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TODOs

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To Translate

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Bios of linguists

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User:Babbage/Bios of linguists

Native American linguists


Graphics and maps

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The other problem there is that building out the phonology charts is a HUGE PAIN IN THE NECK. I have no idea how people can stand to produce those things without some sort of tool. I guess people start with existing charts & edit those, but there has _got_ to be a better way.

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Native_languages_of_California

translations i did

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From Portuguese

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From Spanish

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From French

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stuff i started

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I keep this list so I can occasionally see if someone has made an improvement to an article I started.

articles of which i am fond to an utterly absurd degree

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categories i started

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Category:Earliest_known_manuscripts_by_language

Category:Writing systems without word boundaries

language stuff

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languagey people on Wikipedia

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For my future perusal...

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notes to self

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hello, self

Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia Help:User_style

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babbage/monobook.css

my bookshelf

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The new Pediapress book functionality is really fun. Here's my bookshelf

critical trivia

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The first edit I made was adding an and. ☺

This user is a Buddhist.


old stuff

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Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag (Russian: Знамя Победы над Рейхстагом, romanized: Znamya Pobedy nad Reykhstagom, lit.'Victory Banner over the Reichstag') is an iconic World War II photograph, taken during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945 by Yevgeny Khaldei. The photograph was reprinted in thousands of publications and came to be regarded around the world as one of the most significant and recognizable images of World War II, but, owing to the secrecy of Soviet media, both the identity of photographer and the identities of the men in the picture were often disputed.

The Reichstag was seen as symbolic of, and at the heart of, Nazi Germany. It was arguably the most symbolic target in Berlin. After its capture on 2 May 1945, Khaldei scaled the now pacified Reichstag to take a picture. He was carrying with him a large flag, sewn from three tablecloths for this very purpose, by his uncle. The official story would later be that two hand-picked soldiers, Meliton Kantaria (Georgian) and Mikhail Yegorov (Russian), raised the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, However, according to Khaldei himself, when he arrived at the Reichstag, he simply asked the soldiers who happened to be passing by to help with the staging of the photoshoot; the one who was attaching the flag was 18-year-old Private Kovalev from Burlin, Kazakhstan; the two others were Abdulkhakim Ismailov from Dagestan and Leonid Gorychev (also mentioned as Aleksei Goryachev) from Minsk.Photograph credit: Yevgeny Khaldei for TASS; restored by Adam Cuerden