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Alexander Dupuy
Alexander Dupuy


When I first got involved with [[MusicBrainz]] a few years ago, like many other contributors, I found it satisfied some kind of obsessive-compulsive craving to organize and structure data. Many thousands of edits and votes later, the rest of my life got in the way again, and not only am I (probably) no longer in the top-10 or even top-20 editors and voters, I'm not even sure of the fact. However, I'm still keeping up to date with the mailing lists, even though I don't really have time to participate in the IRC discussions. And I'm still interested in the [[Internationalization|InterNationalization]] issues for [[MusicBrainz]], as well as the [[WikiDocs]] project (although I'm not active enough to have been chosen as a [[Transclusion Editor|TransclusionEditor]]).
Not sure I totally see the point of a wiki page for each user, when [[MusicBrainz]] already has a page for each moderator e.g. [http://www.musicbrainz.org/user/view.html?modname=dupuy dupuy]. But I guess it's a standard wiki thing to have a page for each user.


You can see more about my interests in my [[Main Site|MainSite]] moderator profile Editor:dupuy - I used to wonder why there was a Wiki [[User Page|UserPage]] for each moderator as well, but now I think the right thing would be to have an automatic transclusion so that the moderator profile would include the text from the relevant [[Wiki Page|WikiPage]] (once the moderator specified their [[Wiki Name|WikiName]] on the [[Main Site|MainSite]]).

@alex
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It's so that you can easily sign your edits and then I have somewhere to leave a note thanking you for all your hard work on the wiki. The [[Edit Type|EditType]] table being particularly nice. -- [[User:bawjaws|bawjaws]]
It's so that you can easily sign your edits and then I have somewhere to leave a note thanking you for all your hard work on the wiki. The [[Edit Type|EditType]] table being particularly nice. -- [[User:bawjaws|bawjaws]]


''It is also so that people can see how much you have done for the wiki by looking at the [[Back Link|BackLink]]s to this page. Then they can leave a note here thanking you for it; e.g. for [[Restructuring The Documentation|RestructuringTheDocumentation]]. (Unfortunately the [[Back Link|BackLink]]s also show all non-link occurences of "Dupuy". So to see all the pages you edited, we need [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/wiki.pl?back=@alex another backlink hack] :-) --[[User:DonRedman|DonRedman]]''
''It is also so that people can see how much you have done for the wiki by looking at the [[Back Link|BackLink]]<code><nowiki></nowiki></code>s to this page. Then they can leave a note here thanking you for it; e.g. for [[Restructuring The Documentation|RestructuringTheDocumentation]]. (Unfortunately the [[Back Link|BackLink]]<code><nowiki></nowiki></code>s also show all non-link occurences of "Dupuy". So to see all the pages you edited, we need [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/wiki.pl?back=@alex another backlink hack] :-) --[[User:DonRedman|DonRedman]]''


I love the [[Back Link|BackLink]] hack! It's useful in another way. If people want to refer to me, they should write Dupuy (<code><nowiki>["Dupuy"]</nowiki></code>); when I write something myself, I will sign it [[User:Dupuy|@alex]] (<code><nowiki>[:Dupuy:@alex]</nowiki></code>); the regular backlink finds references to me (whether [[Wiki Link|WikiLink]]ed or not) and the [[Back Link Hack|BackLinkHack]] finds pages that I have contributed to (signed). [[User:Dupuy|@alex]]
I love the [[Back Link|BackLink]] hack! It's useful in another way. If people want to refer to me, they should write Dupuy (<code><nowiki>["Dupuy"]</nowiki></code>); when I write something myself, I will sign it [[User:Dupuy|@alex]] (<code><nowiki>[:Dupuy:@alex]</nowiki></code>); the regular backlink finds references to me (whether [[Wiki Link|WikiLink]]ed or not) and the [[Back Link Hack|BackLinkHack]] finds pages that I have contributed to (signed). [[User:Dupuy|@alex]]
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">now you tell me that I can just sign your name with 'dupuy' when I had such problems with [[Special Purpose Artist|SpecialPurposeArtist]] (want to say thanks for starting that page as well) ~[[User:mo|mo]]
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">now you tell me that I can just sign your name with 'dupuy' when I had such problems with [[Special Purpose Artist|SpecialPurposeArtist]] (want to say thanks for starting that page as well) ~[[User:mo|mo]]
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Latest revision as of 00:03, 12 September 2014

Alexander Dupuy

When I first got involved with MusicBrainz a few years ago, like many other contributors, I found it satisfied some kind of obsessive-compulsive craving to organize and structure data. Many thousands of edits and votes later, the rest of my life got in the way again, and not only am I (probably) no longer in the top-10 or even top-20 editors and voters, I'm not even sure of the fact. However, I'm still keeping up to date with the mailing lists, even though I don't really have time to participate in the IRC discussions. And I'm still interested in the InterNationalization issues for MusicBrainz, as well as the WikiDocs project (although I'm not active enough to have been chosen as a TransclusionEditor).

You can see more about my interests in my MainSite moderator profile Editor:dupuy - I used to wonder why there was a Wiki UserPage for each moderator as well, but now I think the right thing would be to have an automatic transclusion so that the moderator profile would include the text from the relevant WikiPage (once the moderator specified their WikiName on the MainSite).

@alex



It's so that you can easily sign your edits and then I have somewhere to leave a note thanking you for all your hard work on the wiki. The EditType table being particularly nice. -- bawjaws

It is also so that people can see how much you have done for the wiki by looking at the BackLinks to this page. Then they can leave a note here thanking you for it; e.g. for RestructuringTheDocumentation. (Unfortunately the BackLinks also show all non-link occurences of "Dupuy". So to see all the pages you edited, we need another backlink hack :-) --DonRedman

I love the BackLink hack! It's useful in another way. If people want to refer to me, they should write Dupuy (["Dupuy"]); when I write something myself, I will sign it @alex ([:Dupuy:@alex]); the regular backlink finds references to me (whether WikiLinked or not) and the BackLinkHack finds pages that I have contributed to (signed). @alex

  • now you tell me that I can just sign your name with 'dupuy' when I had such problems with SpecialPurposeArtist (want to say thanks for starting that page as well) ~mo