I'm Waldir Pimenta, a Cape Verdean born in Russia and currently living in Portugal.

On Wikipedia, I tend to do mostly maintenance work. Besides random fixes to articles I stumble upon daily, I enjoy:

• Creating/improving disambiguation pages and redirects, adding disambiguation hatnotes to articles and sections, and adding useful links, in order to make information more easily findable
• Creating new articles in somewhat obscure yet encyclopedic topics
• Improving templates, mediawiki messages and scripts to make the interface more user-friendly
• Cleaning up and standardizing the articles' wikicode to make it more readable and easier to edit
• Copyediting and formatting articles to conform to encyclopedic standards
• Improving help and project pages to ease Wikipedia editors' learning curve, by reducing text ambiguity, providing specific examples and linking to more specific guidance or resources whenever appropriate
• Improving coverage of Cape Verde-related topics
• Cleaning up talk pages to better preserve the history and evolution of a topic's collaborative development

If there's anything I can help you with (especially if it involves tasks related to the above), drop me a message in my talk page :)

• /Creations (watchlist)
• /Contributions (watchlist)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cape Verde/Watchlist

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cape Verde
  • Add content to (or create) articles in the category:American politicians of Cape Verdean descent from material stored in my computer (see also this)
  • Create a dedicated importance scale, like WP Saints', and link Template:WikiProject Cape Verde to it rather than to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Criteria#Importance of topic as currently it does. Maybe a custom one for the Quality scale too.
  • Recheck the stats table to make sure the numbers are correct. Might need to tweak the banner template's categorization scheme.
  • Add more entries to Cape Verde#International recognition from Lists of countries and territories and List of international rankings. See also: International rankings of Hong Kong
  • Add a MassViews traffic report to the WikiProject page, and maybe use that data to inform/validate against/help fill the importance ratings.
• bring data from The University of Florida Book of Insect Records (see also [1]). details at /UFBIR
• Move useful/encyclopedic content from Exploding head to the Scanners article and/or back to the disambig page.
• Properly format the articles titled after each of the Nereids.
• Try to illustrate Mammal articles without images with images from http://animalphotos.info
• Rewrite Temporal paradox
• Albert Hammond's "I'm a Train" seems to have some similarity to the Hawaiian War Chant at least as performed by Timon and Pumbaa. Check this and make links if appropriate.
• Write essay Wikipedia:Observer effect (see WT:OR; {{Neologism}}; Observer effect (physics); Observer effect (information technology); Wikiality; truthiness; History is written by the victors; Truth by consensus; Wikipedia:Truth; Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth; Wikipedia:The Truth; WP:CIRCULAR; Circular reporting)
• fix uses of {{?}} so that it can be used as a regular table cell template
• Can {{Infobox OS}} be recoded as a specialized {{Infobox software}}?
• Move some entries from Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Miscellaneous to more specific pages, and organize the rest. See also Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Views and affiliations vs. Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Views vs. Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Editing philosophy.
• Natalie Dylan AfD (see User talk:Spartaz and User talk:Milowent)
• {{IPAc-en}} (see [2], also Wikipedia:IPA for Spanish)
• Standardize pages for individual days, see User:Waldyrious/16 February 1986
• map2 in infobox country
• Template:Openness (see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 6#Template:Openness)
• Apply the table/matrix approach to ccTLDs^{[​list/exceptions]} and ISO 639-1
• Help development and simplification (or at least code readability) of {{charmap}}. Examples of target usage: Ç#Computer, Â#Character mappings, É#Character mappings, Yer#Computing codes, A#Computing codes.
• Make a calendar filled with International observance#Days and possibly List of commemorative days (if they're not specific to a nation or subset thereof), using {{calendar}}

• Category:Dead-end pages vs. Can We Link It?
• Disambiguation
  • Disambiguation pages with links vs. dab fixers / Suggestions for disambiguation repair
  • {{Lookfrom}} (prefixindex) and {{intitle}} (intitle search)
  • {{refer}}
  • Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages aren't articles
• Category:Orphaned articles and Special:Lonelypages
• Categories starting at "Cape Verde". Look for red links and fix them.

• [4] edit requests on protected pages
• [6] history merges (howto)
• Unprotection requests

see Category:Wikipedia requests related to admins and Category:Request templates

todo: make templates below add specific categories, so that backlog can be counted

• [0] G1-nonsense
• [0] G2-test pages
• [6] G6-technical cleanup/housekeeping (db-g6 | db-move | db-disambig | db-copypaste)
• [0] G8-broken redirects
• R3-implausible typos
• F10-bad format
• [2] U1-user request

• Duplicate Wikipedia files on Wikimedia Commons (probably {{db-f8}} should be merged into {{Now Commons}}):
  • with the same name, from:
    • [3] three days ago
    • [19] two days ago
    • [31] one day ago
    • [15] today
    • [4] unknown date
  • with a different name, from:
    • [0] three days ago
    • [2] two days ago
    • [4] one day ago
    • [1] today
    • [0] unknown date
• Duplicate Wikipedia files on Wikipedia (the two templates / categories below should probably be merged):
  • [0] F1-dupes (added by {{db-f1}})
  • [0] Duplicate Wikipedia files (added by {{duplicate}})
• [0] F2-corrupt files

• {{Lifetime}} — template to be substituted as {{subst:Lifetime|year of birth|year of death|sort key}}, to automatically generate "XXXX births" and "XXXX deaths" categories (and optionally DEFAULTSORT) for new articles about people
• Wikipedia uses the logical quotation style (thank god!)
• Dates (January 01, 2026 → 01 January 2026): find , replace
• Notes and references:
  • Help:Footnotes#List-defined references & Help:List-defined references (references defined in a list at the end of the page, rather than inline)
  • WP:REFNEST (nesting references, e.g. a footnote with a reference of its own).
  • Help:Shortened footnotes (named references with split sections for the short notes and the full references)
  • {{rp|12,34}} —Lorem ipsum^{[1]: 12, 34}— and {{rp|at=12:34}} —Lorem ipsum^[1]: 12:34— for appending page numbers, timestamps, etc. to individual instances of an existing general reference (which can then be reused)
  • meta:WMDE Technical Wishes/Book referencing does the same but natively
  • retrieve DOI of a document given its title and other data
  • Several tools for references and external links
  • References and punctuation: WP:REFPUNCT and WP:PAIC
  • {{Citation needed span}}
• {{xsign}}
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request
• Wikipedia:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change/Bug reports
• How to fix bunched-up edit links: {{FixBunching|beg}}, {{FixBunching|mid}}, {{FixBunching|end}}.
• {{Plain image with caption}}

• {{div col|colwidth=10em|cols=3}} ... {{div col end}}
• {{ql}} & {{diff2}}
• Check out the age counter at User:Wikitanvir/userboxes (and also the user age userbox)
• {{flatlist}}
• auto-updating timelines! See mw:Extension:EasyTimeline#Using the current date and {{Timeline openSUSE}} for an example.
• test sorting order of various characters: Help:Sorting#Alphabetic sorting order
• IMO WP:CLUE should actually point to Wikipedia:WikiProject on Adminship/Goals of the adminship process#Discernment, possibly also linking to Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship, Wikipedia:Miniguide to requests for adminship, Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, and Wikipedia:Administrators#Expectations of adminship (as listed on this discussion)
• Javascript Wiki Browser (JWB)
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Order of article elements (e.g. section headings, templates...)
  • Quick cheatsheet: "See also" > "Notes and references" (one or two sections) > "Further reading" > "External links" > templates (navboxes, commonscat, etc.)
• For revision history search, an alternative to WikiBlame is WikiRever (example)
• {{Annotated link}} → produces a link to an article followed by its short description; very useful for "See also" sections

• This page was last edited by 3 months ago on 16/03/2026. Revision ID: -

• User talk:Nickj/Link Suggester#Step 5
• User talk:SergioGeorgini#Euro sign vs. Euro logo
• Talk:Legion (demon)#original research?
• User talk:Magnus Manske#less edit clutter.js
• Talk:LL Cool J#loungin' remix
• Talk:Obscurantism#obscurantism as method to retain consumers
• Talk:Cântico da Liberdade#Translation
• Template talk:Infobox Country#Largest cities
• Talk:Great Seal of the United States/Archive 1#Step pyramid and frustum
• Procrastination#Physiological
• Portal talk:Current events/Sidebar#Conflicts: Africa/Middle East
• MediaWiki talk:Gadget-popups.js#New feature proposal: lead only (a single user responded, with strong support. TODO: try with a user test page, then edit the global js page if it works)

Note: for user scripts, see User:Waldyrious/common.js and meta:User:Waldyrious/global.js (they might need some adjustment per mw:ResourceLoader/Legacy JavaScript)

• 212.13.33.178: Some of these are mine -- the IP's from where I currently live, anyway (Viana do Castelo, Portugal): [3]. I am not sure all of them are mine, though. The ones about Utopia certainly are. I definitely hope the others are not =P. But the only one I can firmly assure wasnt me, is the first one, since I wasn't in Viana do Castelo prior to September 2004.
• 194.79.75.114: I didnt realise I wasnt logged in until I had made several edits. The contributions of that IP are mine or from someone at my university (I think most of them are mine but I haven't checked them all). See also wikiscanner's entry on this IP.

• 82.155.122.172 (as of today, 11 dec 2008, a single edit -- the system somehow logged me off moments before I clicked the save button)

• 85.244.8.13 on 6 May 2009. I was too lazy to login.

• 188.82.193.82, 7 April 2011. Same as above.

• 188.82.108.42, 16 April 2011

• Contributions/188.82.72.82, 8 February 2014. Using the Android mobile app, apparently my login had expired or something, but the interface still showed me as logged in. After a log-out/log-in, it worked properly.

Recommended reading for critics of Wikipedia in academia:

• User:Jbmurray/Madness
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-14/2000th FA
• http://howwikipediaworks.com/apb.html

Improving Wikipedia/MediaWiki

• Category:Wikipedia feature requests
• m:MediaWiki Ideal
• http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/infobox
• Wikipedia:Tools
• Tim starling on the two barriers to new editors: the technical one (user-unfriendly wiki software/interface/syntax, and the social one (overzealous/noob-biting admins)
• Distributed Wikipedia (Wikia-style, but with a shared DB):
  • User:HaeB/Timeline of distributed Wikipedia proposals
  • possible extension to implement that, here: New extension: Include WP (by Jeroen de Dauw)
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3098029/is-there-any-distributed-revision-control-system-that-supports-partial-checkout
• meta:Research:Oral Citations
• http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Action_paths

Topics of interest

• Open source governance, Grassroots democracy, Deliberative democracy, Consensus democracy and others. Need to clarify what exactly are the differences between them
• Mind reading: Brain–computer interface#MEG and MRI. Cognitive neuroscience. Statistical parametric mapping. fMRI (and more generally, Functional neuroimaging). History of neuroimaging. Mind transfer#Brain imaging. Computational neuroscience#Cognition, discrimination and learning. Dramatized in Black Hole (House) –relevant scenes compiled here– (and probably many others). Nature: Identifying natural images from human brain activity, Nature: http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v12/n3/full/nn0309-245.html, and associated links. An interesting comment. Maybe create a template?
• Technological unemployment refers many interesting sources about automation and its effects on a capitalist market system.