor's misuse of Wikipedia as a web host. Hopefully this iteration closely relates to Wikipedia's goals more so than previously.
- I once got to Tinnitus from Looksmaxxing through Mewing (orthotropics)
Favorite contribs[edit]
- A few edits to Scratch (programming language)
- This user page 🧐
Speed dial[edit]
- Editing must-haves: User:XanSurnamehere/sandbox, Template:Reply_to, Wikimedia Commons Upload Wizard
- Wholesome wiki things: (especially essays) Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means, Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits, Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors, Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion
- More humorous: Wikipedia:April Fools, Wikipedia:The end of Wikipedia, Help:Buying Wikipedia, Wikipedia:Don't delete the main page, User:Example2, User_talk:Example, Wikipedia:Wikipediholism test, User:Jimbo Wales/WikiProject Wikipedians for Jimbo's beard
- Interesting articles: Larry (cat), Procrastination, Social conservatism in the United States, Five Nights at Freddy's (soundtrack), GEN Z, Birds Aren't Real
- Simply saving for later: 🗿
User page inspiration[edit]
Pages: Wikipedia:User_page_design_guide/User_page_Hall_of_Fame, Category:User_top_icon_templates, Category:Userboxes
User pages: AxG, Levi_OP, Taltos, Materialscientist, Xeroctic, BEEFITRON, Bishzilla, East718, JRPG, The_prophet_wizard_of_the_crayon_cake, xaosflux, Jimbo_Wales, BDD, JoeNMLC, Theooolone & ThatOneWolf.
Finding userboxes: The_Young_Skeptic ☑️, Therealelizacat, NyanKatGrrrl, Whoop_whoop_pull_up, CamiTheWitch, Mgreason, I_dream_of_horses & AFirefoxUser
To do[edit]
Draft pages[edit]
- In progress: ROUNDS ➡️ User:XanSurnamehere/ROUNDS_(video_game)
- Not started: West Hunt, CoCo, Firefish, Pleroma, microblog.pub
Improve articles[edit]
- Bitwarden
- Third-party Firefox forks
- Fediverse software (add soapbox & others)
Make user templates[edit]
- A userbox for each WikiProject about Jimbo's beard (for, against, uncaring) .
- A top icon for WikiProject Cats. (There's one for WikiCat but not this?)
- A top icon for WikiKitten.
- A userbox for users who Prefer Firefox for Android.
Miscellaneous[edit]
- Setup ClueBot_III on user talk.
More things[edit]
2% completed
Tip of the day...
Wikipedia-specific searching with Firefox
In Firefox, the search box has a little pull down menu to allow you to choose which search engine it uses. Several popular search engines come included, but not Wikipedia. However, Firefox provides a page on their website listing more search engines you can add to that menu, including Wikipedia's search. To add Wikipedia, simply go here and click on Wikipedia in the list provided, and you are done. To activate it, pull-down the menu at the search box and click on Wikipedia there. Now you have a second Wikipedia search box. Unlike the search box in Wikipedia's sidebar, which disappears off the screen when you scroll down to read a long page, the Firefox search box always remains on the screen, ready to assist. (Keep in mind, typing Alt+F also places the cursor in the Wikipedia search box.) – – Read more: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use
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