User:Xanderox

Hey everybody! My name is Scott, and I'm a big fan of the SGU and an aspiring transcriptionist. I love being able to help get this project ramped up again! I'm also slowly and intermittently upgrading my regular Wikipedia skills. Here's my userpage over there.

(Note to self: episode 821 is the one where the Rogues switch roles.)

Formatting and templates...	...that I often use
[[File:_file_name_|right|400px|thumb|link=_URL_with_http_|_caption_ ''(Click/tap image for article.)'' <ref>[_link_URL_ _publication_: _title_]</ref><br><p style="line-height:100%">_smaller_text_for_longer_caption_</p>]]
{{tnote|_your_note_here_}} (Transcriptionist's note: this is a handy template)	{{tooltip|text|hover note}} ...and so is this hover note one (the tooltip template)    (Usage examples here)
{{gne|with_different_text}} (in Professor Farnsworth voice) Good news! (from Futurama)	{{sand|_text_to_assign_to_hyperlink_}} It gets everywhere. "_other_text_to_hyperlink_"
{{phenomen|a_A_o_O}} (sing-song) phenomena!	<span style="color:orange">_emphasize_</span> (Emphasizing with color!)
{{meatball}} {{meatball|s}} meatball meatballs	{{w|Article|alternate text|span=hover text}} Wikipedia's meatball article, with hover text
(red here) Click for detailed caption  (expanded caption here) <span class="mw-customtoggle-myDivision"><u>Click for detailed caption</u></span> <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-myDivision"><p style="line-height:100%">_expanded_caption_here_</p></div>

Shownotes quick pub key

| nn = Neurologica:
| nnn = Neuroscience News:
| sbm = Science-Based Medicine:
| ars = Ars Technica:
| scd = ScienceDaily:
| sca = ScienceAlert:
| sci = Science:
| ls = Live Science:
| space = Space.com:
| sa = Scientific American:
| nyt = New York Times:
| ut = Universe Today:
| bbc = BBC:
| nasa = NASA:
| convo = The Conversation:
| n = Nature:
| nc = Nature Communications:
| ng = National Geographic:
| natgeo = National Geographic:
| r = Reuters:
| ap = Associated Press:
| pnas = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:

To Do List

• add a "Newest Episode" box on main page that pulls the episode icon from that episode?!?!
• add subtitles to all generic "special report"/"special segment" section headers
  • create redirects for these sections to add to "other" category
• help upload past episode icons (and captions) now that I'm an admin!!
• investigate Environmentalism page and consider for potential new category, Environment & Climate Science
• update generic formatting for comments like (laughter) (laughs) and [inaudible] (no capitalizations here)
• select all, copy, paste, find, and replace all [X]: with [X]: to bold all the Rogues' initials in the transcripts, as I have done in my first transcript, SGU Episode 762.
• use Template:vo to standardize and italicize all the Voice-over: It's time for "Science or Fiction" voice-overs in previous episodes/skeletons
• create "New Noisy" subsections in all the WTN sections
• Update the QoW collection table, SGU reading list, Favorite Rogues Quotes, University entries, etc.
• merge into or create "Signoff/Announcements" sections or just delete "Announcements" sections if it's just the voice-over Outro
• add wikitionary links to the What's the Word? segments for definitions if it's not good for a wiki link
• add references next to most external links, especially for links for News Items
• add vocab lists to other episodes like the list in Episode 581
• start removing generic category tags once I create redirects; eventually it would be good to have almost ALL the category lists be only redirects, with almost zero links to full episodes, and rather only to the relevant segments, ideally using anchors, rather than section titles, as many of those need timestamps added
• insert my new Episode skeleton into all the to-be-created episode pages, including the QoW, News Items, SoF Items, and links
  • update the 2020 and 2019 skeletons with the "Episode" message template
• eventually apply my newer skeleton to the older episodes (644 and earlier), ahead of getting to finishing those transcriptions
• use Template:Tooltip to put a hover note over names dear to the Rogues, like their children and spouses
  • Example: Julia
    Steve's daughter
• possibly create templates called "600s" and "700s" where 600/700|### auto generates individual date, month, and year data so it can be called by the Episode, InfoBox, and DownloadLink templates for currently blank episodes #652-742

Useful links

https://web.archive.org/web/20110515184137/http://www.theskepticsguide.org/sgublog/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171121215018/http://theness.com/roguesgallery/
https://www.toddstrong.com/comedywriting/exaggeration.php a solid reference for the "How ___ is it" chuckle

Done List

• reformatted other "EpisodeList" tables to match updated Episode List 2022
• added "SoF with a theme" and "What's the Word?" cat. table entries into the SGU Features area of the Browse by category page
  • also mention other cat. table entries
• made an icon for the episode skeleton: "SAMPLE" superimposed on ep1 icon
• created templates called "800s", and "900s", and "600s" which auto generate individual date, month, and year data so they can be called by the Episode, InfoBox, and DownloadLink templates
• created sortable tables collected by year for the SGU episode list: sort by episode number, status, episode features...
  • started with 2022
  • now working on 2018; other years to be ported eventually
• added caption field to infobox template to expect captions under episode icons
• updated colors/borders of Template:MessageBox
• removed all "(w/ links)" from episodes using former Editing required (w/links) template, then deleted that template

Questions/Issues to consider

• Should Wikilinks be included in the list of SoF items, or only include them in the transcription?

Quick Text/Formatting templates I've made

SBM

• A quick-text template for the publication, "Science-Based Medicine": Template:sbm

  {{sbm}}

Shownotes

• Template:Shownotes makes it easy to enter details from articles linked in show notes:

{{shownotes
|weblink			= 	<!-- must begin with http:// -->
|article_title			= 	<!-- please replace ALL CAPS with Title Case or Sentence case -->
|publication			= 	<!-- below are some quick texts for commonly cited publications:
 | nn = Neurologica:
 | nnn = Neuroscience News:
 | sbm = Science-Based Medicine:
 | ars = Ars Technica:
 | scd = ScienceDaily:
 | sca = ScienceAlert:
 | ls = Live Science:
 | space = Space.com:
 | sa = Scientific American:
 | nyt = New York Times:
 | ut = Universe Today:
 | bbc = BBC:
 | nasa = NASA:
 | convo = The Conversation: 
-->
|note				=	<!-- optional; enter "not" for "(Note: this article is not from the SGU show notes page)" -->
}}

SOFResults

• A template for showing a colorful breakdown of the Science or Fiction results, based on a suggestion from user BShirley:

{{SOFResults}}

Template:SOFResults is a formatted entry for SoF colored results at the end of each SoF segment. See Episode 787's SoF segment, whose SOF Results table looks like this:

Answer	Item
Fiction	Bird beak
Science	Oldest masks
Science	1B N95s

Host	Result
Evan	clever

Rogue	Guess
Cara	Bird beak
Bob	Oldest masks
Steve	Oldest masks
Jay	Oldest masks
George	1B N95s

Episode Messageboxes

{{Episode|M|D|YYYY}}

Template:Episode is the green message box that generates the “Latest Episode”, “Recent Episode” or “Old Episode” message, depending on if the broadcast date is within one week/one year of the current date or not.

Infobox Shortcuts

• I also created shortcuts for typing in the number date, written month, and download link in the episode infobox:

{{date|##}}

Template:Date inserts the appropriate two-letter superscript text for the ordinal abbreviation of the date of the month.

{{month|M}}

Template:Month inserts the appropriate month name text for the numerical abbreviation of the month.

{{DownloadLink|YYYY-MM-DD}}

Template:DownloadLink inserts the appropriate broadcast date into the link for the podcast episode.

10tothe

Template:10tothe inserts the appropriate superscripted number for the power of ten that is said. It makes it a little bit faster as a quick text than typing 10^_number_

{{10tothe|##}}

WTN

• I created two templates for streamlining links to past and future WTN segments. I'll add some examples soon.

Template:WtnHiddenAnswer, used at the beginning of the WTN segment, inserts into a box a link to the New Noisy segment of the most recent-to-the-episode WTN, with the answer initially collapsed.

Template:WtnAnswer, used in the New Noisy subsection, inserts a link to the WTN segment of the future episode that has the answer.

Tnote

{{tnote|_your_note_here_}}

• Template:Tnote inserts a small transcriptionist's note into the text. (Transcriptionist's note: like this!)

For inside jokes, quotes, & cultural references

Meatball

{{Meatball}}

Template:Meatball is linked to the hidden category "Meatball mention" that tracks what episodes involve a rogue referencing meatballs, especially as they relate to Jay's famous meatballs. When you use {{meatball}} or {{meatball|s}}, the page is added to the hidden category and the word meatball appears brown, as shown here.

42

{{42}}

Template:42 creates an in-line link to the Wikipedia subsection about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference to the answer 42. Useful for when you don't feel like typing out/copy-and-pasting the long link.

"Mostly Dead"

{{mostly dead}}

{{mostly}}

Template:Mostly dead and Template:Mostly create an in-line link to the "mostly dead" Wikiquote from the film The Princess Bride. Useful for when you don't feel like typing out the whole wikiquote link.

"Guidelines"

{{guidelines}}

Template:Guidelines creates an in-line link to the "guidelines" Wikiquote from the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Useful for when you don't feel like typing out the whole wikiquote link.

Phenomenon ("Mahna Mahna")

{{Phenomen|}}

Template:Phenomen creates an in-line link to the to the Muppets song, "Mahna Mahna". Useful for when you don't feel like typing out the whole link when a Rogue jokingly says "phenomenon/phenomena". Add an 'a', 'A', 'on', or 'On' after the pipe in {{Phenomen|}} to generate (sing-song) phenomena!, (sing-song) Phenomena!, (sing-song) phenomenon!, or (sing-song) Phenomenon!, respectively.

Sand

{{sand}}

Template:Sand links to the "I don't like sand." monologue from Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. Useful for when you don't feel like typing out the whole link to YouTube clip.

Here is an article defending the cringe-worthy flirting of Anakin Skywalker that has an embedded video clip from the film.

"Good news, everyone!"

{{gne}}

Template:Gne creates an in-line link to the (in Professor Farnsworth voice) "Good news, everyone!" "Good news, everyone!" article about Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth's catchphrase from Futurama. Useful for when you don't feel like typing out the whole link to the Futurama Wiki.

In each of these references above you can see in the markup to this page that I used the templates. Clicking the link to these templates will show you just how long the markup text being called is!

Sandboxing

I apologize for messing around in the main wiki with some of my recent projects. I'll try to work on them here first!

• [Scott.com trying to figure out references]