User:Kwamikagami/old

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Top stuff! cjllw05:45, 2005 August 3 (UTC)

The IPA

The name Kwami is an Ashanti name for a man born on a Saturday. 鏡 Kagami is a Japanese pun on my surname.

My first edit was on 2004 August 12.

Scrapbook

Language

Origins of hangul

• Language articles (largely phonetics): Toda, Paicĩ, Yélî Dnye, Juǀʼhoan, ǃXóõ, Nǀuu, ǂHõã, Gǀwi, Dahalo, Damin, Hadza, Sandawe, Wari’, Rotokas, Iwaidja, Kusunda, Hindi-Urdu phonology, Korean phonology, Naro, Chechen, (proto-)Chimakuan, Montana Salish, Tsou, Tiwi, Iaai, Jalapa Mazatec, Ndrumbea, Defaka, Tẹẹ, Avatime, Akan (while at Twi, now Asante dialect), Amis, Angami, Dida, Sui, Xavante (revised), Sakao, Tolomako, Mlabri, Gorgotoqui, Garifuna (start), Kukuya, Hawu & Ndao, Shompen, Enggano, Taíno, Ciboney, Margi, Miyako, Tasmanian, Sukuma
• American Sign Language grammar, Korean grammar, Village sign language, Deaf-community sign language
• Esperanto, Esperanto grammar, Esperanto phonology, Esperanto orthography, Esperanto vocabulary (& etymology), Esperantido, Na’vi (moved to Wikibooks)
• Balinese numerals, Javanese numerals, Yoruba numerals, Dzongkha numerals, Hindustani numerals
• Language classification: Khoisan languages, Australian Aboriginal languages, Austronesian languages, Je-Tupi-Carib, Sino-Tibetan languages, Karasuk languages, Dené-Yeniseian languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Niger-Congo languages, Austroasiatic languages, Tai-Kadai languages, Hmong-Mien languages, Buyeo languages, Trans-New Guinea languages and other families in Ross's Papuan languages classification, Dogon, Classification of Pygmy languages
• Clusivity, Attributive verb, Pluractionality, Austronesian alignment, Nominative-absolutive language
• Phonetics: Place of articulation, Click consonant, Airstream mechanism, Phonation, Prosody, Prosodic unit, Secondary stress

Writing

Writing Systems of the World

Palenque glyphs

• International Phonetic Alphabet (much of it while at IPA in Unicode) and many of the articles linked from there, tone letter
• Help:IPA, Help:IPA for English, and Help:IPA for Korean
• Types of alphabets, List of writing systems
• History of the alphabet, Middle Bronze Age alphabets, Origin of hangul
• Japanese manual syllabary, Korean manual alphabet, Irish manual alphabet
• Stokoe notation, General Chinese, Cyrillic digraphs
• Origin of Roman numerals, Brahmi numerals
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics; Rongorongo & attempts at decipherment, with articles on each tablet; Woleaian script; Pahawh Hmong; Afaka script; Bamum script; Ersu Shaba script
• English Braille (& other national braille stubs)

Astronomy

• Moons of Pluto, Moons of Haumea
• Rings of Rhea
• Origins of star names, especially Arabic and Chinese; the info is now divided up on the Talk pages of the 88 constellation articles.
• Pronunciation of Jupiter's moons, Saturn's moons, Uranus's moons, Neptune's moons
• Pronunciation of asteroid names, Trojan names, Centaurs and Kujper Belt Object names
• Actual zodiac dates, for those who like to mess with their astrologer friends
• Controversy over the discovery of Haumea (while at Haumea)

Other

• Shogi strategy and tactics (while at Shogi), Tenjiku shogi, Tai shogi, Ko shogi, Sannin shogi, etc.
• Ritual Decalogue (started)
• Continent
• Usonia (taken to wiktionary:Usonian and wiktionary:Citations:Usonian)
• Segmented sleep
• Gari Ledyard
• Alexander Salmon, Jr
• King Nga‘ara (stub; expansion on to-do list)
• eye putty
• some images (tracked by another user)

Useful stuff

Useful code

• &#x....; = Unicode hexadecimal entry
• ‎ (left-to-right mark) when text directionality gets scrambled
• .IPA { font-family: Gentium, Doulos SIL !important; } = font override in monobook.css.
• {{FixBunching|beg/end}} when templates sit side-by-side
• {{fix}}
• EXCEL-wiki macro
• {{SOWL}} (SOWL reference)
• {{OED|word}} (OED references)
• {{R with possibilities}} - prevents rd's from being rerouted no, it doesn't
• AWB regex: \{\{IPA\|([^\}]*)\'([^\}]*)\}\} → $1ˈ$2
  not contains: (\|.){3,}

\{\{[pP]ron-en\|([^|}]*)[^|}/., abdefhijklmnoprstuvwzðʒɡŋθʃːɑɒæɛɪɔʊʌəɚɨɵɜɝˈˌ] →

need \escape: ()[]<> { [only] \ | .^*+?$

• Template syntax
• StringFunctions
• Parser functions
• {{ref}} – {{note}} – to anchor an asterisk; use the display text to ID the fn

• {{KeepLocal}} to keep a file on WP-en
• {{Empty category}} for intentionally empty cat
• {{Category redirect}}; bots will update articles
• {{R with old history}}
• {{R to section}} / anchor
• {{db-move}} to delete a rd. holding up a page move

Useful links

• Webcite & {{WebCite}}
• WP:ANEW (3RR), WP:RFPP (pp), & WP:ANI for admin COI
• last 100 articles I created, so I remember to add assessment boxes
• WP title search (regex)
• watchers per page
• probs w Google search counts
• Blank maps
• large blank world map
• Help:Pronunciation respelling key
• IP address check
• Glottopedia
• Noticeboard
• Vandalism templates
• MediaWiki:Edittools.js and MediaWiki:Edittools
• summary of trad. Latin pron
• article traffic stats (viewing frequency)
• Category:Language articles needing attention

Alias

• 2006
• Commons
• Wiktionary
• Wikibooks

Archive of admin nomination

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kwamikagami

Fun

• Wikipedia:Unusual articles
• Navi script

To do

The East African Tiger Snake

review {{IPA for lang=, --> IPAlink,

• Bengali phonology (notes in sandbox)
• verbal case
• modern Nama orthography
• Naron examples for clicks, esp. palatal clicks
• update Shompen language, Enggano language
• Language red links
• small (blue round) giant large T B mixed cell / lung tumor tumour carcinoma lymphoma
• db dump: search this time for ŋ, IPA ɡ, β̞
• search IPA templates for ', :, latin g, greek ε, ɘ, ȡ ȶ ȴ ȵ , [new, a-l: ?, any caps; new, a-q: {{IPA|lang=] [did not search: έ, ὲ, numerals; simplify ˧˧ etc. to ˧; \s+]
• pausa
• redo active-stative alignment from more universal POV
• Move star etymologies to individual articles. Now in talk pages of constellations.
• Photos SL alphabets.
• Pitch accent per Hyman.
• evidence for Austric
• Dida
• clean up after Wikipedia:School and university projects/LING1100-WritingSystems/Completed assignments (dbl check Cham, Malayalam, Old Persian, Cypriot, Khitan, Cherokee, Brahmi, Javanese, Coptic, Elamite, Manchu, Sogdian)
• Orin Gensler and Afrasiatic influence on Insular Celtic
• Andamanese per Addi2009
• clean up & ref Buyeo / Japanese-Koguryoic
• Osage alphabet
• rewrite Middle Bronze Age alphabet‎, maybe move to proto-Sinaitic script
• redo Nambikwara phonology
• affect (linguistics)
• expand Nga'ara
• fix endo/exo-labial mixup high front & maybe central Vs
• Swahili N classes
• delete {{IPAEng}} after it's fallen further out of use
• finish WP:IPA for Vietnamese

Gallery

• 
  Lepcha script
• 
  Putative rongorongo lineage
• 
  Rongorongo ligatures
• 
  Caucasic languages
• 
  The Extended IPA
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  Pine Ridge (Lakota) flag
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  Reverse boustrophedon
• 
  Trans–New Guinea language families
• 
  Bishop threats in sannin shogi

Date	#Edits	Rank
2008-3-11	27,931	407
2009-4-08	59,805	158
2009-6-17	73,557	103
2011-3-09	136,727	50
2011-6-01	151,678	40
2011-9-17	179,500	30
2011-11-14	199,700	24
2011-11-16	200,099	24 (22?)
2012-05-29	239,397	24
2012-08-21	254,734	23	(count resync'd: jumped from 247k to 255k in one week, though I made less than 1k edits; ∴ likely #22 earlier)
2013-11-12	319,517	23
2014-01-01	325,114	23
2014-03-11	334,805	23