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I have been here since 2003, but I cultivate beginner’s mind.

I have a terrible habit of using curly quotes, it’s a character flaw.

Current Project

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All things Julius Platzmann

here's my scratch file on him:

User:Babbage/Julius_Platzman

User:Babbage/Cumanagoto


And one on dom Pedro II’s tutor,

User:Babbage/Karl_Henning


User:Babbage/Bibliography of lenguas generales

TODOs

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things to improve

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To translate

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https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Barbas_do_Imperador

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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  • Languages of Bhutan.
    Languages of Bhutan.
  • Pre-contact distribution of native languages of California.
    Pre-contact distribution of native languages of California.
  • Salinan language.
    Salinan language.
  • Pomoan languages.
    Pomoan languages.
  • Montana Indian Reservations.
    Montana Indian Reservations.
  • California Geomorphic Provinces.
    California Geomorphic Provinces.
  • Tibetan script.
    Tibetan script.
  • Ohlone languages.
    Ohlone languages.
  • Maiduan languages.
    Maiduan languages.
  • Ethiopia Harar map (Amharic)
    Ethiopia Harar map (Amharic)
  • Maya script reading direction.
    Maya script reading direction.


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...

· User:Taivo · User:Mark Dingemanse · User:Kwamikagami · User:CJLL Wright · User:Ish ishwar · User:Miskwito ·

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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The Signpost
18 July 2025
Endowment tax form, Wikimania, elections, U4C, fundraising and a duck!
And how do we know?
Five-year journey comes to healthy fruition.
Wikimedians from around the world will gather in person and online at the twentieth annual meeting of Wikimania.
As well as "hermeneutic excursions" and other scientific research findings.
The report covers the Foundation's operations from July 2023 - June 2024
A step towards objective and comprehensive coverage of a project nearly too big to follow.
Drawn this century!
How data from the Wikipedia "necessary articles" lists can shed new light on the gender gap
Annual plans, external trends, infrastructure, equity, safety, and effectiveness. What does it all mean?
Rest in peace.
Wouldn't it be nice without billionaires, scandals, deaths, and wars?
If you are too blasé for Mr. Blasé and don't give a FAC.
Lamium purpureum
Lamium purpureum, commonly known as the red dead-nettle, among other names, is an annual herbaceous flowering plant. Native to Eurasia, it can also be found in North America, and frequently occurs in meadows, forest edges, roadsides and gardens. It grows with square stems to a height of 5 to 20 centimetres (2 to 8 inches), and occasionally up to 40 centimetres (16 inches). The leaves have fine hairs, are green at the bottom and shade to purplish at the top, while the zygomorphic flowers are bright reddish purple. The pollen is crimson red in colour and thus very noticeable on the heads of the bees that visit its flowers. The plant contains various oils and is characterized by its high contents of germacrene D. Young plants have edible tops and leaves, which are used in salads and stir fries as a spring vegetable. The plant has also been used for many years in folk medicine and herbal remedies. This L. purpureum inflorescence was photographed in Tutermaa, Estonia. The picture was focus-stacked from 101 separate images.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus
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