User:BudjarnLambeth/Rating my wiki contributions

This page lists every major contribution I made to the wiki and whether I think it made the wiki better or worse in hindsight.

If you think I should move any of these under a different one of the subheadings, let me know on the discussion tab of this page: User talk:BudjarnLambeth/Rating my wiki contributions

Overall

(66) changes made wiki better
(20) changes made no difference
(49^) changes made wiki worse

^Really bad ones count as 10 instead of 1

Good changes

Created hundreds of wanted categories (that had 5+ pages wanting them) and made them subcategories of the appropriate categories
Merged "useful tools" & "software" after community discussed it on Discord
Campaigned for migration FAQ to not be the first thing on the front page
Added references for everything on the "Historical temperaments" page
Merged the dozens of individual pages on "kartvelian scales" into just one long page
Conducted major clean-up of several edo pages that has a "Todo:clean up" notices
Moved "22edo#scales" to "22edo modes" because the section was long and messy and was bloating the "22edo" page
Replaced the "lists and galleries" page with a redirect to "Category:Lists"
Cleaned up the "list of approaches to musical tuning" page
Changed "Kirnberger I", which used to be a redirect to "Pythagorean", into an actual page, because it's not actually identical to Pythagorean
Changed the destination if several redirects because they had "todo" messages on them saying to do so
Added every page listed on "list of Scala files" to "CategoryPages with Scala files", then marked "list of Scala files" for deletion
Created the "stub" mbox templates & categories
Created "niche" which inspired and was then merged into "mathematical interest"
Documented dozens of Joe Monzo compositions on the wiki, at his request
Categorised hundreds of uncategorised pages
Linked to hundreds of orphaned pages
Added links to every temperament name on "rank-2 temperaments by mapping of 3"
Created dozens of wanted composer and theorist pages (Most are still stubs but at least there's something written about them now, a few sentence article, rather than just a red link)
Moved dozens of personal opinion and WIP pages from the early data of the wiki from main space to user space
Wrote an intro for the page "dual-fifth temperaments" (it had no intro before that)
Added tables of rank-2 temperaments to several edo pages
Added links to the names of all the MOSes that were listed on "Tree of MOS derived from 1L 1s&1L"
Created redirects for the names of several commas that didn't have redirects yet
Expanded the map of rank-2 temperaments substantially (particularly 5th-, 6th-, 7th-octave temperament, etc. subheadings)
Created templates such that people can say "AFDOs|3, 5, 16...", "EDTs|3, 5, 16...", etc. in the same way they can EDOs
Replaced the auto-generated table with manual table on "Table of 636edo intervals"
Created the "Survey of efficient temperaments by subgroup" page with extensive input from the community (helped make more notable temperaments more visible and less notable ones less visible, reducing one of the biggest grievances editors had about the wiki)
Created the "systematic comma names explained" page
Added subheadings to the "phoenix tunings" page to improve its readability
Added a comparison table to the "phoenix tunings" page
Added much more to the FAQ - it's still garbage but at least there's actually something of substance there, which there wasn't before
Dramatically improved the "African music" page (it's still awful but less awful than it was)
Edited the "intonalism" page to clear up confusion between OG intonalism and Adam Neely intonalism
Dramatically improved layout of "general theory" and "mathematical theory" pages
Rewrote "scale collections" section of the "scale index" page (it was worse before)
Created the fractional octave navbox
Created an extensive page for O'Sullivan's Eagle 53 scale
Created the Lumatone mapping navbox
Created pages for the McClain toy piano tuning and the Erose-McClain double modes - they have been used to make music so worth documenting
Created the "empirical tuning" category
Reworked a lot of MisterShafXen's pages/sections and moved many to user space
Expanded several stub edonoi pages with manually curated tables and short paragraphs about harmonics and subgroups (not a big improvement I know, but it's still 'an' improvement)
Helped mediate the argument in Discord about Kite's "spiral charts" successfully - it didn't blow up into anything big - and made a "spiral charts" page as part of resolving this
Improved layout of "Xen Wiki:Things to do" and "Xen Wiki:Wikifuture", especially by adding subheadings
Created a page about Xenharmonikon (the historical magazine and the revived modern site)
Helped troubleshoot Interwiki template
Created "Xenharmonic Wiki:Optional guidelines for interval page todo categories" with extensive input from the community and rolled it out to hundreds of interval pages (I.e. i marked stubs as stubs and todo:expand as todo:expand according to the community's preferences)
Created "Istrian scale" page
Rewrote "Xenharmonic Wiki:Introduction" to be more straightforward and also to discourage frivolous page creation
Created the "L4MPLIGHT" page (has since become a somewhat prominent page lots of people have added to)
Created a page documenting Rosie Sheldon's "fluid just intonation"
Documented the etymology (wrote the "etymology" sections) for several commas
Added disclaimers to the "small comma", "medium comma", "gallery of just intervals", etc. pages saying the names aren't important and readers are not expected to remember them, that it is preferable to use ratio or monzo instead (to somewhat alleviate one of editors' biggest criticisms about the wiki: idiosyncratic comma names)
Dramatically improved structure of "Listen" page for new readers
Added "See regular temperament for more about what all this means and how to use it." disclaimer to all edo page reg temp sections and to the top of every temperament clan/family page, to address editors' fears about new readers getting disoriented by such pages/sections
Reworked "Practice" page
Merged ShafXen's "skip fretting" pages into their respective Edo pages after the community decided that's what should be done
Renamed "catcall" to "catnip" after consulting the community
Renamed "Buddhisma", whose number previously referenced an anti-Muslim sectarian group after consulting the community
Renamed "septimal temperament" to "Austinpowers" (still bad but not as bad) after consulting the community
Substantially expanded "peppermint-24" page
Created notability guidelines with extensive community consultation - inspired and were superseded by Sintel's guidelines
Marked several pages as "high priority"
After thoroughly consulting the community, removed non-notable edonoi from the lists on the "equal-step tunings" page
Created circle diagrams for dozens of hexany pages using Nick Vuci's circle diagram maker

Neutral changes

Documented many subsets of 9edf
Documented several novel temperament ideas that don't make sense in traditional theory but might still be useful e.g. substitute harmonic temperaments (would have been a bad change but I moved them to user pages so now they're just neutral)
Documented several novelty temperament ideas and made music using some (would have been a bad change but I moved them to user pages so now they're just neutral)
Documented several dozen scales I found (subsets of existing tunings): good because they're useful, bad because the names I gave are stupid
Created some N-comma meantone pages (some were historical or of interest, some were useless, balances out to neutral)
Created the "MOS inflection" page (it's fine I guess, meh)
Expanded the tables of tunings on pages like "EDT", "ED5", etc. (good because it improved navigation, bad because it unintentionally encouraged people to make more stub edonoi pages)
Created the "cross-platform dialogue" page, and relayed messages back and forth between Facebook people and Discord people, and conducted the "Xenharmonic Wiki:Referendum" (good because it led to Flora being promoted to top level admin and multiple new admin being promoted, and because mist people on all sides considered it a fair process; bad because Mike quit the wiki and many Facebook people still feel resentful to this day - I had wanted to bring the FB and Discord communities together and help them feel like they're all in this together and like they're friends, and I failed to do that)
Created the table of zeta-stretched edos, which inspired others to create the concept of ZPIs (zeta peak indexes) - the very concept of ZPIs is controversial so I can't put this in good or bad
Created "List of MOS scales in edos 5 to 30", and 2 more lists for edos 31-45 and 46-55 respectively: useful for navigation, but creating more lists of tunings might not have been worth it for that, idk
Created pages for a few ed5s (they were better than most edonoi pages since they weren't stubs, but still idk if they were worth making or not)
Created the 'commas by name' categories
Created the "equiheptatonic" and "equipentatonic" pages
Created "list of taxicab-2 intervals" (idk if it's useful or not)
Added paragraphs about dual-fifth usage to some Edo pages: whether this is good or not depends on whether you think dual-fifth is stupid or not - I think it's not stupid but that's only my opinion
Created "Harmonic entropy of just intervals" table page (useful for navigation, but many may find it distasteful because it's related to harmonic entropy)
Rated lots of music for hkm's community ratings table (it helped hkm to get the ball rolling, but people disliked my Brendan Byrnes glazing)
Added list of Edo approximations to the "Hendrix chord" page
Created user pages about a few ZPIs I want to use (who cares)
Went through all the 1000s of edonoi pages, marked all the stubs as stubs, and added ED intros, harmonic tables and interval tables (good, except that I put the stub templates at the top of the pages, so at some point I need to move them all to the bottom)

Bad changes

Created a handful of "5 to 10 note scales" articles because "Wikifuture" said there needed to be more documentation of such scales (counts as 10 bad things because this was really bad)
Created 101afdo page
Restructured "families of scales" page (then reverted it)
Documented several commas
Named several commas (later retracted almost all the names)
Created several wanted interval pages (this was before the tables of intervals used to flood "wanted pages", but even so these were unnecessary)
Created several stub MOS pages intending to expand them later but never getting to it
Added the "novelty" template to hundreds of large edo pages because I thought most people wanted it but they actually didn't; got dogpiled on Discord while working on it; as soon as I saw the 9999 Discord notifications I removed all of them (counts as 10 bad things because this was really bad)
Added the idea of "nascji" as a little subheading on the "neji" page (this was bad because it led to someone else renaming the "neji" page to "nemi", which then blew over into a big argument between various people on the wiki and led to Zhea Erose quitting the wiki - I didn't intend any of that but my edit still started that chain reaction) (counts as 10 bad things because this was really bad)
Created "gallery of arithmetic pitch sequences" (Most probably see it as a useless list of tunings)
Created "human Edo size categorization" (useless, I moved it to user page)
Created several alternative "gallery of just intervals" user pages to mediate the dispute between Kite & others about what should be on the gallery of just intervals page - people liked these but nothing ever came of them and I deleted them all
Created the "octave stretch or compression" guidelines with consultation from the community to try to resolve people's concerns about the messy "zeta peak", "octave stretch" and "nearby tunings" sections on edo pages - in the end people didn't like this section and I undid most of it (counts as 10 bad things because this was really bad)