{"id":4548,"date":"2023-06-21T10:04:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2023-06-21T10:04:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T18:04:21","slug":"browsing-in-my-wikipedia-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=4548","title":{"rendered":"browsing in my Wikipedia history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:Tamfang\">I have been active on Wikipedia<\/a> since 2005, mostly making incremental improvements \u2013 correcting punctuation here, tightening sloppy language there \u2013 with emphasis on heraldry and polytopes but wandering over a very wide range of subjects as whim takes me.<\/p>\n<p>I have set the option to add to my watchlist whatever I modify.  The result was a watchlist far too big for me to keep up.  (Until recently there was no option to watch for a limited time.)  A few months ago I began a campaign to trim that down from 18511, one by one; at the moment it&#8217;s 14876.  In a year or two I should have it licked.<\/p>\n<p>I have also been looking at my past participation on Talk pages, and am gratified at how often this happened: someone said \u201cwe should rename this article to \u2026\u201d; others pointed out disadvantages of the proposed new title; and I, coming in late, proposed yet another title, which was adopted.  Among them: \u201cAmbiguities in Chinese character simplification\u201d, \u201cFossil fuels lobby\u201d, \u201cGrowth hormone in sports\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been active on Wikipedia since 2005, mostly making incremental improvements \u2013 correcting punctuation here, tightening sloppy language there \u2013 with emphasis on heraldry and polytopes but wandering over a very wide range of subjects as whim takes me. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=4548\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mememe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}