2. ok now i'm so curious about your DYK hot takes............
3. you should mention in a future newsletter how among the antivandalism teens (bless their hearts) there is the literal materials scientist called materalscientist who pivoted from writing about materials science to going sicko mode with antivandalism and has not slowed down for years, eluding the fast burnout that plagues most of the antivandal patrollers, and still managing to get materials science research published in journals
4. shoutout to steven for writing a third of wikipedia!
I love DYK, I genuinely do. It's super fun (the second or third most fun main page process :^) ), and you don't end up where I am on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_DYK_promotions by accident. But it's been dogged by controversy for like, 15+ years running now. I think it's in a pretty happy equilibrium these days, but you see it shine through when stuff happens like the controversy over the Nike shoe article in late 2023.
Are you sure ‘navboxen’ etc. is from German wikipedia, not 90s ‘hacker’ lingo as listed in eg ‘the jargon file,’ where boxen is the (intentionally un-English) plural for a ‘box’ in the sense of a computer (eg i have a mac box, a windows box, and a linux box, so three boxen)?
I *think* the general narrative as presented is that "userboxen" is because they originated on dewiki first, and enwiki imported them -- the rest are backformations ("userboxen" is the one used most often, "navboxen/infoboxen" is a bit of an affectation). It's an interesting point, though! Either hypothesis is plausible, I've just heard the dewiki-origin one more. There's definitely a lot of hacker culture DNA in Wikipedia, so it could be the case.
1. omg didn't know "userboxen" was a german thing
2. ok now i'm so curious about your DYK hot takes............
3. you should mention in a future newsletter how among the antivandalism teens (bless their hearts) there is the literal materials scientist called materalscientist who pivoted from writing about materials science to going sicko mode with antivandalism and has not slowed down for years, eluding the fast burnout that plagues most of the antivandal patrollers, and still managing to get materials science research published in journals
4. shoutout to steven for writing a third of wikipedia!
I love DYK, I genuinely do. It's super fun (the second or third most fun main page process :^) ), and you don't end up where I am on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_DYK_promotions by accident. But it's been dogged by controversy for like, 15+ years running now. I think it's in a pretty happy equilibrium these days, but you see it shine through when stuff happens like the controversy over the Nike shoe article in late 2023.
Are you sure ‘navboxen’ etc. is from German wikipedia, not 90s ‘hacker’ lingo as listed in eg ‘the jargon file,’ where boxen is the (intentionally un-English) plural for a ‘box’ in the sense of a computer (eg i have a mac box, a windows box, and a linux box, so three boxen)?
jargon file entry: http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/boxen.html
hacker usage on urban dictionary: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boxen
(also this is a really interesting article, thank you for writing it!)
I *think* the general narrative as presented is that "userboxen" is because they originated on dewiki first, and enwiki imported them -- the rest are backformations ("userboxen" is the one used most often, "navboxen/infoboxen" is a bit of an affectation). It's an interesting point, though! Either hypothesis is plausible, I've just heard the dewiki-origin one more. There's definitely a lot of hacker culture DNA in Wikipedia, so it could be the case.