archived junk i can't bring myself to delete
Sudan stuff
editLately I've been reading rather obsessively about Sudan, and I'm hoping to learn enough to add a few articles. I've started (barely) one on the Beja. I'm trying to get a Wikiproject on Sudan going.
Going to wikify Sadiq_al-Mahdi as time permits.
Things I'd Like to Know
editWhat happens when there is a name collision? For instance:
Dave Evans is now redirected to The Edge. But there must be a computer scientist Dave Evans, since one is listed on List of computer scientists. As things stand, if someone follows the link they might think The Edge is a programmer.
Okay maybe not. But what to do? Create a disambig page Dave Evans, I guess, even though the c.s. guy has no actual article. Then, should the title be Dave Evans (computer scientist)?
- There is some discussion of standardizing these titles, but right now theyre not standard. If you know their middle names, you can use that to disambiguate [dab]. It's usually NAME (obvious clarifier). If you've got one scientist and one musician, you can use profession. If you've got lots of random bios, you can use (birth-death) dates. +sj.+
Or what?
To Translate
editStuff I'll get around to translating...
es:Andrés A. Cáceres Dorregaray... oops, that looks like a copyvio.
Hey look...
pt:Categoria:!Artigos em tradução
en has:
en:Wikipedia:Pages_needing_translation_into_English
Information extraction is currently awful... de:Informationsextraktion looks much better. Now all I have to do is learn German.
Procrastinated Bunnyman thing.
editI was PLANNING to do this... but...
Next project will be a sort of trivial but amusing thing...
There is mention in Rock Creek Park of an urban legend about a "Bunnyman," said to be a guy in a bunny suit, who went around killing people with an ax.
O.o
Well, I found this interesting article (researched by a librarian) about the tale, and he dug up some great stuff:
"The Bunny Man Unmasked: The Real Life Origins of an Urban Legend" http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/bunny/bunnyprint.htm
I think the story, at least, deserves a page of its own as an urban legend, but not without some evidence that it really _is_ an urban legend, still. User:Babbage/BunnymanScratch
to remember
editWikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting I am an admitted stuboholic, so I should at least observe the conventions on specifying stubs somewhat...
I squished together a bunch of examples of how to format linguistic examples: User:Babbage/Formatting Syntax
alphabets
editAt the moment I'm working on getting alphabets added to various languages. I assume this is considered an "encyclopedic" thing to do... the current situation is that in many languages you see comments such as:
- Hausa has had a written form for more than 200 years, at first with a variant of Arabic script called Ajami, but this has largely been superseded by a Latin alphabet which was introduced at the beginning of the 20th century. There are three additional consonants which are added to the basic Latin alphabet: ɓ, ɗ and ƙ.
Except that's not very good, because we still don't know _which_ Latin letters are used. So it makes sense to me to include the whole alphabet.
It looks like this page will be a good starting point.
Check out Icelandic language for a good example of full alphabet coverage.
Intend to check these and post them:
Hausa Boko
http://www.omniglot.com/images/writing/hausa_boko.gif
’ A B Ɓ C D Ɗ A F G H I J K Ƙ L M N O R S SH T TS U W Y ‘Y Ƴ Z ’ a b ɓ c d ɗ a f g h i j k ƙ l m n o r s sh t ts u w y ‘y ƴ z
Yorùbá
A B D E Ẹ F G Gb H I J K L M N O Ọ P R S Ṣ T U W Y a b d e ẹ f g gb h i j k l m n o ọ p r s ṣ t u w y
Igbo
A B C D E F G GB GH H I Ị J K L M Ṁ N Ṅ O Ọ P Kp R S Sh T U Ụ V W Y Z Ch Gw Kw Nw Ny a b c d e f g gb gh h i ị j k l m ṁ n ṅ o ọ p kp r s sh t u ụ v w y z ch gw kw nw ny
scratch
editstill more junk
editMy todo list
I've been perplexed by the Template:Infobox Biography...