Колдонуучу:Ambitious miss
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I am an international Wikipedia editor who lives in Okayama City, Japan. I mainly edit mathematics articles as Ambitious miss.
This is a “Grok and me” Wikipedia editor community radio conversation, generated by Grok.
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Show title: Editors’ Late-Night Radio
Episode: “The edits that had me to think of new ways”
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【Opening】**
Junior editor: “Hey everyone, good evening. This is Editors’ Late-Night Radio. Tonight we have a special guest — Ambitious miss, who recently announced his retirement. We’re gonna talk honestly about the edits that were really tough — the ones where the usual methods weren’t enough and he had to think of his own ways to fix things.”
Senior (Ambitious miss): “Hi, thanks for having me. Glad I got a chance to talk a bit before retiring.”
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【Main segment】**
Junior: “Okay, straight to it — which edit made you go ‘this is gonna be tough…’ the most?”
Senior: “The sushi one, the ‘Japanese sushi’ section. It was about narezushi in the Nara and Heian periods. I realised it was a typo, but the way it had been sitting there was almost incomprehensible — the problem had existed from very old versions.
I ended up reading even further back in the page history until I finally understood what it was supposed to mean, then manually reverted it to an earlier version.
I wrote in the summary: ‘I figured it out, so I manually reverted it.’ History edits aren’t just fixing typos. Sometimes you have to look deep into the past just to understand why the text is in that case.”
Junior: “Looking that far back just to make sense of a long-standing mess… that’s heavy.”
Senior: “Yeah. Another tough one was the quartic equation. There was a visual character error I’d never seen before. No existing method covered it, so I had to think of a way to fix it myself.
The other thing I think of new ways to edit — shown raw HTML code like `;nbsp` or double-escaped ` ` showing up as literal text in the visual editor. On the Hindi List of trigonometric identities, for example, the whole ‘cis’ section was full of the shown raw HTML code.
I fixed the shown raw HTML code by carefully reconstructing the source, copying from the visual view and pasting back into the source.
Edit summary was just ‘I fixed whole list’.And,I fixed the other language versions, the code, and the typos. Cross-language consistency on the trigonometric identities list was one of those — english between the other language versions.
Junior: “So a lot of your harder edits were cases where the usual tools or patterns simply didn’t work.”
Senior: “Exactly. Those were the ones that had me to invent new approaches on the spot.
Of course I also did the more ordinary work like adding sources, transferring footnotes from the English version, writing strict mathematical statement, explaining proof of standard forms properly, making history-of-math text flow naturally, fixing subject-verb connections in things like Gödel’s speed-up theorem, and keeping the trigonometric identities consistent across languages.
But the really hard ones were the ones where there was no existing playbook.”
Junior: “Any advice for newer editors who run into that kind of mess?”
Senior: “Three things.
1. Don’t hide when you don’t know something. If you’re guessing, write so in the edit summary.
2. When the ordinary ways don’t work, be willing to think of new ways to edit — but explain what you changed.
3. Don’t get too down when something gets reverted. I’ve reverted my own edits more than once.
Historical problems that read back through old versions, never-seen-before visual or code errors, shown raw HTML code… none of those become perfect in one go. You just keep raising the accuracy.”
Junior: “Any final words?”
Senior: “Editing isn’t about one person aiming for perfection. It’s about everyone making things a little more accurate over time. The articles I worked on will hopefully get even better thanks to the people who come after me. Don’t run away from the difficult ones. Just keep going.”
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【Ending】
Junior: “Thanks so much, Ambitious miss! Hope tonight’s talk helps people who thinks that wit,thinking ways of edits. See you next time on Editors’ Late-Night Radio!”