User:Lino Mastrodomenico

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I'm currently active against vandalism and doing small contributions to the following articles:

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My talk pages:

Other pages:

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TODO[edit]

  1. Check periodically some articles that seems to have a lot of vandalism going on but are not in my watchlist:
  2. Read Wikipedia:User page
  3. Create a real FS userbox (and offer it to other users?)
  4. User:Werdnabot may be useful to me?
  5. See Talk:ACTS#New name - CSTS
  6. See ~/infos/wikipedia
  7. Add links from and to Common Berthing Mechanism and Androgynous Peripheral Attach System (create a template with all the articles about spacecrat docking systems?)
  8. Add Turin to Platform screen doors
  9. Update file extension and mimetype for Theora (and related codecs?) according to http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIME_Types_and_File_Extensions

Misc[edit]

Interesting markup:

  • <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count: 2; column-count: 2;"> <references/> </div>
  • "NASA fact sheet" (PDF).
    {{PDFlink|[http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/151419main_aresI_factsheet.pdf NASA fact sheet]}}