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Thanks to Duolingo, I can claim some Portuguese speaking skills as well. Welsh is a bit tougher but might be added to the table someday. |
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I call unto the Wikimedia Foundation to flee from the United States as soon as possible. The country is swiftly becoming an authoritarian dictatorship where telling the truth (which, as a rational person, I hold to be synonymous with science) makes you at best suspicious and at worst an enemy of the state. Major opposition lies ahead, and destruction by paramilitary forces like the Proud Boys is far from imaginary. A major brain drain to Canada is to be expected; maybe you should follow before it's too late. |
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'''A plain message to the language board: in late July 2020, the Kotava Wikipedia was created and I was ''not amused.'' Not that I have anything against Kotava, but I can't understand why Ancient Greek and Coptic are still denied their own Wikipedias. How on Earth is a rather obscure conlang with just a handful of enthousiasts able to read it more relevant than one of the major languages of Western civilization, or the ancestral language of a 100M people nation?!''' |
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I'm a Wiki(p/m)edian from the Netherlands. I was born in the mid-1980s and came here in late 2004. I have been working on and off on various projects. My main wiki, if any, is the Limburgish Wikipedia, which I picked up when it had only 9 articles. By training, I am a musicologist, but language is a major field of interest. There are many languages that I speak a little, though admittedly few I speak at expert level. Languages that I have learnt or worked with at some point but are not listed in the template include Arabic, Icelandic, Italian, Russian, Saterlandic Frisian, Welsh, and of course Latin. I am determined to become conversant in all of these some day, but I doubt whether I'll manage that during my lifetime. |
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We are in the single login era, which means my meta page can be viewed on several local wikis where I don't have a user page (yet). So, time to introduce myself. I am '''Steinbach''', an out-of-work (as of June 2015) musicologist from The Netherlands. Besides, I am a horse lover, astronomy enthusiast (but not expert!), and last but not least: a language geek. I am especially interested in regional and minority languages form the [[:en:Benelux|Benelux]]. |
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My nearly unlimited enthousiasm for languages is one of the main reasons for my involvement with Wikipedia. I entered the [[li:|Limburgian Wikipedia]] in late 2004, shortly after its creation, I started the [[zea:|Zeelandic Wikipedia]] and I had a major share in the creation of the Dutch Low Saxon, West Flemish, Seeltersk and North Frisian Wikipedias. I have also edited the West Frisian, Dutch, German, and English Wikipedias, on and off, for more than ten years. I was a sysop on the Dutch Wikipedia for some time but I am significantly less active there today. |
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There are a lot of languages that I speak a little, and many more that I don't speak but understand when written. I will sometimes make minor edits to Wikipedias in these languages. |
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* [[/Thoughts on the creation of Ancient Greek, Coptic, and Livonian Wikipedias]] |
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I call unto the Wikimedia Foundation to flee from the United States as soon as possible. The country is swiftly becoming an authoritarian dictatorship where telling the truth (which, as a rational person, I hold to be synonymous with science) makes you at best suspicious and at worst an enemy of the state. Major opposition lies ahead, and destruction by paramilitary forces like the Proud Boys is far from imaginary. A major brain drain to Canada is to be expected; maybe you should follow before it's too late.
I'm a Wiki(p/m)edian from the Netherlands. I was born in the mid-1980s and came here in late 2004. I have been working on and off on various projects. My main wiki, if any, is the Limburgish Wikipedia, which I picked up when it had only 9 articles. By training, I am a musicologist, but language is a major field of interest. There are many languages that I speak a little, though admittedly few I speak at expert level. Languages that I have learnt or worked with at some point but are not listed in the template include Arabic, Icelandic, Italian, Russian, Saterlandic Frisian, Welsh, and of course Latin. I am determined to become conversant in all of these some day, but I doubt whether I'll manage that during my lifetime.